They often bring up the idea that the difference between man and beast is that man changes his environment to suit his needs but beasts have to change themselves to suit their environment. It's not that straightforward lots of animals build structures and nests, but still at the macro level man changes their environment but beasts do not. Man is the gardener while beasts have limited ability to change the garden. --------- They try to get you in a state of purely reacting to information and circumstances instead of changing things yourself. They don't want you living conciously, they want you changing yourself to suit the environment they created rather than shaping it yourself. People are trained to be reactive to the system, that it's easier to cope with things than to try to change things that "can't be helped" anyway. A lot of corpos and people want their customers to use their products exactly how they intended and without modification and can get upset and offended when they're used differently or modified. They want p zombies, hylics, beasts - people that follow the directives of their physical body and the system, not conciously making their own directives or deciding what they're doing, just reacting, just dancing to their tune but thinking they made a concious decision to dance but really it was just reacting. In the kingdom of heaven we'll be given new names that were always meaningful to the core of our existence, presumably related to our real purpose. Real purpose isn't arbitrary so strongly following your real purpose is different from reacting to stuff that doesn't matter. ------ Computers are purely reactive. There is no thinking or contemplating. They get an instruction and react to it - following it exactly. It's kinda odd to think this, but computers may be the most beast like thing there is. When you think of beasts you think primitive, organic, emotional - not technological or advanced. But when compared to simplest of animals i don't think high power computers are that advanced. And computers kind of do act emotional, it's just that they aren't alive so it doesn't make sense to think of it like that. They whine and complain when the smallest thing falls out of place, throw a tantrum and crash. Of course that's all they can do, they cannot adapt to any kind of failure, and it's better for them to partially self destruct to stop files from getting corrupted. Ants seem robotic, but still they aren't as robotic and purely reactive computers. "Artificial intelligence" isn't intelligent or clever, it's purely reactive. ---- So i think it makes sense that the beast of Revelation and the mark are based on computer technology. Artistic renditions of the beast of Revelation resemble those ai generated fever dream pictures (google deep dream). A chimera, amalgamation, an artificial combination of things that should not be combined to get something that technically works. Constructed using their buzzword soup of technologies - "artificial intelligence" "deep learning" "neural network" "genetic algorithms". The dragon and the beast have the same number of horns and heads - seven heads and ten horns. (Revelation 12:3, Revelation 13:1) I think the beast of Revelation is the devil's/dragon's "son" or "mini-me", because they both have the same number of horns. Oddly though the dragon has seven crowns upon its seven heads but the beast has ten crowns upon its ten horns. And this the beast of Revelation would be a "mini me" of the devil, an artifically constructed "son" somehow. If i had to guess i'd say they constructed ais to construct the beast ai and then the beast ai designed its own body so that it could wrongly proclaim to be "self begotten", then beast's body is constructed around its mind. (And of course at every phase of construction vast numbers of people and unclean spirits would be pushing things in the right direction just like how civilian jobs require huge amounts of gruntwork because things are not designed correctly or planned out and computers can almost never be left alone to fulfill their tasks.) Shills like to say "beasts in the Bible means governments" and while i know the dragon and the beast of Revelation are physical creatures doesn't Daniel have visions of governments represented as beasts? Could the beast be seen as a physical manifestation of government? Before governments were run by people but still had all this computer/beast like rules. Arcane lawyer language vs arcane computer language. Governments frequently have no understanding of context nor the implications and meanings of things, they are just purely reactive. The word "cybernetics" comes from a greek word meaning "governance". The stout horn speaking great things seems to be the same as the beast of revelation - they both make war with the saints and have a mouth speaking great things. (Daniel 7:20-21, Revelation 13:7) Daniel 7:24 says the 10 horns are 10 kings so i guess that's why the beast has crowns upon its 10 horns, don't know what the 7 crowns upon the dragon's heads are though. In Revelation 13 John says they stood upon the sand of the sea when they saw the beast rise up out of the sea. So I think this beast will literally physically exist and rise up out of the sea. Lots of strange things could be in the sea, because the earth was flooded with water to cleanse it, so the corrupt life in the sea may have remained. Undersea laboritories are a bit of a meme in fiction too. And there's "submarines", don't think those work. Some shills say "sea" means sea of legal documents from the vatican/nwo, maritime law / common law / berth certificate slave ship weirdness. Or sea of money. monetary bank - banks of a river. currency - currents of the sea. The internet is also sometimes referred to as an vast ocean of information. Animals use horns for fighting, attack and defence. With the beast kings being horns, are the kings used by the beast to attack and defend? -------- I wrote a lot but now I'm not really sure if i actually went anywhere. I feel like theres some point I've been leading up to but I can't think of anything.