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| Nowhere Man | Jan 30 2012, 01:17 PM Post #1 |
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Nostradamus, (December 14, 1503 – July 1, 1566) born Michel de Nostredame, is one of the world's most famous authors of prophecies. He is most famous for his book Les Propheties, which consists of rhymed quatrains (4-line poems) grouped into sets of 100, called Centuries. Nostradamus enthusiasts have credited him with predicting a copious number of events in world history, including the French Revolution, the atom bomb, the rise of Adolf Hitler and the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Detractors, however, see such predictions as examples of vaticinium ex eventu, retroactive clairvoyance and selective thinking, which find non-existent patterns in ambiguous statements. Because of this, it has been claimed that Nostradamus is "100% accurate at predicting events after they happen". Born in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in the south of France in December 1503, Michel de Nostredame was the son of a grain dealer who was also a prosperous home-grown notary. His family was originally Jewish, but had converted to Catholicism during the previous century. Nothing is known about his childhood, but at the age of fifteen he entered the University of Avignon to study for his baccalaureate. After little more than a year he was forced by the Plague to leave again. In 1529, after some years as an apothecary, he entered the University of Montpellier to study for a doctorate in medicine, but was promptly expelled again when it was discovered that he had been an apothecary, which was a 'manual' trade expressly banned by the university statutes. He then continued work as an apothecary, and created a "rose pill" that was widely believed to protect against the the plague. In 1531 he was invited by Jules-César Scaliger, a leading Renaissance man, to come to Agen. There Nostradamus married a woman whose name is still in dispute (possibly Henriette d'Encausse), but who bore him two children. In 1534, however, his wife and children died, presumably from the plague. After their death he continued to travel, passing through France and possibly Italy. He settled down in 1547 in Salon-de-Provence, where he married a rich widow named Anne Ponsarde Gemelle and eventually had six children - three daughters and three sons. After a further visit to Italy, he began to move away from medicine and towards the occult. He wrote an almanac for 1550, for the first time Latinising his name to 'Nostradamus', and was so encouraged by its success that he decided to write one or more annually. Taken together, they are known to have contained at least 6338 prophecies (most of them, in the event, failed predictions), as well as at least 11 annual calendars, all of them starting on 1st January and not, as is sometimes supposed, in March. He then began his project of writing 1,000 quatrains, which form the supposed prophecies for which he is famous today. Feeling vulnerable to religious fanatics, however, he devised a method of obscuring his meaning by using "Virgilianised" syntax, word games and a mixture of languages such as Provençal, Greek, Latin and Italian. For technical reasons connected with their publication in three instalments, the last 58 quatrains of the seventh 'Century', or book of 100 verses, were never published. The quatrains, written in a book titled "Les Propheties", received a mixed reaction when they were published. Some people thought Nostradamus was a servant of evil, a fake, or insane, while many of the elite thought his quatrains were spiritually inspired prophecies. Soon nobility came from all over to receive horoscopes and advice from him, though he normally expected them to supply the birthcharts on which they were based. Catherine de Médicis, the queen consort of King Henry II of France, was one of Nostradamus' admirers. After reading his almanacs for 1555, which hinted at unnamed threats to the royal family, she summoned him to Paris to explain them, as well as to draw up horoscopes for her royal children. At the time he feared that he would be beheaded, but by the time of his death in 1566, she had made him Counselor and Physician in Ordinary to the King. By 1566 Nostradamus's gout, which had painfully plagued him for many years and made movement very difficult, finally turned into dropsy. At the beginning of July, after making an extended will and a much shorter codicil, he is alleged to have told his secretary Jean de Chavigny, "You will not find me alive by sunrise." The next morning he was reportedly found dead, lying on the floor between his bed and a makeshift bench. Some biographical accounts of Nostradamus' life state that he was afraid of being persecuted for heresy by the Inquisition, but neither prophecy nor astrology fell under this bracket, and he would have been in danger only if he had practised magic to support them. In fact, his relations with the Church as a prophet and healer were always excellent. His brief imprisonment at Marignane in late 1561 came about purely because he had published his 1562 almanac without the prior permission of a bishop, contrary to a recent royal decree. URL: http://www.nostradamus.org/bio.php From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. |
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| Nowhere Man | Jan 30 2012, 01:20 PM Post #2 |
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Nostradamus' 2012 Predictions: 2012 Predictions by Nostradamus As with predictions by other seers, Nostradamus predictions are also hugely debated and the veracity of the predictions is doubted greatly. This is because a lot of his predictions, including his predictions for 2012 are open-ended and completely depend on the decipherment by the interpreter. Doubts also arise because there have been predictions by Nostradamus that have turned out to be completely wrong and far from the truth. In such a scenario, there is a lot of controversy and curiosity surrounding his predictions for 2012. What creates so much intrigue around his predictions for 2012 is the fact that these predictions were made more than five hundred years ago. Anyone who has studied Nostradamus quatrains, the four line verses in which most of his predictions are recorded, will tell you about the initial bewilderment that they experienced. A lot has been interpreted from these quatrains. But what are these predictions? Let us take a look. Some interpreters believe that predictions by Nostradamus speak of the first black President of America (therefore, referring to Barack Obama). It is said that the apothecary turned seer predicted that Barack Obama would become President and his election would lead to circumstances leading up to the Third World War. Due to the open-ended nature of his predictions, there is room for multiple interpretations. Another theory that has a lot of believers states that the Nostradamus predictions for 2012 talks about the rise of the Antichrist and that his name would be Mabus. Theorists believe that Mabus is a name that can be derived from the last two letters of the name Obama and the first three letters that make up the name Bush. While none of this is a clear indication from predictions made by Nostradamus, it is an important forecasting that cannot be ignored according to believers. Another Nostradamus prediction hints at the end of the world. This prediction quote when loosely translated states, After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine, steel weapons, and disease. In the heavens, a fire seen. This quote, interpreters believe, hints at the end of the world and the rise of the Antichrist. This prediction about the end of the world has created a lot of hysteria because of its similarities to the end of the world as predicted by the Mayans and Gnostic books. Another prediction that Nostradamus has made is about the supposed World War 3 that may break out. The interpretations, if believed, state that a planet will come and hit Earth and that there will be a war between the Arab world and the Christian world and that this war will result in the destruction of the entire world but India and China. These predictions are largely disputed because of the importance of both the aforementioned countries in world affairs. While most of the forecasting is hugely debated, there are also predictions made by him for the world as it will be after the great war as predicted by Nostradamus. The prediction about the onset of peace as made by Nostradamus is given below. URL: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/nostradamus-2012prediction.html |
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