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Re: Fw: Scary prediction

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Subject: Re: Fw: Scary prediction
From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:51:32 +0100
In article <004c01c13c9a$ac10d920$af43e9cc@informatics.net>, BILL
McDEVITT <wmmk1@informatics.net> writes
>> A friend passed this out at church meeting last night.  It is a prediction
>> made by Nostradamus who was a physician and astronomer and lived
>> from 1503-1566 in France.
>>
>> "In the year of the new century and nine months, From the sky will come a
>> great King of Terror..
>> The sky will burn at forty-five degrees, Fire approaches the great new
>> city..."

We are in the second year of the new century.

>> "In the city of york there will be a great collapse, 2 twin brothers born
>> apart by chaos
>> while the fortress falls the great leader will succumb
>> third big war will begin when the big city is burning"

This turns out to be a hoax - it is actually a bastardised version of an
example, written in a Ph.D. thesis, of how to write a bogus prophecy
that will "come true".

Let's not add to the horror.

ATB
-- 
Mike
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in the Crimea"
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness_in_the_crimea.html

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