Comments on: The Lost Book of Nostradamus http://physics309.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/the-lost-book-of-nostradamus/ Lately it occurs to me/What a long, strange trip its been - Grateful Dead Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:32:45 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jim http://physics309.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/the-lost-book-of-nostradamus/#comment-241 Jim Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:16:42 +0000 http://physics309.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/the-lost-book-of-nostradamus/#comment-241 oops, and i could have proofed what i wrote ... drawying is clearly the medieval spelling of drawing. pardon my antiquarian ways. oops, and i could have proofed what i wrote … drawying is clearly the medieval spelling of drawing. pardon my antiquarian ways.

]]> By: Jim http://physics309.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/the-lost-book-of-nostradamus/#comment-240 Jim Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:13:24 +0000 http://physics309.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/the-lost-book-of-nostradamus/#comment-240 Hey! I watched that same show (my ... ahem ... 14 year old DVR'd it) and had the same reaction. Even the teenager was giggling along with me at how inane it was. The explanations they gave made absolutely no sense (as you clearly point out above), but the Tower drawying was the worst. So, because N "drew" a tower and because a Tower is the worst card in a tarot deck, the WTC falling is going to be a really bad thing? Ummm ... I don't get it. Yet, people ... yes, people! ... watch this stuff and some of those people actually buy into it. Reminds me of a book ... Foucalt's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, in which the protagonist could make numbers signify anything. That reminds me of another book, a stupid one at that, The DaVinci Code, in which the author can make a lot of people buy and read anything. It is truly an amazing world ... one even Nostradamus couldn't have predicted. Hey! I watched that same show (my … ahem … 14 year old DVR’d it) and had the same reaction. Even the teenager was giggling along with me at how inane it was. The explanations they gave made absolutely no sense (as you clearly point out above), but the Tower drawying was the worst. So, because N “drew” a tower and because a Tower is the worst card in a tarot deck, the WTC falling is going to be a really bad thing? Ummm … I don’t get it.

Yet, people … yes, people! … watch this stuff and some of those people actually buy into it. Reminds me of a book … Foucalt’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco, in which the protagonist could make numbers signify anything. That reminds me of another book, a stupid one at that, The DaVinci Code, in which the author can make a lot of people buy and read anything.

It is truly an amazing world … one even Nostradamus couldn’t have predicted.

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