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Pls someone make this reality (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] JasonDJ 28 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Well my 6th grade science teacher told us that Chernobyl was fortold in the book of revelations and it meant that the world will end soon. Public school. In New England. In the 90s. The 1990s.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Yup, because people 2000 years ago knew exactly what a nuclear reactor is and that one would explode 1900 years later. How the hell do people come up with this?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You unlocked a childhood memory of my insane conspiracy theorist father ranting about “wormwood” in connection with Chernobyl.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Wormwood, aka Artemisia absinthium, is the active ingredient in Absinthe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Found it. Seems it’s also an angel from Revelation? Guessing this is what that 6th grade teacher was on about, too:

https://www.endtime.com/articles-endtime-magazine/chernobyl-third-trumpet-revelation/

(Warning: brain worms galore)

tldr:

Is it merely a coincidence that the name of the memorial complex remembering those that died fighting the nuclear fires of Chernobyl is the exact same name of the fallen star called Wormwood referred to in the third trumpet prophecy of Revelation 8?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

These stories are so crazy to me …… sometimes it seems looks I got a better secular education from my religion school in the 1970s, with nuns. For many years the science teacher was the only lay teacher, never mentioned religion and we were certainly never fed any of that creationist crap from anyone.

It was not a Jesuit school but they really left a great impression of the long history Jesuit pursuit of knowledge and science