For the tinfoil hatters

[GreenPartyVoter]

The prophecies (or not) of Edgar Cayce: (Interesting stuff on the Middle East, but not much detail.)

http://www.near-death.com/experiences/cayce11.html

[Archae]

1. Cayce was a nutcase.

To put it mildly.

(Gee, I'm skeptical of these "prophesies," whoda thunk it?) :-)

http://skepdic.com/cayce.html

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. I stumbled across it looking for maps

I recalled seeing some maps on Discovery channel (TLC? Something like that) of areas that would potentially be submerged in the future according to Cayce and Nostrodamus et al. I'd forgotten about that show til I'd read some of the articles about the possibility of the oceans rising in the nearish future.

[Archae]

5. The biggest problem there...

It's called "shoehorning."

It's used by "prophets" or their followers all too often, and Cayce is no exception.

It's when the guesses by the "prophet" are played up, that are vague enough to fit an event, and all their screwups are ignored.

There are two main professions that make their living by "predicting" the future legitimately, stock brokers and weathermen.

How long would either of those stay in business or employed, if they were dead wrong 95% of the time, or more?

[WoodrowFan]

4. great link thanks..

Why ANYONE takes these bozos as being anything other than funny lunatics is futher proof of the weakness of our educational system..

(from the link on Cayce)
He used this "knowledge" to predict that California will slide into the ocean and that New York City will be destroyed in some sort of cataclysm. He predicted that in 1958 the U.S. would discover some sort of death ray used on Atlantis. Cayce is one of the main people responsible for some of the sillier notions about Atlantis, including the idea that the Atlantaeans had some sort of Great Crystal. Cayce called the Great Crystal the Tuaoi Stone and said it was a huge cylindrical prism that was used to gather and focus "energy," allowing the Atlanteans to do all kinds of fantastic things. But they got greedy and stupid, tuned up their Crystal to too high a frequency and set off volcanic disturbances that led to the destruction of that ancient world. He made other predictions concerning such things as the Great Depression (that 1933 would be a good year) and the Lindbergh kidnapping (most of it wrong, all of it useless), and that China would be converted to Christianity by 1968.

[parasim]

2. Wasn't he in Skull and Bones?

As good an explanation as any...

[NMDemDist2]

6. but the 3rd antichrist?

The Nostradamus quatrain above describes a "king of the Mongols" which may be a reference to the final "antichrist" of which Nostradamus named three of them. They are: "Napaulon Roy" (Napoleon), "Hister" (Hitler), and the final one Nostradamus named is "Mabus."

(d) Why did Nostradamus use heavy symbolism?:

Nostradamus was clever enough to give us the names in a way that we could recognize them without him actually naming them. In his day, the penalty for being a prophet was death. This is why Nostradamus cloaked and scrambled his prophecies in symbols and anagrams so that they can be hidden but still deciphered.

(e) Nostradamus names the third antichrist:

The identity of "Mabus", the third antichrist, has baffled many Nostradamus buffs. Many current world leaders have been suggested to be this "Mabus." The identity of this antichrist may become known someday soon - who knows?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. Mabus=Ma Bush?

hmmmmmm?