ok, did nostradamos or whatever his name is, not predict something along the lines of 'third world 3 will begin when the big city is burning'

oh man, if this is true, i am very scared!! i mean did he not predict all this other stuff which came true!ahhhhhhh but then again did he not say the world was going to end about 3 years ago....i dunno

By Androgynous on Friday, September 14, 2001 - 03:45 pm:

Nostrodamus predicted a 'yellow race' would start a horrendous war in July 1999. So you can either relax Annie, or scare yourself more since his prediction was only incorrect by 2 years and 2 months.
If you REALLY wanna scare yourself, try reading Revelations in the Bible. The part about 'Babylon' and the 'symbolic whore'.
Both Nostro and Revelations hint at happy endings to it all though. That's some comfort, Annie. So relax, girl!

By Sproston on Friday, September 14, 2001 - 05:09 pm:

And Nostradamus's predictions go a long way beyond the year 3,000 too.

By Kenzie on Friday, September 14, 2001 - 08:29 pm:

heh... that shit is cool isn't it Androgynous?

I used to drive my confirmation instructors nuts with questions about religous prophecies. They finally told me to take a class on it when I went to college.... so I did. And I did manage to get confirmed too. Surprised they didn't kick me out when I asked about the Dinosaurs though. They weren't too happy with me.

By JOe on Saturday, September 15, 2001 - 12:22 am:

Is anyone else quite glad about what happened in America? Apart from all the death and everything.

I'm quite drunk.

By Nat on Saturday, September 15, 2001 - 02:13 am:

i just watched "New Waterford Girl" - honestly, this girl is me 50% of the time. i love it. she's gorgeous (heheh)
anywayz ... joe always shows up when he's either drunk or pissed (angry), doesn't he? *sigh* you guys gonna start another FO3?
ALSO ... (i'm very transitional), that film gives me an incredible urge to take the train to Cape Breton and then spend a few years living in New York ... i was just running around the top of the WTC in april, a la "Simpsons". lovely pictures.

By Chris on Saturday, September 15, 2001 - 12:52 pm:

"The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind."

A bit of Shakespeare there, it's The Tempest for those of you that are interested. Doesn't mean to say he predicted what happened on Tuesday though.

By Lucky on Saturday, September 15, 2001 - 01:53 pm:

Nostradamus said something like "the two brothers will be torn apart by chaos", the city of God burning, and something about a Mongol king of terror. Weird shit.

By Chris on Saturday, September 15, 2001 - 07:47 pm:

New York's not really the city of God, is it? That would probably mean the Vatican - if it means anything at all!

You can take all this predicting-the-future stuff too far, like I did a while ago with He Thought Of Cars. Come to think of it, there are some lines in that song which unsettle me a bit, like "there's panic at London Heathrow" (there certainly is now) and "America's shot" (it has been). Nostra-Damon?

By R~S~P on Saturday, September 15, 2001 - 10:25 pm:

The claimed Nostrodamus prediction:

In the city of God there will be Great Thunder,
Two Brothers torn apart by Chaos,
While the Fortress endures,
The Great Leader will succum,
The third big war will begin,
When the City is burning.

Okay, let's take this line by line. 'The city of God'. By no stretch of the imagination is this New York.

'Two Brothers torn apart by Chaos'. Alright, I'll let you have this one. It *could* mean the twin towers, posssibly.

'While the Fortress Endures'. 1) 'The Fortress' isn't in the same city, and 2) it hasn't endured, it's partially collapsed and caught fire.

'The great leader will succumb'. Well, if it means Bush, he hasn't, has he? He's fine.

'The third big war will begin, when the city is burning'. Which it's not. I wouldn't worry yourself, Annie.

As a side note, when a girl in the pub was quoting this last night, she said that 'The Great Leader' referred not to GW, but to 'that Paki bloke'. I asked her if by 'that Paki bloke' she meant the man who was neither Pakistani, nor in Pakistan? She told me to 'stop being so fucking smart', which was probably fair.

Anyway, the real reason for this post is to point out that the above prediction is either a hoax, or a very, very bad translation. The prophecy it is claimed to have come from, when translated correctly, actually reads as:

Five and forty steps the sky will burn,
Fire approaching the large new city.
Instantly a great thin flame will leap,
When someone will want to test the Normans.

Doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it? This just, to me, smacks of people trying to sensationalise a story that really doesn't need it. This is a horrific tragedy, can't people just leave it at that without trying to pervert it into some bizarre form of 'entertainment'?

By R~S~P on Saturday, September 15, 2001 - 10:33 pm:

Ah, just an addition: When I refer to 'people' in the last line of the above post, I don't mean anyone on this board. I mean the folk who start this kind of bollocks. Pour example, the Daily Star's front page yesterday stated that America had confirmed twenty thousand dead, at least one thousand of whom were British. Absolute bollocks, but it sells more papers. Should be a law against it.

By Nat on Sunday, September 16, 2001 - 12:46 am:

I read the actual translation in a paper the other day, and it IS something more horribly vague than what's going around in e-mails, which are fakes. Did I so strongly believe in what I'd heard from others about these "predictions", for fucks sake I'd have searched out the true book itself, not taken the internet for face value.

I'm sorry, but this is like the bible - everyone's got misinterpretations, and everyone's arguing bollocks, when all you need to do is read the damn thing and have a nice friendly chat with any uni or college-educated theologen on the subject.

(thank you. i'm upset because i've got an awful english paper to write, and these always get me in a bad mood. i hate english. stupid frustrating course)

(and respects to chris)

By Kenzie on Sunday, September 16, 2001 - 04:30 am:

You never know how much you'd miss writing papers until their gone Nat. lol I used to spend my dads writing historical analyses... now I study tree diseases and plant biology, soil quality and that kind of shit. : )

By Lucky on Sunday, September 16, 2001 - 01:53 pm:

Yeah I only found out that that Nostradamus quote-thingy was a fake today. Har. I just saw footage of the first tower being hit. F-cking awful.

By Paige on Sunday, September 16, 2001 - 06:46 pm:

Robert Kennedy made a speech during the 60s as to what our nation is about, they played the speech on a radio station this morning while I was in buying a minnesota state flag, there wasn't a dry eye in the place.

I've never seen anything like it. There were people up on a bridge holding signs and flags for all the cars to see as they went by that said stuff like, "united we stand" and "The land of the free and the home of the brave" and stuff. It was cool

By nat on Saturday, September 22, 2001 - 04:55 am:

i need to more what's going on with the band, lucky. i'm not being kept up-to-date, i'm afraid. (still curious about the bassist. things don't just END and that's it, do they? sigh. glory days)

By Dave Hedgehog on Tuesday, June 4, 2002 - 10:30 pm:

Nervermind