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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: 5, Funny) by theluggage on Thursday September 21 2017, @12:30PM (2 children)

    by theluggage (1797) on Thursday September 21 2017, @12:30PM (#571117)

    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.

    Please folks, some of us like to wait until the BluRay of Game of Thrones comes out and get it for Xmas - now even the fucking Bible is printing spoilers without warning. Its the John Snow coming back from the dead thing all over again...

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday September 21 2017, @01:24PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday September 21 2017, @01:24PM (#571135) Journal

    Its the John Snow coming back from the dead thing all over again...

    Reference lost on older viewers who want you to get off their lawn.

    --
    Washington DC delenda est.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @02:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @02:09PM (#571153)

    The Sun is a British Tabloid. Theresa May got to her position thanks to a lot of populism, this obviously is what was meant by "a woman clothed with The Sun". And the EU has seven institutions, [wikipedia.org] so obviously that's the seven-headed dragon she fights off. Also note that the EU flag has 12 stars, so that fits, too.

    I mean, if we are creating fantasies about prophecies in the Bible, we can at least be a bit more creative!