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The End of the World

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Paul

Paul Report 8 Dec 2005 22:32

Haven't heard any of these Notredamus predictions for a while. Anyone know when we're going to snuff it?

Unknown

Unknown Report 8 Dec 2005 22:50

think you can safely,start putting money away for your pension paul, theres only 47 yrs to go :o) bryan.

Paul

Paul Report 8 Dec 2005 22:58

Hows it going to end? Will it be painful?

Unknown

Unknown Report 8 Dec 2005 23:00

Well apparently we narrowly miss being hit by a meteorite about 3 times a week... A humungous volcano under Yellowstone Park is due to erupt any time now, causing widespread environmental change & catastrophic damage. Global warming is destroying the planet. But we are entering a new ice age. On the other hand, bird flu could wipe out millions of people in a short space of time. Oh, and I believe that there's a book been written which purports to relay a message from some wierd crystal skulls found somewhere in South America. The message is from aliens and says the world will end in 2012. This is when eldest son is due to start university and we have to pay off our mortgage. So that could be a good time for us, financially!! nell

Paul

Paul Report 8 Dec 2005 23:03

I heard a quite big comet was meant to hit us in 2029. Should be a hoot.

Gem in Wakefield

Gem in Wakefield Report 8 Dec 2005 23:05

I'd heard that rumour aswell Paul about the meteorite. Then I also heard that it was supposed to miss us aswell. I guess we'll find out in 2029! Gem:)))

Paul

Paul Report 8 Dec 2005 23:06

Did you hear the 9/11 prediction by Notredamus? Thats spooky. Google it.

Gem in Wakefield

Gem in Wakefield Report 8 Dec 2005 23:08

I remember something being mentioned about the falling of twin 'brothers'. They said all this just after the 9/11 tragedy. Gem:)))

Julia

Julia Report 8 Dec 2005 23:09

I think that I can safely predict that we are all going to die at some point, apart from me of course, I AM immortal

Julia

Julia Report 8 Dec 2005 23:11

Did Nostradamus Predict the 9/11 Attacks? From David Emery, 'In the City of God there will be a great thunder' Nostradamus, the French astrologer born in 1503, published his barely scrutable collection of prophecies, 'The Centuries,' in 1555. Each four-line verse (or 'quatrain') purported to foretell world events far into the future, and ever since Nostradamus' time devotees have claimed his work accurately predicted wars, natural disasters and the rise and fall of empires. With all due respect to true believers, Nostradamus couched his 'prophetic' verses in such obscure language that the words can be, and have been, interpreted to mean virtually anything. Inevitably, ponderous tracts will be written in the coming months and years extracting 'proof' from the works of Nostradamus that he foresaw the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks of September 11, 2001 — such exegeses-in-hindsight have appeared in the wake of every modern catastrophe — but, thanks to Internet hoaxers, we needn't wait months or years for the he-told-you-sos to begin. 'Spooky' quatrains purportedly describing the events of 9/11 with amazing specificity were already circulating within hours of the first jetliner crash — completely bogus quatrains, as it turned out. It wasn't a question of whether or not they accurately predicted anything; Nostradamus simply didn't write them. The first foretold 'a great thunder' in 'the City of God': 'In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb', The third big war will begin when the big city is burning' - Nostradamus 1654 Let's interpret. Assuming 'the City of God' is New York City, then the 'two brothers torn apart by Chaos' must be the fallen towers of the Word Trade Center. The 'fortress' is obviously the Pentagon, the 'great leader' succumbing is the United States of America and 'the third big war' can only mean World War III. Spooky, right? Wrong. Now let's apply a little intellectual honesty. What earthly (or unearthly) justification could there possibly be for characterizing New York City as 'the City of God?' Why refer to the twin towers as 'two brothers' when a far more apt word like 'buildings' or 'monuments' — or even, egad, 'towers' — is at hand? Granted, 'fortress' accurately describes the Pentagon, but by what stretch of the imagination could one assert that the United States 'succumbed' to the 9/11 attacks? Anyway, quibbling over words is futile, given that Nostradamus didn't even write the passage. He died in 1566, nearly a hundred years before the date of attribution. The quatrain in question is nowhere to be found in his entire published oeuvre. In a word, it's a hoax. More precisely, its attribution to Nostradamus is a hoax. The passage was lifted intact from a Web page (since deleted from the hosting server due to overwhelming post-9/11 traffic) containing an essay written several years ago by college student Neil Marshall entitled 'A Critical Analysis of Nostradamus.' Marshall invented the quatrain to demonstrate — quite ironically, in light of its subsequent misuse — how a Nostradamus-like passage can be so cryptically composed as to lend itself to myriad interpretations.

Gem in Wakefield

Gem in Wakefield Report 8 Dec 2005 23:11

Did Nostradamus really predict 9/11 though? Seems like most of it was hoaxes.

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 8 Dec 2005 23:12

With various elements of luck, fate,good fortune etc, we might get out of most scrapes, but one thing IS certain you will never get out of LIFE, Alive.......... Bob...... mark my words......

lynnchalmers70

lynnchalmers70 Report 8 Dec 2005 23:52

paul, did you watch supernova on sky tonight by any chance? how the end was near. lynnxx