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Jester
11-26-2004, 01:48 AM
Let me first say that I'm quite skeptical about Nostradamus and his prophecies, and that I believe his writings can be interpreted in any way that one wants. But it's still fun to read his prophecies and figure out what they might mean.
Here are a few of his quatrains that may refer to the war in Iraq.

Century III, Quatrain 61:
The great band and sect of crusaders
Will be arrayed in Mesopotamia:
Light company of the nearby river,
That such law will hold for an enemy.

The first two lines could refer to the occupation of Iraq by American and British forces, the majority of whom are Christian and are thus called "crusaders". The second two lines could be about the Abu Ghraib situation, with the "law" referring to POW laws.

Century IX, Quatrain 76:
With the rapacious and bloody king,
Sprung from the pallet of the inhuman Nero.
Between two rivers, the military on the left,
He will be murdered by a bald young man.

The "rapacious and bloody king" could obviously be Saddam Hussein, and the "two rivers" the Tigris and the Euphrates, which indicates that this quatrain could be about Iraq. The last line could be a prediction of Saddam's murder, possibly while the military is engaged in something that's "on the left" of something.

More to come...

jerejerebinks
11-26-2004, 11:41 AM
There is also a lot in Revelation that may possibly tie into the Iraq war...in chp 18, I believe.

Imagineer
11-27-2004, 10:42 PM
If you make your prophecy sufficiently vague, it can be interpreted to fit any situation.

Century IX, Quatrain 76:
With the rapacious and bloody king,
Sprung from the pallet of the inhuman Nero.
Between two rivers, the military on the left,
He will be murdered by a bald young man.

This has also been interpreted to refer to the attemped assassination of Pope John Paul for example.

Darth Be'lal
11-30-2004, 07:32 PM
It's amazing how all these prophecies come true only after the event they are prophecizing happen.

I'd be impressed if someone said "Europe will be a bad place for jews during the 1930 and 1940s" during the 19th century. Or better yet, "Stay away from the World Trade Center on 9/11/01" back in the 1990s.

But I don't expect that to happen anytime soon.

WhammyBar
11-30-2004, 08:39 PM
there is stuff in the bible having do with the apocalypse about a war in present day iraq. so there are lots of funie chtistians running around yelling about how judgement day is coming very very soon.

LionelHutz
11-30-2004, 10:15 PM
The vast majority of these Nostradamus predictions that seem to appear after a major event (9/11, Iraqi invasion, etc.) all turn out to be completely false - i.e. they were made up by someone after the fact.

Jester
12-01-2004, 01:28 AM
It's amazing how all these prophecies come true only after the event they are prophecizing happen.
True. Combine hindsight with Nostradamus' cryptic way of writing and problems in translation and you can make those prophecies mean whatever you want. Which is pretty much what I did. Although it would be difficult to say that "Mesopotamia" could refer to anything other than Iraq. I'm actually surprised that the Nostradamus believers haven't jumped on that quatrain as "proof" that Nostradamus was right.
The vast majority of these Nostradamus predictions that seem to appear after a major event (9/11, Iraqi invasion, etc.) all turn out to be completely false - i.e. they were made up by someone after the fact.
The book that I got those quatrains from, which contains all of his prophecies, was actually published in 1989, before any of this happened. I also found them in other publications, so I'd say that they're real. There are some fake prophecies out there but they're easy to catch... all you have to do is look it up in a book that's relatively old and was published before the event.