So many people are willing to receive the "Mark of the Beast"

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TAKE $250 AND AN IMPLANT COMPANY FORESHADOWS FUTURE

If you have any doubt that a New World Order of total surveillance and control is about to arrive in your neighborhood, then browse a website that gives a foreshadowing of the future, and may tip your scales toward total hysteria.

Located at www.idchip.com and headlined, "Building a Cashless World," the site is run by Global Monetary LLP. It claims $5 billion in assets, and offices in Seattle, Zurich, Nairobi, Montevideo, and Singapore, with headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. Global Monetary is offering qualified persons $250 if they take a below-the-skin electronic implant in the palm of their hand.

According to the Global Monetary website, "The IDchip tm implant is a very small electronic device that is painlessly implanted into the tissue of your right palm. It leaves no scar and is not visible in any way. You will not be able to feel it in your hand, as the device is mostly soft flexible plastic. It will never need to be removed as it is continually recharged by the proprietary mouse." The computer mouse "interfaces directly with the electronic implant in your palm thus establishing a fool proof electronic ID system for e-commerce over the internet and in stores... Once operational you will be able to purchase everything without the need of cash or even a credit card!"

Who is qualified to take the chip? "Eventually, everyone will be qualified to become a member, but now all you need is a qualified computer and to meet demographic qualifications." Demographic qualifications are not much elaborated upon in the company's literature, beyond an enquiry in their questionnaire about "racial composition."

The reason that Global Monetary is offering a fee for people to take the chip is, "We understand that the general public is uncomfortable with the notion of implanted electronic devices. So we feel we need to offer substantial incentive until such time as it has gained the public acceptance."

The company informs us that they are "aggressively building a proprietary global system of customer tracking and profiling. From this, profit potential will emerge in the form of merchant fees and fees associated with market targeting for customer research and law enforcement."

So, how do you sign up to take the chip? Simply fill in the form conveniently provided at the website, and, "If your application is accepted, a customer service representative will contact you to schedule a time for a certified technician to painlessly affect the implant procedure. He will set up the IDchip tm software and mouse on your home computer and will be available to answer any questions you might have."

On top of all this, we are told, "Global Monetary is very active in the world community and is an avid supporter and contributor to the United Nations." Being big fans of the U.N., Global Monetary even offers a computerized link to the organization's website, and a gallery of photos and information about recent wonderments of global intervention performed by the U.N.

There you have it: the implant devices that the anti-New World Order types have been warning us about for a half-century or more have suddenly arrived in Anytown, U.S.A., not to mention Nairobi. Not to worry, though. Global Monetary reassures us, "People have been made frightened of such devices by television programs, etc., but there is no justifiable reason for concern."

Actually, I think the folks at Global Monetary know perfectly well that it isn't TV programs that have scared people off taking electronic implants in the hand. I won't belabor the similarities of the Global Monetary chip to certain biblical prophecies about the Mark of the Beast, but they are enough to give even such a confirmed skeptic as myself pause to shudder.

But therein lies the rub. For you see, the website is part of an intriguing project run by Bill Cross. He wants to record a glimpse of how humans will react when such chip technology truly becomes available in the 21st Century. And according to him, visitors are signing up for his imaginary implants in droves. What started out as a humorous test in psychology has turned into a shocking glimpse of the future.

Cross is totally confounded that so many people are willing to receive the "Mark of the Beast." Would you take it for $250?

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-- Count Vronsky (vronsky@anna.lit), November 04, 1999

Answers

URBAN LEGEND.

Buried in the site is a notice "GOTCHA!", along with the information that this was an experiment in human nature.... A joke, sort-of.

-- Dennis (djolson@cherco.net), November 04, 1999.


But what if your left handed? And they think they're soooooo smart.

-- (no@marks.of any kind for this beast), November 04, 1999.

Thanks for the post Count. Yes the technology is here and it is just a matter of time. It is really sad that the masses are so deceived and would sign up in droves. You could not get me to take the mark for free-I would rather die a martyrs death. We had all better be prepared SPIRITUALLY as well as physically because the end of days could be closer than we realize.

-- (I Believe (Repent@time is now.com)), November 04, 1999.

Ummmmmmmmmmm, this relates to y2k how?

By the way, this site is a hoax.

-- pizzaman (cjwarner@yahoo.com), November 04, 1999.


I can't believe that even a witless mouth-breathing Tinfoil would be suckered into believing this well known hoax. Then again...

-- Y2K Pro (y2kpro1@hotmail.com), November 04, 1999.


It's offices are located in exotic cities throughout the world, but it's HQ is in Bentonville, Arkansas???!!!! Yeah, I'd say that was sort of a tip-off....

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), November 04, 1999.

i prefer to think of it as "this was a test, if this were an actual alert...." because it truly revealed some interesting aspects of human nature and how readily/not readily people will accept this. i think the real event is coming only they won't pay us to take it--it will be more subtle. we will need it.

-- tt (cuddluppy@yahoo.com), November 04, 1999.

I think the Count recognizes it for what it is. Read the last paragraph or two...

-- Don (whytocay@hotmail.com), November 04, 1999.

Pizzaman, GOTCHA ! The point of this post is that if you actually read the text I posted, the article points out that the site is a hoax, and gives the site creator's motivations and reactions to the fact that a lot of people really want to sign up for it.

-- Count Vronsky (vronsky@anna.lit), November 04, 1999.

Joke or no joke-the technology is already here. Do your own research. Get out them there ole Bibles and dust em off-might learn somethin! Time is short...

-- (I Believe (Repent@time is now.com)), November 04, 1999.


After I read of another recent child abduction and murder a few weeks ago, I started fretting over letting my child play outside. I thought to myself,..why can't they have some device that you could implant in your child at birth, so you can always track them down right away,.. like a LoJack for kids,..and then one second later I thought "Oh my God, what was I just thinking??" Scary but true..there's a market for that kind of thought. They do for pets already.

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), November 04, 1999.

I didn't see it, but I guess there was a strange commercial during the Monday Night Football game. Some guy in a grocery store appeared to be shoplifting, and then walked out the door without paying. The store guy followed him out and stopped him, to remind him that he forgot his receipt. The implication was that everyone had some kind of built in identification, and that without even going through a checkout counter, the cost of the goods will just be automatically deducted from your account.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), November 04, 1999.

Even if the site is a 'hoax', the technology certainly exists. Among other applications, it is currently sold to veterinarians so that "Fido" or "Precious" can be permenently ID'ed.

How do I know? I've got 2 microchiped cats... The devices are quite tiny. Easy to miss unless you know what you are looking for.

-- Arnie Rimmer (Arnie_Rimmer@usa.net), November 04, 1999.


Y2k Dimwit Pro:

Read the post. Duh. Perhaps you need to attend a remedial reading class at your local adult education facility.

-- haha (haha@haha.com), November 04, 1999.


Hawk,

I saw that commercial, it's about buying (paying for anyway) groceries and stuff online, through the internet. Nothing to do with embedded microchips in anybody's anatomy.

-- (hkasporav@mindspring.com), November 04, 1999.



hkasporav@mindspring.com,

Thanks for that info, but I don't think it should make you feel any more comfortable with what the technology is being used for. That would seem to imply, as many have previously suspected, that perhaps the Internet itself will become this "beast" that the bible speaks of, only allowing people to get the things they need to survive through an identification process which affords you little privacy or freedom of choice.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), November 04, 1999.


O.K. Count,

you got me. I admit when I saw reference to that website I just scanned the rest of your post in my fervor to reply.

But, what the hell does this have to do with y2k?

-- pizzaman (cjwarner@yahoo.com), November 04, 1999.


Hey haha

I know you're a Tinfoil and therefore not too bright, but it was your snookered in bretheren I was laughing at. Duh...

-- Y2K Pro (y2kpro1@hotmail.com), November 04, 1999.


Trial balloon. Not surprising to me -- look how many are willing information givers and gatherers for the government. Snitches, snoops, and busybodies. And people wonder why there is conflict. Here's a clue: People are busybodies and control freaks. Solution: MIND YOUR OWN F*IN BUSINESS. Will that ever happen? Are you kidding?

"... fretting over letting my child play outside. I thought to myself,..why can't they have some device that you could implant in your child at birth, so you can always track them down right away,.. like a LoJack for kids,..and then one second later I thought "Oh my God, what was I just thinking??" Scary but true..there's a market for that kind of thought. They do for pets already." -- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), November 04, 1999. Yeah, kritter. You see how pervasive this "save the children, (sob, sniff)" meme is. Good that you came to your senses in a moment. Most people don't.

-- A (A@AisA.com), November 04, 1999.


Know anyone with a pacemaker? How about "medical history" chips in military personell? And what about all those machines with chips that doctors hook patients up to, to monitor their vital signs? Or, all those chips that broadcast "religious" services, shows and events with commercials to buy "religious" products? Or, have you ever seen a "Religious Phone Book" listing only "Religious" businesses"? I have.

You know, "the mark of the beast" isn't about computer chips, it's about a "book" you carry around in your hand or have memorized in your head. This "book" is the cause of many people to be living in error, believing it is "truth" when in fact, it is not. Those who "believe in" this book make a point of buying and selling from others who also "believe in" this book. Anyone have a clue as to which "book" this is?

It's not rocket science. Duh.

-- GoldReal (GoldReal@aol.com), November 05, 1999.


Hey haha

I know you're a Tinfoil and therefore not too bright, but it was your snookered in bretheren I was laughing at. Duh...

-- Y2K Pro (y2kpro1@hotmail.com), November 04, 1999.

Sure it was Pro, sure. What a sad sack you are not to ever be able to admit error, even just the tiny one of skipping ahead to throw in your snide comment. Diminished further as a thinking debonker, elevated higher as a knee-jerk...well..jerk.

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), November 05, 1999.


"I know you're a Tinfoil and therefore not too bright"

Y2K "pro" definitely has some kind of weird obsession with the word "tinfoil." I'd really like to know what makes him so "bright", since I don't think I've ever seen him write a sentence without the word tinfoil. Must be some kind of neurological disorder. Weird.

Y2K "pro", if you're out there... what's up with the tinfoil thing? Did you have some kind of traumatic childhood incident involving tinfoil??

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), November 05, 1999.


Hawk,

Pro's mommy used to rub tinfoil on his fillings when he soiled himself. Needless to say the soilings continued

-- 8 (8@8.com), November 05, 1999.


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