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- From: eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
- Subject: Re: California's Doom (the details), Film at 11.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.094630.1509@lin.foa.se>
- Keywords: Nostradamus (again!)
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:46:30 GMT
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- sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer) writes:
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- >Some 1993 "Predictions" from the Fox-TV show "Sightings",
- >January 8, 1993 (highlights).
-
- (stuff deleted)
- >Lorie says: "What we did in our book was to actually discover a code,
- >a numerical and grammatical code, which actually is quite tricky to
- >begin with, but once you get the hang of it it's quite simple, which
- >decodes the quatrains and makes them much more fascinating than they
- >are in fact on the face of it." [i.e., these authors alone have
- >discovered the "hidden meaning" encoded within Nostradamus' quatrains!]
-
- Oh, that's not so strange. I discovered messages to aliens in our local phone
- book. I have to admit that I did it at 0300 in the night, after 31 beers, but
- still...
- >On the screen, from Lorie's book, as he speaks: "Verse X.74 decoded:
- >L'Amerique apres Roi Charles et Jeux Olympiques...."
- >An elaborate "translation table" of dates and numbers is shown.
- >Supposed meaning: "Beginning in 1992 and ending in 1993, the coronation
- >of King Charles and the Olympic Games will be followed by a great
- >earthquake triggered off by a shifting in the sea...."
-
- Did he try to explain the code, and how they found it?
-
- >Richard Nolle, astrologer, predicts a terrible year, the kind you will
- >put on a T-shirt, "I survived 1993." He predicts terrorist attacks
- >around Feb. 2, also in August & early October. A major earthquake in the
- >western U.S. probably around February 8, or March 6, or April 6, plus or
- >minus 3 days.
-
- He didn't say _where_ the terrorist would strike?
-
- Sigh. All these astrologists and shit really make me sad and tired. Why can't
- people try to _think_ instead of having it all served on a platter. But for
- some reason people would rather be victims of vast impersonal forces, call it
- destiny, fate or whatever, instead of making their own happiness.
-
- cheers
-
- --
- Erik Svensson
- Research Officer National Defense Research Establishment (FOA)
- Guided Weapons Division Stockholm, Sweden eriks@fenix.lin.foa.se
-
- "The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present"
- -- Hobbes
-