Because to them the Bible is fact and anyone/anything that challenges it is damned to hell. It only takes a small group of them to engage the masses.
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Correct - irs only a small group if christians.
Its also intresting: walking with ny “Keep calm and get chipped” Shirt around in public - no stranger or peopke who sell religiozs stuff is talking to me 
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Yeah, your Tshirt is awesome Jenny.
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Here’s a little story: last year or so, I went to the local flea market like I did every Sunday morning. There were two Jehovah’s Witnesses peddling their wares in the cold, outside of the cattle market where the flea market used to take place.
As I was coming out of the hall, one of them approached me:
“Hello Sir. I see you follow the path of Jesus Christ. Would you like to know more about Kingdom Hall?”
“Uuh? What? What do you mean?”
“Well, I see you wear no shoes. Surely you must be following the message of humility of Our Lord.”
…
I was completely taken aback. So I decided to poke a little fun at them:
“Naah” I said “I’m trying the walking on water thing, but it doesn’t seem to work for me for some reason. I was thinking of giving up actually.”
You should have seen his face 
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Digiwell sell them 
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I used to live in the philippines(january) and make-up was pretty much required for my female friends because of how religious it was(Christian) my school even had Christian classes and being an atheist would pretty much screw you for life there.(I am an atheist, not told anyone, for reasons stated above)
Hey @anon3825968,
How’d that coworker situation pan out? Did the guy ever adjust to it, or is he still tripping?
He seems mostly okay with it now, unless he sees the doNExT’s blinkies. Then he gets queasy.
It doesn’t happen too often nowadays, since winter is coming and I wear long sleeve shirts. But sometimes my sleeve goes up and I forget he’s around when I scan it to check my mails on my cellphone in a meeting or whatever. Then he goes pale and I apologize.
At least it gets better: before, when he popped into my office and the computer autolocked because I faced away from the sonar thingy, and I’d unlock it with my foot to show him something on the screen, he used to go eeh-aah-don’t-do-that. Now he’s okay because he says it’s like a foot pedal after all.
He’s not too fond of watching me unlock my office door with my new NFC door handle neither. But it’s okay because he arrives at work later than I do and I leave my door unlocked all day long. But if I come back later and I bump into him in the corridor, he visibly cringes. Such a weird reaction.
I’m hoping he’ll get past the blinkies at some point. I guess it’s like slasher flicks: the more you watch, the more desensitzed you get. But for now he still dreads the orange dots
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Not sure where else to put this so anti derailment thread it is 
but I had a funny experience at the grocery store yesterday.
I paid with my Apex 2 Ring Conversion and the cashier looked me dead in the eyes and said “New implant?”
I’ve never had anyone guess with such confidence and when I asked the cashier if they were familiar with it they said it was just their best guess.
Has anyone else had an experience like this?
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I had one waitress who knew of it, and claimed that she had heard about it being a thing in Japan but was surprised to see it in North America. It also worked out well, since that was the first time I couldn’t get it to read. Turns our the reader was dead, and didn’t work with any cards either. Trying the other reader and it worked fine. She asked me if it was one of those Japanese payment implants.
I couldn’t really find anything to back up what she said about it being a specific thing in Japan. I wish I had asked her for more details on what she had heard, curious if there was an article or something about it. I’m guessing someone got a conversion done and maybe there was an article or interview or something?
Wonder if anyone here knows what she might have been talking about?
Other than that some people have been interested, one person was a bit freaked out, and most people either don’t notice or try really hard to pretend they didn’t notice.
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Unamused cashier was unamused 
lol
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maybe this?
also.. in my experience the complete and total flights of fancy that are part and parcel for “the media” is always to blame. Even in 2005 when I first started doing interviews, it was reported I could pay for things with my hand. Truth has always been a pipe dream.
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Maybe that was it. Not sure how she would have stumbled on it, but I couldn’t find anything else.
It is crazy how topics like this get so distorted when put into common media. Some of it does just seem like sensationalizing; but sometimes it is hard to not just see it as they made stuff up either accidentally or otherwise.
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Honestly like a handful of swedish people have chip implants but every year for the last decade basically the media says “all swedish people use chip implants to pay for things and ride transit” .. all based off a pretty cool pilot project with the transit company to show how chip implants can be used with trb ticket scanning system.
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Probably my best story though the was 2018 when I had a prototype payment implant in a little baggie. I was in London at the time doing an accelerator program for VivoKey. I tapped the chip on a payment terminal and the 18 year old kid behind the counter looks me and just casually goes “oh that’s one of those payment implants?” .. like what?! Are you from the future?!
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2018: We visited Patrick in Hamburg - got chipmplants and made a picture from our hands. Sone newsites stole it, and suddenly we came from Sweden 
I have several often crazy reactions. Here is my best of:
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I was at the hospital for an MRI consultation and I mentioned I needed to remove a magnetic implant before doing so, which then led to a few nurses, techs, and some students in training asking all sorts of questions and wanting to see/feel it. Definitely felt a bit like a zoo animal, lol.
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I wonder how you find all these crazies. I suppose being on platforms like facebook and tiktok makes it easier, but still. Even if my implants come up around the craziest people I know (and it seems nobody but the craziest people I know bring up the topic) then even if they don’t want any part of it for themselves they’re not hostile to me for implanting. I just explain: I too don’t want the corporations, or “the beast” or whatever putting their implants in me, so I beat them to it and got my own implants.
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This MF spittin’
If only more people understood this.
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My favorite reaction was after I showed a co-worker my new Nextv2 and explained it a bit to her, she thought it was really cool, the last thing she said to me as I was walking away was “Cool, I met a cyborg today” 
made me chuckle and kinda made my day better
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