Nostradamus

by **ParadiceCity9** on Sat Oct 13, 2007 10:52 pm

Elaborate on your vote.

by **s.xkitten** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:01 am

No matter what way you look at it, the man predicted stuff. Whether or not it came true is a matter left to the human race. The future has many threads, one person can only predict so many

by **jay_a2j** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:19 am

Fluke.... A prophet of God will be 100% accurate 100% of the time. This disqualifies Nosetradamus.

by **Skittles!** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:23 am

jay_a2j wrote:Fluke.... A prophet of God will be 100% accurate 100% of the time. This disqualifies Nosetradamus.

Who said anything about him being a prophet of God? There are other kinds of prophet's you know..

by **jay_a2j** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:25 am

Skittles! wrote:
jay_a2j wrote:Fluke.... A prophet of God will be 100% accurate 100% of the time. This disqualifies Nosetradamus.

Who said anything about him being a prophet of God? There are other kinds of prophet's you know..

None that I care to heed their predictions. :wink:

by **static_ice** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:26 am

eh... certain people are gifted... and apparently us knowing the future that he describes won't help us much, as we still have another anti-christ to go through

by **dustn64** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:38 am

If people are general enough then everybody can "predict" the future. example: In the future we will either prove or disprove the lock ness monster. I didn't say when I just said we would. in 1,000,000 years the lake might dry up then we look, thus proving fact or fiction.

by **xtratabasco** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:42 am

I remember once in elementry school I threw the longest touch down pass for a touch down ever.

I was regarded as a king and worshipped until it was found out that I couldnt really throw that good, it was all luck.

nostrodamus was probably of genius mentality and could also put 2 + 2 together and of course was "hired" to do "readings" some would work because the rich that payed him wanted it that way, and when he was off, he was put in jail....

its that simple....his fortellings were given and the "rich" made them happen.

by **static_ice** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:43 am

you're talking about cold-reading or something like that

go southpark! :lol:

by **xtratabasco** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:14 am

its kind of like when your whore of a girl friend pays the gypsy woman at the fair to tell her fortune, and she tells her that she is very pretty and deserves much better than your ass...

so she kicks your ass a couple of times and then continues to see the gypsy and pay her for advice....

and now shes hooked.

only in this case the royality and super rich grew a man named histor/hitler because they didnt want themselves to look like fools and their gypsy (nostro) said so...

it was a self-supported propiecy so to speak.

by **strike wolf** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:19 am

He's a fluke. I'm the only real prophet.

by **MeDeFe** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 4:17 am

ParadiceCity9 wrote:Elaborate on your vote.

no

by **Gypsys Kiss** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:02 am

In 1898 a book entitled 'Futility' was published. It tells the story of a ship called the Titan. It is sailing from New York to Southampton in April (its 3rd voyage). It has 'as few lifeboats as the law allows'. The Titan is the largest ship afloat and described as the 'greatest of the works of man'. While steaming at excessive speed across the dark North Atlantic night, the Titan collides with an iceburg and sinks.

Does this make the Morgan Robertson, the author, a prophet?

No, it doesnt. What it shows is that anyone(including xtra) who puts pen to paper has the ability to predict future events and future comentators will always have the ability to twist said writings around to their own point of view(again inlcuding xtra).

I will now prophesise some pithy response from xtra. :lol:

by **Titanic** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:41 am

I just think he was exceptionally clever and could predict certain events. Also, a lot of his stuff his vague, and some has not happened.

As to being a prophet, what kind of prophet?

by **Syzygy** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:02 am

dustn64 wrote:If people are general enough then everybody can "predict" the future. example: In the future we will either prove or disprove the lock ness monster. I didn't say when I just said we would. in 1,000,000 years the lake might dry up then we look, thus proving fact or fiction.

There is no Nessie. The guy who take the original picture admitted it was a hoax.

by **mandalorian2298** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:06 am

static_ice wrote:you're talking about cold-reading or something like that

go southpark!

Isn't cold-reading from "Hustle"?

by **Titanic** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:59 am

Syzygy wrote:
dustn64 wrote:If people are general enough then everybody can "predict" the future. example: In the future we will either prove or disprove the lock ness monster. I didn't say when I just said we would. in 1,000,000 years the lake might dry up then we look, thus proving fact or fiction.

There is no Nessie. The guy who take the original picture admitted it was a hoax.

Of course there isn a Nessie....Scotland arnt gunna complain though, they get loads of tourists because of it.

by **The1exile** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:16 am

Syzygy wrote:
dustn64 wrote:If people are general enough then everybody can "predict" the future. example: In the future we will either prove or disprove the lock ness monster. I didn't say when I just said we would. in 1,000,000 years the lake might dry up then we look, thus proving fact or fiction.

There is no Nessie. The guy who take the original picture admitted it was a hoax.

by **Stopper** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:23 am

The poll options are "fluke" and "prophet". This is too limited.

In order for Nostradamus to even be a "fluke", doesn't there have to be at least one single apparently prophetic statement by him?

by **Syzygy** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:51 am

The1exile wrote:
Syzygy wrote:
dustn64 wrote:If people are general enough then everybody can "predict" the future. example: In the future we will either prove or disprove the lock ness monster. I didn't say when I just said we would. in 1,000,000 years the lake might dry up then we look, thus proving fact or fiction.

There is no Nessie. The guy who take the original picture admitted it was a hoax.

I know. When I found out was so devastated. I wanted to slash myself.

by **DaGip** on Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:50 pm

I voted he was a Fluke, because most of his Quantrains are so vague. It's like if I picked up a handfull of darts and threw them all at a dart board all willy-nilly and then I got a bullseye! You know, I could predict a lot of things in the future...anyone can, it is all probability.