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Post by Bing Gordon on Mar 16, 2009 23:11:14 GMT -4
Very interesting thread to read, especially with it`s twists and turns throughout the discussion, but if I may bring it back towards Nostradamus...
Please let me try the drugs Nostradamus was experimenting with... The 16th century had so many opiates and hallucinogenic substances introduced to European society which were all experimented with very thoroughly, not to mention the local "goodies" from his time....
Get me some of them and I will very gladly give you loads of predictions/prophecies, you will only have to wait a few hundred years to decipher my ramblings into something you want them to appear to say...
Any takers?
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Post by Count Zero on Mar 17, 2009 1:11:44 GMT -4
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Post by gillianren on Mar 17, 2009 14:14:00 GMT -4
Opiates were not remotely "introduced" to European society in the 16th century. They'd been used in pharmacopoeia for centuries.
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Post by Count Zero on Mar 17, 2009 14:22:10 GMT -4
They'd been used in pharmacopoeia for centuries.
How do you pronounce the "oe" dipthong in pharmacopoeia?
(I like learning new words!)
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Al Johnston
"Cheer up!" they said, "It could be worse!" So I did, and it was.
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Post by Al Johnston on Mar 17, 2009 15:08:40 GMT -4
It's "Pharmacopoeia" isn't it?
The oe is usually audibly indistinguishable from "ee", as in "oesophagus" or "esophagus" as it is spelled in North America...
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Post by gillianren on Mar 17, 2009 17:14:54 GMT -4
You're right, Al; it's what I get for posting annoyed. I've modified the post, which means modifying this one to mention it. It's an endless circle of modification!
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Post by Al Johnston on Mar 17, 2009 19:25:12 GMT -4
Just need to get the Count to modify his now... ;D
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Post by Count Zero on Mar 17, 2009 21:01:26 GMT -4
You are mistaken, citizen. My post has always said "pharmacopoeia". If you have any further questions, come see me in Room 101.
- O'Brien
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"Cheer up!" they said, "It could be worse!" So I did, and it was.
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Post by Al Johnston on Mar 18, 2009 6:00:08 GMT -4
Oddly, on my university metallurgy course, that's where they scheduled the maths lectures....
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Post by dragonblaster on Apr 12, 2009 4:47:42 GMT -4
Sorry to wander slightly on-topic, but I'd be very interested as to why people believed Nostradamus was so super-accurate before WWII and 9/11 and all these other spot-on predictions had been proven right. Could it be that they "incorrectly" interpreted them in terms of other things in their own times?
I'd be interested to see how the interpretations shift and get re-applied over the centuries... oops, sorry, Nossie in-joke there.
I love the idea that Nostradamus had to hide his predictions to avoid being burnt as a witch by being too obviously accurate. Why, from the safe vantage point of the 16th century, couldn't he put down something like "A man called Adolf Hitler will arise and take Germany into a disastrous war"?
How the hell would anyone in the 1500s know that was accurate? So what's with all the "Hister" bollocks?
Sorry... rant mode disengaged.
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Post by gillianren on Apr 12, 2009 15:11:12 GMT -4
And for heaven's sake, two minutes' look at his patron would dispute that idea!
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