I have a weird addiction to the History Channel. I must not be the only dork out there who has this same addiction, because as far as I know the History Channel does pretty well. I'm not that big of a dork to keep the station afloat myself.

Don't judge me. History is cool!!!

I didn't begin this to defend myself about watching the History Channel. I began it to tell you that we're all going to die horribly painful deaths, and it's going to happen a lot sooner than you think. We have about four years left to enjoy ourselves. 2012 will be the end of all that is good, fun and awesome in the world. *If you believe that* Did I scare ya?

I didn't just come to this conclusion by hitting buttons randomly on a calculator and staring at the sky while predicting oil prices in comparison to my mom's menstrual cycle. I watched the two-hour-long special on Nostradamus's' Lost Book last night. The show should have been about half as long as it actually ran, but the last 30 minutes of the show gave me Goosebumps and did cause me to think a bit.

According to some crazy predictions made using the center of the galaxy and the orbits of the earth and sun, Nostradamus predicted that the earth would end anywhere from 1998 to 2012. I wouldn't really be too stressed out about it, except that the Mayan Calendar ends abruptly at the year 2012 too. Edgar Casey also predicted many things that Nostradamus did too. Coincidence? Who knows?

It was interesting to see how the Church, Numerology and Astrology all play a part in these predictions. All three faucets of *beliefs* have quatrains about the exact same thing. Of course, the Catholic Church keeps most of their things under wraps; Nostradamus was a churchman and not all about numbers and astrology. He included all three into his predictions. Even 500 years later his predictions on anti Christ, which he has three and predicted two of the three as Napoleon, and Hitler who is the third? Osama? Could be.

Personally, I am not one to lean to the churchy side of things or leaning towards the “astrology” side either, even though if I am bored I will scan my horoscope that is always wrong btw. However, I guess seeing all three faucets put together in quatrains were interesting since there was no separation of the three.

I sat down today and read some copies of Nostradamus’s book, the actual excerpts that are translated to English, they are riddles said in a way you wouldn’t really know what he is talking about until AFTER the event has taken place. They showed future predictions, which they can’t, translate well due to the fact they don’t know what his “vagueness” to people and places really means. But if you go back and read the past ones, since they already happened, seems pretty clear.

Of course, there was also skeptics. Always a skeptic in the crowd. I am usually this person, but try to keep open minded to such things. I believe in coincidences, but sometimes when there is many with one person, makes ya wonder.

Anyway, just my thoughts overall on what I watched on the History channel. They had 3 last night, all that was so interesting I didn’t even watch my normal shows. So what do you think, is it fact or fiction?

Tags: The Lost Book History Channel Nostradamus