I have noticed that the doomsday cults have dusted off their bunker plans and cranked up the fear machines to increase the sale of canned baked beans. The web, Fox TV and Youtube are spreading this hysteria like a southern boy spreads butter on white bread. So is it true? Are we all going to be floating belly up in a pool of globally warmed salt water? I have no idea but I decided to give it a few minutes of time while I watch another episode of Renovation Realities on the HGTV.
Apparently this whole thing is fueled by the the declining economy, global warming, the Mayan calendar and Nostradamus. The Mayan calendar ends on 12-21-2012. Nostro-dumb-ass has hidden codes in his books. Last but not least...people are losing money!
1. Why in the world are the Mayans and their calendar so important. Last I checked, the only Mayans left are in the pages of history books. Maybe they should have spent a little less time making "Hot Sacrifice of the Month" flip calendars and spent some time on not becoming extinct. So the calendar is not real convincing.
2. Have you ever seen one of those Nostradamus documentaries? They can take a drawing of a dancing wizard with three nipples beating a sea bass and determine who will win the Super Bowl. The moral of ancient bearded men prognosticating the end of times........Don't bet on it.
3. As far as the global warming and Resident Evil outcome? Well I just don't know. My guess is that we will all be laughing our ass of on 12-22-2012....but I might be dead wrong!
I find it funny that many sites are seriously giving tips on building survival kits and stocking up on food, gas masks and batteries. If it is the end of the world, why the Hell would you need supplies?
Until next time............The cubs better get busy.
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As the old adage expresses, "let us not hold the messenger responsible for the message." Did Nostradamus have certain abilities; most definitely. Are they as we have interpreted them; probably not. Most people that claim to have the ability to foresee the future are clear that their powers of observation are limited to perhaps a few years at best. Nostradamus's predictions are vague as you say and do not clearly provide a timeline to their actual occurrence, so why are we so insistent that they extended 500 years in to the future. Let's examine another scenario; accused as a Judaizer, opponent frequently to the Church, protected by the aristocracy so that excommunication papers could not be upheld, a donator of 1 Mark to the church that built him a fabulous tomb, of course Rome would want its payback, even after his death. In order to exact that revenge, they could inflict their punishment upon his son Caesar. But Nostradamus was aware they would do this, so he povided Caesar with all his predictions, especially the ones referring to the Redhats in order that his son had protection via blackmail. But fearing this was not enough, Michel de Nostradame made certain that he left behind enough quatrains to protect Caesar when certain events would lead to Pope Sixtus trying to take everything from his son. When examined in light of the events that Caesar had to face, the outcome that resulted, and the protection that Caesar achieved (he was even made magistrate of his town) the quatrains make perfect sense and you can be awed by Nostradamus’s ability to see very clearly at least thirty years into the future. These quatrains are explained in the book Shadows of Trinity available from Amazon or Barnes and Noble online. See http://www.eloquentbooks.com/ShadowsOfTrinity.html The clarity of the quatrains is only evident when placed into their proper historical context. That's where we fail today. He wasn't talking about 2012, he was talking about back then.
Thanks for the great comment Dr. Allen. After reading author bio, I consider this a real honor.
I feel that if I said anything at all after that comment it would be like me trying to explain why LA-JJ likes Glow Worms.
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