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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:46AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:46AM (#571067)

    But lemme me take the bait a moment and respond to the false point raised since it is a very common misconception that needs killing off anyway. The Founders were not Deists. Glenn Beck agrees with NeoReaction on one point, the importance of old books. Him and David Barton take it one step farther though and don't content themselves with reading old books on Gutenberg and Google, they collect the actual old books, manuscripts, journals, proclamations, etc. LOTS of them. Enough to remove all doubt as to the actual religious beliefs and practices of the Founders. I mean what are ya gonna believe, what your professor said about the Founders or what they actually wrote in their own handwriting?

    jmorris, you refute yourself at your very beginning. Barton? And you believe him when he says he has collected "actual old books"? Have you seen the movie, "National Treasure" with Jon Voight, well known Trump supporter? This may be better evidence than what you offer here. Glenn Beck: less crazy is still crazy. Or: "Glenn Beck, the Mormon Alex Jones!" Can't trust those professors! They are the ones who actually have studied the stuff, in kind of a peer reviewed way, and stuff.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by jmorris on Thursday September 21 2017, @03:19PM (1 child)

    by jmorris (4844) on Thursday September 21 2017, @03:19PM (#571182)

    I have read enough old books myself to know the U.S. academy is defective and an active menace to those seeking knowledge. Started with the Progressives and Woodrow Wilson's misfits when he ran Princeton. Try it sometime for yourself. There is no excuse anymore, Gutenberg and Google provide instant access to tons of old books. Read a modern biography and then read one written before the 20th Century. Do it for any of the Founders. Deconstruction is what they call it, if you know where to look they admit to what they are doing.

    So lemme get this straight. When Beck and Barton display a modern copy of a book with the collected sayings of Washington then show an old copy of the same title with additional content, your mind would prefer to believe the old book is a carefully manufactured fake. When they show the edited copies of Alexis de Tocqueville's _Democracy in America_ promoted to modern students, that admits it is cut and then points out the pattern in the edits to make it fit Prog ideas better, that is fake? The hundred plus handwritten notes, proclamations, etc. they have shown are all fake. Even when they are showing stuff they haven't managed to buy personally, that nice lady from the auction house is an actress and is part of the scam too.

    Because Beck is nuts and going broke they haven't built the permanent museum they keep planning, but have had a couple of open house events where folks can get in to see the collection of artifacts (not just books) they are collecting. Nobody has spotted a fake artifact and raised a ruckus yet.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @06:58AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 22 2017, @06:58AM (#571586)

      Because Beck is nuts and going broke they haven't built the permanent museum they keep planning, but have had a couple of open house events where folks can get in to see the collection of artifacts (not just books) they are collecting. Nobody has spotted a fake artifact and raised a ruckus yet.

      Going? Jesus! Will there be a full-scale model of the Ark in this museum? Give it up, jmorris, God has afflicted you with the pestilence of a conservative mind. You best just suffer in silence rather than encouraging mockery and derision. And maybe you can be reborn as a donkey in your next life, if you are lucky.