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Nostradamus 2003-2025 : A History of the Future

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This book has no reality to it. Everything is taken out of context to fit into today. Sentences were taken out of the verse and used as examples when the whole idea is the entire verse. If we believe as this author has written then the world is doomed and a woman will do it by 2010. No where in the original verses does it state that a woman with ruin the world.

The author has conveniently left out on crucial fact:
Never, not once, has anyone ever said "Nostradamus said X, so Y is going to happen" and they were right.
That means Nostradamus has never successfully been used to predict the future.
He is only interpreted in a way to matches the past. This book is filled with nonsense like that.
Nostradamus is not a prophet.
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The so-called "great" Nostradamus predicted nothing accurately, and for hundreds of years people have been shoe-horning his famous Quatrains into various forms in order to make them fit into their favourite events. When the primary reviewer claims a "haunting reference to the twin towers" in a Quatrain, it's just another example of people twisting words to make them fit their pre-conceived notions. It's easy to take a set of circumstances and construct some meaning using N.'s Quatrains if you look hard enough. It's also easy to convince yourself the moon is made of green cheese.

Hister has nothing to do with Hitler (Hister is an old Latin name for the Danube river, for crying out loud!), and Nostradamus didn't predict Napoleon unless you're dumb enough to believe that twisting the nonsense syllables "pay-nay-ro" around to form Bonaparte's given name is a meaningful exercise. If you believe in Nostradamus or the "research" found in this book, I have some beach-front property to sell you near Mount Etna.

I am writing to express my dismay and concern over Nostradamus's iconoclastic mind games. Here's a quick review: If it were up to Nostradamus, schoolchildren would be taught reading, 'riting, and racism. Nostradamus's precepts represent a backward step of hundreds of years, a backward step into a chasm with no bottom save the endless darkness of death. I once told Nostradamus that even Nostradamus must concede that learning the truth can be a painful experience, especially for it. How did it respond to that? It proceeded to curse me off using a number of colorful expletives not befitting this letter, which serves only to show that I have some advice for Nostradamus. It should keep its mouth shut until it stops being such an odious riffraff and starts being at least one of informative, agreeable, creative, or entertaining. Okay, have you had enough of this letter? Good. Let's end it by reiterating that quislingism is sustained by rigid ideological categories.