posted on Dec, 4 2011 @ 08:54 PM
It's interesting of course and certainly worth reading. But as I said in another recent Nostradamus topic:
For information purposes:
www.propheties.it... (if a non-Nostradamus related page loads, just go back and press the "stop"
button at the top of your browser so that it stays on the Nostradamus Centuries page.)
At the above link you can see more direct and precise translations from the originals into English. You will find that the language becomes quite
different in many of the verses when compared to the sensationalized forms found in many popular Nostradamus books and TV shows.
Anything is possible of course. But in my opinion it is problematic to say the least to apply modern viewpoints, cultural contexts, and political
realities to the mindset that someone living in Nostradamus' time would have had and the realities of that era. We cannot simply take what was
written and adapt its wording in order to contort it into making sense in a modern context, and then suggest that this was Nostradamus' intent, in my
view.
I respect everyone's opinions and am not trying to accuse anyone here of sensationalism. I just feel this needs to be taken into consideration.
Just my two cents.