Baba Vanga (Баба Ванга)
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The "prophecies" of Nostradamus and Baba Vanga were so vague and unintelligible that they could reasonably refer to anything. Furthermore, people have heavily adulterated Nostradamus's words to make it seem like he predicted specific events. After the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, for example, several "spooky" Nostradamus predictions began floating around that spoke of "metal birds" or "steel birds" crashing into "giant statues" in the "land of york". Problem is, Nostradamus never wrote any of that. Many of these so-called predictions were doctored by people who had the benefit of hindsight to make it seem as if they very closely predicted the 9/11 attacks. They did no such thing.
Bottom line: you can take the incoherent ramblings of a self-designated "prophet" and use them to predict anything, provided they're vague enough. If, heaven forbid, something disastrous DOES happen in 2010, you can bet that the Nostradamus and Baba Vanga apologists will be quick to show exactly when and where either of those "prophets" predicted it. If nothing major happens, then they'll simply shift their predictions to 2011. It's all creative interpretation, unscrupulous editing, and cherry-picking, my friend.
In order for me to be convinced of a "prophet's" reality, that person would have to make very specific predictions that he or she would have no way of knowing and which couldn't have simply been guessed. For example, claiming that there will be a great war in the 21st century is a a no-brainer. For one, how do you define a great war? Furthermore, wars happen all the time. I would be more impressed if the prophet said that there would be NO wars in the 21st century and if that came true!
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