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Top Document: FAQ: Air Traveler's Handbook 1/4 [Monthly posting] Previous Document: [1-18] Special Travel Dates/Fare Sales/Fare Wars Next Document: [1-20] Hidden City Fares See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Departure dates on non-changeable tickers are inviolable -- you can't change them without running into major obstacles. Return flights, however, are sometimes a bit more flexible. You probably can't change them before the departure, but sometimes you can change them afterwards. For example, suppose you're flying to a conference that takes place mid-week, but have to buy tickets that include a Saturday night stay. Paying for an extra one or two day stay in a hotel (or student housing) is cheaper than paying a full-price midweek fare. So you need to pick a Saturday night, either the one before the conference or the one after. To take advantage of the flexibility on return flights, book the flight to include the Saturday night *after* the conference. On the night before you want to leave, call the airline and tell them you'd like to return early. If they have space available, they'll let you return early (possibly with a $35 change fee). For example, if you want to fly out on Friday, call them Thursday night. This isn't flying standby, because they'll actually give you a reservation for the earlier return. Some travel agents use a similar trick to obtain inexpensive tickets for their business customers. They'll issue a ticket with a Saturday night stay at the discount rate, and provide the passenger with a sticker to put on the return ticket after the outbound ticket has been removed. The sticker reflects the earlier return flight. The travel agent also changes the return date on the reservation after the outbound ticket has been used. Since this is a slightly shady practice, any other changes in the itinerary must also be made through the travel agent, not the airline. Not all travel agents are willing to do this, and then only for expensive tickets and their best customers. If you want to try moving up the departure date, go to the airport a few hours before departure and ask. If they have room, they may let you on. You will have more success asking at the gate; airport ticketing/checkin agents tend to be sticklers for the rules. If you ask before the day of departure, or try to get it changed by calling the toll free number, the answer will almost certainly be no (or involve additional fees). User Contributions:Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic:Top Document: FAQ: Air Traveler's Handbook 1/4 [Monthly posting] Previous Document: [1-18] Special Travel Dates/Fare Sales/Fare Wars Next Document: [1-20] Hidden City Fares Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: mkant@cs.cmu.edu
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Throughout time, we can see how we have been slowly conditioned to come to this point where we are on the verge of a cashless society. Did you know that the Bible foretold of this event almost 2,000 years ago?
In Revelation 13:16-18, we will read,
"He (the false prophet who deceives many by his miracles--Revelation 19:20) causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666."
Speaking to the last generation, this could only be speaking of a cashless society. Why's that? Revelation 13:17 says that we cannot buy or sell unless we receive the mark of the beast. If physical money was still in use, we could buy or sell with one another without receiving the mark. This would contradict scripture that states we need the mark to buy or sell!
These verses could not be referring to something purely spiritual as scripture references two physical locations (our right hand or forehead) stating the mark will be on one "OR" the other. If this mark was purely spiritual, it would indicate both places, or one--not one OR the other!
This is where it really starts to come together. It is incredible how accurate the Bible is concerning the implantable RFID microchip. This is information from a man named Carl Sanders who worked with a team of engineers to help develop this RFID chip:
"Carl Sanders sat in seventeen New World Order meetings with heads-of-state officials such as Henry Kissinger and Bob Gates of the C.I.A. to discuss plans on how to bring about this one-world system. The government commissioned Carl Sanders to design a microchip for identifying and controlling the peoples of the world—a microchip that could be inserted under the skin with a hypodermic needle (a quick, convenient method that would be gradually accepted by society).
Carl Sanders, with a team of engineers behind him, with U.S. grant monies supplied by tax dollars, took on this project and designed a microchip that is powered by a lithium battery, rechargeable through the temperature changes in our skin. Without the knowledge of the Bible (Brother Sanders was not a Christian at the time), these engineers spent one-and-a-half-million dollars doing research on the best and most convenient place to have the microchip inserted.
Guess what? These researchers found that the forehead and the back of the hand (the two places the Bible says the mark will go) are not just the most convenient places, but are also the only viable places for rapid, consistent temperature changes in the skin to recharge the lithium battery. The microchip is approximately seven millimeters in length, .75 millimeters in diameter, about the size of a grain of rice. It is capable of storing pages upon pages of information about you. All your general history, work history, criminal record, health history, and financial data can be stored on this chip.
Brother Sanders believes that this microchip, which he regretfully helped design, is the “mark” spoken about in Revelation 13:16–18. The original Greek word for “mark” is “charagma,” which means a “scratch or etching.” It is also interesting to note that the number 666 is actually a word in the original Greek. The word is “chi xi stigma,” with the last part, “stigma,” also meaning “to stick or prick.” Carl believes this is referring to a hypodermic needle when they poke into the skin to inject the microchip."
Mr. Sanders asked a doctor what would happen if the lithium contained within the RFID microchip leaked into the body. The doctor replied by saying a (...)