Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse
by actionfromafar on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:37PM
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The thing is though, each such “mark of the beast”, gets incrementally closer to what the evangelicals warn about.
Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse
by paulryanrogers on Friday July 28, 2023 @01:39PM
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Except eternal damnation, allegiance with a supernatural being, lakes of fire, etc.
Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse
by jerf on Friday July 28, 2023 @01:49PM
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I'm going to be pretty pissed if the world lets itself get trapped into a technodystopian hellscape just because they didn't want to admit that those darned Christians over there got even a bit of something correct and therefore we gotta super duper virtue signal against that by slapping the shackles on as quickly as possible. What a dumb way to go that would be.
Re:Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse
by paulryanrogers on Friday July 28, 2023 @03:15PM
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IME Christianity is as worthless as a broken clock and only correct half as often. Its foundations are so flawed I hesitate to give any credit when they stumble into a correct answer, just as I dislike giving credit to a dice roll.
Worse, acknowledging even an accidental good tends to encourage lazy thinking and reinforce a very harmful system.
And calling them out every time someone tries to throw them a bone doesn't take away from the bad elsewhere -- such as VC grifting shit coins and their panopticon dreams.
Credit cards, Dungeons and Dragons, Pokemon, "new world orders", the United Nations. All of these things were tools of the devil, marking your soul for eternal damnation.
I get the sense they would have had a field day with Worldcoin.
I can hear it now. "The Antichrist is taking control of the global finance system. When you choose to scan your eyes and participate in his world instead of the kingdom of heaven, you surrender your soul to the devil. And that's a place where even Jesus Christ himself cannot save you. Choosing to scan your eyes - that God himself gave you - is swearing allegiance to Lucifer and his armies on this earth. Choosing Worldcoin is making a personal choice of eternal damnation."