# Another Nostradamus prediction **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 16, 2000, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-nostradamus-prediction/45897 "2000-12-16T13:00:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AndyKeats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@AndyKeats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyKeats)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-nostradamus-prediction/45897/1 "2000-12-16T13:00:28Z")
I got this forwarded to me in email today: \> \> \> \> In 1555, Nostradamus wrote: \> \> \> \> \> \> \> \> Come the millennium, month 12, \> \> \> \> In the home of greatest power, \> \> \> \> The village idiot will come forth \> \> \> \> To be acclaimed the leader. Is this a real Nostradamus writing? Do we think it refers to this year’s election? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-nostradamus-prediction/45897/2 "2000-12-16T13:46:40Z")
Well, **I** think everything that starts with “N” and ends in “ostradamus” is pure and utter crap. But that may just be the skeptic in me 😃 I hear David B. is quite the believer, though. But he never comes here. I’m leaving this here for now, as I’m sure it’ll get butchered in GQ. So, people: share all you want. We won’t bite you 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Stupendous\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-nostradamus-prediction/45897/3 "2000-12-16T18:57:19Z")
[http://www.skepdic.com/nostrada.html](http://www.skepdic.com/nostrada.html) ---
**Author:** ![Pink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@Pink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pink)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-nostradamus-prediction/45897/4 "2000-12-16T19:31:59Z")
People who even discuss Nostradamus are idiots and losers. Of course, that’s just the kind of thinking we need to fill the supermarket checkout racks. ---
**Author:** ![AndyKeats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@AndyKeats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyKeats)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-nostradamus-prediction/45897/5 "2000-12-16T20:25:51Z")
Pink - FOAD Perhaps I should have posted this in general questions. I just wanted to know if this is an authentic Nostradamus writing or not. Couldn’t find it on any sites. I don’t believe in his predictions myself. I just thought it would be an interesting coincidence. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-nostradamus-prediction/45897/6 "2000-12-16T22:49:18Z")
People who discuss Nostradamus are _not_ idiots and losers. There’s a huge difference between _discussing_ and believing,\* Pink. Believing every word ol’ Nosty said is a sign that one’s neuron’s might be misfiring just a bit. But there’s no doubt that some of his writings are fascinating, and deserving of research and discussion. Me? I enjoy reading his stuff, and reading the research that’s been done. It’s interesting to see they myriad of takes on his “predictions.” Do I believe any of them? No. I think the great Cecil said it best when he said that one school of thought about the Nostradamus predictions believes that he “did for bulls\*\*\* what Stonehenge did for rocks.” ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-nostradamus-prediction/45897/7 "2001-01-03T02:00:48Z")
I’ve searched this site [http://www.astrologer.ru:8003/Nostradamiana/centuries-eng.html](http://www.astrologer.ru:8003/Nostradamiana/centuries-eng.html) Couldn’t find it anywhere on the site. It seems to be just made up. Which makes it as accurate as any of his real predictions IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Upham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Upham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Upham)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-nostradamus-prediction/45897/8 "2001-01-03T02:09:14Z")
I’m **SURE** he was talking about the American Election (i mean just because the Canadians re elected a jack ass this year, and we’re more north then you, and let’s not forget Putin in Russia) I’m SURE he must have been talking about the American Election. He also was dead on when he predicted a death bringing comet would strike the earth last year… good call spooky ol’ fenchman, good call. Upham ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-nostradamus-prediction/45897/9 "2001-01-03T02:27:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AndyKeats \* > **Pink - FOAD** Yeah, I know I’m two weeks late in spotting it. But that acronym would better _not_ mean what I **think** it means, **AndyKeats**. We tend to keep things civil around here. OK? ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-nostradamus-prediction/45897/10 "2001-01-03T02:46:12Z")
Eh, wouldn’t surprise me if that prediction came forth to be true. I guess we’ll just have to wait and find out. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-nostradamus-prediction/45897/11 "2001-01-03T02:51:03Z")
[snopes.com](http://snopes.com) doesn’t seem to think it’s real. In fact, [http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/stooopid/nostra.htm](http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/stooopid/nostra.htm) seems to fairly well refute it. UL. Feel free, however, to go buy a complete translated works of Nostradamus and drum up something. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-nostradamus-prediction/45897/12 "2001-01-03T03:00:45Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Pink_ > \*\*People who even discuss Nostradamus are idiots and losers. \*\* I greatly enjoy Nostradamus’ predictions and the analysis thereof. I also enjoy reading all about the “Paul is Dead” phenomenon.[sub]see Persephone’s response to the quote[/sub] So that makes me an idiot and a loser? Dear me. Pink, it appears I need your help. I don’t want to be an idiot nor a loser. Please enlighten me as to the proper non-idiotic, winning things I _can_ discuss. I don’t want to be stared at at dinner parties anymore. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-nostradamus-prediction/45897/13 "2001-01-03T03:09:53Z")
The older a prediction is, the greater chance it has of becoming “true”. And Nostradamus has been dead for a few years now. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-nostradamus-prediction/45897/14 "2001-01-03T04:28:20Z")
It’s pure and utter bullshit. Nostradamus never wrote anything stylistically similar to that. He was more of a vague, thousand-ways-to-interpret kind of person. Remember, when you get mass e-mails, there’s a very good chance that they’ve been infected with the “gullibility virus,” which leaves your hard drive in peace, but affects the user instead. Treat everything you read as if it came straight out of the Weekly World News, and you’ll be able to get drunk and pass out without fear of waking up with a kidney missing.