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<blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 2045285" data-attributes="member: 12706"><p>Since this thread is almost political, but more just academic, and that's okay, I'll be vaguely religious, but more just academic, to respond to your puzzlement, and hope that's okay, too. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>The Mark of the Beast is an ancient symbol, expressed as vav-vav-vav in Hebrew (a vav looks like a straight up and down line with a very small line that comes back up at the bottom, kinda like an upside-down 1 without the base line) - which translates numerically as 6-6-6 into our numerals. Now, the important thing to know about the Hebrew alphabet (or, more accurately, the alephbet) is that each character can be used as a letter, a number, or a pictograph. So one could argue that the Mark is actually 666, VVV, or the actual pictograph of vav times 3. (I, personally, tend to think the last is what was <em>meant</em>. That would be more like what it would look like if a beast raked one's forehead with three claws - three downward lines of blood with almost reversals of the vector of the rake at the bottom when the claws pulled out. But my opinion is neither here nor there. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> )</p><p></p><p>Since barcodes <em>also</em> exhibit the qualities of looking more or less like up-and-down lines and representing numbers, and more importantly, as was described in Revelations of the Mark, it is very difficult to buy things without them, some religious people speculate that they, or perhaps just one in particular, <em>are</em> the Mark. Needless to say, the idea of having one <em>attached</em> to people in any way gets them alarmed. (I can't say I'm particularly happy with the notion, myself, but mostly for other reasons....)</p><p></p><p>As an aside, the Mark, according to Revelations, is placed on the hand and/or the head. Since a mouse is held in the hand and a monitor is looked at with the head, this has led some inclined to do so to speculate that the Mark is something to do with the Internet (since there seems to be a trend toward one needing a computer to buy one's necessities), and that perhaps (Bill Gates/Steve Case/insert favorite person important in the computer industry here) is the Anti-Christ.</p><p></p><p>Of course, people tend to come up with new theories to use the Number/Mark to reveal that identity every so often, anyway - I remember reading in the 80's of someone suggesting that either Ronald Wilson Reagan or Daniel Manuel Ortega might be the Anti-Christ because they each had three names with 6 letters each. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> </p><p> </p><p>(Note to everyone: I'm not posting this to argue/debate about any of it, or to hijack the thread. I <strong>just</strong> wanted to explain to Krieg about what he was puzzled about. If anyone knows anything I didn't provide, OTOH.....)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Torm, post: 2045285, member: 12706"] Since this thread is almost political, but more just academic, and that's okay, I'll be vaguely religious, but more just academic, to respond to your puzzlement, and hope that's okay, too. ;) The Mark of the Beast is an ancient symbol, expressed as vav-vav-vav in Hebrew (a vav looks like a straight up and down line with a very small line that comes back up at the bottom, kinda like an upside-down 1 without the base line) - which translates numerically as 6-6-6 into our numerals. Now, the important thing to know about the Hebrew alphabet (or, more accurately, the alephbet) is that each character can be used as a letter, a number, or a pictograph. So one could argue that the Mark is actually 666, VVV, or the actual pictograph of vav times 3. (I, personally, tend to think the last is what was [I]meant[/I]. That would be more like what it would look like if a beast raked one's forehead with three claws - three downward lines of blood with almost reversals of the vector of the rake at the bottom when the claws pulled out. But my opinion is neither here nor there. ;) ) Since barcodes [I]also[/I] exhibit the qualities of looking more or less like up-and-down lines and representing numbers, and more importantly, as was described in Revelations of the Mark, it is very difficult to buy things without them, some religious people speculate that they, or perhaps just one in particular, [I]are[/I] the Mark. Needless to say, the idea of having one [I]attached[/I] to people in any way gets them alarmed. (I can't say I'm particularly happy with the notion, myself, but mostly for other reasons....) As an aside, the Mark, according to Revelations, is placed on the hand and/or the head. Since a mouse is held in the hand and a monitor is looked at with the head, this has led some inclined to do so to speculate that the Mark is something to do with the Internet (since there seems to be a trend toward one needing a computer to buy one's necessities), and that perhaps (Bill Gates/Steve Case/insert favorite person important in the computer industry here) is the Anti-Christ. Of course, people tend to come up with new theories to use the Number/Mark to reveal that identity every so often, anyway - I remember reading in the 80's of someone suggesting that either Ronald Wilson Reagan or Daniel Manuel Ortega might be the Anti-Christ because they each had three names with 6 letters each. ;) (Note to everyone: I'm not posting this to argue/debate about any of it, or to hijack the thread. I [B]just[/B] wanted to explain to Krieg about what he was puzzled about. If anyone knows anything I didn't provide, OTOH.....) [/QUOTE]
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