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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (6904)7/13/1999 9:23:00 PM
From: Level Head  Read Replies (1) of 32885
 
Where can I learn more about this? I've never quite understood the whole mystique.

There are many good books on Nostradamus (I did finally learn that the pronunciation was not 'Nastydumbass'...). He was a most clever individual, which is generally true of successful psychics. It is not true of the unsuccessful ones, as I believe you are aware.

Where to start? Perhaps James Randi's book on Nostradamus would be a good thorough treatment:

"The Mask of Nostradamus : The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer" from Amazon.com

When exploring a topic worth investing some time into, I tend to read many books on both sides. For example, "Six Viewpoints", a case study of UFO encounters by supposedly unimpeachable sources and heavily in favor of alien visitation, was illuminating in how transparently it suppressed and altered information to get its points across. It is enough to convince one that there is nothing to the UFO business but human gullibility, which was the opposite of its intended goal.

I am fairly good at hearing both sides of a story from one narrative, which makes political speeches and even advertisements more interesting.

I can perhaps answer questions for you on Nostradamus or similar topics, although perhaps we should haul this off to another thread. At least, this is the sort of thing that Silicon Investor is very good for.

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