The Skeptics Circle — a carnival of skeptic blogging — is up at Bob Carroll’s Skeptic Dictionary site. Bob has decided to shame all other carnival hosts by fitting all the entries into a Nostradamus theme. But then, this was predicted by Nostradamus himself in the fourth quatrain of the sixth volume:
Hey, it’s as legit as anything else he ever wrote.
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September 14th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
“Nostradamus is full of crap.”
Agreed.
September 14th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Two man on a faraway sphere
one with a mean left hook
a fake a lot of people here
then somebody writs a book.
September 14th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
last line was suppose to be
then somebody writes a book.
September 14th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
To The Seventh Dawn a Man will Move
And there Seek Out his Fill
A Live Show he would Host there
Until his Plate became Too Full
September 14th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
Crap, I’m old…
September 14th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind’s true liberation
Aquarius! Aquarius!
(yes I copied it from another site.)
http://www.lyricsbox.com/5th-dimension-the-lyrics-age-or-aquariu-vv2dwrs.html
September 14th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
That reminds me I am due for a shave.
September 14th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
There once was a man, Nostradamus
Whose prophesy skills showed great promise
But his future road map
Just turned out to be crap
With which idiots still like to bomb us.
September 14th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
It’s amazing how his supposed prophecies can be made to fit almost any situation. You do an amazing job of informing people, Phil. I just hope more people hear the message and allow it to sink in.
September 14th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Oh in first on second line
a fake a lot of people hear
(just hope the BAs wife not reading)
September 14th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
sorry thrid line. I should look int the concept of proof reading.
September 14th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
“On the seventh dawn of the seventh day
a twice-blessed man will roam the fields
Doomed to shadow with his bretheren
Or savior of all he surveys.”
- First Wave – the prophecy predicting the guy who would repel the alien invasion, Cade Foster.
That was an interesting show – I’d never seen mysticism and science fiction mixed like that before I saw that series.
September 14th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
In the new city, a giant awakes
King and pauper alike are in fear
The world trembles under his footsteps
Burma Shave!
September 14th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Oh, you’re gonna love this. Thanks to a website which uses the Bible, the King James Bible Code, Nostradamus AND astrology, I bring you… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozjq80IF9dg ‘Did Nostradamus predict the LHC will create a Black Hole?’. They cite the number 666, 2012, if it’s crackpot, it’s there. Just about the only thing I didn’t see was the video claiming that the LHC causes chemtrails and is what destroyed those civilisations on the moon and Mars XD
September 15th, 2008 at 12:49 am
N.D. can blow me,
And his vague quatrains can too,
I like haikus more!
September 15th, 2008 at 1:05 am
A Frenchman who’s named Nostradamus
Wrote a load of baloney to alarm us
He kept it so vague that good health could be plague
And the naked were covered in garments
September 15th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Was he really writing about the future? If you took his quatrains and applied it to history that came before him, I’m sure you’ll find a multitude of matches per quatrain. History repeats like a stuck record.
September 15th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
ND:
Yes and in his time, OBVIOUS criticism of ANY royalty could lead to the chopping block. Nostrodamus was a doctor before he was a “prophet” and from what I’ve read of his life, he did a pretty good job keeping people alive during the Black Death(well, a lot better than his contemporaries) though his expertise didn’t save his own family,,,
His quatrains were interesting allusions to what had been, which he disguised as “prophecies”. Hey, nobody can get pissy if what you’re talking hasn’t happened yet,,,
Having said that, I wonder why people are so intent upon elevating his words to gospel, when his “prophecies” were not comprehensible a priori(before the fact) but ignore the accuracy of scientific “predictions” of the outcome of an experiment. One would think the general populace would be all ga-ga over how fruitful and accurate scientific predictions are, but they seem to think, “Aw, that’s just science. It’s not mysterious,,,”
Maybe L. Ron Hubbard (bless his little avaricious soul) had the right idea. Invent a “scientifically based religion”, collect scads of money from the gullible, then laugh all the way to the bank,,,
,,,crud, my cynical side seems to be on the rise. I think it’s all due to the LCP coming on line in this election year (ie, Logically Corrupt Politicians).
GAry 7
September 16th, 2008 at 3:09 am
Nostradamus a crackpot? Surely not! He has predicted so many things after they have happened!