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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: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday September 21 2017, @03:16PM (3 children)
Philosophy is what people do when they're trying to figure out what the right concepts are for areas of thinking they don't know how to do yet.
As such, it's difficult to get definitive answers.
Especially because, when they finally do manage to figure out the right concepts and methods for as area, it spawns off and becomes a discipline all its own. This is how science originated historically,
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:08PM (2 children)
Science subsumes that roles of philosophy, and does it better; Science is the formalization of figuring out what those concepts and methods should be, and therefore avoids a lot of the fumbling around.
With Mathematical Logic and the Scientific method, there's no room for philosophy unless one explicitly wishes to avoid rigor; philosophy is science without rigor.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Friday September 22 2017, @07:06AM (1 child)
But philosophers can spell better, and construct grammatical sentences, often in more than one language! I would hope that science is as claimed, but too often scientists are not aware of the conceptual world they inhabit, or even of the history of their discipline. So there is a certain amount of hubris and conceit, in some but not all scientists, and claims to have "replaced" philosophy are part of that. Rigor combined with ignorance is not really science at all. But it does not know that. Dunning-Kroeger, on the highest levels.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 22 2017, @04:50PM
YOU STOP THAT THIS INSTANT!!
You've kept me pissed off for weeks now, and all of a sudden, you post something that I can't possibly disagree with?
JUST STOP IT!!
Post some more stupid shit so that I can moderate you into oblivion!! You can't curry favor that easily!