Metullus
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I prefer the term "loosely translated".actually I heard it was skeptics who made the fake quatrains
I prefer the term "loosely translated".actually I heard it was skeptics who made the fake quatrains
The 911 prophecy I heard was a hoax. I beleive is was a hoax quatrain made by mixing the lines of many different quatrians.
Yes indeed. Here is a short review of Randi's Nostradamus book.... I'd also suggest reading a book by Mr James Randi entitled The Mask of Nostradamus. Perhaps you'd like to review and discuss it?
But it’s obvious, really. Write up 942 vague four-line predictions, be sure to include plenty about war and pestilence, great leaders and armies rising and falling, natural disasters and the like, cover all known nations on Earth, use confusing symbolism, be as ambiguous as possible, wait 500 years, and many of your predictions will seem to have come true.
...snip...The standards and laws of "reality" you are using, are incorrect and don't even really exist, especially not in the same way here as on a level where someone can see some things of the future.
This sort of cuts to the heart of the matter. Why couldn't Nostradamus or any of his myriads of credulous followers make any useful predictions that would help us avoid tragedy? Why did he "code" it so that it could only be understood after the fact? They didn't know about the tsunami, the destruction of New Orleans, the assassination in Lebanon or anything. Each of these things could have been mitigated by information from a reliable source.Kilik, why did Hitler's name need to be kept secret hundreds of years before his birth?
Not that I believe any of this claptrap, but mention of Hitler at the time couldn't possibly have bothered anyone.