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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) by aristarchus on Saturday September 23 2017, @08:55AM (2 children)
C'mon, khallow! Thou dost protest too much!
I am bothered that you doubt my claim to be the actual aristarchus of Samos, with no evidence at all. Your claim of empiricism fails you. And the "obvious rebuttal" has become a meme here on SoylentNews precisely because it is khallow bringing up something that is by no means obvious. Do you think we would all be playing drinking games based on your intellectual tics, if we thought they were at all well founded?
But here is where it truly hurts:
Continually, eh? Then you should be able to cite the locus originalis of this saying! Ah, it was a famous philosopher, German, and you accuse me of being a fake? I am sorry, khallow, but the more you carry on these discussions, the more you expose yourself as an intellectual fraud. You do not know what you are talking about, and it has become more than apparent to everyone but yourself that you have no idea what I am talking about. But, you know, I am willing to continue the dialogue. I will call you names, but only deserved ones.
And, it does not matter what you say about me, because it really is simply obvious to everyone that you are not familiar with the pertinent documents of western, or any, civilization. So, Descartes, Mediations,
That is just the beginning. Meditate upon it, if you have the time or the ability.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday September 23 2017, @12:53PM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday September 25 2017, @09:09AM
Let's not, and instead mediate on the nature of property rights. Are they features of the nature world that we can perceive and verify empirically? Or are the fictions of law, where we have to go to court to find out where they lie? And in either case, are they part of what it means to be a sovereign individual self-consciousness, or are they only allocated to serve the greater good? Really, when Marx has a commodity spin about on its head claiming it possesses intrinsic worth, well, that is not far from saying property rights are god, or nature, given. But of course, there is no such thing as property, there is only tax liability.