BS: Planet X and Wormwood

Subject: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 02:46 PM

I was chatting to a young friend of mine today whose significant other is a member of the church of Satan - both are limited in formal learning but generally very well informed and he I know has an IQ of about 170.

Apparently the tinfoil hat brigade are predicting the world will end in 2012 thanks to the influence of Wormwood (aka Planet X and a whole lot of other names - which passes regularly at long intervals through our solar system), that it is linked to solar flares readily visible without any equipment at ground level in the UK, that it is linked to the death (already mentioned here) of redwinged blackbirds and fish (allegedly something to do with gamma-rays).

I am also told that factual observations and predictions (the test of the scientific method - formulate null hypothesis and test) are to be found all over the internet - some plainly loopy but others apparently hard to fake and and sober.

About 20 seconds with Mr Google will show that God-botherers are linking the events to many parts of the Bible from Genesis to Revelations.

What does the panel think?

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 04:59 PM

This part of the panel thinks that they missed a few oddball theories to enhance that mix.....

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 05:08 PM

Oh there's more, but I did not want to go through all of it, I'm sure it will develop.

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 05:11 PM

I thought wormwood reffered to Chernobyl

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 05:50 PM

Yeah! And the Mayans predicted it as well (even though they'd never read the Book of Revelations). Scary stuff!!

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 05:53 PM

Wasn't Wormwood the little devil in 'The Screwtape Letters'.

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: bobad
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 05:57 PM

Wormwood is what makes one see the green fairy when imbibing absinthe.

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 06:03 PM

What is it makes you see the green fairy when washing the dishes?

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 09:05 PM

Yeah, I've been reading off and on about that Planet X stuff ever since about 2000. I have no real opinion about it one way or another, I just try to live a good life each day of my life.

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 09:14 PM

Remember what happened to those people a few years ago who thought they were gonna find a secret planet behind the comet...

There is NO weird story you can't sell to a few suckers...

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 09:20 PM

I thought Planet X was the only major source of an element which permitted the total annihilation of copper to produce energy!

E.E.'Doc'Smith "Skylark" series

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 09:39 PM

"There is NO weird story you can't sell to a few suckers..."

True! But it will take more than a few suckers to get Chongo elected president in 2012.

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 09:40 PM

It was a lovely little herb in my brother's garden, years ago. You tellin' me it was some alien plant?

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 10:36 PM

You'd think we'd see Planet X coming....

Besides, theyvisited us already. It's even on film!

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 11:05 PM

Lets see??? Armageddon was to be in 1476??? Then in 1525... 1650...1687....1688... 1726...1747.... 1801...1812...1837...1839...1896...1902...1927...1941...1953....1965...1975...1996...1999...2000....20005...2006...20007...2008....2009...2010 and now???

Drum roll)

*********************************2011***********************************

Happy Aramaegeddon...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 11:11 PM

Armageddon outa here....

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 10:00 AM

Does it matter? If it is going to be next year, we can't prevent it. Maybe stop paying our mortgages but other than that why worry about it?

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 10:24 AM

I'M going to do what Jerry Falwell did for Y2K (remember that?): stock up on ammunition. You can never tell what will happen when The Rapture hits. Might have to take a shot at someone who's not deserving of it or something.

On second thought I don't think I'll bother since the world ended many times in the past. And as for that thing in Mark, about only the Father knowing the day and the hour and He ain't tellin', well, that's a lot of hooee.

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: kendall
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 11:27 AM

As I understand it, what the Mayans predicted is not the end of the world, simply a new era.
Apocalypse also means a new beginning.

The Rapture does not appear anywhere in the Bible.

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 12:05 PM

The end of one world is the beginning of the next. Call it a re-shuffling of the deck.

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 01:23 PM

Oh yes, Wormwood is Artemisia absinthum which is related to Mugwort (A. vulgaris) and also Sagebrush (A. tridentata) of Wild West fame.

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 01:37 PM

Ya' know, if someone predicts the end of the world every year, someday someone will be right.

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: frogprince
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 01:50 PM

"if someone predicts the end of the world every year, someday someone will be right."

Unless, when it ends, there hasn't been anyone around to predict it for at least a year.

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 02:02 PM

Well, there IS that... ;>)

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 02:17 PM

As I understand it, the World ended years back -












and I for one ain't living in Paradise...


Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 03:05 PM

"Remember what happened to those people a few years ago who thought they were gonna find a secret planet behind the comet..." Bill D

Bill, can we be sure that there was not a planet behind the comet there and those people are not on their way to an absolute paradise? :)

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 03:52 PM

According to Lexx Series 3 there are two planets sharing an atmosphere on the far side of the sun, one of which is heaven and the other hell.

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: gnu
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 04:11 PM

Kendall... "The Rapture does not appear anywhere in the Bible."

I saw one in Playboy when I was a lad.

Ebbie... "Bill, can we be sure that there was not a planet behind the comet there and those people are not on their way to an absolute paradise? :)"

Hahahahahaa! GOOD one!

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 01:15 PM

How can we be sure of anything other than the fact that Dachshunds are insane about food?

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 01:41 PM

My kid's mini dachshund (he calls her Pearl, short for Minnie Pearl. I call her Weezie, short for #$!@% Weezil) asserts that there is absolutely nothing insane about her commitment to removing all edibles (according to her standards) from the face of the earth. It's a dirty job but it's her rationally accepted obligation to take care of it.

"Edibles," however, do NOT INCLUDE anything with a label that says "dog" and "food" both on the same package. She does however like an occasional snack of "cat food" - or of just plain "cat."

John

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 01:45 PM

Yeah, that sounds typical. The minis are definitely more psychotic and weird than the full-size ones...but they are all equally glutonous.

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 05:15 PM

Is that "gluttonous" or "glutinous"?

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 06:00 PM

Oops. It's the former.

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Don Firth
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 08:54 PM

Not to worry. It's self-limiting. Their little tummies will eventually get too big for their short little legs to lift off the ground, leaving them immobilized. Unable to hunt for food, they will be "in place" until they lose sufficient girth to move again.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 04:01 AM

Why worry about such silly made up stuff.
I could reel off a list of perfectly possible events that really could cause civilisation to end.

Subject: RE: BS: Planet X and Wormwood
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 10:47 AM

I'm sure I read somewhere that Civilisation ended some time ago. Something to do with the invention of Bill Haley and the Comets?
Quack!
GtD.