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Nobody would argue if we denote Usama Bin Laden(UBL) as the King of Terror.
Therefore "From the sky will come a great King of Terror" can be regarded as the description of 911. I think most of people would agree with me.
originally posted by: Shoujikina
That's the problem with Nostradamus' predictions - they're SO vague, and so 'cryptically written', further messed up by interpretative translations from some ancient french or whatever, that you can't use them to predict future, you can only use them like faulty puzzle pieces to force them to fit what has already happened, and even then, it's never a perfect, tight fit.
They're so symbolic, too, you have to really dig deep to be able to say 'yes, he predicted this', and even then, it's interpretative and foggy.
I have to admit he almost got Hitler's name right, and THAT is pretty interesting a detail. However, most of it is just hindsight .. "ooh, he meant THAT event by saying this king would rule!"
Yeah, you can just pick and choose and make it fit almost anything if you search and interpret hard enough. Even if he -really- did predict the future, those predictions are still useless, as you can never know what he meant until after it has already happened, and even then, it's not 100%. So you are left with cryptic verses that are nonsensical until something happens, and then you can do this pick-n-choose game and prove.. nothing.
originally posted by: Paperjacket
Nostradamus may have predicted 911 precisely in his Les Propheties.
Century X, LXXII
The year 1999, seventh month,
From the sky will come a great King of Terror,
To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols,
Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.
Nobody would argue if we denote Usama Bin Laden(UBL) as the King of Terror. 911 was indeed an attack from the sky. Therefore "From the sky will come a great King of Terror" can be regarded as the description of 911. I think most of people would agree with me.
The final sentence "Before and after Mars to reign by good luck" is also easy to understand. Before 911, the US had begun air strikes against al-Qaeda bases in countries such as Afghanistan and Sudan. After 911, the War on Terror defined an era of continous wars.
The first question, however, is that 911 happened in Sep. 2001, not Jul. 1999. The apparent difference hurts the credibility of his prophecy. But this is one of few quatrains he named a specific year. Why would he take this risk? As we know, some of his quatrains were about one incident, some were about an era. Maybe there were something in Jul. 1999 related to 911. According to "911 commission report", The original idea of using plane as a weapon to attack the US came from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed(KSM), the idea had not raised UBL's attention until the end of 1998. UBL then met with KSM in the spring of 1999 for several times to discuss the possibility and in the fall of 1999, four terrorists had begun their training for the mission. Therefore we can come to the conclusion that sometime in the summer of 1999, UBL made his important decision to attack the US using planes. Maybe Nostradamus tried to tell us that it was July 1999.
Still, why Nostradamus wrote down "To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols"? Does it have any relationship with 911? No, I don't think it has any direct relationship with 911, but it represents one of the most important characteristics of the era after 911 and we may say it is one of the major results of the War on Terror: the rise of China. From 2001, China has got an opportunity to gain support from the west by supporting the wars. By the time when Xi took the power in 2012, China has become the second largest economy in the World.
Yes, UBL made the critical decision in the summer of 1999
Yes, 911 did happened
Yes, China became another superpower
Yes, The war continued for decades.
Nostradamus DID predicted 911 and the aftermath.