Or it could also be Dagon...



Or Cthulhu...




Seriously though, I stopped believing in Nostradamus 11 years ago. He PROMISED that on July 1999, Mars would eclipse Saturn, multitudes of angels would sound the trumpets of war so loudly everyone would fall deaf, and I wouldn't have to study because Armageddon would be at everyone's doorstep.

I almost screwed up my exams thanks to him. Thanks a lot Mr. N...

Now, the Hopi's Seventh Sign? That HAS to be the oil spill, right???

Right???

I'd like to think that when the end of the world is here, it'll be very loud and bright and be over in a few seconds...

That's the point.

Sure, he COULD be talking about the GOM spill. But he COULD also be talking about eldritch abomintations spawned from H.P. Lovecraft's mind. Given Nostra's choice of words, it could mean practically anything, and still be considered to be an "accurate" prophecy.

That's assuming he wanted/was capable of being this descriptive.

Then why would he say "it shall climb the walls as an enemy" if was an oil spill? Shouldn't he say something like "it clung to to the sands of the beach, like paint on a canvas". That does not require "knowledge of a sailor" either.

Then that brings back to my original point. Why describe "8-tentacled monsters" when "oily, scary and creepy" would do just as well? (And fit almost anything else that is oily and strange).

And I'd think that highly educated people would want a MORE DETAILED explanation. Not LESS.

This post has been edited by VMSmith: Jun 14 2010, 05:07 PM

Why should it matter what other people care about? It was Nostradamus HIMSELF who wrote those quatrains, not anyone else! Either he was coerced/bribed to write them vaguely as you suggested, or he did it on purpose. Both of which rendered the validity of his prophecies moot: Why should something "strange, oily and horrible" be definitely an oil spill, and not something else?