Mray3460 said:
Nostradamus, a sixteenth century apothocary whom many consider to be a profit, left behind a book of illustrations linked to some of his quatrains indicating that 2012 was near the end time. I say 'near' the end time because the illustrations are only a marker for his traditions. The story goes that he had these pictures created because A. He'd seen that our time communicated better through images than words (T.V., Movies, Video Games) and he thought that we would better understand his predictions if the more important ones were illustrated and B. That after making his predictions of the end time, he realized that he'd have to give a specific moment so that we could prevent it, so, in the pictures, he gave clues to the aforementioned rare astronomical alignment as being the sign to watch out for (An alarm, if you will. I.E. the alignment itself is not the cause of the end of the age, but a warning of it).
Nostrodamus also predicted that there would be a "great treasure" under a tower in the southern french city of Nîmes, after considerable digging a 17th century noble had exhausted his entire fortune and nearly destroyed the tower due to the subsidance caused by his massive hole. Nothing was found and the hole remains to this day, albeit with a large concrete plinth in it designed to hold up the tower.
Nostrodamus was one of those people who made alot of predictions in a very vague manner, make enough predictions vaguely enough and of course you're going to come up with something that "comes true" eventually. It's like those people who believe in the "bible codes" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_codes). Given the length of the bible its unsuprising that some fairly arbitary computer programming can find predictions to random events. Using the same or similar software similar "codes" were found in the novel "Moby Dick".
I'm not saying nothing will happen in 2012, that would be a stupid thing to say, it's a year, alot can happen in a year, alot happened in the years: 1989 (Fall of the Berlin Wall), 1990 (Fall of the USSR), 1992(Black Wednesday plunges British economy into chaos removing Britain from the Exchange rate Mechanism), 1997 (Tony Blair wins the Brithish General Election), 1999 (Conflict in Kosovo), 2001 (Twin tower attacks), 2003 (Start of the Iraq war) just to arbiarilly pick a few years from my lifetime and name an event from them.
