metalted, I'll only believe you if you introduce each post with: "For my next quatrain..."

Also, you should 'vague' it up a little. From what I skimmed of your Nostradamus act, you're clearly going to be wrong over and over again. If you want to be a prophet, you should occasionally get one right. Vagueness helps this. Instead of "Russians" and "Muslims", you should say "a major power" and "a major religion". That way, you can later claim credit for shit you never imagined. Also, you should get your nonsense translated into a few languages - you can hope that interpretations/misinterpretations lend some credibility. But, most importantly (and back to the vagueness), you should predict the inevitable (famine, disaster, war, etc).

Out of curiosity (and, feel free to PM me, so as not to ruin the 'mystique' that you've built here ), do you actually believe this nonsense, or are you simply throwing shit against the wall and hoping some of it sticks so that, later, you can say "muuuwahahaha... I preeeeedicteeeed thiiiiis....." And, if you actually believe your own crap, how did you arrive at it? Were you sitting in front of your computer and had a few beers too many? Did you meditate and commune with some sort of God or Satan? Were you bored and decided to become a 'prophet'?

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Oh, and for what it's worth, I predict that either the Yankees, Angels, Red Sox, or Indians will go to the World Series... oooohhhhooooo.... aahhhahhhaaa....

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I predict the next post will be post #34.

Tethys

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and ted's do?

Wow! Tethys you are just aMAZing!

Nostradamus could learn a thing or two from you!

I say we ditch ted as the resident prophet. maybe you could predict that we could burn him at the stake for fraudulent use of magic powers or something ....

but one thing: next time could you, like try, as Bunny says ... and say it in a few languages (especially dead ones) , throw it into a quatrain and follow speaks clues on how to make a professional job of it ... you know the direct approach just doesn't suit the image of the seer ....

So THAT'S what I've been doing wrong!

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4 horsemen, 4 different forms.

And I bet that you can always find "a gigantic army", "a suicidal continent" and "a people of clowns" (nowadays, it'd be the chinese OR american army, africa, and the mass media/hollywood respectively). The green sun might be a little harder to find, but that's what will make the prophecy believable : at any time three out of 4 conditions are true. As soon as the 4th condition becomes true, people will think I was right.

I think this is the key to good prophecy-making: write many things that you know are always true (in a very vague way to hide the fact that they're always right), and few that might be wrong. This way people will think "damn it! He was right about everything!"

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Notorious phenomena with Nostrodamus.

If you translate it from Italian into Spanish then into French, then it says...

Or if you translate it from Spanish to French then to English, then is says...

The same original statement can morph all over the place once you start playing translation games.

And don't forget the number one game that academic historians play when dealing with medieval manuscripts - it is called "guess what the monk-scribe meant". Trying to figure out what the original words are supposed to be is a major chore in itself given the nature and character of medieval cursive script (and parchment manuscripts).

I am not a prophet, I am only reading prophecies of other people and cultures and putting them togethor. and it looks to me like they all say the same thing. basically that this society is so evil and dead spiritually that it cant survive and is destined for a third catastrophic war more deadly then all others combined.

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What about the large amount of prophecies that don't say the same thing?

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I am sorry which ones?

so far i have native american tribes, christians, tibeton monks, catholics, islamic, azteck, hindu..etc..

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Do any of them pick a time-frame? Or do they just rely on the idea that humans tend to kill each other, and vaguely predict that this trend will continue?

As an aside, and, for my next quatrain, I predict that men will enjoy sex at some point in the future.

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Hey metalted, how about Mayan?

According to them, the world comes to an end in 2012.

LOL…Well, Daisy, fair lady, it was late and all, and the candles were dimming. Do you have any idea how hard it is to etch out a quatrain on parchment, and upload it to the USB port as an HTML document readable by you good folks in the 21st Century?

Now, let’s see…

In a lavatrina a privy
Au monde des aigles
A lad will sit in wistful contemplation of old wisdoms
And decree the whole world shall be sucked down the hole

Hmmm…. and the next post will be # 45.

Tethys

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Not quite. The Mayan calendar -and worldview- is cyclical. On Dec. 21, 2012 the 13-baktun cycle comes to end, which is a period of enormous upheaval but not an apocalyptic final. Compare it to the 'Death' card in the Tarot
Many non-Western philosophies are mistaken to have a final moment while it's actually the concept of rebirth or regenesis that they proclaim. It's the christian authors that have imposed finality on it -with or without intent- because that is which corroborates with christian ideology.