Posted by darrenistheman at 208.228.171.215 on September 11, 2001 at 21:54:49:
In Reply to: The True Prophet calls it posted by Leonardo Leonardo on September 11, 2001 at 21:36:44:
1.: In the City of God (New York)
2.there will be a great thunder(collapsing of buildings),
3.Two brothers (World Trade Buildings)
4.torn apart by Chaos,
5.while the fortress endures (America),
6.the great leader will succumb (Bush),
7.The third big war will begin
8.when the big city is burning (New York)-Nostradamus 1654
8 points.
#1. Vague enough to be any city, any size.
#2. Represents ANY disaster, flood, earthquake, bomb, explosion, huge wind, actual thunder, volcano, tornado, just about any disaster besides disease. VERY VAGUE.
#3. The one coincidence. But would be called a "hit" in countless situations, whether ACTUAL brothers, world leaders that are considered allies, mountains, or a pair of anything. "The absence of coincidence would truly be miraculous."
#4. Chaos? Seemed VERY precise to the press, calculated even. "Chaos" is vague enough to be all encompassing. Any bad thing can be defined with "chaos" from someones point of view.
#5. Fortress? Again, ANY place, could be used for continent, country, city, idea, political party, even....a fortress.
#6. Great leader = Bush? So now it is literal? "Brothers" meant buildings, and "thunder" means buildings falling, but "Leader" means leader? This is why ANY prediction works. And what will he succumb to? The chaos?
#7. When? When will the war begin? How many days does our wise soothsayer get? Weeks, years? How literal do we get, ANY time frame will be considered a "hit" for a real prediction. Its a can't miss situation. Takes no real supernatural power to do this.
#8. Oh, while it is burning. The fire is just about put out. We may have a REAL miss on this one. That prediction is void when the fire stops. Or perhpas this is not literal, and it means the "fire of our emotions." Could still be a "hit."
No disprespect meant, but this is the sort of thing that ANYONE can do with a little thought. This prediction is laughable at best. Why aren't the other detials mentioned?
Check out www.randi.org to see more on this vague technique of future telling that countless fakers througout time have used.
Its the same junk that John Edward spouts in his horrible show "crossing over" on Sci-fi network. Its stage magic quakery on every level...
Maybe you genuinely beleive that stuff, and that is totally OK with me, I do sometimes too, but not after I started examining how vague it all really is.