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: 2) by c0lo on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:30AM (7 children)
False dichotomy, magister.
As a penance, look at yourself into a mirror, then go and sin no more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Troll) by aristarchus on Thursday September 21 2017, @09:44AM (6 children)
cannot reply lameness filter lame.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday September 21 2017, @09:58AM (5 children)
Domine, parce mihi, quia peccavi.
(Score: 2, Informative) by aristarchus on Thursday September 21 2017, @10:04AM (4 children)
So, I can post in Latin, but not in Greek! Bleeding bloody Papists, I say! TMB, fix your lameness filter, the regex'es have gone beyond the artful.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Thursday September 21 2017, @11:45AM (1 child)
Inevitable so.
One cannot fight natural language with regexes without causing collateral damage, no matter how much The Never-Wrong Miny Buzzguard you are.
The wise reaction would have been to not react in any way beyond the existing modding guidelines***
The way it is now, I'm highly tempted to step in the shoes of DN only to defeat the regexes - the UNICODE is big... nay... yuuuge in what can offer. I bet a "professional" written regex (causing minimal collateral damage) would reach tens of kilobytes easily - that is, absolutely unmaintainable.
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*** you know, TMB? it's not too late to cut the crap and drop the entire idea of lameness filter all together... I never had problem with via-gra and p3nis enlargmnt here. Be rational, what good that lameness filter is for?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @03:35PM
But but but his work of art!!!
"No, No" saythe the lame buzzbrained and he is never wrong.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday September 21 2017, @04:48PM (1 child)
Oh for fuck's sake, his stupid fucking regex filters block Greek now?!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:07PM
That's right - no fudge packing on Soylent!