Talk:Nostradamus

The folowing is being spread by the net:

"In the city of god there will be a great thunder, two brothers torn a part by chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb", "the third big war will begin when the big city is burning"

                      -NOSTRADAMUS 1654

Is this a true Nostradamus prophecy?

No, you can imagine any number of possible coups, crisis of monarchies, or general disagreements that could make the first vague statement true. The second one is super generic; of course one would expect a big city to burn prior to the start of a war. I think sometimes people like to equate events with prophecies so they seem larger of scope and more significant and meaningful, and sometimes this means making broad interpretations. I'd like to suggest clearing this page and putting in a more informative article *about* Nostradamus, rather than trying to apply vague connections between the prophecies and perceived real events, and maybe address *how* and *why* people in the past have tried to apply the prophecies to real events. -- BryceHarrington

I Agree, but my question was not if the prophecy predicts the ocurrences of yesterday but if that prediction realy belongs to Nostradamus. I came to wikipedia to get some answers about it and I didn't found any. joao

I received an email with some addition verses from Nostradamus

Fire in the New City
as the century spins into the new time
the five tiered ring is broken (pentagon?)
birds in the skies come into fowl hands (hijacking?)
panic faces the people

I am also interested in whether these quote are really from 400 years ago.

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Looks like nonsense to me. If it were real, people would give the reference (century/quatrain) so that it could easily be checked. There is one about fire in a cité neufve (which was interpreted as New York long before yesterday's events), namely VI.97, but it reads like this:

Cinq & quarante degrés ciel bruslera,

Feu approcher de la grand cité neufve,

Instant grand flamme esparse sautera,

Quand on voudra des Normans faire preuve.

--Zundark

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Here's a webpage on the matter:

http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/hoaxes/predict.htm