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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 21 2017, @06:44PM (2 children)
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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.