Help me with Nostradamus please!

robinph · 17-05-2006 01:45PM

growler wrote:

It's obvious

23 X 6 = 138
+ 23 = 161
x 6 = 966

which is almost 666 ( except for the 9 , which is an upside down 6)

see ?

either that or it's the answer to one of the questions on Countdown sometime, spooky .

You can only use each number once though so your not going to be able to get 966 from just 23 and 6.

Although it did say sixes though didn't it?

Thats either he's just asked Carol for 6 small ones, I thought they were only given 5 numbers though, or they messed up the numbers board and gave him more than one six to begin with.

Either way the only person likely to solve this riddle is Ms. Vorderman.

Gosh · 17-05-2006 01:52PM

The sixes refers to the date 1666 of the Great Fire of London. The fire started on September 2 and ended September 5. If you add the numbers 9 (9th month), and 2, 3, 4, and 5, the total is :eek: 23 ...

growler · 17-05-2006 01:53PM

robinph wrote:

You can only use each number once though so your not going to be able to get 966 from just 23 and 6.

Although it did say sixes though didn't it?

Thats either he's just asked Carol for 6 small ones, I thought they were only given 5 numbers though, or they messed up the numbers board and gave him more than one six to begin with.

Either way the only person likely to solve this riddle is Ms. Vorderman.

are you suggesting that the wise Nostradamus incorrectly predicted the format of a Channel 4 gameshow ? What cheek.

I refer you to the passage

"there will be ties of many hues
and puns a plenty
Lynam rises when the white one ails
and the man of volder will be quite clever with the numbers and stuff
and liked by many of retirement age
numbers will multiplieth and conundrums there will be "

seems perfectly clear to me.

Terry · 17-05-2006 01:59PM

Gosh wrote:

juleps signature ...

The people fled the city
But not our heroes
They followed the chick
She knew the secret of the light.

OMG - is this another Nostradamus prediction??

it's about "the last night on earth"

robinph · 17-05-2006 02:00PM

growler wrote:

are you suggesting that the wise Nostradamus incorrectly predicted the format of a Channel 4 gameshow ? What cheek.

I refer you to the passage

"there will be ties of many hues
and puns a plenty
Lynam rises when the white one ails
and the man of volder will be quite clever with the numbers and stuff
and liked by many of retirement age
numbers will multiplieth and conundrums there will be "

seems perfectly clear to me.

Well I'll admit that he was pretty close on that prediction.

Gosh wrote:

The sixes refers to the date 1666 of the Great Fire of London. The fire started on September 2 and ended September 5. If you add the numbers 9 (9th month), and 2, 3, 4, and 5, the total is 23 ...

OK, so if we now have 9, 2, 3, 4 and 5 that might make achieving 966 a bit more likley. Anyone up for the challenge?

Remember you only have 30 seconds before the duh-duh duh dums start...

growler · 17-05-2006 02:27PM

robinph wrote:

OK, so if we now have 9, 2, 3, 4 and 5 that might make achieving 966 a bit more likley. Anyone up for the challenge?

Remember you only have 30 seconds before the duh-duh duh dums start...

don't you need a large number too ?

and indeed the great fire was in 1666 .........................:eek:

ball ox · 17-05-2006 02:50PM

Nostradamus was not just some ordinary man who wrote what he thought for the craic. The man lived through pain. He continuosly had horirrific nightmares and visions and lived in a state of shock and paranoia. He didn't write these things in his sitting room on a boring sunday morning. He rote them throughout his life from the nighmares and visons he was having. If you would think his whole life of pain is a put-on then I would think you have some neck.

1. Nostradamus made these preditcions based on "astrology"

2. He published them in a book, calender, alminac which all made him alot of money and sold largely due to their controversial content, in the same way as Chaucers Cantibury tales or an Eminem album.

3. The guy was a cowboy, an old school Derek Trotter. During the plague when he was working as an apothecary he claimed to have come up with a pill that would cure . It didnt but it sure did sell.

Sam Vimes · 17-05-2006 02:52PM

jobonar wrote:

Did he not corrcetly predict Nelson Mandella as the 1st black president in South Africa?

i'm sure he did. this is probably the prediction they're attributing it to:

something will happen in africa at some point in the future (dressed up in flowery language)

if he said:
"a man named nelson mandela will become president of a country called south africa"
i'd believe it but his predictions are so vague that they could mean anything.

and since they're so vague, people only fit the predictions to events after they've happened, so even if they are real, they're completely useless for predicting the future. they can only be used to predict the past

ball ox · 17-05-2006 02:55PM

Commander Vimes wrote:

so even if they are real, they're completely useless for predicting the future. they can only be used to predict the past

I think that sums it up really, well said

MrJoeSoap · 17-05-2006 02:56PM

Yet again I'm called out to deal with the cast of Police Academy.

It is sad to see that in this day and age people are still paying any attention whatsoever to this chancer from 500 years ago.

blu_sonic · 17-05-2006 03:49PM

does he know who'll win the world cup? I've a fiver that i can bet or set fire to.

Degsy · 17-05-2006 03:56PM

MrJoeSoap wrote:

Yet again I'm called out to deal with the cast of Police Academy.

It is sad to see that in this day and age people are still paying any attention whatsoever to this chancer from 500 years ago.

The same people who think the Da Vinci Code is historical fact.

Gosh · 17-05-2006 03:59PM

blu_sonic wrote:

does he know who'll win the world cup? I've a fiver that i can bet or set fire to.

Based on this thread so far, save yourself the time and energy of walking to the bookies and just burn it now ...

blu_sonic · 17-05-2006 04:00PM

ah its a smouldering pile of ashes. Degsey what are you trying to say???? but its,,,, its in a book!!!!!!!!!

Gosh · 17-05-2006 04:00PM

Degsy wrote:

The same people who think the Da Vinci Code is historical fact.

You mean it isn't ?

Gosh · 17-05-2006 04:02PM

blu_sonic wrote:

ah its a smouldering pile of ashes. Degsey what are you trying to say???? but its,,,, its in a book!!!!!!!!!

and a film ...

blu_sonic · 17-05-2006 04:04PM

so it must be true, next thing he'll say that there isn't an island where dinosaurs live.

growler · 17-05-2006 04:06PM

blu_sonic wrote:

does he know who'll win the world cup? I've a fiver that i can bet or set fire to.

I believe this one refers to the world cup or possibly chelsea

The great empire will be for England, with Walcott to the fore
The all-powerful one will hurt his foot for more than three hundred years:
Great forces to pass by sea and land and leicester, and the Eurotunnel
The Brazilians will not be satisfied thereby and have a big sulk
They will probably mention the war , forsooth.

you're fiver shall be well invested.

Gosh · 17-05-2006 04:09PM

blu_sonic wrote:

so it must be true, next thing he'll say that there isn't an island where dinosaurs live.

but I've seen the film, read the book and played the game .. surely somebody didn't make it up ... :eek:

Manic Moran · 17-05-2006 04:17PM

I'm certainly not convinced by him. I've read his work in the original, and in the English translation, and they're so vague that they can be interpreted pretty much to mean whatever you want them to mean. I recall that the english translation I read was written in the early 90s, and it was pouring over how the recently transpired events such as the collapse of the Soviets under Gorby, the election of Bush I and the invasion of Iraq had been predicted but then went completely wrong when it attempted to use the writings to predict near future events which had already not-transpired by the time I read it, such as Bush I winning re-election with someone other than Dan Quayle as a running mate.

NTM

gerire · 17-05-2006 04:50PM

What could this mean?
Twenty threes = 60? The six, 66?
Co-ordinates?

He is obviously refering to the falling of the statue of liberty or something else which will happen/be attacked on 6/6/06. 666 I tells ya!! Armageddon is on our door steps

Watch this space.

solas · 17-05-2006 04:54PM

The ancient lady will fall from her high place
A reference to the Statue of Liberty - close to the twin towers. Is the Statue of Liberty next to fall?

someone referneced a quote from James Hetfield te other day "Lady Justice has been raped" I think it was. Maybe the reference to the ancient lady is an analogy for the same.

Nostradamus is often credited with referencing modern use of electricity (the invention of the telephone etc) through the use of the term lightning, even though it was a distant concept in his day.

Gosh · 17-05-2006 05:05PM

gerire wrote:

What could this mean?
Twenty threes = 60? The six, 66?
Co-ordinates?

He is obviously refering to the falling of the statue of liberty or something else which will happen/be attacked on 6/6/06. 666 I tells ya!! Armageddon is on our door steps

Watch this space.

Now I'm really scared !!

Ruu_Old · 17-05-2006 05:10PM

Didnt he also say that the pope (JP II) would run away and be eventually be caught by Muslims and killed? Sorry for the off topicness

solas · 17-05-2006 05:33PM

Le sang du iuste à Londres fera faute,
Bruslez par foudres de vingt trois les six:
La dame antique cherra de place haute,
De mesme secte plusieurs seront occis.

The blood of the just will commit a fault at London,
Burnt through lightning of twenty threes the six:
The ancient lady will fall from her high place,
Several of the same sect will be killed.

apparantly is a reference to the gret fire of london in 1666

Gosh · 17-05-2006 05:42PM

NOSTRADAMUS is an anagram of SOS - A MAD RUNT

did he know that???

!_Brian_! · 17-05-2006 05:51PM

sinecurea wrote:

Folks,

The ancient lady will fall from her high place
A reference to the Statue of Liberty - close to the twin towers. Is the Statue of Liberty next to fall?

I dunno if anyone else replied about this, couldnt be arsed reading thru all the posts but anyway ... all this talk of deportation and illegal immigreants in the US. The US was populated by immigrants back in the day from Europe et al and the Statue of Liberty is a symbol of freedom and making a fresh start in a new land and all that but now the very people whos ancestors a couple of generations back were immigrants are kicking up a fuss about new ones and tryint to get rid of em. The article ended with a remark about deporting the statue of liberty or something which I suppose if you wanted to see it enough could be viewed as the ancient lady falling from her high place. Falling from grace.

growler · 17-05-2006 06:05PM

Gosh wrote:

NOSTRADAMUS is an anagram of SOS - A MAD RUNT

did he know that???

he did indeed, apparently he changed his name from Nostcadamus to avoid this kind of thing.

I think when he speaks about lightning he may in fact be talking about lightning, otherwise he would have referred to it as "electrickery" like catweasel did.

Gosh · 17-05-2006 06:14PM

growler wrote:

I think when he speaks about lightning he may in fact be talking about lightning, otherwise he would have referred to it as "electrickery" like catweasel did.

lol - come to think of it they both look alike ... if you google on Nostcadamus it asks you if you meant Nostradamus ... spooky or what

aidan01 · 18-05-2006 12:41AM

the blood of the fust will commit a fault in london ..... just as likely to have been the poll tax rioters of a few years ago
the old lady fell .... thatcher puched out of office

sorted

Help me with Nostradamus please!

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