Nostradamus: Century 10, Quatrain 49

[norml]

Century 10, Quatrain 49
Jardin du monde aupres du cité neufue,
Dans le chemin des montaignes cauees,
Sera saisi et plongé dans la Cuue,
Beuuant par force eaux soulfre enuenimees.

Garden of the world near the new city,
In the path of the hollow mountains,
It will be seized and plunged into the Vat,
Drinking by force the waters poisoned by sulfur.

[sasquatch]

1. That makes even more sense considering New Orleans is a French city

[no name no slogan]

2. Aw Jeex

[pitohui]

3. that sounds like a valley city near volcanic mtns to me

not a good descript of n'awlins at all

[BlueIris]

7. Hey, don't tell me that.

I live in the Willamette Valley (OR), near some volcanic mountain ranges.

[norml]

8. Hollow mountains could be volcanic mountains, and it does mention

sulfur.

[xmas74]

4. I don't "do" Nostradamus.

When I took French in school I chose to translate his quatrains as a project. I quickly realized that w/ the mesh of various languages, dialects, and overall quirkiness involved every quatrain could be translated whatever way the translator felt like at the time.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. The manipulation of ambiguous ancient writing sure an exacting science.

[carpetbagger]

6. Nah, sounds like a chemical leak in Jersey. n/t

[In_The_Wind]

9. Carpi Diem!

[moof]

10. Isn't there some ghosty forum here for this sort of tripe ?

Hey, norml do us all a favor and go back to that stack of poorly written swill and tell us what the next disaster he has predicted
only this time, BEFORE IT HAPPENS.

[sasquatch]

11. Nostradomas wasn't the only one that predicted that disaster

[ironflange]

12. Absolutely!

So did PBS, Scientific American, Popular Science (or Mechanics, not sure). . .

[Archae]

13. "Predicted" after the fact, you mean.

For a number of years, my neighbor and I would buy tabloids with their "predictions," then a year late go through them.

After the obvious ones were taken out, ("There will be trouble in the Middle East,") and the ones so vague as to be impossible to understand and could fit nearly anything, you know what their record was?
Zero.

Even Jeane Dixon did *NOT* predict JFK's death, like she later claimed.

And that Sylvia Browne is simply a fraud.

[HawkerHurricane]

14. There's a group out there that does exactly that.

Keep track of psychic predictions. They provide grades based on quality of prediction ("there will be trouble in the Middle East" would get a low grade) and accuracy.

Nobody has ever hit a real one. Did any psychics predict New Orleans destroyed by hurricane?

I didn't think so.

(Why don't we ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?)

[NMMNG]

15. You really could dig a passage out of nearly any old book

and use it as an example of "prophecy" of a current event. It doesn't make it so.