Nostradamus did not write the quatrain that was widely attributed to him in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Those looking for the certainty of a Nostradamus prophecy come true have been known to sledgehammer the results to force a fit by inventing fanciful translations from the original French, bending over backwards to assert one named term is really another, and (as in this case) outright fabricating part or all of a prediction. Not that this stops anyone from believing in them our society's need for mysticism runs far too deep to ever allow for that. These predictions can often ring somewhat true because the images employed are so general they can be found in almost every event of import, but by the same token the prophecies are never dead-on fits because the wordings are far too general. The French physician and astrologer Nostradamus (1503-1566) penned numerous quatrains populated by obscure imagery that the credulous have ever after attempted to fit to the events of their times. The third big war will begin when the big city is burning"
"In the City of God there will be a great thunder, It was the fears of that second group that were given voice in a supposed Nostradamus prediction that was circulated on the Internet even before the dust had settled in New York: For others, it spelled the beginning of the end as they equated an illusion of safety with its reality and felt their world was ending. No longer would Americans presume safety in a precarious world.įor some, that realization was an eye-opener, unsettling but necessary, in that a child's blissful unawareness had been replaced (at great cost) with an adult's more clear-eyed view of the world and its sometimes horrifying ways. The 11 September 2001 attack on America destroyed not only the two World Trade Center towers in New York City, a chunk of the Pentagon in Washington, and caused untold loss of life it also shook America's sense of invulnerability. The turmoil of the events of 9/11 had us all scrambling, some to look for solace and meaning, others for the terrorists responsible, and yet others for signs that what happened could have been prevented or at least foreseen.
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