Nostradamus quatrain 10.72 - deception and fulfillment

http://www.google.com/search?q=quatrain+10.72+fulfilled&meta= ^ | February 02, 2005 | Self

[kinghorse]

I'm John Kerry and I approve of this message.

Nostradamus - faithfully flipflopping since the 11th century (or whenever he wrote his treatise on waffling)

[ßuddaßudd]

Thats pretty good. I foresee similar events for me this saturday night.(my b-day events)

[b4its2late]

[RolandBurnam]

nostro-dumass was french, nuf said.

[mnehring]

Did Nostradamus predict this major event?

[mdmathis6]

I'm not sure what kind of King of Terror came from the sky in 1999. As a matter of fact, I'm not sure if anything happened in 1999 that could be remotely related to this prophecy...can someone explain it to me!

[ProudVet77]

Is that the IHOP Chihuahua?

[FourtySeven]

You sir, are a strange one. Not meant as a "slam", because some geniuses throughout history were quite strange. Not sure if you fit into that category though.

You criticize (rightfully, imo) those who ascribe some "mystical" status to Nostradamus, because each one of his "prophecies" aren't really "understood" until AFTER they happen. That's right, I agree. The language in his quatrains are so vague as to not be interpretable until after something happens that SEEMS to fit the event.

Yet, then you go onto say that, "At first sight it seems incredible that Quatrain 10.72, the only prediction that Nostradamus ever risked, became true. "

Then you present as evidence of this a Google search that shows some websites claiming Putin and/or Clinton was this "Great King of Terror". (?)

Why would you do that? You're clearly doing what you criticize others of doing with "Hitler and Hister" earlier in your post! You're just inserting some world event or leader into the vague prophecy AFTER the fact, claiming it as proof! Or ARE you?

Basically my question to you is: what is the point of this post here? Do you, or don't you believe that Nostradamus was a nut and/or fake?

And btw, the eclipse was easily predictable back then. In the 16th century, the time table of eclipses was well known up to and including the 20th century. So that's hardly "proof" of any mystical knowledge.

[antiRepublicrat]

ok, who's the King of Terror?

In the early 80s, everybody thought that meant Khadafi, and that he would nuke Yew York due to another quatrain. Later, people used this same quatrain to say Nostradamus was talking about 9/11 and Osama.

[job]

sting was the king of pain

[theFIRMbss]

"And, in those Dark Times, there shall come to the people a dog among dogs, a dog from on high, a dog that shall rule them with a cloak that is pink . . ."

[muleskinner]

I predict that any Nostradamus threads will be some of the funniest threads on FR.

O.K., now the Great Randy owes me $1 million.

[Huck]

And there shall in that time be rumours of things going astray, and there will be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base, that has an attachment they will not be there. At this time a friend shall lose his friends's hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before ...

[Truth666]

some help

L'an mil neuf cens nonante neuf sept mois,
Du ciel viendra un gran Roy d'effrayeur.
Resusciter le grand Roy d'Angolmois.
Avant apres Mars regner par bon heur.

The expression 'du ciel' means 'of/from heaven' or 'of/from the sky'.
No wonder the usual translation associates "A king of terror" with the sky and not with heaven ...

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22From+heaven+will+come+a+great+King+of+terror%22 - 725 results

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22From+the+sky+will+come+a+great+King+of+terror%22 - 9 results
but again, that's the effect of suggestion. To start with, people don't come / are not sent from the sky ...

[TChris]

Yew York

The official evergreen of a borough in England? ;-)

[#1CTYankee]

"Is "Groundhog Day" becoming the new "April Fools Day"?"

Is that a prediction or just a comment oh great one. :-)

[airborne]

A nice picture of Paris Hilton and her hairless Tinker Bell!

[Churchillspirit]

Toon arrived somewhere by plane?

[Junior]

You owe me a keyboard... and a fresh cup of coffee.

[Truth666]

Reminder for the purpose of completeness (no problem finding this information with google).
Since Ericka Cheetham, The Man Who Saw Tomorrow: The Prophecies of Nostradamus, History’s Greatest Psychic (New York: Berkeley Books, 1973):
"Angolmois" was believed to be an anagram of Mongolois (the Mongols) which, historically, could be interpreted as a reference to East, Central Asia, Genghis Khan, etc
Nostradamus used it as part of the cryptic technique explained above - a door to be used for any interpretations.