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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: 4, Insightful) by jmorris on Thursday September 21 2017, @03:45PM
Agreed. But up to the late 18th Century they were picking one closely based on the Biblical; one that was known to work. Slow change, discard the failures (by deliberate action or by failure/death), propagate the successes, in short evolution. Starting with the French Revolution and Marx it was Revolution, throw out -everything- and build an entire social order and moral code based on reason. The evidence from that experiment says that either our reason or our knowledge is not yet up to the task.
They weren't interested in examining the old to see what worked, why it worked, what would be the non-obvious consequences of changes in area A to B, none of that. They simply ripped and replaced. But even if we did, I doubt we have the knowledge required to make massive changes and avoid hosing ourselves. Arrogance is deadly, we have been thinking about these things in a methodical way but a short time, we should admit our limitations. Our Science and Reason are nowhere near ready to provide a total philosophical system. It makes for dangerous times, we know enough to be unwilling to follow the old stable codes and are still too ignorant to replace them.