If you had big plans this weekend, David Meade regrets to inform you that the world will be ending Saturday.
Meade, a Christian numerologist and self-described "researcher," says Sept. 23 is foretold in the Bible's Book of Revelation as the day a series of catastrophic events will begin, and as a result, "a major part of the world will not be the same," the Washington Post reports.
The Bible prophecies a woman "clothed with the sun" and a "crown of 12 stars" giving birth to a boy who will "rule all the nations" while she fights off a seven-headed dragon. The woman, Meade says, is the constellation Virgo, which on Saturday will be positioned under nine stars and three planets, per Popular Mechanics.
The baby boy will be the planet Jupiter, which will be moving out of Virgo on that night.
According to Meade, who says he studied astronomy at an unspecified university in Kentucky, the great change in our world will be the result of the arrival of Nibiru, a planet famous in conspiracy circles but which astronomers say doesn't exist.
http://wnep.com/2017/09/20/researcher-says-this-saturday-will-be-the-end-of-the-world/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/09/17/the-world-as-we-know-it-is-about-to-end-again-if-you-believe-this-biblical-doomsday-claim/ (soft paywalled)
(Score: 5, Informative) by Whoever on Thursday September 21 2017, @04:54AM (25 children)
Evangelical Christians: the same people who brought you President Donald Trump.
As far as I can tell, they are not Christian in any meaningful way, they are just bigoted authoritarians. They can FOAD.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by jmorris on Thursday September 21 2017, @05:07AM (17 children)
My but aren't you a paragon of tolerance. Curious, were you this vehement in your denunciations of the 2012 Mayan calendar "End of the World" hype machine, including that execrable and highly forgettable Hollywierd tiein project? Or is the hate reserved for Christians because they are the only religious group that hurling abuse at won't get you talked about? So brave, insulting a religion that won't cut your filthy neck in response. Come on big boy, lets hear it about the Hidden Imam, the apocalyptic prophecies driving ISIS, or the child molesting Prophet of Islam. Show us what ya got. Pussy.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @05:24AM
That's the difference.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Aegis on Thursday September 21 2017, @05:29AM
YES
(Score: 5, Informative) by letssee on Thursday September 21 2017, @10:12AM (8 children)
If you live in the US, the evangelicals are a *lot* scarier than the muslims. And they have a lot more power to cause you trouble.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @03:29PM (6 children)
Why?
How?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @03:43PM (5 children)
How? Electing T; waging war on science and the environment; letting billionaires write the laws; getting us into wasteful, deadly, and region-destabilizing wars...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @05:34PM (2 children)
oh yeah, it's "the christians" that did all of that. lmao
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:34PM (1 child)
Yes, because they blindly follow the GOP which has made all of those its primary mission.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @11:54PM
ಠ_ಠ
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 21 2017, @05:38PM (1 child)
Ok, OTHER than waging unending war, poisoning the water you drink and the air you breathe, enriching themselves via the legislative, what have the Republicans ever done to us?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @11:57PM
If you're still whining about the republicans in 2017, as opposed to illegal/criminal/unConstitutional government, which approximately 98.390712% of all government activities are, then congratulations! You've successfully been programmed in government-run schools and are now free to mingle with the rest of genpop and show off your new bracelets. Don't forget to vote!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @06:23PM
Do what!?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday September 21 2017, @04:36PM
It's that time of month for you too, huh J-Mo? Here, have one of my Midols. Take a deep breath. It sucks, but you'll get through this.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Whoever on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:01PM (4 children)
Ah, the classic "What About" deflection. Not going to bite. Well, maybe I'll nibble.
Some of these groups are highly destructive to life on this planet. Because they believe that the Rapture/Armageddon is imminent, they don't care about the future. Which means they don't care about the environment.
They are dangerous death cults. They are a danger to all of us. This applies to all groups who think that life on this planet is going end soon, due to forces outside of our control: Christians, Muslims, Druids, whatever: all of them represent a danger to society.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:46PM (2 children)
Druids? How did they get pulled into end-of-the-world nonsense? A quick search finds no Druid apocalypse.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Whoever on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:34PM
Hyperbole.
Actually, I suspect the Druids might be better stewards of the planet than most.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @06:25PM
Try doing a slow search. Quick searches usually end in nothing found.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:18PM
Sad that you didn't get into the thread earlier.
You might already be at +5.
death cults [...] are a danger to all of us
Exactly.
...and in the meantime, just in case you Bible thumpers got the date wrong, "stewardship" means "don't screw up everything for subsequent generations".
...and "dominion over the Earth" does not mean "you get to exploit everything and leave the ruins along your path".
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 4, Touché) by unauthorized on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:00AM (4 children)
<sarcasm>Yeah, the reason President Donald Duck won must be because all those former Obama voters who went with him suddenly found Jesus! I'm sure it had nothing to do with the disenfranchisement of the working class and the attempts of the opposition to push two-faced corporate shill into office.</sarcasm>
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:32AM (2 children)
There. FTFY.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:03PM (1 child)
Not that I disagree with the general premise that The Big 2 offered horrible candidates in November, but I'd like to know where you buy your micrometers.
The resolution must be fantastic to have found a significant difference between the 2.
N.B. The person/party that I voted for at least had an actual outline for an actual jobs program [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [ontheissues.org]
...which overlapped with other critical issues.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @12:00AM
While we're picking at nits, I would have found a new war in Syria against Russia a mite irritating.
(Score: 4, Informative) by meustrus on Thursday September 21 2017, @02:24PM
Hey, Obama was more Christian than McCain and less Mormon than Romney. That counts for something among these people. The only snag was those losers screaming about him being a secret Muslim.
And never forget that so far the #1 accomplishment of the Trump presidency is nominating a right-winger to the Supreme Court. It's the so-called evangelicals that care about that, not the disenfranchised working class.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:16AM (1 child)
As far as I can tell, evangelical Christians drive the majority of US politics at all levels. It's unheard of for an elected candidate to make any progress without beating the bible a bit. Even sportspeople and beauty pagent winners go on about it.
It's disgusting, it's started to become noticeable again in many "developed" nations, but the USA has never even attempted to pretend to be either secular or even quietly faithful rather than chest-beatingly evangelical.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:30PM
You have to recognize that the place was populated^W invaded by rejects from other places.
The Pilgrims and The Puritans left England for the western hemisphere because the brand of religion there wasn't whacko enough for them.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]