World War III starts in 1999

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World War III starts in 1999
March 8, 2009
Dylan Otto Krider
Examiner.om

For people of a certain age who were babysat by the wonderful new invention known as HBO, there are certain shows we watched on rotation through the summer: Rocky III, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Beastmaster. Many of us got our first taste of the paranormal through an engrossing documentary on Nostradamus called The Man Who Saw Tomorrow. Anyone who remembers this documentary had the stuffing scared out of them.

After quite convincingly laying out the remarkable track records of the prophet's prognostications, it then showed you the disasters in store for us in the coming decades.

What it turned out to be, however, was a lesson in how to judge claims of foretelling the future. Anyone can read remarkable predictions into vague translations in retrospect, but the only way to test someone's ability to foretell the future is to... well, test how well it foretells the future.

This is why I always look at what a psychic predicted last year, rather than what they think will happen now.

This documentary is the perfect case study. Host Orson Welles first gives us all sorts of interpretations of things Nostradamus predicted that came true in the past, but it is when they predict the future that things fall apart.

For instance, reading the writings of the same man, these experts determine Ted Kennedy would become President and a catastrophic earthquake would hit LA in 1988.

The best, though, had to be the man in the blue turban who started World War III that both somehow managed to include nuclear weapons and last 27.5 years (yes, years, not minutes).

Here's the clip from that part of the show: