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"Researcher" Says This Saturday Will be the End of the World

posted by martyb on Thursday September 21 2017, @04:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the "this-end-up" dept.

DeathMonkey submitted:

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)

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday September 22 2017, @08:38AM (1 child)

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Friday September 22 2017, @08:38AM (#571593) Homepage
    I disagree with you a fair bunch of the time and agree with you a fair bunch of the time - this makes you much more interesting than the people I either almost always disagree or agree with, it's a sign that you do have a genuinely interesting point of view either founded on different precepts than my own, but often heading towards similar conclusions, or founded on the same precepts as my own, but often heading towards different conclusions. Or both.

    You'll be dismayed to hear that you're sharing a tent with Buzz...
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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday September 22 2017, @05:34PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday September 22 2017, @05:34PM (#571711) Journal

    Hell no I'm not sharing a tent with him. Incidentally anything he might say about snakes, scorpions, or similar wee beasties in his sleeping bag has naught to do with me :)

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