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 Friday September 22 2017, @07:17AM (2 children)
Alright, let me guess: "Longshoreman's Wharf in New Jersey"?
"Leatherneck Wombat Niederschticker Jaeger"?
"Long-time World Noodling Jock"?
"Lone Wolf Rightwing Terrorist"? (yes, the letters don't match, but that's to throw of the FBI!)
Or:
"Lameass Wise-ass Never-went-to-college Jackass"?
I like that last one best.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 22 2017, @02:15PM (1 child)
You can't really be serious, but LWNJ is Left Wing Nut Job, and RWNJ is, naturally enough, Right Wing Nut Job. Of course, LWNJ is used very commonly. You're far more likely to hear "batfuck crazy".
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 23 2017, @09:06AM
Oh, but an AC can always be serious. You, on the other hand, in your full-on right-wing nut-job Faux News Hillbilly of Ignorance mode, seriously, you cannot be serious? No one can be that stupid, right? Hello? Runaway? Can you hear reality? . . . . .. . . Blurp.