--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "uns_tressor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > Nostradmus, although he definitely had some stuff > > going for him in the seeing department, was as > > paranoid as a long-tailed cat in a room full of > > rocking chairs. He believed (accurately, as it > > turns out) that the world was full of Inquisitors > > and schemers trying to get him condemned as a > > heretic. So when it came time to publish his > > quatrains, the well-documented story of *how* > > he published them was that he cut them up into > > two-line snippets... > > Where did your well-documented story come from?
BTW, I missed this before. T'would seem that Nostradamus did this (cutting his manuscripts into snippets and throwing them up into the air to randomize the order of them) before witnesses, several of whom were members of the French royal family, and who later wrote about what they had seen in the pages of history. It's pretty much accepted as the way things went down. It's why I have little interest in his works. There might have been value in the original, sequenced set of visions. But without that sequence, what you're left with is a random set of two-liners to figure out, none of which necessarily has anything to do with the two lines that precede or follow it. I think that "interpreting Nostradamus" is pretty much in the same ballpark as reading tea leaves in the bottom of a teacup. The actual pattern is random; people see in that random pattern whatever they see. Sometimes, the random pattern of tea leaves triggers some real seeing, triggers a true psychic vision. But most of the time people just see what they want to see. Or what they think the client is willing to pay for. The vibe I get on this new book is that it falls into the latter category; it's clearly pandering to the self-importance of a buying public living in these times, and wanting to believe that the Nightly News of those times was important enough to have been seen by Nostradamus centuries ago. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
