發信人: DavidChiou@Lion (邱大剛), 信區: BudaXfile
標  題: Re: 假預言 - 紐約被火燒
發信站: 獅子吼站 (Tue Sep 18 13:48:48 2001)
轉信站: Lion



    此假預言的破解可見 http://fury.com/article/925.php
簡言之，諾氏預言原文根本沒這句。

As your prophecy-buster for the day, I point you to the Nostradamus/World 
Trade Center Meme. 

"In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart 
by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb" , 
"The third big war will begin when the big city is burning"
This pair of 'Nostradamus quotes' being propagated via email and web pages, 
isn't what it appears to be at all. On one hand, by taking two separate 
brief prophecies, one can form any kind of after-the-fact prediction 
that one wants to, magnetic-poetry-style, but more importantly, the 
first quote wasn't written by Nostradamus at all but was written five 
years ago by Neil Marshall [9/13: The site is apparently pulled down now], 
a Canadian high school senior in his Critical Analysis of 
Nostradamus [9/13: Google cache copy]. 

In his paper, Neil talks about the 'infinite monkeys principle'... 

"If I make say a thousand prophecies that are fairly abstract for example:
'In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Ch
aos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb'

and goes on to talk about all the ways his own example could be interpreted, bas
ically saying that of 1000 random prophecies like the one he wrote, some are bou
nd to come true. It's just amazing coincidence (or a great cosmic gift, you deci
de) that 
the single example he made up for his paper happened to be so appropriate today.
 

For those naysayers, note that (until today's blogs get indexed by Google) a sea
rch for 'brothers torn apart by chaos' retrieves only one entry, the paper menti
oned above, while an actual Nostradamus prophecy segment such as 'that which is 
enclosed in 
iron and letter in a fish' retrieves nearly 40, all from Nostradamus sites, seve
ral of which have the full translated texts. 

As for the other part, "The third big war will begin when the big city is burnig," well that doesn't appear on the web at all (again, until google indexes the new blog entries). 

It's just another urban legend, only operating on Internet time: Shaped, propagated, and publicly debunked, all on the very same day.

 
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