freejack
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posted on September 12, 2001 04:04:57 PM new
"In the year of the new century and nine months,
From the sky will come a great King of Terror...
The sky will burn at forty-five degrees.
Fire approaches the great new city..."
"In the city of york there will be a great collapse,
2 twin brothers torn apart by chaos
while the fortress falls the great leader will succumb
third big war will begin when the big city is burning"
- NOSTRADAMUS
(He said this will be bigger than the previous two.
2001 is the first year of the new century and this is the 9th month.
New York is located at the 41st degree Latitude)
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Meya
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posted on September 12, 2001 04:08:02 PM new
Looks like a hoax:
http://brian.carnell.com/articles/2000/12/000049.html
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mslibby
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posted on September 12, 2001 04:15:08 PM new
I hope this doesn't offend you.
This was posted on another board that I frequent and according to Snopes this is not true.
http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/hoaxes/predict.htm
I don't know how to make this a 'hot link'.
Please don't think I'm trying to slam you. Being new to these boards I certainly don't want to start off on the wrong foot.
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freejack
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posted on September 12, 2001 05:02:55 PM new
it's OK...it's just got this:
http://www.nostradamus-repository.org/cityofgod.html
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ecom
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posted on September 12, 2001 05:06:31 PM new
And to make it all relevant and germane to this forum . . .
what does it say about eBay?
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Crystalline_Sliver
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posted on September 12, 2001 05:11:28 PM new
I tend to believe Nostradamus as much as I trust the Valet with my Car.
:\\\\\\\"Crystalline Sliver cannot be the target of spells or abilities.
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torley
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posted on September 12, 2001 07:08:29 PM new
Don't believe all that...Nostradamus actually had said that was to happen in 1999...from what I have seen.
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iowaantiques
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posted on September 13, 2001 06:25:34 AM new
I don't understand why the millions of psychics around the world didn't warn us of the WTC attack. They must be part of the conspiracy.
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kolonel22
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posted on September 13, 2001 07:50:24 AM new
Nostradamus 's predications are rarely correct and like in this predication
you can pretty much mold them into anything you want. for instance:
1. New York City is not and never has been referred to as The City of God.
2. While the WTC "had" two building and they were torn apart they did not endure they collapsed
3. This is NOT the original Nostradamus quote. The actual quote is "In the City of God there will be a great thunder, two brothers torn apart by chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb. The third big war will begin when the big city is burning."
4. Our leader did not succumb
5. And most important the City did not burn only 10 square blocks were destroyed and not all by fire.
6. Nostredamus in an earlier Quatrain predicted the Third World War would
begin in 1994
Nostredamus's predictions can be bent and molded to mean anything. Heck if you were to write enough prophecies and put them away for several years sooner or later one of them will fit close enough with events that have happened in the future that the prophecy will appear to come true. Tabloid "predictors" do it all the time.
Jean Dixson ring a bell to anyone. She wrote hundreds and hundreds of predictions. Some "came true" but most didn't she bnecame famous when a prediction she wrote about the JFK Assassination came true.
Health & happiness
"The Colonel"
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CleverGirl
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posted on September 13, 2001 08:10:32 AM new
Remember, when predictions don't "come true," it's not necessarily because they were wrong -- conditions may have changed so that the predicted outcomes didn't materialize. That is, in fact, the whole point of predictions -- to allow people enough warning so that they can be avoided.
CG
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mrpotatoheadd
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posted on September 13, 2001 08:16:07 AM new
This Tragedy was predicted long ago.
Hardly. This tragedy was molded to fit a (supposed) prediction made long ago.
What do you suppose are the chances, had the attack taken place last month instead of this one, that the above "prediction" would have been posted, along with an observation of "Here's another one he got wrong"?
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figmente
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posted on September 13, 2001 09:07:52 AM new
Nostradamus = Nonsense
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mrpotatoheadd
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posted on September 13, 2001 09:18:52 AM new
Remember, when predictions don't "come true," it's not necessarily because they were wrong -- conditions may have changed so that the predicted outcomes didn't materialize.
???
How can a prediction be anything but wrong, if the predicted outcome doesn't materialize?
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Meya
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posted on September 13, 2001 11:15:50 AM new
As an aside...during Old Testement times, the true Prophets of God were known by the fact that their "predictions" came true 100% of the time.
If a so called prophet made a prediction that was proven to be untrue or otherwise proven wrong, he would be stoned to death.
BTW, I don't believe in any of these so called psychics that are currently so popular. If any of them do posess any "powers", it isn't the type of power I would want anything to do with.
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computerboy
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posted on September 13, 2001 11:26:33 AM new
Anyone out there have that Jamaican psychic ladies 900 number? I want to see how in the hell this is all going to play out.
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breinhold
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posted on September 13, 2001 12:32:53 PM new
the predictions of nostradamus are as vague and as interchangeable as the
daily horoscope in your local newspaper. This type of thinking (if it can be
called that) is a poison and causes fear.
his predictions were to come true and did not ,so many times its ridiculous.
as I type on my computer keyboard I remember the y2k panic and the time I
was told by a frightened person that 1999 was going to be the end because it
had three 9's in the date and if you flipped them it was three 6's . I ask
this person why the world did not end in 1666? it is a waste of energy and
time to be so negative . this is a time for patriotism!!! not hocus pocus.
focus on the fact Americans were murdered and we are at war. there were
groups who felt this prediction true when Hitler walked the earth. they were
wrong. we kicked his azz right out of the prediction book didnt we? keep a
level head and GOD BLESS AMERICA!
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outoftheblue
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posted on September 13, 2001 12:38:46 PM new
The so-called "prophecies" of Nostradamus were based on astrology and other ancient superstitions.
How could any logical person who is living in a modern society give any credence to it?
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johnbgood1
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posted on September 18, 2001 12:18:06 PM new
Kolonel22;
A more accurate assessment would be that Jeanne Dixon became famous when she *claimed* to have predicted Kennedy's assassination and gullible people believed her. To the best of my knowlege, no verified reference to this so-called "prediction", by Dixon or anyone else, which actually *predates* the assassination has thus far surfaced. Not that it matters. As CleverGirl's comment amply demonstrates, those determined to believe will concoct or accept any excuse or "explanation" for the better than 90% of "psychic predictions" that fail as is necessary to cling to their belief.
As for the bogus quatrain, it was actually written in the mid 1990s by a Canadian college student named Neil Marshall, and originally appeared on Marshall's web essay, "A Critical Examination of Nostradamus." It was intended to illustrate how easily a seemingly accurate "prophecy" can be constructed by the deliberate use of vague terms and references.
Funny how even Nosty's fans haven't picked up on a certain glaring discrepancy. The Usenet version is making the rounds with the tag, "Nostradamus, 1654." Rather unlikely, since Nostradamus died in 1566. (and I'll wager he didn't see it coming. LOL)
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MartyAW
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posted on September 18, 2001 12:25:21 PM new
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