[kj] Wormwood star / "Asteroooiiddd!"

[Chris Williamson]

Don't know about that but I like the band name "World Burns to Death".  Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

Chris


 

> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:47:20 -0600

> From: bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net

> To: gathering at misera.net

> Subject: [kj] Wormwood star / "Asteroooiiddd!"

> 

> So a lot of you probably know these lyrics from "Asteroid" come directly 

> from the Bible's "Book of Revelations" (or Apocalypse of St John for you 

> old school Catholics):

> 

> 

> "And the third angel sounded,

> And there fell a great star from heaven,

> Burning as it were a lamp,

> And it fell upon the third part of the waters...."

> 

> 

> Of course, the Bible does not then go on to have, in all caps, 

> "ASTEROOOIIIIIDDDDD!" as its next line. The prophet Jaz added that.

> 

> However, what it does say is that the, er "asteroid" that falls down is 

> a "a star called Wormwood." There's a local band, World Burns to Death, 

> who have a song called "Wormwood Star" (about the Chernobyl nuclear 

> disaster, actually).

> 

> "And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the 

> waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they 

> were made bitter." (Revelation 8:10, 11 - KJB). So basically it's an 

> absinthe asteroid or what?

> 

> -0liver

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