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From: ****
To: <sterlingda {at} greaterthings.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 7:04 PM
Subject: UPC - 666 Connection
Tell me what you think...click below and check out this explanation:
http://www.vanguard.edu/faculty/R_Harris/barcode.htm
Write me back. I am a Christian who believed that the UPC contained
666 until today, May 3, 2000, after checking out that site. Write me
back.
I looked at the site you mentioned but am not convinced.
My source for documenting this more than a decade ago came from an IEEE
Spectrum magazine (refereed scientific journal) that was talking
about scanner technology. It had no intention whatsoever of addressing
the issue of 666 in the bar code, but was presenting the code in a
matter-of-fact way.
There they explained the code as I have presented it on my web site,
especially in the "Vision
of all" appendix.
Does that mean that the document you referred me to is bogus? No.
Rather, it illustrates what we so often see with the Bible. Two
different people can interpret the very same thing in exactly opposite
ways.
This man makes a decent case for one extreme.
However, the fact remains that whether intentional or not, the two
thin lines are associated with six, and each bar code has the three
sets of these. In the smaller version such as on spice bottles, the
triplet lines on the right share the middle line making the ending 66.
This I also got from the IEEE Spectrum article.
Let's say that this gentleman is correct, that in practice the
scanners do not see "666" when they read the code. That does
not eliminate the fact that the 666 is there for you and I to observe
with our eyes.
Sterling D. Allan
May 3, 2000
REFERENCE
Takefumi Inagaki, "Hologram Lenses lead to Compact
Scanners," IEEE Spectrum, vol. 26, no. 3, March 1989, pp. 39,40.
