The Soothsayer & His Memory
  • Agent Smith
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    Fortunetelling is big business I hear.

    Nostradamus was an examplar of prognostication. His quatrains were examined in much detail and one particular prophecy he made that gives me goose bumps is the name of a world leader who would cause a major war; Nostradamus called this leader Hister (83% match with Hitler; got mixed up between "s" and "l", plus the letter order is off, only slightly though). Memory is not perfect, you know!

    Anyway...

    What bothers me is this: there's no essential difference between a vision (of the future) and a recollection (of the past) - both, I presume, take the form of mental images (black & white or color) and sounds (music, speech, ambient noise, etc.).

    That would mean, (a) Nostradamus could've been a time traveller i.e. he died in the future and was reborn in the past: his "predictions" were actually memories!

    Paul the Octopus was from the future! :scream:
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  • Hillary
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    That would mean, (a) Nostradamus could've been a time traveller i.e. he died in the future and was reborn in the past: his "predictions" were actually memories! — Agent Smith

    Memories of the future he traveled to, like us, and then returning to the past? Just travel to the past? That's difficult, AS. But out of curiosity, did he say anything about WW3? I know he rightly predicted the Iranian revolution too.
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  • Agent Smith
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    Memories of the future he traveled to, like us, and then returning to the past? Just travel to the past? That's difficult, AS. But out of curiosity, did he say anything about WW3? I know he rightly predicted the Iranian revolution too. — Hillary

    For starters visit Nostradamus.
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  • Hillary
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    "END OF DAYS 
    Nostradamus made chilling prediction of WW3 in 2023 after ‘correctly foreseeing’ Ukraine conflict this year"

    So, we at least have another carefree summer!
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