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Second Thessalonians Chapter
2
Tells about a man who'll try to
Play the role of Jesus Christ-----
His name? Why, he's the antichrist!
In Revelation, Chapter 13
A fake death and resurrection can be
seen
By all who believe in Special-effects TV:
Movie magic, and Digital folly.
The False Prophet can create an illusion
That will give the whole world over to a Great Delusion
What is their awful, deceptive lie?
That...technology means you won't have to die.
Yet a wise person won't fall for
their tricks
Nor take their number............666.
For if you do, you won't get to Heaven,
Says Revelation 14: 9
to 11.
But Jesus will slay them in His ire
And toss them into the Lake of Fire.
There they will be tormented aplenty,
Just look for yourself in Rev.
19:20.
So love the Lord Jesus---Him always
obey---
Be ready when He comes to catch us away.
( See I Thessalonians
4:13--18 and I Corinthians 15: 51, 52 )
The Mark of the Beast
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/ch1p1.html
www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/ch1p2.html
graphic by
Marianne "Boaz"
From the Latin
translation: Apocalypse 13:18:
" hic sapientia est
qui habet intellectum conputet numerum bestiae numerus enim
hominis est et
numerus eius est sescenti sexaginta sex"
Spanish: ESPANOL Apoc. 13:
18"
Aqui hay sabiduria. El que
tiene entendimiento, cuente el numero de la bestia, pues es
numero de hombre .
Y su numero es seiscientos sesenta y seis."
ESPANOL Apocalypse 14:
9--11
"Y el tercer angel
siguio, diciendo a gran voz:
" Si alguno adora a la bestia y a su imagen, y recibe la
marca en su frente o en su mano,
el tambien bebera del vino de la ira de Dios, que ha sido vaciado
puro en el caliz de su ira;
y sera atormentado con fuego y azufre delante de los santos
angeles y del Cordero;
y el humo de su tormento sube por los siglos de los siglos.
Y no tienen reposo de dia ne de noche los que adoran a la bestia
y a su imagen, ni nadie que reciba la marca de su nombre."
"Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic"
Arthur C. Clarke 1917--
Lying With Pixels ... By Ivan Amato
"Seeing is no longer believing. The
image you see on the evening news could well be a fake - a
fabrication of fast new video-manipulation
technology.
In films such as Forrest Gump and Wag the
Dog, reality twisting
has become commonplace.
Manipulation can be done
in REAL TIME, as the cameras roll
....
What sets the Witt demo apart-way apart-is that the
technology used to "virtually delete"
the skater can now be applied in real
time, live, even as a camera records a scene and instantly
broadcasts it to viewers. In the fraction of a
second between video frames, any person or object moving in the
foreground can be edited out, and objects
that aren't there can be edited in and made to look
real. "Pixel plasticity," Livingston calls
it. The implication for those at the satellite imagery conference
was sobering: Pictures from orbit may not necessarily be what the
satellite's electronic camera actually recorded
electronic
manipulation
The problem stems from the nature of modern
video. Live or not, it is made of pixels, and as
Livingston says,
pixels can be changed.
cameras were fitted with sensors
that tracked the cameras spatial positions and zoom levels.
Adding to the illusion of reality was the
ability of the Sportvision system to make
sure that players and referees occlude the virtual
line when their bodies traverse it.
http://www.rense.com/general31/pix.htm ( one whole article )
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/00/07/amato0700.asp (
divided into 6
parts )
http://www.nodeception.com/articles/pixel.jsp (
with photos ..in
two parts )
But real-time video insertion has far more
serious implications, in this age of what Amato calls the
"CNN effect"-where the mass media go beyond merely
reporting on events to "actually influencing decision-makers
as they consider military, international assistance, and other
national and international issues." Just imagine, Amato
says, "[how] a government, terrorist or advocacy group could
set geopolitical events in motion on the strength of a few hours'
worth of credibility achieved by distributing a snippet of
well-doctored video."
http://www.utne.com/web_special/web_specials_archives/articles/1334-1.html
Disney buys Pixar -- Jan. 24, 2006
In the same statement, Mr. Iger said: "The
addition of Pixar significantly enhances Disney animation,
which is a critical creative engine for driving growth across our
businesses." Pixar, based in Emeryville, Calif., has
grown to hundreds of employees from about 44 in 1986, two years
after Mr. Jobs acquired the company from the director George
Lucas for $10 million. Pixar and DreamWorks Animation have led
the way in computer animation for films
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/24/business/disney.php
John Lasseter and magic animation -- Jan. 28, 2006
After graduating in 1979, Lasseter
spent five years at Disney, working on "The Fox and the
Hound" and "Mickey's Christmas Carol." After
seeing the pioneering "Tron," he and a fellow animator,
Glen Keane, made a 30-second test based on
Maurice Sendak's book "Where the Wild Things Are" that
suggested how traditional hand-drawn animation could be combined
with computerized camera movements and environments
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/25/business/pixar.php
Will the Son of Man find faith on the earth when He returns ???
Luke 18:8
In a world in which everyone cheats, it's the honest
man who passes for a charlatan."
-- Gide
"Similarly, the photographic falsifier
holds up not a mirror to the world but a looking glass through
which the observing subject is slyly invited to step, like Alice,
into a place where things are different--where facts seem
indistinguishable from falsehoods and fictions and
where immanent paradox continually threatens to undermine
established certainties (figure 9.1). To grasp precisely how this
can be so, we must consider not only how photographs and
pseudo-photographs are made, but also how they are used--how
their potential uses are established, how they are appropriated
and exchanged, how they are combined with words and other
pictures and made to play roles in narratives, and how they may
have the effect of creating beliefs and desires
http://www.stanford.edu/class/history34q/readings/Mitchell/MitchellHow.html
Special effects
replacing reality
LONDON: Oscar winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins says he is
afraid he will soon be unemployed because computer
wizardry might replace human stars.
Hopkins says he is amazed by the special effects
used on the sets of his new movie "Beowulf". He insists
that technology could ruin Hollywood,
reported contactmusic.com. --
Newindpress.com Jan. 28, 2006
The Microphotonics --John Joannopoulos
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/01/01/tr10_joannopoulos0101.asp
The Antichrist
http://www.tests4.com/Documents/Bible_Prophecy/Antichrist_part1.htm
**** QUOTE OF THE
DAY ****
"I spent two days in Europe and two days in Israel, because
there's more
technological innovation in Israel than in the whole of
Europe."
- Cisco's Vice President of Technology, quoted in Yediot
Acharonot's
business magazine, January 8, 2002.-------from Arutz 7 news
Putting Words into
Mouths--saying things that were never said
"CAMBRIDGE - Scientists at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology have created the first realistic videos
of people saying things they never said - a scientific leap that
raises unsettling questions about falsifying the moving image.
In one demonstration, the researchers taped a woman speaking into a camera, and then reprocessed the footage into a new video that showed her speaking entirely new sentences, and even mouthing words to a song in Japanese, a language she does not speak. The results were enough to fool viewers consistently, the researchers report.
But scientists warn the technology will also
provide a powerful new tool for fraud and propaganda - and will
eventually cast doubt on everything from video surveillance to
presidential addresses.
Story with videos
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/135/metro/At_MIT_they_can_put_words_in_our_mouths+.shtml (expired )
and printable version
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/135/metro/At_MIT_they_can_put_words_in_our_mouthsP.shtml
and at
http://www.rr-bb.com/showthread.php?s=d112b772a5ecde37c1e20a455312cf68&threadid=29565
"Fog Screen", " Heliodisplay", and
"Perspecta 3D"... airy images
Thin air about to replace viewing screens
Science fiction staple close to becoming scientific fact
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/0304/14screen.html
Augmented
Reality AR
"AR system, which can superimpose
computer-generated text, graphics, 3-D animation, sound, or any
other digitized data on the real world. Think of what digital
detail can accomplish when it pops up at your beck and call, to
identify faces, or buildings, or the parts of an engine being
repaired, or the flight number of a plane in the air, or the
schedule of a train in a station. "
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/computers/article/0,12543,190327,00.html
The Power of
Technology
VCR's manipulated by
remote to download trashy programs
The BBC was accused yesterday of Orwellian tactics after
digital video machines in thousands of homes were switched on
remotely to record Caroline Aherne's new sitcom Dossa and Joe.
The move was described as the equivalent of junkmail.
Many of the 50,000 households that own TiVo machines awoke on
Friday to discover that the 30-minute programme had been
downloaded on to their recorders without having asked for it.
It is the first time a broadcaster has used the new technology to
try to boost audiences for a show.
TiVo is one of a new generation of digital video machines that
record programmes on hard disk rather than tape. The BBC was able
to send the episode because the machines are linked by telephone
to a central database.
Consumers were told that TiVo would give them greater control,
yet exactly the opposite has happened here. Someone has decided,
'This is what you want to watch.' "
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$EJHHZGYAAAEPFQFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2002/05/30/nb
bc30.xml&_requestid=7586
TV, radio to
automatically turn on in an emergency .... April 15-2002
If you had the right gear, cable companies could
turn on your set with a burst of reflected infrared light,
said Mark Smith, spokesman for the National Cable Television
Association.....
Just the reality of it coming on in your home, if that technology
is there, it becomes easier to add the capability to peek,"
said Wayne Crews, director of technology policy at the Cato
Institute, a libertarian research center in Washington sponsored
primarily by business interests.
"Anonymity still matters to a lot of people,
and privacy still matters to a lot of people,"
Crews said. What's more, people already have access to nearly
instant communication through the Internet, he said.
http://www.austin360.com/aas/news/041002/10tvwarnings.html
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