[Truth666]

That's why I wrote this. This said, I'm sure it will not be long before a freeper explains how God intervened to let the prophecy fulfill.

[Zacs Mom]

yadda-yadda-yadda

blah-blah-blah

[Phantom Lord]

Phantom Lord's Quatrain 3.17:

The sun will rise
The air will warm
The sun will set
The air will cool

[AppyPappy]

Many of Notradamus' predictions were written after the event.

[discostu]

But other than astronomical events what is predicted. I've always prefered the spy interpretation of Nostrodamus, that his quatrains fall into two categories: cover BS, coded messages for assassinations by the opposition in an ongoing royalty skirmish in France.

[evets]

[Nataku X]

ok, who's the King of Terror?

[DainBramage]

Dainbramagous Quatranus 1 of 1

Friday

Beer

Home late

Wife p.o.'d keep hands off.

[Semper Paratus]

Is "Groundhog Day" becoming the new "April Fools Day"?

[FoxInSocks]

so there are plenty of people who must think Nostradamus was on to something

[redgolum]

You know, I once read through Nostradamus just to see. I find it funny that he is held up as a great prophet because he just wrote random stuff that is so general in can be applied just about anywhere.

10.72 predicting a solar eclipse, you know that they could do the math back then. There were tables of eclipses already published.

[kinghorse]

I'm John Kerry and I approve of this message.

Nostradamus - faithfully flipflopping since the 11th century (or whenever he wrote his treatise on waffling)

[RolandBurnam]

nostro-dumass was french, nuf said.

[mnehring]

Did Nostradamus predict this major event?

[mdmathis6]

I'm not sure what kind of King of Terror came from the sky in 1999. As a matter of fact, I'm not sure if anything happened in 1999 that could be remotely related to this prophecy...can someone explain it to me!

[FourtySeven]

You sir, are a strange one. Not meant as a "slam", because some geniuses throughout history were quite strange. Not sure if you fit into that category though.

You criticize (rightfully, imo) those who ascribe some "mystical" status to Nostradamus, because each one of his "prophecies" aren't really "understood" until AFTER they happen. That's right, I agree. The language in his quatrains are so vague as to not be interpretable until after something happens that SEEMS to fit the event.

Yet, then you go onto say that, "At first sight it seems incredible that Quatrain 10.72, the only prediction that Nostradamus ever risked, became true. "

Then you present as evidence of this a Google search that shows some websites claiming Putin and/or Clinton was this "Great King of Terror". (?)

Why would you do that? You're clearly doing what you criticize others of doing with "Hitler and Hister" earlier in your post! You're just inserting some world event or leader into the vague prophecy AFTER the fact, claiming it as proof! Or ARE you?

Basically my question to you is: what is the point of this post here? Do you, or don't you believe that Nostradamus was a nut and/or fake?

And btw, the eclipse was easily predictable back then. In the 16th century, the time table of eclipses was well known up to and including the 20th century. So that's hardly "proof" of any mystical knowledge.

[theFIRMbss]

"And, in those Dark Times, there shall come to the people a dog among dogs, a dog from on high, a dog that shall rule them with a cloak that is pink . . ."

[muleskinner]

I predict that any Nostradamus threads will be some of the funniest threads on FR.

O.K., now the Great Randy owes me $1 million.

[Huck]

And there shall in that time be rumours of things going astray, and there will be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base, that has an attachment they will not be there. At this time a friend shall lose his friends's hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before ...

[.cnI redruM]

Hatred-Powered Howard
Will lead a party of lamesters
The follow him like lemmings
Off of nearest cliff

[TheBrotherhood]

"At first sight it seems incredible that Quatrain 10.72, the only prediction that Nostradamus ever risked, became true."

I see no prediction by Nostryl with 10.72.

What exactly did the charlatan predict?