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"Researcher" Says This Saturday Will be the End of the World

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

DeathMonkey submitted:

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: 2) by Lester on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:58AM (3 children)

    by Lester (6231) on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:58AM (#571050) Journal

    What if nothing happens on Saturday?
    Will he lose hos faith?

    I don't think so. He is going to say "I was wrong. It will be in thirty years". The funny thing of being this kind of prophet is that no matter if you fail, you are still a prophet.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:09AM (#571053)

    Will he lose hos faith?

    Yes, but he gets to keep the money! (Ho's generally have faith in anyone who has money.) Check out the origins of American Eschatology, in the Millerites [wikipedia.org],

    The Millerites were the followers of the teachings of William Miller, who in 1833 first shared publicly his belief that the Second Advent of Jesus Christ would occur in roughly the year 1843–1844.

    We seem to be off by some one hundred and some years. Remember, rapture is some cult thing, not actual Chrisitianity and certainly not Catholicism, which is the only real Chrisitanity, except for Sean Spicer and Newt Gringrich and Steven Bannon, and Rick (ewww) Santorum.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by zocalo on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:36AM

    by zocalo (302) on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:36AM (#571064)
    Most likely he'll get up early, go through the news sites, find the most significant natural or manmade disaster he can, make a bunch of posts online using it as proof he was right, then have some breakfast and start trying to figure out his next attention seeking scam. I'd say there is a pretty good chance that will be with the horoscope page of some tabloid rag, judging by the pile of astrological clap trap (using non-Christian symbology, btw) that he used to support this one.
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by DannyB on Thursday September 21 2017, @02:51PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 21 2017, @02:51PM (#571170) Journal

    What if nothing happens on Saturday?
    Will he lose hos faith?

    What did Harold Camping do? (remember him?)

    He just set a new improved date further in the future. Version 2.0.

    (I have heard that before he died, he repented of being a false prophet.)

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