Now this is really spooky-Revelation in the Book of Revelations

Snickers Man

For those who don't believe there's anything in Biblical prophecy, have a read of this passage from the Book of Revelations, written about 2,000 years ago, and then answer the question at the end.


'The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— the name of the star is Wormwood.
A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.'
Revelations 8:10-11

Now here's the question:

What's the Russian for 'wormwood'?

Hint: It's in the news today and it's not 'Smirnoff', which was the guess of one of my younger sillier colleagues.
:rolleyes:

crosstownk

Snickers Man wrote:

Now here's the question:

What's the Russian for 'wormwood'?

Hint: It's in the news today and it's not 'Smirnoff', which was the guess of one of my younger sillier colleagues.
:rolleyes:

Wow - "Chenoble" is Russian for Wormwood. Thats a bit freaky - but interestin nontheless.

its chenoble in rusian!Is it not spelt chernoble or chernobyl?Vague connection.

Merrick

Who's the third angel then?

Snickers Man

Deleted User wrote:

its chenoble in rusian!Is it not spelt chernoble or chernobyl?Vague connection.

Well do bear in mind that Russian has a different alphabet. So there is not going to be an exact transliteration. But the fact that the name of the plant and the name of the Russian for wormwood sounded so similar became a real talking point about 10 years ago.

Snickers Man

Merrick wrote:

Who's the third angel then?

One of the 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' in the Book of Revelation. Those that foretell the end of the world.

scargill

oh yeah and i remember this bit happening too...

"and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky"


NOT

flogen

OMG!!!! That's is, like, well wierd...


It's not news though; moved to... Christianity... no... Paranormal, no... Conspiracy Theories... nah... sci-fi/Fantasy... nah...

Fudge it... After Hours.

ChityWest

scargill wrote:

oh yeah and i remember this bit happening too...

"and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky"


NOT

Well that plant did blaze like a torch didnt it ? and the radiation did fall/rain from the sky. I think its freaky enough.

humanji

I'm writing a script for college about Armageddon and all that nonsense and I was reading up on Revelations and one of the things I noticed was that it mentions New Babylon, which is three cities that grew so big that their borders crossed each other, which is a bit like that Megalopolis in america, where, I think New York, Washington and Philidelphia (I think one or two more but I can't remember) all grow into each others borders.

But you can find parallels to the bible in everything if you look from certain angels!:D

danniemcq

i'm still waitin on hisler

ferdi

mass suicide anyone???

Pigman II

Wow! That bible sure sounds like some book! I keep putting off reading it tho in the hope some definitive movie version will come along.

Russian for Wormwood is : полынь

Next conspiracy theory please :rolleyes:

Krusty

To see a sobering and more human side to the whole Chernobyl disaster check this site out :

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm

No mutants or gruesome photos or anything, just a tour of the ghost-town(s) surrounding the place.

Tar.Aldarion

The book of revelations is the only interesting book in the Bible. It's hilarious.

YeatsCounty

ronoc wrote:

Russian for Wormwood is : полынь

Next conspiracy theory please :rolleyes:

From what I can see, the Wormwood - Chernobyl connection really is in the eye of the beholder. EG: "Still more confusion comes from the fact that the word "wormwood" is used in the English text of the Apocalypse, whose usage as the name of a plant does not necessarily match that of the original Greek.

Meh, we're all screwed anyway. Bible or no Bible, we're doomed. I read Revelations a couple of times when I was in secondary school. I can't make too much sense what what is actually going to happen, except that the Apocalypse is foretold by many significant signs and most of us will die horrible deaths.

Merrick

YeatsCounty wrote:

I can't make too much sense what what is actually going to happen, except that the Apocalypse is foretold by many significant signs and most of us will die horrible deaths.

Sun burning out in 5 billion or whatever years? Yep, everyone's going to die. Most of us however won't die in the Apocalypse though, unless one of us achieves immortality at some point.

Tar.Aldarion

Merrick wrote:

Sun burning out in 5 billion or whatever years? Yep, everyone's going to die. Most of us however won't die in the Apocalypse though, unless one of us achieves immortality at some point.

Humans will be extinct way before that.
Wonder what we would be like if we didn't go extinct and evolved. Either way, there will be no humans.

Merrick

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Either way, there will be no humans.

Unless of course one lucky boardser achieves immortality, and manages to survive the inevitable nuclear war, and the wiping out of the rest of the human race.

spooky donkey

The only thing really spooky round here is me!

Tar.Aldarion

Merrick wrote:

Unless of course one lucky boardser achieves immortality, and manages to survive the inevitable nuclear war, and the wiping out of the rest of the human race.

I can read between the lines. Mission accepted.

That's uncanny.

Wormwood sounds a bit like Silkwood, which is a film about a meltdown in a Nuclear Facility...the link is there for all to see...

:eek:

GadgetFiend

check out the track SALT by The Orb. Album is Orblivion

That's where I first heard the wormwood = chernobyl thing

Merrick

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

I can read between the lines. Mission accepted.

Good. Tell me the secret if/when you find it, please.

Tar.Aldarion

Merrick wrote:

Good. Tell me the secret if/when you find it, please.

According to southpark, it ivolves having sex with children. I must investigate.

goldilocked

Why are people so open to believe stuff people tell them....

Just one of many links that talk about this myth


http://www.spectator.co.uk/bnfl/article8.html

The final, and strangest, myth of all is that this truly was a biblical tragedy. The trouble is that ‘chernobyl’ does not actually translate as ‘wormwood’ (Artemesia absinthium), with its consequent apocalyptic connotations, at all. In fact, it means ‘mugwort’ (Artemesia vulgaris), a related but different herb. Close enough for myth, but no cigar.

Merrick

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

According to southpark, it ivolves having sex with children. I must investigate.

hmmm... Right, you go try...
Wait!! How will we know if it's actually working?

Tar.Aldarion

Well, the creator of the technique became immortal until he was hit by a train in 1892, so I guess it will work for me.

Peace

ferdi wrote:

mass suicide anyone???

Yep its the only way to go after a thread like this. Say 6pm? I'll meet you there. Heavy traffic ont he way though so just get started without me if i'm running late.

Merrick

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Well, the creator of the technique became immortal until he was hit by a train in 1892, so I guess it will work for me.

Well then all you need is some sort of indestructable armour, and you're sorted.

Peace

Merrick wrote:

Well then all you need is some sort of indestructable armour, and you're sorted.

Are you guys doing a bit from Monty Python or something?

Merrick

Nope, I just sort of veered off topic, and am now trying to become immortal... Monty Python getting involved can only be a good thing though.

monkeyfudge

It's not actually called the Book of Revelations either by the way...

Now who wants to hear about how the bible predicts barcodes and how every barcode has the number of the beast hidden on it?

godtabh

monkeyfudge wrote:

It's not actually called the Book of Revelations either by the way...

Now who wants to hear about how the bible predicts barcodes and how every barcode has the number of the beast hidden on it?

I do!

pants on fire

Hey people lets be reasonable here...

if there weren't people out there that read into this kinda stuff and believed it, then where would we get our kicks from?!!........

monkeyfudge

kearnsr wrote:

I do!

Well... in the Book of Revelation (notice there isn't an 's') it says something along the lines of how you will not be able to buy or sell goods without the mark of the beast, and that the mark of the beast is the number 666.

Now look at a barcode

http://www.lac-bac.gc.ca/iso/tc46sc9/barcode.gif

See the 3 lines that come down further than all the others? Notice how much those lines look like the lines that represent the number 6? Which you can also see in that barcode? Every barcode has those 3 paterns on it... and as such everything you buy and sell has the mark of the beast on it...

Rockdolphin

Can anyone find if the bible reveals the winner of this years world cup and I'll go down and put my years mortgage money on it. Must be more than doom fire and brimstone in such a book of love and hope

Rockdolphin

Rockdolphin wrote:

Can anyone find if the bible reveals the winner of this years world cup

Hmmm, the innkeeper told Joseph and Mary Togo find a manger...put your house on them I'd say...

Rockdolphin

Deleted User wrote:

Hmmm, the innkeeper told Joseph and Mary Togo find a manger...put your house on them I'd say...

Holy christ your right. Togo it is

Dooom

Seriously though, do people actually trawl through the bible when something happens to see if there's a passage they can switch around or manipulate so it's some sort of "prophecy"?

Quiet clearly the answer to all this, is that time travel is possible (I still stand by me theory that Einstein made up all that crap and we're stuck within those limits simply because we won't believe otherwise) and the catholic church is jumping back in time to re-write the bible to coincide with today's events so as to gain more power and eventually rule the world with an iron fist and killings and mass oppression and no chocolate M&M's. Just peanut.

Rockdolphin

You could trawl through Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and find all sorts of predictions, revelations and secret codes if you wanted to. People used to find the devils messages by playing Elvis Presley records backwards.

Jack Bauer

Heard the same about Moby Dick, codes in the pages

blu_sonic

so we gonna go for mass suicide on the 6th of june at 6pm? or am whatevers good for you

Rockdolphin

Jack Bauer wrote:

Heard the same about Moby Dick, codes in the pages

I think the secret code is in the title

jimmycrackcorm

ferdi wrote:

mass suicide anyone???

sure thing - you go first.

Archeron

think thats spooky? What about this one:

"and the fowl of the land shall fall sick as sure as the sword shall strike at the non believer. And the masses shall propogate this sickness and it shall spread thorughout the land. Only he who is free of cruelty shall be spared from Armageddon. Those who fall sick shall forever know torment"

Bird flu anyone? Thats taken from my slightly mental cousins "book of psycho ramblings" so it has to be true. He also succesfully preducted the construction of the Petronas towers, the huge increase in the price of dry cleaning in recent years, and the opening of the Kwik fit on the Malahide road.
whoooooooooo.

Snickers Man

Spike wrote:

Seriously though, do people actually trawl through the bible when something happens to see if there's a passage they can switch around or manipulate so it's some sort of "prophecy"?

I first became aware of this nearly 20 years ago, shortly after the original explosion. It was on the news that it had caused a lot of new interest in the bible in Russia because the Russian translation of wormwood rang a few bells with people who were coping with the disaster at Chernobyl.

Also, in the Bible we have at home that book is actually called the Book of the Apocalypse. Not Revelation.

Hobbes

Maybe they were talking about Torchwood instead of wormwood?

http://www.visittorchwood.co.uk/history-mystery.htm

MrJoeSoap

Rofl @ The OP.

I bet he's sitting in a dark room with a hurling helmet on.

Seriously people, unless you can see the world coming to an end with your own two eyes, never believe any of this nonsense.

Sgt. Politeness

Actually if you read up on it chernobyl isnt the russian for wormwood, its just an old mistranslation that stuck. Sorry to spoilt it for ya, but no revelations here.