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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @03:29PM (6 children)
Why?
How?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @03:43PM (5 children)
How? Electing T; waging war on science and the environment; letting billionaires write the laws; getting us into wasteful, deadly, and region-destabilizing wars...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @05:34PM (2 children)
oh yeah, it's "the christians" that did all of that. lmao
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:34PM (1 child)
Yes, because they blindly follow the GOP which has made all of those its primary mission.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @11:54PM
ಠ_ಠ
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 21 2017, @05:38PM (1 child)
Ok, OTHER than waging unending war, poisoning the water you drink and the air you breathe, enriching themselves via the legislative, what have the Republicans ever done to us?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @11:57PM
If you're still whining about the republicans in 2017, as opposed to illegal/criminal/unConstitutional government, which approximately 98.390712% of all government activities are, then congratulations! You've successfully been programmed in government-run schools and are now free to mingle with the rest of genpop and show off your new bracelets. Don't forget to vote!