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> With the title of this thread, I just had the wierdest
> mental image of Nostrodamus going to work for Mythic.
OMG ... Snarf!
Here is the info on the hoaxes for the sites that have been pulled. I am going to move it to my "band with bills do not apply" space on AOL as soon as my home network is up and running:
Nostradamus and the events of 11 September 2001
11 September 2001.
I don't have the words to describe the recent terrorist attacks on the United States, and I won't try to do so here. However, one of my pet peeves has always been about Nostradamus and his alleged predctions. Anything, in my opinion, can be interpreted in anyway you see fit, whether you are reading his works, the various versions of the Bible, or listen to Abbey Road backwards (Paul is dead....). Bull is the only word I can use because I can't think of one stronger.
The bull going around lately is that Nostradamus predicted this ... bull. I wish I had mirrored the resources used to create this page, but I didn't. all I can do is write the web-masters and see if I can get something. But here is what I do have.
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source:
http://www.nostradamus-repository.org/cityofgod.html
This site is the source of this information:
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The following quatrain has been circulating the Internet after the WTC bombings.
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 sucumb.
The third big war will begin when the big city is burning.
It is NOT by Nostradamus.
The original source may be
http://www.ed.brocku.ca/~nmarshal/nostradamus.htm. Here is a short excerpt from that page.
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How does this apply to Nostradamus? Well I will show you...
If I make say a thousand prophecies that are fairly abstract for example:
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
Well let us analyse this. For Example what does City of God mean? It could be Mecca, Medina, Rome, Jeruselum, Salt Lake City, or any holy city depending on your religion. What do I mean by thunder--a storm? War? EarthQuake? lots of stuff can be described by thunder. There are a lot of two brothers on this world (I think the Number runs among the Billions) and fortress edure's what--Besiegement, Famine, etc? What Great Leader? How will he succumb? To what?
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This is from a paper written that debunks Nostradamus. The student wrote it in the 1990s; Nostradamus did not write it.
Another good resource for Urban Legends and Internet Hoaxes is Snopes. They have a lot of great lists and well-proven debunkings of things. They are down right now, but here is what I did save from their lengthy, but excellent explination of the current "prediction" legend:
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http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/hoaxes/predict.htm
Nostradamus did not write the quatrain now being attributed to him. (One wonders how a guy who died in 1566 could have written an item identified as being penned in 1654 anyway.) It originated with a student at Brock University in Canada in the 1990s, appearing on a web page essay on Nostradamus. That particular quatrain was offered by the page's author, Neil Marshall, as a fabricated example to illustrate how easily an important-sounding prophecy can be crafted through the use of abstract imagery. He pointed out how the terms he used were so deliberately vague they could be interpreted to fit any number of cataclysmic events.
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