Nostradamus
 

Ah yes, Nostradamus. The world's most reknown writer of mad libs.

I will say, the guy was certainly pretty bright, I think he was clever enough to make all these predictions that are so vague that any idiot can apply it to anything.

And you gotta love how a prophecy is only discovered "after" the fact.

The way people decode prophecies like it's a game of scrabble is just hilarious. Here's a modern example.

Can't you do this with virtually anyone?

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What? One, I didn't know he could give specific dates like that and two, that's WAY off, 6 months isn't just a minor oversight especially if he took the time to give an exact date.

Seriously, so he's born 6 months before the antichrist is to be born, that must make him the antichrist? Makes sense to me.

If you really believe this guy was a prophet, you can't just take a BS prophecy and "correct" it by changing it completely. When the guy actually gives exact dates and not a goddamn thing happens you can't just say "well he got the date wrong."

Got the date wrong? Are you kidding me? Some f*cking prophet that is.

And the fact that people still make the 666 connections even though it's been proven that the real number is 616 shows just how bogus all this crap is.

So? What is your opinion on the guy? Was he just an idiot that got lucky or was he a super genius who came up with a great way to pull a fast scam on superstitious idiots even centuries after his death. I'm pretty much convinced it's the latter.

Darkest Hours is gonna luuuuuuuuv this.

There is nothing interesting about him, or his bogus prophecies. Research something else, this dude is a waste of time.

People are naturally good at associations and finding patterns. Show them some randomly placed dots and they might see a dolphin or a bear.

http://www.astronomy.com/asy/objects...olphin_500.jpg

I think this is a part of human nature that it can pay to be aware of. I see sperm myself.

I believe Nostradamus predictions and their accuracy to be a result of the same thing. Clearly, this paranoid from Boo's post doesn't know when to stop relating or associating things ..

I hope I'm not offending any americans, but almost always when I see paranoid posts - whether it's about alien cover-ups, the government being lizard men, the flu vaccine being a mass killing in disguise and so on, they're speculations made by americans. I can think of two immediate reasons why that might be, the first that there are simply many americans in the world so they show up more frequently. The other reason could be that in America, paranoids make up for a larger contribution to the population than in your average european nation.

A general trend I see is that it's almost always accompanied by a large degree of mistrust towards the government (Obama being the antichrist is a rather good example) and that could perhaps in part be explained simply by the size of the nation. What do you guys think? Are any of these ideas or assumptions true?

Boo Boo have you read or heard about the newest Nostradamus? There is a man who many follow now that apparently has these same "powers".

I will try and find a link for you.

edit: I can not find the good one I had read so this will have to do for now. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita - Modern Nostradamus | Lost Martian

There is this one nostradamus prediction people are worked up about now, Nostradamus refered to the supposed third antichrist as Mabus, and Obama has a senior adviser on middle east relations named Ray Mabus. Oooooooooooooooooh.

People seemed to catch on to that early and predicted that he would be Obama's candidate for vice president, then Obama gets shot and Mabus becomes evil overlord or something. Didn't turn out that way of course. So they have to make up another convoluted scenario now.

Dosen't Nostradamus only use codenames anyway? Or rather names people have to play scrabble with to get any results? So someone actually fitting his name description dead on is just a coincidence obviously and not consistant with his other predictions. That's the thing, there's no consistancy. Preople either interpret his predictions as being dead on perfect descriptions or so cryptic that they have to do f*cking math equations. It makes no damn sense.

According to Nostradamus there are to be 3 antichrists and all his followers think the first one was Napaleon. Really? Napoleon? There were way worst motherf*ckers than that guy, you'd think the son of Satan would be a bit more successful, and preferably not a midget.

Well it does seem to be mostly an American thing but I have stumbled upon a few European conspiracy nut sites that talk about how the EU will be the end of us all.

Nostradamus is blah blah blah whatever, who gives a flying fuck

But this guy right here... He's the real deal:

Saint Malachy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Check out on his page: Prophecy of the Popes

Pffft. Those "prophecie's" are only fufilled because the catholic church tries to make sure that they are, why? Because they believe in that stupid sh*t.

Stop being cynical man

im tired of everyone saying that hister is supposed to be the same as hitler.