40 - Doomsday Drama! Nostradamus & Apocalypse Prophets

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 19 June 2017

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Did Nostradamus predict a series of major world events that would occur hundreds of years after his death? Did he know when the world would end? Or is it all just a bunch of ridiculous nonsense? Find out who Nostradamus was, what he predicted, what I think of those predictions and learn a little about what most doomsday predictions are based on and how many times doomsday prophets have been wrong the past few millennia in this apocalyptic edition of Timesuck! This episode of Timesuck is brought to you be Audible! Start a 30-day trial and get your first Audible book for free by visiting www.Audible.com/TIMESUCK

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0:00.0	I tell you that I have seen it thus.
0:03.1	There will be floods of such nature that no place on this world will not be affected,
0:07.2	and for a long time everything will be beneath the surface of water, and everything will be
0:12.2	destroyed with the exception of the weather and space.
0:16.1	After those floods such a great amount of fire of glowing stones will fall from the sky
0:19.9	that nothing and no one will be able to escape this last destructive firestorm.
0:25.9	Great flood, followed by a great storm of fire?
0:29.0	Who's this Debbie Downer?
0:30.4	Nostra Bummer.
0:31.4	Is this how the world is going to end?
0:33.4	Apparently Nostradamus thought so.
0:34.9	This is a translation of an excerpt from one of his letters.
0:37.3	While he's most famous for his prophetic quadrines published in Nostradamus' Less Prophecies
0:42.2	in 1555, he also wasn't opposed to throwing a little doom and gloom into a letter.
0:46.3	Who doesn't want to open up a letter to a little bit of fire?
0:48.9	A little bit of flood news.
0:50.5	And when did you think the world was going to end this way?
0:52.6	Some interpreters think that the end times are upon us right now.
0:56.7	Should we be worried?
0:58.2	Did Nostradamus actually predict the end of the world?
1:00.8	Did he successfully predict anything?
1:02.9	Has anyone ever successfully predicted the future?
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