Chain mails is a beast that just won’t die. And now that stupid song ‘Hotel California’ is running in my head after I read this. Bah!

A powerpoint presentation claiming that Mondain the Evil Wizard Mondex is planning to replace money with biochips embedded in people’s heads and hands came through the post today. It is very interesting, and no doubt it either scared the shit out of many devoted Christians or it makes them more fervent. What more scares them or convinces them than evidence that confirms as passage in the Book of Revelations?

Revelations 13:16 -18: He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man’s number. His number is 666.

Fortunately (or perhaps unfortunately, for some Christians), the device pictured in the powerpoint presentation is a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip – also known as an ‘ID chip’, used – among other purposes – to assist retailers with Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC). Tiny RFID chips can be embedded in products (or their packaging) and when triggered by sensors, these chips emit short bursts of identifying data streamed via radio waves. It is a device designed primarily as a replacement for the bar-code system.

Other uses for RFID chips have included implanting them in pets to help identify the owners should the animals become lost (a collar and tag can too easily come loose or be removed), or implanting them in humans to encode vital information that emergency medical personnel might need to know when treating a patient who is unconscious or unable to speak.

Granted, that is has been used in humans, but the main purpose here is for medical and rescue purposes, and not what the presentation suggests. And by the way, one should stay on guard for the return of the Lord Jesus all the time and not just start doing it when they see an article like that or when disasters like a tsunami or a hurricane hits them right in the face.

For more information on this falsehood, read this.

This landed in my mailbox today with an eye-catching subject: Why Tsunami~~~~ Indonesia – 14th May 1998… All Chinese Girl Victim… It was an article claiming that this is God’s punishment for Indonesia for what happened in 1998, during the twilight days of the Soeharto regime. I recalled that during that chaotic period, an organisation called huaren.org or something was also posting up a lot of such pics, and ultimately admitting to some of them being falsified. If the original intention of the originator of this article was to create awareness of the atrocities done to the Indonesia Chinese, it is my considered opinion that he has failed dismally. Such articles are completely meaningless, and utterly unhelpful. While I am not discounting the credibility of the story in the picture itself, I do have a big problem with the assertion that the tsunami is a punishment from God for what happened in 1998. What has the people at Penang, Phuket, Sri Lanka, Southern India and even the Maldives got anything to do with these atrocities committed in 1998? That’s not mentioning that the perpetrators, if these atrocities are at all real, are not even Sumatrans for starters! The Almighty God I know will not resort to lashing out at those who aren’t even guilty of the atrocities mentioned in the first place. If God wants to punish those who are guilty, He is capable of higher precision than resorting to the use of a tsunami. If you need to know more, all you need to do is read the Bible to find out.

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