More paranormal references:
"ET IN ARCADIA EGO" (I am also in Arcadia) is an enigmatic latin phrase that appears in a few places, most famously on a painting by Nicolas Poussin. It is supposed to be a clue in the Rennes-le-Château treasure (A hoax admitted by Pierre Plantard, years later), but living in "Acadie", I just could resist linking the two things together, even if it didn't make any sense!
Aparently, people who believe in the Oak Island money pit couldn't resist linking the two things either...
The writing on the tomb is a mish-mash of a few phrases from Nostradamus' famous quatrains.
I don't really hate the guy. If anything, the way people match his centuries to various events in history is a pleasant game of poetry. What worries me is the "Antichrist" not because he can be real, but because if you read a book about Nostradamus that was made around 1980, the antichrist was Ayatollah Khomeyni. If you read a book made around 1991, the antechrist was Saddam Hussein. Fast forward to a book written around 2001, the antichrist was Osama Bin Laden and a few years later, when public opinion shifted against the actions of the US government about Iraq, suddenly, the Antichrist (or "MABUS") became George W. Bush...
Starting to see a pattern here?
The real power of the centuries of Nostradamus isn't really bout predicting the future, it's about all of the propaganda that has been made out of it. That is very real and very dangerous. Things that we would consider outrageously islamophobic today have been written not so long ago, using this guy's writings as justification.
"ET IN ARCADIA EGO" (I am also in Arcadia) is an enigmatic latin phrase that appears in a few places, most famously on a painting by Nicolas Poussin. It is supposed to be a clue in the Rennes-le-Château treasure (A hoax admitted by Pierre Plantard, years later), but living in "Acadie", I just could resist linking the two things together, even if it didn't make any sense!
Aparently, people who believe in the Oak Island money pit couldn't resist linking the two things either...
The writing on the tomb is a mish-mash of a few phrases from Nostradamus' famous quatrains.
I don't really hate the guy. If anything, the way people match his centuries to various events in history is a pleasant game of poetry. What worries me is the "Antichrist" not because he can be real, but because if you read a book about Nostradamus that was made around 1980, the antichrist was Ayatollah Khomeyni. If you read a book made around 1991, the antechrist was Saddam Hussein. Fast forward to a book written around 2001, the antichrist was Osama Bin Laden and a few years later, when public opinion shifted against the actions of the US government about Iraq, suddenly, the Antichrist (or "MABUS") became George W. Bush...
Starting to see a pattern here?
The real power of the centuries of Nostradamus isn't really bout predicting the future, it's about all of the propaganda that has been made out of it. That is very real and very dangerous. Things that we would consider outrageously islamophobic today have been written not so long ago, using this guy's writings as justification.
Here's an example of something kind of poetic and entertaining, but the "villain" at the end just makes you roll your eyes.
...it has Orson Welles in it, though!
...it has Orson Welles in it, though!
