MischievousMonkey
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That's interesting, thank for the link. I didn't know about that. But to me, it lays the ground for so many questions and more plausible counter-predictions. Here's a few that comes to my mind right now, the most important being the first one:I believe something like this would be the mark of the beast:
Pentagon scientists reveal microchip implant that can detect Covid-19
They are going to keep hitting us with wave after wave of covid and keep forcing people to take booster shots for 'new variants'. They will then tell people they need to get microchipped so that we can immediately detect 'covid carriers' and isolate them because this chip supposedly detects covid. This chip will also be the passport to connect to the digital, paperless economy that is coming.
- Let's imagine everybody is forced to get chipped, so as to detect carriers instantly. That would lead to the almost immediate elimination of the virus. So there would not be anymore need for the chip for anyone. The chip gets taken off, thus showing it is not the mark of the beast...
- How do you go from a covid testing chip to one that encompasses all methods of payment? I get that in your theory, we're forced to get chipped with a covid testing tool for sanitary reasons. How can a purchase functionality possibly come into play and be justified by any institution in the context of a pandemic?
- A chip cannot carry out all the financial operations related to payment. What happens when you open new bank accounts? What about companies' accounts that also pay for stuff? Why and how would other methods of payment, such as smartphones and cards, disappear, when they already have the exact same functionality as a purchasing microchip? And are more practical in many other aspects (cash for example)?
- Currency is a medium of exchange based on trust. It's a social construct. Nobody can force you to use it as long as you don't want to. Even if everybody is chipped, how does that prevent you from repairing a stranger's window for a high five or buying your local farmer's carrots with rare Yu-Gi-Oh cards? Black markets of any kind from operating? The examples are voluntarily trivial, but wouldn't they invalidate the reality described by the prophecy? What would prevent local communities from creating their own currency or exchanging goods and services via any another medium?
And those are just some of the questions that are left when I imagine a smooth chipping ride, with every state, financial institution and community in the world somehow playing along and accepting a covid purchasing chip with no issue whatsoever. If you take out this benevolent hypothesis, this becomes increasingly hard to imagine, at least to me.