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About the only accurate prophecy involving the man is that every time something awful happens, out will come the loonies with their ill-thumbed copies. But maybe you think different? Have you ever believed him? (Or old Mother Shipton, Old Moore etc. etc.)

― Tom, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it is very telling that everyone comes out with that nostradamus nonsense right after something happens. might carry a bit more weight if someone said "look, nostradamus says x is going to happen tomorrow", and then it did.

― gareth, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, it's obviously all bollocks, I love it when people come out with it and start forwarding interpretations, and when people predict things with it - I mean, read his actual predictions sometime, not the "interpretations" and just TRY to figure out what the fuck he was saying. The man was just insane, you read them and they sound like random words thrown together. You can sit there and read it endlessly and decide, yes, that means this.

My mom used to be obsessed with his prophecies, she moved us to the suburbs because of it. I made the mistake of forwarding her that email making the rounds about his prophecies, "Hey, check it, creepy huh!" and she's like gone off. She emailed me like 70 prophecies last night! Me and Ramon were laughing our asses off, like, what does any of this even mean, he sounds like a speed freak!

― Ally, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I took a class on millenial craziness in college and we studied a bit about Nostradomus. Basically, he made his predictions and then through them up in the air so that they were all mixed up (or something of the equivalent- I can't remember much of this). In any case, whatever books you are reading now are ridiculous. The interpretations of his prophecies vary so wildly that anything can be said about him. Basically these authors spend their time guessing on how to put his lines back in order so that they're semi-coherrent. It's bullshit.

― hans, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I waited 39 years for the Chinese to invade Europe (1999: dead cert), thus ending the world, and now I haf lost my faith.

However I predict that soon...

― mark s, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anyone see that preposterous 80s documentary narrated by Orson Welles. Laid out WW3 scenario as starting in 1997 with blue turbaned 'third antichrist' (Napoleon -> HIsler ->). All over by 2000, leaving small group of survivors to repopulate world. Isn't all in anagrams anyway?

― Nick, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hahahaha, Orson Welles - my mom was just talking about that stupid documentary all night.

― Ally, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We must have sold about ten copies of Nostradamus today... people with big eyes coming up to me asking for 'The Nostradamus Section' in overeager tones, like they couldn't wait for their doom-fix.

― Al, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

DUD. Check this out:

www.ed.brocku.c a/~nmarshal/nostradamus.htm http://www.snop es2.com/inboxer/hoaxes/predict.htm

― Kodanshi, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Forget it. For some reason those links don't work anymore.

― Kodanshi, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nostradamus - bollocks. Old Mother Shipton and her well in Knaresborough - kewl. The Book of Revelations - *possibly* some truth in it.

― Johnathan, Thursday, 13 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The second link works, Kodanshi, and it's a quite interesting summary of the whole thing.

― Nick, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The new location of Kodanshi's first link is linked to on the second page mentioned (excellent page, I wonder if I dare to show it to the person who was citing that verse at me and coming up with ever more tenuous connections with recent events when I was going, "Er, right, so the only not entirely vague thing in common we've got so far is that a big city is on fire... haven't big cities been on fire quite a few times since Nostradamus was alive?") and is now here. I know it's the same page because the old one is still in Google's cache (I think the URL is too long and will break if I try to link it, but if you copy the old address into Google it'll come up).

I think the other link is better, but it's amusing to see the source of the hoax Nostradamus prophecy currently doing the rounds...

Have I ever believed any of this stuff? Not really, although all that stuff about Revelations in Mike Leigh's Naked - as sampled on SALT by the Orb - did get me reading it, more because I saw it as intriguing coincidence than because I believed the whole thing. And I got that Ghost Orchid CD of recorded voice phenomena from the Borders bargain bin for a quid (I remembered clips from it being on Peel and thought that I may as well buy it and read the booklet to find out what it was actually all about, plus in my sick puppy way I thought it might provide some interesting samples) and found it all a bit weird. I don't want to believe in supernatural things, but I couldn't quite explain some of the EVP stuff I read in the booklet and in later research on the web (I mean, the speech snippets on the cd are so garbled and disjointed and muffled that I couldn't have worked out what they were saying, but I can't explain how they got there). Does anyone know if Ubik by Philip K Dick is based on EVP or if I just imagined the connections?

― Rebecca, Friday, 14 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Uh, yeah, I screwed up (the first page is now on the same server as the second page and I copied the URL you already knew). Here, or in Google's cache. I also went way off topic and then remembered that the stuff I was talking about already had a thread. Sorry.

This will probably go wrong again, in which case I've got a nice big stone ready to crawl under.

― Rebecca, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nine years pass...

is Nostradamus an important historical figure anywhere except on the History Channel? do people actually pay attention to his "prophecies"? are there books about him that aren't published by the History Channel or designed to be read on the toilet?

idgi

― Z S, Sunday, 27 February 2011 16:48 (fourteen years ago)

Ha, I was watching that shit too. Every time there's a new show about him/his prophecies, it's always the same 5-7 goony looking people talking about him/them. I feel sorry for them tbh.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 27 February 2011 16:53 (fourteen years ago)

nostradamus was right about 1999, luckily james blunt saved us all:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11753050

― http://i56.tinypic.com/xnsu1g.gif (max arrrrrgh), Sunday, 27 February 2011 17:14 (fourteen years ago)

but i was watching that film about him when i was 10 and he was 'yo french king's gonna die' and then the french king did die and everyone was all 'o shit you were right nostradamus'. :(

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 27 February 2011 18:53 (fourteen years ago)

History and the other discovery/national geographic channels always have this kind of stupid freemason UFO pharao shark snake jesus bullshit on if there are no crab fishing tree cutting ice roading motorbike building tiara wearing toddler shows, I wonder why Nostradamus never predicted those.

― StanM, Sunday, 27 February 2011 19:08 (fourteen years ago)

so how did this guy end up standing out against the thousands and thousands of other batshitly incomprehensible purported seers across the centuries anyway?

― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 27 February 2011 19:14 (fourteen years ago)

so how did this guy end up standing out against the thousands and thousands of other batshitly incomprehensible purported seers across the centuries anyway?

He's got a cool name.

ALSO: Nostra-dumb-ass

ALSO 2: Nerd-stradamus

― The Future Of The Internet Is Interns (R Baez), Sunday, 27 February 2011 19:18 (fourteen years ago)

Nostradamus -> Notre Dame -> did he claim his visions were religious or was it just his last name?

― StanM, Sunday, 27 February 2011 19:39 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

how did this guy end up standing out against the thousands and thousands of other batshitly incomprehensible purported seers across the centuries anyway?

imagining this as a "cliffhanger" chapter ending of malcolm gladwell's book outliers. also i have literally no memory of why i just searched for a thread on nostradamus in the archives.

― Treeship, Monday, 15 September 2014 02:58 (eleven years ago)

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