Death of the Chip

[Orates]

link to article on the Verichip
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20643620/

According to the 9/11/2007 issue of the Wall Street Journal, shares of the company marketing the Verichip plumeted on news that the implanted microchip used in animals and potentially in humans for ID purposes causes cancer in lab animals. This has lead to comments that the chip is dead.

This news has important prophetic implications and pretty much assures that the chip will not be the "Mark of the Beast" in Revelations. The prime candidate is still the invisible infrared UPC containing the numbers 666 in the side and middle bars. Chips can be removed, but an invisible tattoo cannot.

What do you think the Mark will be?

O

 

[antitox]

Here's an interesting post from another board that I frequent:

Most people are looking at the Verichip (what they put into dogs and cats) as the mark. I don't think so. Look up a company ominously called Somark, as if God is saying that it is "so the mark". They invented an ink that responds to radio frequency and is being researched for use in the cattle industry because chipping cows doesn't make to much sense. The verichip and the somark RFID tatoo are passive RFID devices (if you can call the tatoo a device). That means they do not have a power source. Instead they get power from the RFID reader. Most people think the verichip has GPS tracking, it doesn't and the Mark of the Beast isn't used that way. It is only used for buying and selling goods. Imagine going to Walmart, loading up your shopping cart and walking through the door. With RFIDs, that is entirely possible. Every product will have an RFID chip and so will the shopper (or rather a tatoo). So when you leave a store, scanners will total everything up and deduct it from your bank/credit account and all you have to do is walk through the door. Stores will love it because shoplifting will be vastly reduced, people will love it because they no longer have to wait in the checkout line (i.e. no more standing in the 10 items or less line and the person in front of you did a food shop for a soup kitchen).

Why do I think the Somark RFID tatoo is the actual mark? Because of human nature. People are not going to like having a bump on their foreheads, but a tatoo (and Somark claims to have a working invisible ink version too) isn't so obvious. Also, the Somark can implemented faster than the verichip which needs to be programmed first. We are talking about marking the whole world, which may only be half the current population. The current population is closing in on 7 billion people. 3.5 billion biochips would take way to long and cost way too much to produce. The tatoo would be less than a hundredth of the cost of the chip and take less than a tenth of the time to produce the quantities need to mark the entire world. I would also like to point out that the unsaved world will probably not believe those left behind because we gave the chip a bad reputation. They will believe that the chip is supposed to be the mark, and think nothing of getting a tatoo instead (because it isn't the a chip).