[kj] Wormwood star / "Asteroooiiddd!"

[Lennonka]

aND tHE wATERS sTARTED tO BOIL. HAAAHAHAHAHA

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:47 PM, B. Oliver Sheppard <
bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net> wrote:


> 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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