Talk:Wormwood (Bible)

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Wormwood (Bible) article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Bible Low‑importance

	Bible portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Bible, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the Bible on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.BibleWikipedia:WikiProject BibleTemplate:WikiProject BibleBible articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Christianity Low‑importance

	Christianity portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Christianity, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Christianity on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ChristianityWikipedia:WikiProject ChristianityTemplate:WikiProject ChristianityChristianity articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Religion: Interfaith Low‑importance

	Religion portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Religion, a project to improve Wikipedia's articles on Religion-related subjects. Please participate by editing the article, and help us assess and improve articles to good and 1.0 standards, or visit the wikiproject page for more details.ReligionWikipedia:WikiProject ReligionTemplate:WikiProject ReligionReligion articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is within the scope of Interfaith work group, a work group which is currently considered to be inactive.

Astronomy: Astronomical objects C‑class Bottom‑importance

	Astronomy portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Astronomy, which collaborates on articles related to Astronomy on Wikipedia.AstronomyWikipedia:WikiProject AstronomyTemplate:WikiProject AstronomyAstronomy articles
C	This article has been given a rating which conflicts with the project-independent quality rating in the banner shell. Please resolve this conflict if possible.
Bottom	This article has been rated as Bottom-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Astronomical objects, which collaborates on articles related to astronomical objects.

old

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)[reply]

Perhaps the worst article I have ever read in the Wikipedia.

MyNameIsFarang 15:09, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Connection between Wormwood and Chernobyl

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Cyanide from comets

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

In such an event, the shock wave would be more destructive than the toxicity. BunsenH (talk) 18:57, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified (January 2018)

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 4 external links on Wormwood (Bible). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 15:55, 24 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A bitterly (!) crude remark

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)[reply]

Actually, there are. Some examples:

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)[reply]