Nostradamus and other fortune tellers
 

As a spin off of the bible code thread, let's discuss Nostradamus' predictions:

Is George Bush the third anti-christ "Mabus"?

How accurate was his 9 11 prediction?

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But isn't the whole Nostradamus predictions thing a load of codswallop? :confused:

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Link?

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Just google nostradamus - What I know I read in a book.

links are here:
http://www.crystalinks.com/quatrains...retations.html
http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/his...ostradamus.htm
http://people.howstuffworks.com/nostradamus.htm

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Well, DQ did say it is a spinoff from the Bible Codes thread ;)

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wasn't he the one who said in the year 2000 the world would end and we are still here

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His alleged prediction of 9/11 was a hoax, written in his style and then sent around via email :D

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I think one of them were, but some of the more vague ones are supposedly real

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The 'two towers' nostro prediction was written way before 911, and is spooky in its similarity to those events.

BTW: IF you do a google groups 'two towers' search, there is a message in one group 2 days before 911, that meantions 'two towers bring destroyed', I wonder if it was a code message for the events?

Also The two towers could have been the two buddha statues the taliban distroyed in afghanistan.

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If memory serves you have to add something like 280 to his years as well.

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http://www.christiananswers.net/q-co...stradamus.html


BTW, cool avatar :)

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Sorry I'm not sure if you offer that as evidence that it was written before OR after 911?
I have a book of his predictions written in the 70's that includes the 'two towers' paragraph, so I know for sure it was writen before 911.

Cheers about the avatar tho, love the yin yang symbol but they are missing the white and black dot in the oposite colour.

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Ah, it's just an example of the mis-quoting of his predictions to make it fit 911, after 911

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I know. I wanted that one ages ago but couldn't figure out how to use it :cry: :dunce: :D I've got those :rolleyes: :D
...jealous? Moi? :no:...erm :Yes: :D

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At five and forty degrees, the sky will burn,
Fire approaches the great new city,
Immediately a huge, scattered flame leaps up,
When they want to have verification from the Normans

Normans?aren't we about 9 centuries out there?As predictions go that's pretty cr@p.

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I like the way your mind works :DNah. If memory serves they've got an explanation for that one as well :rolleyes: :D

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I think post #2 in the aforementioned thread is just as apt here.:)

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Yes those are misquoted, the 'originals' are a bit weaker in comparison. I'm not sure on their validity either way tho, just thought the coincidence was spooky. :eek:

Its like that bloke who painted the two towers, Ok so he might have painted it before 911, but it didnt help stop it from happening, as it didnt show when it was going to happen.

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Do you mean the guy who has his pic and painting taken in front of his bank's clock to time/date stamp it?

What he can do is spooky, some is flaky, but some are pretty close!

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Yes at least you have the two dots, very important as they sybolise(sp?) the niether yin nor yang are pure and exist only as part of each other.

I could use a paint program to put the dots in, but I'm not very good at doing that sort of thing.

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Speaking of the two towers, what was it that you typed into MS Word to get the plane flying into the towers, I think it included a Star of David as well.

IIRC it was supposed to be something to do with flight numbers but was just another hoax.

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Yes thats the one, 'The man who could paint the future' channel 5.
The 911, concord and Dunblane paintings are very spooky.

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Not sure who your post is for, but I doubt it was MS Word anyone used, unless is has a search the internet feature? I just tried a search for the two towers google group post but could not find it. It was writen by a bit of an Islamic troll, who wrote a few pro islamic items during that time.

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But you still have the coolest avatar :nworthy: :D

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sulks!!

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No, there was a combination of letters and numbers and possibly a few function keys that you entered in Word. The numbers where supposed to relate to the flight times or numbers, it produced an output in a Word doc that was, IIRC a Star of David and what looked like a plane and two towers. The flight numbers did not in fact match any genuine ones, someone had found the symbols in Word and worked out a way of displaying them. I guess Snopes is the best place for me to look.

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Do you have a link for that? (I'd be interested to have a look)

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Sorry incog, you flashing at me doesn't 'float my boat' :D

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I think this was if you used the font Wingdings or whatever it's called :shrug:

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Oh haven't heard about that one. Strange the things people come up with :)

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I remember, there was something with windings!


http://www.fun-with-words.com/nyc_fonts.html

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Here ya go can't have ya missing the dots. :)

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OMG thats so spooky. Coincidence or not?? (twilight zone music)

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Great one Sociable, much appreciate. :notworthy: you read my mind. :)

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Which brings us back nicely to the fact that people will see connections and conspiracies everywhere, and are happy to interpret after the event.

It reminded me of this old nugget:

http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/marlboro.asp

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No probs 10 mins in animation shop adding to your original. :)

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Got that on my phone now so I can hypnotise myself next time I'm in a dull meeting :D


Dan, didn't know that one about Malboro (knew about the malboro man tho, poor guy)

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They had a similar item on the Richard and Judy show, about how people see coincidence in certain things. Like the old urban myth about the bloke out for a walk, and gets a wrong no on a public phone, thats his friend phoning him.

Is it just us wanting to find meaning in a meaningless life?

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Great minds think alike Xaccers ;)

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what people (who i consider to be simple minded idiots) dont realise is, that what is commonly refered to as Nostradamus's predictions, he didnt predict precisely, anything that people claim he did, the year that hitler arrived was NOT right, and think about it.

Sit down, and write yourself 400,000 vaigue predictions for the future, how many do you think will come true?

For the same reason fortune tellers get things right, they tell you VAIGUE things, so clearly you will associate them with something "real" imagine 400k of them!

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Found it ( good old google) if you type Q33NY in wingdings then enlarge it, you get what I was alluding to. It was rumoured that Q33NY was one of the fatal flight numbers, but that was a load of pancakes:D

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Sorry I can't find a link anywhere about the program, it would be nice for you to see the painting if you haven't already as they are very similar to the events they predict. It was repeated on five only a few months back, so not sure when its gonna be show again. Might try digi guide just incase :)

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Q33NY that gives a plane, a4sheet, a4sheet, skull & crossbones, start of david. in wingdings

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I think the issue is that people see meaning or purpose rather than coincidence in things that are pure coincidence.

When people see this, they go out hunting for 'proof' for the theory. Try Googling for "paul is dead"...

Slightly on topic, the predictions made by Nostradamus are notoriously vague, and people get excited by the instances where they can read an actual event into it. The 'misses' are typically disregarded, when you ought to take both hits and misses into account when judging whether these predictions hold water. But then, the vagueness really doesn't help...

I can recall a couple of instances where someone's predicted the end of the world in the past 25 years. We're still here, so I tend to take these things with more than a pinch of slt.

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As the start of 12 monkeys says, it only take one of those people to be correct :D

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looks like this, a bit of imagination is required to picture the A4 sheets as two towers.:)

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Indeed, It could just as well be construed as a lengthy death threat by a zionist organisation which was sent by air mail

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Bill Gates it's all his fault apparantly ;)

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oh the a4 sheets are the 2 towers, :) now I see.

Well if that had been the one of the flight numbers, I would be starting a new wingdings religon, or at least publish a Nostro type book based on them.
Get rich quick stylie. :)

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As an aside:

I was wondering IF you could go back in time to 911, how would you try to convince people it was goiing to happen?

At best you would come across as a nutter, at worse you would be seen as either a hoaxer or a terrorist?

Edit: I watch too much '7 days' LOL
BTW who thinks that '7 days' with its pilot episode of the white house being attacked by a plane loaded with explosives, was just as spooky as the Nostro predictions??

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Christian Answers, Xac? Surely not getting religious in your old age? :D

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personally i think the whole nostradamus storys are total bunkum......
anyone can see what they want to see in anything they read.....
this is why terrorists see their deeds as pleasing their god , and the rest of the world see the deeds of terrorists as pure evil
my own opinion