Nostradamus said ....

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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 fourty five degrees Fire approaches the great new city... In the city of York there will be a great collapse. Two 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.

Hmmmm?

-- Anonymous, September 13, 2001

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I haven't read Nostradamus, but I did see an alert suggesting that this has been circulating as spam (I got it today) and that it has been doctored to suit the scenario. My own thought is that once it's written, it's very easy to create the scenario to fit.

There are a lot of people out there trying to jumpstart Armegeddon, by fulfilling 'prophecy' and get the world turned to a cinder. There is a group somewhere in the mideast who are trying to breed a red cow 'without blemish or white' (approximation) as this is a requisite to get Armegeddon cooking and are breeding cows in coddled situations so that they cannot be blemished and will be perfect to start the End.

Then there were the folks from the USA who decided that the fighting in the mideast wasn't going along fast enough to start worldwide war and annihilation and went over there to get it going. (they were deported back to the US and unfortunately, the State Department didn't release their names when they took them back -- getting off the plane, trying to hide their faces...)

For myself, years ago when I was more gullible, my mother tried to scare me into attending church because the world was going to end -- Mother Shipton had predicted it and NONE of her predictions had EVER been wrong (according to whoever was crying 'Wolf'). Well, I'm sure you're not surprised to learn that the day came and went and Mother Shipton was full of, er, well, um, I guess you get my drift.

The idea of Fate is a pagan concept, free will is supposedly one of the founding ideas of christianity, isn't it? If our fates (or the world's) are predetermined, doesn't that negate free will? I'm not asking this confrontationally, only that it always surprises me that so many people believe this. I can understand getting creeped out when you first read this, it's very much like watching horror movies - - people do love a good scare. And I find horror genre films/books to be a lot like having nightmares -- our subconscious preparing us for the worst, the thing that frightens us the most, so that when it DOES occur, we are not paralyzed with terror, unable to react and save ourselves.

I used to dream about the brakes going out on my car a lot, and these were panic/fear dreams. Then one day my brakes DID fail and altho I had adreneline surge, I dealt with it, got the car towed, and am here today spouting my cheap pop psychology.

Anyone else?

-- Anonymous, September 14, 2001


Here is an article that shows the original prediction and how after a couple of moldings has been changed to fit the circumstances at hand. www.snopes2.com/inboxer/hoaxes/predict.htm

-- Anonymous, September 14, 2001

Yup, that sounds about right. I got it from someone on my route yesterday who rec'd it from a friend via e=mail. Thanks all.

-- Anonymous, September 14, 2001

Circulating it as email spam and taking it for absolute truth without checking the facts is bad, but Harold Dow (a reporter) actually read this on the air on CBS News This Morning yesterday, as if it were an established fact, sending me scurrying back to Nostradamus to check it. I couldn't find it either. Thanks for the link that shows its evolution.

-- Anonymous, September 14, 2001

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