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MARK OF THE BEAST
Robert McElwaine writes:
]
] MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T bar-code$/scanner$
[Joel] Hey, look, guys! He's replaced the letter "s" with a dollar
sign again!
[Tom] What is this? A running theme?
[Crow] It's more like "running old"
] ALL Christians are PROHIBITED by Revelation 14:9-11 from
] cooperating with
[Tom] dangerous subversives
] the "MARK-OF-THE-BEA$T" bar-code,
[Crow] They had bar codes in Biblical times?
] OCR-number, and magnetic-strip scanning systems,
[Joel] You know, I hear that magnetic strip scanners were very
popular in those days.
] (as found in
] local libraries,
[Crow] What about distant libraries?
] supermarkets,
[Joel] regular markets
] retail establishments,
[Tom] television studios and public swimming pools.
] etc.),
] which also THREATEN
[Crow] innocent civilians
] to SUBVERT Individual Privacy
[Tom] How can you have "group" privacy?
] and
] Freedom.
] The scanners can serve THE SAME CRIMINAL PURPOSE as the TV
] cameras in the book "1984"!
[Joel] You mean they can take pictures?
[Tom] What kind of film speed do you use with a UPC scanner?
] The UPC bar-codes are probably the most blatant form of
[Crow] black-and-white printing
] the
] "MARK OF THE BEA$T" so far, with the "NUMBER OF THE BEA$T",
] 666, ALREADY CODED INTO THEM.
[Tom] Hey, hey, hey! Satan enters the *technology* age!
[Crow] I think he owns the patents on them.
] Each of the so-called "guard
] patterns", pairs of thin lines spaced close together at the
] beginning, middle, and end of each full-length UPC bar-code,
] is IDENTICAL to one of the two codes for a 6.
[Joel] Oh, now, I think we're stretching things just a bit too much
with this one.
[Tom] Like this is a *new* thing?
] WARN YOUR FRIENDS!
[Crow] 'Cause I'll be back!
[Joel] "I'm looking for Sarah Connor"
] UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT
[Tom] delusion
] Information is ENCOURAGED.
[Crow] But not recommended!
] Robert E. McElwaine
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[Joel] What do you think, sirs?
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