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The question of a one world currency is one I have thought about from time to time. There are websites that promote the idea, and of course many preachers claim to have spiritual insight regarding its inevitability.
Given that many countries have failing economies, and are in hock to globally dominant financial institutions, it may well be inevitable that everyone trades with the same tokens before too long, but what effect would this have on markets and consumers?
Another question is "What would this currency be called and what would it look like before morphing into the mark of the beast?" Any suggestions?
Job 33:15 "In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls upon men, In slumberings upon the bed;" Theology 101 "If He doesn't know everything then He isn't God."
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We already have one the U.S dollar. The only currency the world is trading with. 
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Why would we want a one world currency? I doubt you could ever get the United Kingdom off the pound sterling. President Nixon should have never taken us off the gold standard but that is another thread.
What preachers are claiming to have spiritual insight regarding its inevitability? I ask this question because whilst recovering I used to listen to these so called "men of the cloth" telling these stories and looking forward to the end with such glee............but in the meantime, still send in your money for this 'prayer cloth' or whatever else they wanted to give for in exchange for large sums sums of money. Oh, and please donate and we will say a prayer for you was sad but always their best plea for money. And that is not how it is taught in the scriptures.
I can't even imagine these preachers wondering about a "one world currency" as they would loose so much money with respects to the rest of the world considering the UK, EU and what we owe.
We in the Untited States are in hock and the "tokens" we seem to use, and I use the term "tokens" loosely, are weapons and information.
The mark of the beast doesn't have anything to do with money or so I have been taught. If that is what the above preachers are claiming then they need to learn their scriptures, again so I have been taught.
Please tell me what is this obsession with "the end times?" <<<<< Rhetorical question.
I only ask this because if we are looking at the year 2012 as "the end times" I shall say I find it interesting that a group of people hell bent on eliminating those in their path whom they couldn't convert and ended up killing in the name of their god, would believe ANYTHING the pagans would have marked down or said regarding the "end times." They didn't know about Jesus, unless he revealed himself to them, as perhaps suggested in the Book of Mormon, but as I don't believe this either, it is just simply a date.
But these are my opinions based on my knowledge of the scriptures and those I see take in more money then they know what to do with.
Oh, and and as long as we are talking of money, this "man of god" who made last weeks predictions, which didn't come true, should be held liable for those who attempted to take their lives, or did take their lives and gave their things away.
*(I don't understand giving ones things away to people whom one considers not part of their little rapture group.  )*
But the idea that there are people without money or those that spent lots of money to promote a false belief, to me, needs to be addressed, more so than the "insight" these "one world currency preachers" may have.
These "men of the cloth" who have millions in their churches need to pay taxes just like any other business, as that is what they are----a mega business who mixes their money with politics, and therefore not honouring the seperation of church and state.
Tax all the churches and see how quickly our debt comes down and then there won't be the need to talk of "a one world currency," which by the way is the plastic aka credit cards that are used to buy things globally and can be exchanged to accomodate any currency around the world.
The "currency" that has us in so much trouble isn't the coins in your pocket or the bills in your wallet. It is the plastic credit card which is now accessible as an "app" on your telephone. No need for money just plastic and apps on phones. Perhaps that is your "morphed" mark of the beast.
These are just my opinions.
peace out, >^,,^<
The poor object to being governed badly, whilst the rich object to being governed at all. G.K. Chesterton
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There's a lot to be said for diversity in this world. I would include currency in that. There are certainly some economists who think going to the Euro was a bad move.
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You got that right.
Off to Singapore for a spell!
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Hmm I think the Zloty is the way to go...We can trade in Zlotys...or better still we can P.off the whole rotten corrupt shebang system and barter....
World trade in currencies is bollocks...(err not to put too fine a point on it!!) (laughs) It was at least vaguely understandable ..if not equitable ..when the goldstandard actually meant something but now it is just a ridiculous free for all.....and guess who pays....let me see...err the rich.....err the developed nations err guess again!!!
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and its all right Ma, I can make it"
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I think Greece, Ireland and Portugal should be happy now for Euro. At least there are some other countries to help them.
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this world currency, who gets to print it??? I think you need someone to conquer the world first. or at least outbreed everyone else and take it over by force of numbers!
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There will be no common currency in the foreseeable future. A common currency requires broad consensus, shared legal and regulatory systems, and free market conditions. None of these seem imminent on a world wide scale.
Sometimes my country, Canada, toys with the idea of adopting the US dollar because the bulk of our trade is with the US. However, most Canadians do not take it seriously because the differences in societal and governing values are too great.
Joe
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Again who are these "men of the cloth" making these statements regarding "one world currency?"
peace out, >^,,^< >>>>> Sorry, forgot to say "off soapbox now" regarding my above post. 
The poor object to being governed badly, whilst the rich object to being governed at all. G.K. Chesterton
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Joseph Glantz wrote:There's a lot to be said for diversity in this world. I would include currency in that. There are certainly some economists who think going to the Euro was a bad move. Any form of monopoly is a bad thing. Well said J.G. There is strength in diversity. Something about not putting all of one's eggs in one basket. One world currency would make "too big to fail" seem trivial.
"Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless, and do no wrong". (Knight's Oath, Kingdom of Heaven)
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A good variety of interesting replies. Kitten, when I typed the search topic "One World Government" into my browser I got 5 million 640 thousand results in 17 seconds. The subject is very popular on the millions of so-called Christian forums on offer and I use the term "preacher" loosely to include anyone that puts forward a treatise on the following Bible verses which prophesy that an evil tyrant will one day completely control the population, technology and economy of planet earth: Quote:Revelation 13:16-18
(16) And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
(17) And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (18) Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. In the 1980's I was introduced to an itinerant evangelist from NZ named Barry Smith.(Wikipedia) As well as preaching internationally on the subject of the end times and the prophesied One Word Government to come, he also wrote these 3 books: "Warning" "Second Warning" "Final Warning" We are still waiting for his much vaunted prediction of a "cashless society" to be completely realised.(576,000 results in 21 seconds for this heading) I stand by the assertion of my original post regarding One World Currency, that "There are websites that promote the idea, and of course many preachers claim to have spiritual insight regarding its inevitability." A simple websearch would have verified that for you, Kitten, and please rid yourself of that horribly archaic term "men of the cloth" when referring to preachers, as if clerics have exclusive rights to speak or write on Scriptural matters! They most certainly do not, and in fact are quite often ignorant of much Scriptural content, not venturing beyond their own denominational dogmas and traditions which many times are not upheld by Scripture.
Job 33:15 "In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls upon men, In slumberings upon the bed;" Theology 101 "If He doesn't know everything then He isn't God."
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I know I am changing the topic a bit because I am not talking end of days but straight history here, but in world terms, through most of history we have been closer to one world currency than we are now. If we ignore all the bartering societies, then throughout history, large empires, or allied societies have been the norm: the near eastern empires (assyrians, mesopotamians) Rome, Mongols, Chinese, Inca - their currencies spread over what, up to a third of the world at any one time?
(sorry, ignoring africa, don't know anything about it apart from great Zimbabwe and kingdom of Dahomey!)
but this breaking the world up into tiny pieces each with its own currency (apart from Bolivia and Europe!) is a very modern thing over the past 500 or so years. Who is to say it will continue that way. We might well revert to a couple of big empires, and two world currencies - the yuan and the riyal, anyone?
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but having one world currency, despite the total economic servitude that would bring, might be worth it to see all those parasitic foreign exchange gamblers out of a job.
Shame on you - intelligent people leading totally unproductive lives and gambling on other peoples' despair and death, and gambling with the livelihoods of millions at no risk to themselves.
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Oh God I hope not!
I am still converting to Imperial Measurements from decimal.
1 furlong = 200 meters, let alone pounds, shillings and pence.
Whats wrong with gambling???????
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Nothing, I was just p**** off by the spammer!
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Thats OK, just so long as you go to the track, ha ha
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One world currency? NO!!!! It's like asking one world leader?
You can do anything, but not everything. —David Allen
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