Finally (hopefully!) putting an end to the Nostradamus B.S. (Reuters article inside)
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Finally (hopefully!) putting an end to the Nostradamus B.S. (Reuters article inside)
Taken from the Netscape news page:
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -
Internet chat rooms
are abuzz with talk
that 16th century
French astrologer
Nostradamus forecast
the attack on the World
Trade Center in New
York.
Thousands of people
have received e-mails
containing this
prophecy, often with a
second part forecasting
that the attack on the
twin towers will mark
the beginning of World
War III.
Several versions are doing the rounds. This is one of them:
"In the year of the new century and nine months
From the sky will come a great King of Terror
The sky will burn at forty-five degrees
Fire approaches the new city."
The text corresponds roughly to a verse in Nostradamus's
Century (section) Six, Quatrain 97. Several books on
Nostradamus have speculated that this quatrain's first line
refers to September 2001, the ninth month in the first year of
the new century, while the 45 degrees is interpreted as the
latitude of the city of New York.
But New York lies just below 41 degrees latitude and
Nostradamus's verse does not mention a great war, contrary to
what several e-mails say. In many e-mails, the verse comes with
a second part, which seems harder to link to Nostradamus:
"In the city of York there will be a great collapse
Two twin brothers torn apart by chaos
While the fortress falls the great leader will succumb
Third big war will begin when the big city is burning."
HOAXSTRADAMUS?
"(This second quatrain) is NOT by Nostradamus," read a
statement on www.nostradamus-repository.org, a Web site for
Nostradamus study.
Hoax or not, various versions of the verse are being forwarded
by the thousands every day.
"Initially, I was really skeptical, but I went to the web to look up
something on (Nostradamus). Some prophecies have come
true," Agnes Ng, a 23-year old Singaporean accountancy
student, told Reuters Thursday.
She received one of the prophecies in an e-mail from a friend.
Before forwarding the message to her contacts, she posted a
copy on Usenet newsgroup alt.prophecies.nostradamus. The
e-mail she received was even more specific, forecasting that:
"The big war will begin when the big city is burning
on the 11th day of the 9th month that...
two metal birds would crash into two tall statues
in the new city and the world will end soon after."
One of the newsgroup contributors who goes by the e-mail
moniker of "Justaguy" said this was a fake.
"It has been posted ad nauseam," he said.
Nostradamus prophecies surface after nearly every major news
event. False or real, they struck a chord in Singapore.
Bookstore salespeople told Reuters there had been strong
demand for books on Nostradamus since Tuesday's attacks.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -
Internet chat rooms
are abuzz with talk
that 16th century
French astrologer
Nostradamus forecast
the attack on the World
Trade Center in New
York.
Thousands of people
have received e-mails
containing this
prophecy, often with a
second part forecasting
that the attack on the
twin towers will mark
the beginning of World
War III.
Several versions are doing the rounds. This is one of them:
"In the year of the new century and nine months
From the sky will come a great King of Terror
The sky will burn at forty-five degrees
Fire approaches the new city."
The text corresponds roughly to a verse in Nostradamus's
Century (section) Six, Quatrain 97. Several books on
Nostradamus have speculated that this quatrain's first line
refers to September 2001, the ninth month in the first year of
the new century, while the 45 degrees is interpreted as the
latitude of the city of New York.
But New York lies just below 41 degrees latitude and
Nostradamus's verse does not mention a great war, contrary to
what several e-mails say. In many e-mails, the verse comes with
a second part, which seems harder to link to Nostradamus:
"In the city of York there will be a great collapse
Two twin brothers torn apart by chaos
While the fortress falls the great leader will succumb
Third big war will begin when the big city is burning."
HOAXSTRADAMUS?
"(This second quatrain) is NOT by Nostradamus," read a
statement on www.nostradamus-repository.org, a Web site for
Nostradamus study.
Hoax or not, various versions of the verse are being forwarded
by the thousands every day.
"Initially, I was really skeptical, but I went to the web to look up
something on (Nostradamus). Some prophecies have come
true," Agnes Ng, a 23-year old Singaporean accountancy
student, told Reuters Thursday.
She received one of the prophecies in an e-mail from a friend.
Before forwarding the message to her contacts, she posted a
copy on Usenet newsgroup alt.prophecies.nostradamus. The
e-mail she received was even more specific, forecasting that:
"The big war will begin when the big city is burning
on the 11th day of the 9th month that...
two metal birds would crash into two tall statues
in the new city and the world will end soon after."
One of the newsgroup contributors who goes by the e-mail
moniker of "Justaguy" said this was a fake.
"It has been posted ad nauseam," he said.
Nostradamus prophecies surface after nearly every major news
event. False or real, they struck a chord in Singapore.
Bookstore salespeople told Reuters there had been strong
demand for books on Nostradamus since Tuesday's attacks.
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