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[edit]your bot is accusing me of vanalisim and i do not think that is fair when i figure this thing out i will bring a complaint about your so called auto matic bot. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 44raven (talk • contribs) 23:41, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps the worst article I have ever read in the Wikipedia.
MyNameIsFarang 15:09, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
Agreed. This "article" is a joke.
TheLightOfTruth 12:10, 28 October 2005
Hello. I have re-created this page, and it is much improved over its last incarnation. If you two are still around, perhaps you could suggest some further improvements for its content. ◄Zahakiel► 02:45, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Agreed, I removed some dubious claims treated as fact regarding "endtimes" and "Science's discovery of a Brown Dwarf called Niburu orbiting our sun". Anonymous —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.166.21.99 (talk) 12:41, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
I've heard some people talk about Wormwood being a reference to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, because Chernobyl is actually Russian for "Wormwood" (with the whole "1/3rd of the Earth's water becoming Wormwood" being the radiation cloud spreading across the globe). I can't come up with any specific sources off the top of my head, though. Has anyone else heard of this? Joylock 02:19, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
I've heard this too and it seems to be connected to the idea of corrupting Earth's resources. I believe "Wormwood" is also a codeword for Nuclear Containment Leakage, or Radioactive Poisoning. Mimeblade 19:35, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
There's a New York Times article from 1986 that makes the connection between the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and Wormwood of Revelations. 70.144.92.198 03:02, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
check wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl seems to sum it all up —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.153.252.39 (talk) 12:27, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Cyanide from comets
[edit]The only poison I know of that is both bitter AND extremely toxic is the notorious hydrogen cyanide, responsible for both the bitterness of bitter almonds AND the toxicity of Nazi gas chambers. So, the discovery of cyanide in Comet ISON should be the smoking gun... Should a comet containing high levels of cyanide merely air-burst high up, it would contaminate the clouds with cyanide, causing aqueous hydrocyanic acid to fall as rain and contaminate the water cycle. 166.137.210.40 (talk) 20:58, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
- If a comet large enough to have enough cyanide to cause significant toxicity did an air burst... the cyanide would be the least of our problems.
- Also, there are many bitter and extremely toxic compunds, such as many alkaloids. BunsenH (talk) 04:01, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
- That's IF the comet does an air burst over land. Over a large ocean, however, all it would do is evaporate (and, thus, desalinate) large amounts of seawater, dissolve the cyanide into the resulting water vapor, and, thus, create a toxic storm cloud... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.53.156.131 (talk) 03:23, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
- In such an event, the shock wave would be more destructive than the toxicity. BunsenH (talk) 18:57, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
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A bitterly (!) crude remark
[edit]Seriously? There aren't any third-party sources that draw a line connecting a highly fantastical nature of the Bible with hallucinogenic properties of wormwood? Some scholars are real wusses. :V 83.9.113.28 (talk) 19:01, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
- Actually, there are. Some examples:
- https://doubleblindmag.com/were-there-psychoactive-plants-in-the-bible/
- https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/3/2/article-p117.xml
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-moses-idUSN0444950920080304/
- https://ethnobiomed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13002-019-0338-8
Just some examples. Because I am too lazy and I already took my sleep medication, I hope someone kindly picks up on this lead and adds this by no means not irrelevant information to the article that would actually do justice to logic and critical thinking instead of coming up with more semantics and rhetoric which sounds highly apologetic in nature. 83.9.113.28 (talk) 19:06, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
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