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yllus

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IIRC according to some dumbass who wrote a book on Nostradamus and appeared on Oprah after 9/11, California is due to slide into the ocean this year as a result of earthquakes or volcanoes or something.

How about we try to decide on one defining event coming up soon that can definitively tell us whether or not Nostradamus is telling the truth. I say that if California survives this year, we burn all of the copies of his stupid book once and for all. :p
 

n0cmonkey

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Most days I pray the california thing is correct.

Anyhow, it's like Jesus. He saw a bunch of predictions for a Messiah and decided to make them come true. Simple as pie.
 

Ynog

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Didn't that show on the History Channel (done in the late 70's)
claim that NY was suppose to be destroyed by a nuclear war in the mid to late 90's.
Guess that was alittle off.
 

PanzerIV

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Originally posted by: Ynog
Didn't that show on the History Channel (done in the late 70's)
claim that NY was suppose to be destroyed by a nuclear war in the mid to late 90's.
Guess that was alittle off.

Yeah, and some Middle Eastern ruler wearing a blue turban was going to ignite WWIII supposedly. Well...that one could yet happen the way things are going. LOL.
 

Oscar1613

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Jan 31, 2001
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Originally posted by: Modeps
Originally posted by: ThePresence
Originally posted by: DaVortex
nasttadamus predicted 9/11
Yeah AFTERWARDS.

No he didnt, the quatrain that was supposedly fortelling it was supposedly written AFTER HE DIED.
HOAX

there's another quatrain that WAS written by him, altho not quite as powerful, that some interpret to be a 9/11 prediction
 

Modeps

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Oct 24, 2000
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Originally posted by: Oscar1613
Originally posted by: Modeps
Originally posted by: ThePresence
Originally posted by: DaVortex
nasttadamus predicted 9/11
Yeah AFTERWARDS.

No he didnt, the quatrain that was supposedly fortelling it was supposedly written AFTER HE DIED.
HOAX

there's another quatrain that WAS written by him, altho not quite as powerful, that some interpret to be a 9/11 prediction
You should read further down that link I posted.
 

sandorski

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Oct 10, 1999
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Originally posted by: ThePresence
Originally posted by: Wuffsunie
He's a poster boy for the Weekly World News.

Heck, if all his prophecies about the end of the world had come true, we wouldn't be neffing here today.
We're not, really. It's just the Matrix.

He predicted the Matrix too!!!!! :Q
 

sandorski

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Let's assume for a moment that his predictions are all true: Since his followers can never Predict an event prior to it happening, it kind of makes his Quatrains useless anyway. Other than adding to the Legend of Nostrodamus his words serve no purpose.
 

slick230

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Originally posted by: Ynog
Didn't that show on the History Channel (done in the late 70's)
claim that NY was suppose to be destroyed by a nuclear war in the mid to late 90's.
Guess that was alittle off.

Half the quack evangelists on tv, like the infamous Jack Van Impe, have been professing the endtimes for years. And when their deadlines come and nothing happens, they just conveniently change their stories so they don't look like assholes. But stupid people still follow them and send them their money.