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To: Gargantua
This historical text upon which you spit has made thousands of predictions through the prophecy of God's elect, of which a handful remain to be fulfilled, and you say that I have to prove it's accuracy?

Let me guess, you believe Nostradamus too?

How do you think these psychics (con men & women) stay in work today? If you word a prediction correctly, and only push occurrences that can be fit into the wording, you too can be thought of as a great predictor.

I've seen James Randi do a cold reading just like Sylvia Browne did, and he very impressed the audience. Of course later he showed them it was all a sham and exposed his methods. But people keep believing...

819 posted on 04/01/2002 10:33:02 PM PST by Quila
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To: Quila
Please note that many Nostradamus "predictions" are actually frauds written well after the seer died and retroactively inserted into his works. This was done quite a bit during the Second World War, and we saw attempts at it after the 2000 election and the September 11 atrocities. Even nowadays when there are lots of resources available to weed out the fakes and debunk them, many people still accept these bogus "predictions" as gospel.
837 posted on 04/02/2002 2:21:55 AM PST by Junior
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