Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!stanford.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: st74044@oregon.uoregon.edu Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: 666's and Beasties everywhere. Message-ID: Date: 2 Jun 91 05:38:59 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of Oregon Lines: 26 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Here's a fact for all of you people that are trying to figure out 666. In Belgium right now, there is a supercomputer. There is a group of many people that want to try this new thing called a cashless society-- no money. How would this work? Well, they want to put a tiny computer chip into the palm of your right hand, and if you don't have a right hand, into your forhead. These chips have three rows of six numbers each, thus 666. At the store, or wherever, they will just 'scan' your hand, or forhead, and take credit away from you instead of money and all these transactions will be kept on a huge computer, in Belgium, which ironically is called-the BEAST. I also have heard that the only thing keeping this from a whole European experiment is the signature of Margaret Thatcher, who is not a ruler anymore, so go figure. I don't know how much of this is true, but if christians aren't supposed to receive the sign, then we would all (the christians) end up starving to death. MICHAELB. [This is clearly an "urban legend". There are certainly efforts at a cashless society, but all of that I know of involve "smart cards" that you carry. They're not physically embedded anywhere. The formats that I know of have a good deal more information than 18 digits. Perhaps some of our European readers can comment in more detail. If you're hearing this information from a Christian source, you might suggest to them that spreading absurd claims is a really bad idea -- it causes Christianity to become a laughingstock. --clh]