[GHook93]

Very true

Quote by: Scribbler1 I don't want to sidetrack this thread so I'll just make this one point about Nostradamus. To the best of my knowledge every so-called prediction of his is recognized as such in hindsight and therefore useless as a predictive device. Granted, some of his stuff could be interpreted as a vague description of an event or person AFTER the event or person becomes known, not before. Wouldn't it be kind of neat if this guy's writing was clear enough to identify Hitler BEFORE he became Fuhrer and came within a hair of being the master of the world? Maybe the appeasement deal would have been replaced with a much smaller war and a LOT fewer dead. But a LOT of his writing is gibberish. This is supposed to describe Napoleon: "From a simple soldier he will rise to the empire, From the short robe he will attain the long. Great swarms of bees shall arise." You've gotta use a LOT of imagination to identify this as anything that makes sense. Now back to your regularly scheduled thread.