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posted by martyb on Thursday September 21 2017, @04:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the "this-end-up" dept.

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)


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:28AM (28 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:28AM (#571025) Journal

    Ahoy. Spam mod is undeserved in this context, according to the rules [soylentnews.org]
    Call him a whinger, mod it Disagree, Flamebait, Troll if you so consider, but it is not spam.

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:15AM (27 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:15AM (#571038) Journal

    Wow, again, spam mod rescinded? But still, who threw it, and are they, like yours truly, subject to a month in the desert, banned from modding at all? Could we see a Hall of Fame of Nig**** Spam Modders? Maybe with recension rates, number and duration of mod bans, number of IP bans, number of regex attempted bans? Well, no harm done, as in we are no worse off right now. But the irritable spam mod syndrome is still a danger to the site. We should ask our doctor about this.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:26AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:26AM (#571041) Journal

      number of IP bans

      IP bans won't work. At least not without dropping the onion from the bacon [soylentnews.org] (never tested it, actually. I hope it's still an option).

      Which means whatever person tries to demonstrate there is a mean to spam S/N without being punish wastes her/his time: we already know that.

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    • (Score: 3, Touché) by FatPhil on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:45AM (25 children)

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:45AM (#571046) Homepage
      I love how after complaining about an unfair spam mod you're also capable of complaining when that moderation is rectified. Is there anything you won't complain about.
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      • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:54AM (24 children)

        by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:54AM (#571047) Journal

        I really wish Phil was more svelte, and maybe even a little buff. But that is just me. So, no reveal on who threw the mod? No judgment on their punishment? No transparency and no free speech? Some things, my slightly fluffy Phil, are worth complaining about. I only have the well being of this site at heart, though I fear it is too late. Ferking Nazis.

        • (Score: 4, Insightful) by FatPhil on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:21AM (23 children)

          by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:21AM (#571058) Homepage
          The perp will get a slap. It might be a small slap, it might be a bigger slap, depending on whether this is seen as an aberration, or a deliberate abuse. This is the system working as it should. And whilst it works as it should, the gritty details do not need to be exposed. There's no more need for egregious spam moders to have their pseudo-identities made public, shame is not the punishment for such offences, and anonymity of moderators will be preserved. You may have been a *temporary* victim of this offence, but you have no skin in the game otherwise, that wrong has been righted, it's now a matter between the gods and the sinner. And quit your wining - you ended up with a free "underrated" mod that you no longer need.

          Oh, where does your claim of "no free speech" come from? We permit you to post an endless stream of whinging and whining here.
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          • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:34AM (22 children)

            by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:34AM (#571063) Journal

            Six times in a fortnight is hardly temporary, FatPhil. I detect a rather vast right-wing conspiracy, as some would say, to spam mod me. Justice is all I ask for! I ask the same for khallow, though he is less deserving.

            • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday September 21 2017, @01:32PM (19 children)

              by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday September 21 2017, @01:32PM (#571138) Journal

              It must be because Halloween is coming up. Or everybody is PMS'ing at the same time. Trolling has mounted lately. Is it a JTRIG assault? Are we Soylentils getting too close to the truth? Have they determined we must be silenced? Is it too much of a threat that jmorris, aristarchus, khallow, Azuma, frojack, Runaway, Thexalon spar with each other peacably in some sort of unholy communion? Are they afraid that we challenge the incipient civil war they have so carefully designed?

              Everybody take a deep breath. Soylent is a fractious and weird community, but it will hold together.

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              • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday September 21 2017, @04:58PM (18 children)

                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday September 21 2017, @04:58PM (#571247) Journal

                What fucking civil war? I fight for no one but me. I see bullshit, I cut it down. And for the record, we have J-Mo constantly spewing alt-reich talking points and no one goddammit calls him out on it but me, it seems. This place has a serious RWNJ problem, not helped by the fact that one of the editorial/managerial staff is a fellow-traveler with that sort.

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                • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Thursday September 21 2017, @05:29PM (6 children)

                  by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday September 21 2017, @05:29PM (#571273) Journal

                  I was referring to the civil war between the red team and the blue team that the lizard people have been preparing for quite some time, not a civil war on SN.

                  It's good you cut down bullshit. Everyone should, no matter the source. Reflexive talking points are especially deserving of challenge. None of us should use them, because it reduces meaningful discourse to idiocy in an ever tightening feedback loop.

                  You're not the only one challenging Soylentils from a different part of the ideological spectrum. You have compatriots. I will say I admire your ability to agree with those same people when they say things you can agree with. That's always tough to do, but these days especially so. What you do keeps the door for productive conversation and collective reconciliation open. FWIW, I root for you whether you're challenging a point or agreeing on one.

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                  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:14PM (5 children)

                    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:14PM (#571297) Journal

                    Thanks...that helps so much to hear, you have no idea. I've always, always been alone, fighting by myself, so it helps to know it's not just me versus the void...

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                    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:38PM (1 child)

                      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:38PM (#571389)

                      I'm in the mix too! But I like forcing TMB to use his shady tactics to unmask me, make him face his true nature. Pretty sure I push back against jmo/jlo/jmoustache (I think I like the last one, mild overtones of Hitler worship there) more than you Azuma :)

                      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday September 22 2017, @03:50AM

                        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday September 22 2017, @03:50AM (#571549) Journal

                        But who are you? Posting as AC means you could be anyone or several anyones, and the only way to know for sure would be to be an admin who can see the IPs. And even then, an IP doesn't necessarily correlate to a single person.

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                    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by turgid on Thursday September 21 2017, @09:06PM

                      by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 21 2017, @09:06PM (#571404) Journal

                      The world is in a very strange place just now. History is rhyming with some very unpleasant periods from the past. Part of the Alt-Wrong's modus operandi is to DoS us with constant and seemingly unstoppable stream of misinformation, hatred, intolerance, stupidity, willful ignorance, history and science denial, you name it.

                    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday September 22 2017, @08:38AM (1 child)

                      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Friday September 22 2017, @08:38AM (#571593) Homepage
                      I disagree with you a fair bunch of the time and agree with you a fair bunch of the time - this makes you much more interesting than the people I either almost always disagree or agree with, it's a sign that you do have a genuinely interesting point of view either founded on different precepts than my own, but often heading towards similar conclusions, or founded on the same precepts as my own, but often heading towards different conclusions. Or both.

                      You'll be dismayed to hear that you're sharing a tent with Buzz...
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                      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday September 22 2017, @05:34PM

                        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday September 22 2017, @05:34PM (#571711) Journal

                        Hell no I'm not sharing a tent with him. Incidentally anything he might say about snakes, scorpions, or similar wee beasties in his sleeping bag has naught to do with me :)

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                • (Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Thursday September 21 2017, @09:33PM

                  by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 21 2017, @09:33PM (#571424) Journal

                  we have J-Mo constantly spewing alt-reich talking points and no one goddammit calls him out on it but me, it seems.

                  He gets dogpiled all the time. But like everyone else here, he isn't always wrong. And part of the point of a place like this is learning how to deal with people with different viewpoints.

                • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 22 2017, @02:10AM (9 children)

                  by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 22 2017, @02:10AM (#571526) Journal

                  From the perspective of a LWNJ, damned near everyone is a RWNJ.

                  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday September 22 2017, @03:48AM (5 children)

                    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday September 22 2017, @03:48AM (#571547) Journal

                    Well, yes, but how many unreconstructed Marxists have you ever run into? I've never met one. On the other hand, from the perspective of a sane, normal, decent person, pretty much everyone who thinks like you is a RWNJ.

                    (Translation: "no u" doesn't work. Especially when it's a false equivalents. Step up your game, you pathetic whinging cuck.)

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                    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 22 2017, @02:18PM (4 children)

                      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 22 2017, @02:18PM (#571644) Journal

                      Step up my game? Alright, you're getting boring, so I no longer want to adopt you. I'm going to let the grandkids keep their ugly four legged critters that they call "horses" in there instead.

                      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday September 22 2017, @05:32PM (2 children)

                        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday September 22 2017, @05:32PM (#571710) Journal

                        I said step up, not down. Maybe you're not cut out for this...

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                        • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 23 2017, @01:09AM (1 child)

                          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday September 23 2017, @01:09AM (#571922) Journal

                          Now you're sounding like my mother. She always expected me to "be nice to the kids who aren't so bright". I just didn't have time to hang with the little retards.

                          • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday September 24 2017, @09:21PM

                            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday September 24 2017, @09:21PM (#572456) Journal

                            That may be the single most revealing comment you've ever made about yourself :) Thanks for doing my work for me, Runaway. Now everyone can see you're the complete, self-centered asshole I've been ranting that you were for years.

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                      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 23 2017, @09:02AM

                        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 23 2017, @09:02AM (#572048)

                        so I no longer want to adopt you.

                        You know, Runaway, this does nothing to stop the rest of us from wanting to euthanize you. Just because you ought to know.

                  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @07:17AM (2 children)

                    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @07:17AM (#571588)

                    From the perspective of a LWNJ,

                    Alright, let me guess: "Longshoreman's Wharf in New Jersey"?

                    "Leatherneck Wombat Niederschticker Jaeger"?

                    "Long-time World Noodling Jock"?

                    "Lone Wolf Rightwing Terrorist"? (yes, the letters don't match, but that's to throw of the FBI!)

                    Or:
                    "Lameass Wise-ass Never-went-to-college Jackass"?

                    I like that last one best.

                    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 22 2017, @02:15PM (1 child)

                      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 22 2017, @02:15PM (#571642) Journal

                      You can't really be serious, but LWNJ is Left Wing Nut Job, and RWNJ is, naturally enough, Right Wing Nut Job. Of course, LWNJ is used very commonly. You're far more likely to hear "batfuck crazy".

                      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 23 2017, @09:06AM

                        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 23 2017, @09:06AM (#572049)

                        Oh, but an AC can always be serious. You, on the other hand, in your full-on right-wing nut-job Faux News Hillbilly of Ignorance mode, seriously, you cannot be serious? No one can be that stupid, right? Hello? Runaway? Can you hear reality? . . . . .. . . Blurp.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @12:14AM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @12:14AM (#571484)

              Six times in a fortnight is hardly temporary, FatPhil. I detect a rather vast right-wing conspiracy, as some would say, to spam mod me.

              Have you considered as the culprit bots?

              (beep, boop)

              • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday September 22 2017, @12:18AM

                by aristarchus (2645) on Friday September 22 2017, @12:18AM (#571486) Journal

                No. Bots, being machines, are a collective, and so communisitic. Besides, all the bots seem to be after fustakrakreich.