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Mariajane asked:
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Who is Nastradomas? where could I get more information on him?
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Nostradamus was a "seer", i.e., someone who, for whatever reason, thought that he could know the
future. He wrote "prophesies" which lots of people think predict all sorts of future events.
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Look, before you get into that, please, PLEASE read the books:
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Shermer, M. (1997) Why people believe weird things: pseudoscience, superstition, and other
confusions of our time New York, W. H. Freeman and Co
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Hines, T. (1988) Pseudoscience and the paranormal: a critical examination of the evidence Buffalo,
NY, Prometheus Books
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"Prophets" of this sort have been around for millennia. People have "found" numerical "codes" in the
Christian bible which purportedly tell the future. Elves and goblins, pots of gold at rainbows' ends...
where do you draw the line, once you start on this?
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Look at the books above, which talk about evidence. These claims have been investigated, and when
they are, they evaporate.
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Think of it this way: wouldn't you like to be a god, seeing all, knowing all... or at least read the books
of a god? Hey, wouldn't we all? But wanting something and having it be true are two very different
things, I'm afraid.
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Steven Ravett Brown
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