My wife came home from a babysitting job last night and asked me what I knew about Nostradamus. She saw a program on the Discovery Channel called “Decoding Nostradamus” and she said it talked about how he predicted 9/11 with some verse about two brothers and a city being covered in mortar.
I remembered the fake Nostradamus quatrains that floated around the internet after 9/11 that were proven to be fake (half created in 1996 by a college student as a demonstration of how vague language couched in symbolism could be interpreted in different ways, the other half created after 9/11/2001 by some anonymous prankster). I found the part about the two brothers in the original hoax, but she says there was also another verse about the city being covered with mortar that wasn’t in the original hoax. If anyone knows what that part was talking about, I’d like to know.
Anyway, why isn’t anyone doing fact checking for these programs? It’s bad enough that they are doing TV shows about Nostradamus, but it’s even worse that they are using verses that Nostradamus didn’t even write! It really makes me afraid for the future of this country that mystical BS like this is getting more and more accepted, and my wife is pretty upset that she was fooled by this program.
The History Channel is the Wikipedia of history. Sometimes you’ll find some pretty good information there and other times you’ll wonder how the hell they came up with that stuff.
After there is great trouble among marriagehood, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine, steel weapons and the dishes. In the cabinet, a fire seen.”
Resistance is Character-Formin, I was told in another thread that “I like to mock”, I’m not mocking you here… I’m just a smartass.
The funny thing is the above highly adapted quote is in truth a very vague version of an argument me and mine had. I thought it was hilarious. It wasn’t meant to mock, just…
An equally important factor is that, AIUI, for the most part these cable channels don’t produce their own content - they lease shows or programs that have already been produced. And many of those shows were being produced by people who have specific propaganda goals. I am inclined to believe many of them to be charlatans, who wouldn’t submit to actual fact checking, even if the various channels were willing to put into the effort for it.
So, it’s not simply a matter of what sells advertizing slots, but also what they have available from the marketplace to meet their prgramming theme.
