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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: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 21 2017, @10:13AM (6 children)
Who you calling a millennial?
It's been dealt with and you're not getting a user name of the moderator. Encouraging petty vendettas is not our business round these parts. Moderations are going to remain anonymous unless the moderator chooses to discuss them publicly.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday September 21 2017, @10:26AM (2 children)
Could you at least let me know the geographical area of the ip address? I would hate to nuke the wrong area by mistake! Or maybe some hint about where the modder ranks on the "people who downmod most" , as you have done for me? Or more pertinently for this Fine Article: Was it a Christian? Or a Pagan? Or a Muslin? Or, god forbid, a Pastifarian? Be in any case, dude, lighten up, or rather tighten up, on the regex. You have lameness filtered me from posting in my own language, and that is just, well, racist.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:12PM
It's somewhere in North Korea - but don't tell anyone that I told you!!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday September 22 2017, @01:05AM
No. I don't know the IP address myself. We hide it from ourselves with a one-way hash. Yeah, I could probably rainbow table it up but I'm not going to.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:44PM (2 children)
As an outsider to this whole debate, I personally think the spam mod should in no way be anonymous. It is far too powerful to allow its use in secret. By all means, keep the other mods secret, but give the usrenames of anyone who uses the spam mod.
If a post is truly spam the user who mods it as such has absolutely nothing to worry about by having their name attached to it. Oh, look, DN posted his nonsense again and Runaway1956 got to it first with a spam mod. Hey, look, affiliate links, and this time it was khallow that saw it first. See? Nobody cares. If it wasn't anonymous it would be far less likely to be abused.
Only those who abuse the spam mod would want it to stay secret, and you seem hell-bent on making sure it stays that way. Kinda makes one wonder...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:55PM
Except getting harassed by the sociopaths of the internet.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday September 21 2017, @08:59PM
^^ This! This is the kind of post that I most sincerely regret not having the ability to mod up! Spam mods should be public, a badge of honor that other Soylentils would praise and respect, and even envy! And this would preclude their being used for "disagree". That is what anonymous "troll" mods are for.