Nostradamus for 2022

[Nemo]

Worth a read.  Starts with Inflation, starvation and cannibalism.  Along with crypto currency and all that other bad stuff.

Go read.  Be prepared.

Nemo

https://nypost.com/2021/12/27/nostradamus-predictions-2022/

Nostradamus predictions for 2022: cannibals, robots and the rise of cryptocurrency
By Reda Wigle   
December 27, 2021 8:00am Updated

As the year comes to a close, the news is getting grimmer, folks ? at least according to the prophecies of long-dead, divining daddy Nostradamus. The French-plague doctor, astrologer and seer published his famed and widely quoted book ?Les Proph?ties? in 1555. Chock full of poetic predictions, the book foretells the coming of wars, natural disasters, assassinations, nuclear attacks and revolutions.

Aptly referred to as the Prophet of Doom by his contemporaries, Nostradamus was far from sunny in his future outlook. Inspired by biblical texts and his own plague time trauma, his prose is heavy on words like pestilence, famine, blood, sorrow and fire ? and mostly reads like a bedtime story written by a Norwegian black-metal band.

Much like the high on fumes oracle at Delphi, Nostradamus? predictions are intentionally vague and open to myriad interpretations. For 2021 he alluded to the onset of a zombie apocalypse writing, ?Few young people: half-dead to give a start.? Bleak, right? Not if you consider the possibility that Nos was warning us young folk that we are not really living, man, but simply existing. More Matthew McConaughey pep talk than certain quasi-death, dig? He also prophesied that 2021 would bring about a world-ending asteroid that so far (she types with abject trepidation) has yet to make an impact.

So it is with a pocket full of dread ? and a thimble full of skepticism ? that we take a look at what that bearded harbinger of ruin forecasted for 2022.

Inflation, starvation and cannibalism?

Nostradamus predicted that inflation and starvation will befall us in 2K22, writing, ?So high the price of wheat/That man is stirred/His fellow man to eat in his despair.? An essential human truth is that people get hungry and then they get mean ? and with US inflation the highest it?s been in nearly four decades, Nos? warning proves, so far, so true. No word on whether the rising price of wheat inspired this guy or this guy to take a bite out of their fellow man.

AI becomes MVP

Nostradamus wrote, ?The Moon in the full of night over the high mountain /The new sage with a lone brain sees it /By his disciples invited to be immortal/Eyes to the south. Hands in bosoms, bodies in the fire.?

While easily confused with Bj?rk lyrics, that passage appears to reference the escalation of artificial intelligence. Cue Elon Musk, Time Magazine?s Person of the Year and an unequivocal alien in his own right, taking to robot-making and moving his headquarters south to Austin, Texas. Further evidence that man is destined to be overtaken by immortal machines can be found in the teachings of the aesthetic prophet Jared Leto.

Nuclear drought

The heavy hits just keep on coming. Nos? predictions are linked to astrological events more than calendar years and, for some time, devout doomsdayers have been awaiting a nuclear explosion that will trigger severe climate change. Based on this cheery passage, ?For forty years the rainbow will not be seen/For 40 years it will be seen every day/The dry earth will grow more parched/And there will be great floods when it is seen,? we can posit that droughts and floods of biblically punishing proportions are coming. Judging by this summer?s historic drought and the painfully parched conditions in Chile, said punishment may already be upon us.

Add to this the recent revelation that China is allegedly armed, dangerous and at the ready to launch a nuclear strike that could presumably cause cataclysmic water shortages. Thus far, our leading defense against drought appears to rest in the hands and nether regions of moisture-awareness advocates Cardi B. and Megan Thee Stallion.

Crypto, bro

In addition to forecasting inflation, Nos nods to the rise of cryptocurrency in the year ahead. As Yearly-Horoscope translated from the original French: ?The copies of gold and silver inflated/Which after the theft were thrown into the lake/At the discovery that all is exhausted and dissipated by the debt/All scripts and bonds will be wiped out.?

While Nostradamus? predictions tend to land more near the bank than on the money, gold is currently surging and a wave of Silicone Valley engineers and executives are leaving their high-level positions to join forces with crypto startups. Coincidence or prophecy confirmed? We wait with bitcoin and bated breath.

[JohnyMac]

Interesting. Good old Nostradamus. Well he is about as accurate as old JohnyMac. 

[RB in GA]

You made me think of these oldies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6PxOUYDDf0

[JohnyMac]

Awww yes, Al Stewart's Past, Present, and Future album.

I was given tickets to go down to the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, PA. to take a bunch of pics for the college paper I was working for at the time and a quick review of old Al when he was there. Gosh 1974/75-ish  Fucking AWESOME concert! Sorry for the vulgar use of that verb. Just nothing else could express that great concert.

Got a bunch of great pic's on my old Minolta 101 SLR motor driven camera- All in B&W mind you. Lost those negatives and a bunch more other concerts when Sandy lifted my house and tried to float us away to the the Rhode Island sound.

Good bong hits also behind the curtain too.   

 

[pkveazey]

I saw 2020 as an awful year. I saw 2021 as twice as bad. I see 2022 as total collapse and am preparing as best I can for it. I think we will see the Cities become centers of turmoil and lawlessness first and then it will spread out into the countryside. I also see new laws become so oppressive that people who want to survive will ignore them. The experts are claiming the monetary collapse will come in the 2nd half of the year. By monetary collapse, I mean Venezuala type inflation. I personally think that the experts are actually waiting to see the outcome of the 2022 Election results. If the Right bWing doesn't take total coltrol then we're Screwed Blued and Tattood. My plan, which may or may not work, will be to only use Barter, Gold, or Silver for transactions. When I see prices start to get completely stupid, I'll dump my cash for barterable goods and hope I survive. From a Biblical perspective, were screwed. All of what's coming is laid out in several books of the Bible.