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26th January 2013, 03:54 AM | #1161 |
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IIRC (and I'm not going back to the beginning of this ridiculous thread to check) he's also predicted that Prince Harry will succeed Charles as King rather than Prince William, because William is not really his son. Quite a long wait before we see if that one's right too.
He still hasn't explained why Nostradamus would care enough about the monarchy of a foreign country centuries hence to bother making such predictions. |
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26th January 2013, 04:27 AM | #1166 |
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Stop the presses! Nostradamus predicted that a person was going to die of old age, and he did it five centuries in advance! And that is all you got for now after months of scrutinizing quatrains. The bare facts are that months have gone by and you still can't manage to locate St. Helena in a any-shape representation of the Earth, nor the prime meridian, yet you offer as a prediction something that has essentially a probability in the range of 10 to 15%, so it's like we're seeing a person going into an elevator, the doors closing and the floor indicator already changing quickly and you bet the lift is going to stop in the 10th floor in a building that has only 14 stores, but we have to wait a decade to learn if your "valiant" bet was more than only words. Don't be ridiculous, man! Why don't you stop throwing loads of tosh here, if not for the sake of logic, for the sake of aesthetics. |
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26th January 2013, 04:30 AM | #1167 |
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26th January 2013, 04:38 AM | #1172 |
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All I asked was which ''peoples'' Queen Elizabeth I impressed. If you are not wiling to back up your statements then don't make any. You still haven't mentioned the quatrain about Queen Elizabeth II dying at 98. I'm not surprised, a google reveals that there is no such quatrain.
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26th January 2013, 04:45 AM | #1173 |
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Im expected to uncover a important grail perhaps from Cannons of Orange. Perhaps Silver. And then Books. Contained Knowledge, within the books.. "The books which were consigned to the flames" (Which never happened).
Instead. Those books kept hidden OR!! It could be a religious aspect of it as well perhaps a church. perhaps something vital within that church. Or it could be elsewhere in the country side. And the Cannons of Orange Church Diagram is the Map to its Mark Or if all else fails. Perhaps its just Nostradamus telling me to have a nice vacation to St. Helena. It sounds really fun to go there. Napoleon was exiled there once |
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Prepare yourself for a major disappointment. It's ''Canons'', by the way. A cannon is a big gun.
http://www.reformed.org/documents/in...of_orange.html The Canons Of The Council Of Orange do not mention St. Helena or Nostradamus. |
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26th January 2013, 04:55 AM | #1177 |
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Nostradamus did not predict the future. Those who believe he did are being foolish.
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Nostra was an apothecary, he had access to drugs, he was stoned out of his mind most of the time. No wonder he wrote such tosh.
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What Kind of Skeptic Buys Nostradamus book worth over 10,000 dollars? obviously a believer
Becuase James Randi has, Oh yea. James Randi spent a fortune on a nostradamus book. How much was it again? |
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Its a Impressive Artifact' they sayin in the video in the first minute of the video.
So A Nostradamus Book is impressive? Intresting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ybf6t05jXQ |
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26th January 2013, 05:19 AM | #1184 |
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A collector of rare books? A person with a large disposable income? It may surprise you to learn that many skeptics spend a great deal of time researching the things they are skeptical about. They often have a greater knowledge than the true believers. You have been shown up many times and I am surprised that you don't know much more about the subject of your obsession and the time and environment that he lived in.
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You know what Really Hurts me the most.
James Randi looks like a great guy. He looks like a honest believer of Nostradamus and phenomenon events or occurrences. Even just the fact that we as humans exist today is phenomenon. Now that is something I can prove. Humanity is a phenomenon like no other planet. |
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Depuis le Grand Nord du chien enragé hurlait
Issu sens de charabia de vieux Violentes menaces vides pour les non-croyants mérité la mort par le modérateur dans treize It keeps getting better the more I run it through google translate. Since large rabid dog howling North Sense of the old nonsense Violent threats in the air for non-believers deserved death by the moderator in thirteen |
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I stopped by Randi's office. All he had was a trilllion dollar platinum coin, which was behind my ear the whole time!
He said I had to get change. I'm taking some quatrains with me to the greyhound race track to bet on ol' Nostro's predictions. I should have the the cash post haste. First round is on me. |
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