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Thread #38862   Message #549761
Posted By: Steve Parkes
14-Sep-01 - 03:41 AM
Thread Name: Nostradamus' predictions?
Subject: RE: NOSTRADAMUS' Predictions?
The 'real' Nostradamus adepts however who read the 'New City' as New York know this and read the original line of quatrain VI:97 'Cinq & quarante degrez ciel bruslera as 40.5 degrees latitude.

Nice try, but decimals hadn't been invented in Nostradamus' time. Neither had America, but maybe I'm being picky.

In about 1958 or 9 I dreamed I stood in our back garden and watched Concorde flying over. Only It wasn't till some years later I saw drawings of the proposed Concorde and recognised it. Noy very exciting; designs like it had been bandied around for a good many years. (In fact it looks just like a Vulcan bomber stretched out a lot.) In the dream I reached up and (in that way that dreams have) the plane had become about a foot long, just abvoe my head; I took one wing between my thumb and finger, and removed a large piece from it. Now, it's only in the last five minutes I've been able to read anything into that. But I don't believe it was prophetic: most of my dreams could be retro-fitted to some later event, and I expect yours could too.

BTW, in "real" science, it's accepted that you can't actually prove anything; instead they have the concept of disprovability: it has to be possible to test a theory by finding ways of trying to disprove it. If all the ways you can come up with fail, then the theory is valid, but it's not "true", it's still just a theory.

Steve