The Mark of the Beast

It's been almost 2 years since I've worked with Microsoft when I learned about "Mondex". I received it from one of my closest friends through email. I've always been fixated on how the world could end...and believe me all hell will break loose.

It may sound absurd that something provided by the banking industry and highly regarded technology based companies will seal our doom. Not to be over the top, but what I understand is that the technology used in this "thing" will be hosted, supported by big companies like Mastercard, Motorola and a company that starts with "Luci".

Present day, recently my Auntie arrived from the states and to think that it was all "another story" she told me that her close friend was someone who really knew how it started. She was working with a "semi-conductor" company, and I remembered her friend was a top engineer in their department and was given the chance to design and pioneer this project. With all the specifications ready, it was sent to a "technology based company" and when it was brought back here, her staff was terrified of what the package and the item looked liked...it had "horns" and the name visible on the boxes showed "Luci". She resigned soon afterwards.

The concept of this "smart card" is that it can be injected in your body, specifically in your nape or below your index finger, from which the name was derived from: "money" and "index". It's size is the same of a rice grain and can be implanted by an injector needle. It already started in countries from Europe, wherein cows and sheeps are injected with it so owners can trace them if they got lost. In Canada, credit card holders are already using debit cards to replace cash and even if you have with you, they will insist for you to use your card in order to transact. The chip is linked to a satellite and is controlled by a single computer sytem, just imagine when it is injected in humans?

The chip contains all you personal details birth, sex, age, address, account numbers, social insurance number. Governments from around the world will argue about implementng national identification and financial control systems. People are subjected to use the system, live in bounty or consider living as an outcast. Also, security nowadays are in question, not just in countries torn by war but countries that are fighting in the world market and it's only a matter of time for all of us...

The Fallen

AS THE SERPENT FELL INTO THE ABYSS, CONDEMNED BY GOD. IT’S ANGER GREW EVEN MORE TO HUMANITY, GOADED, IT CURSED THE PLACE IT’S BEEN IMPRISONED. DO NOT FEAR THE LOSS OF YOUR LIVES, BUT FOR YOUR SOULS.

Getting by, staying strong whatever may come

I have observed life and how it pushes you at the back even when your down already. Living nowadays couldn't get any worse, you can see in other people's faces the anger, depression and frustration brought about by his surroundings.

We can always say how we manage to get by in our daily lives, get up in the morning, go to work and get home knowing that there will be another day ahead, but what about those who are living in the slums? in really remote provinces? where getting a good meal even for a week would really mean a lot. People are starving, taking chances working in a foreign land would even mean sacrifing one's life "literally" just to provide food on the table.

Yes, so many are leaving this country, that the only reason the economy is staying afloat is through the money that the OFW's bring in. I just can't understand why we do live in a cynical, mundane place where people are surviving and not living anymore.

Women are exploited, sold like some blankets to keep those pathetic, power mongerers warm in their filthy beds. Children on the streets begging to buy their sampaguitas, everyday I encounter the same kids. War, continuous every day and every second, famine, catastrophes both fortuituous and man made...then death follows as a dry leaf follows the wind when it falls from a tree.

I too have my share and we should start making things better not just for ourselves but for our brothers and sisters. Give what you can, do what is proper, learn to love, to be selfless, show compassion, forgive those who have hurt you and emphatize whatever comes in front of your doorstep.

Learn to be happy, repent not resent, be a mediator, understand and be patient. Nothing that He gives will be the cause of your yielding, stay strong for He is always there to guide and love you no matter what happens.

So help me Lord...