Ignorance: The gift that keeps giving
A hundred residents of a Russian village have refused to switch to new passports because they believe the documents’ bar codes contain satanic symbols, state television reported Wednesday.
“We believe these new passports are sinful,” Valentina Yepifanova, an elderly resident of the village Bogolyubovo, told Rossiya television as she clutched an old, tattered passport she said she wanted to keep.
“They have these bar codes and people say they contain three sixes. We are against that.”
Some residents of Bogolyubovo, which means “God-loving” in Russian, have also stopped collecting their pensions at the local post office because the payment slips also have bar codes that might contain the mark of the devil, Rossiya TV reported.
Superstition is about as useless a means of decision-making still left in our species.
11, 14 – I heard if you stare at an RFID tag for too long, it not only burns your retinas and makes you go blind, it grows hair on your palms. Is there no end to the eeeeeeviiiil?
#14 – Olo
“UPC, that’s so 1970’s. Bring on RFID.”
Crikey!® If that’s the way they react to simple barcodes, show ‘em RFID and they’ll burst into flames on the spot…
#22
Why not give them the option… either bar codes or an RFID…
I dread the day that dullards and Luddites inherit the earth( I’m currently hoping they haven’t already). This has to be the most idiotic superstition ever with the possible exception of Friday the 13th. Nothing makes numbers evil… besides isn’t it 616 anyway not 666? I remember reading somewhere that 666 is a mistranslation.
No, 666 is not an incorrect transliteration (not translation, that’s for verbal language, not text). I’m not sure where you’re getting your info but it’s wrong. A single number isn’t anything but group them together in a particular order in some cases and they are a symbol for something, in this case it just happens to be Satan. Numbers and pictures have been used throughout history as symbols. I thought that was common knowledge but perhaps not in your case. You should do a little research before mocking others beliefs instead of speaking out of complete ignorance.
Well, there’s them that’d say the entire Bibble is a mistranslation…
C’mon. Admit it.
Many of you were just as paranoid and nutty about Y2K as these villagers are about bar codes.
But you had the benefit of education to act more rationally.
#26
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“But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to himl; nor can he know them, because they are spirtiually discerned.” I Corinthians 2:14