Ari Siletz

The Five

My dog, my cat, our two mice, and myself. My take is the cat will get them on Monday. The mice, I mean. 

Outta here, loved the blog. ;o)

PS. am very good with Turkish coffee cups, lol.

Wit or anxiety?

Are these really Nostradamus’s predictions or Ari’s nightmares? “Turkey will go Sharia”? Ari knows very well that Turkey’s eastward turn – a tactical move - has much more to do with its failure in joining EU, than with Islamism. However, he doesn’t mind making such a claim, particularly in the aftermath of the deadly raid on the Turkish aid flotilla.

“[T]he edict”? Since when the pact between two regimes, and not two peoples – as Fareed Zakaria put it recently – has become an “edict”? Edict by whom? And BTW, what is the likelihood of Egyptians replacing their current dictatorship with a government with the mandate to revoke the Camp David Accords? A snowfall’s chance in hell is my answer.

The Western “technology and financial system will no longer rule the world.” Whose “technology and financial system” will replace them, Ari? He is right though when he writes, “But remorse is for losers who listen to political analysts on CNN, and BBC.”

Ari, you all are much better than me in the funnies, but

Ari, you all are much better than me in the funnies, but here is a site with a bunch of Chinese cookies jokes that you may be able to transpose

//www.thefamousquotations.com/browse/funny-fortune-cookie-quotes-756.htm

For example, from the site:

"I didn't say it was your fault. I said I was going to blame it on you."

"I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."

transform to, e.g.:

I couldn't fix the country, so I made Mullah's horns louder.

Ye, I know; LAME

Thanks Rea

Here's the Nostradamus prediction for Monday (he gets Sundays off): "The forest around the Five will shrink before the roaring beast." My take is that the Pentagon is having its lawn mowed on Monday.

Ari, with due respect

It is a well known internet hoax, N. Marshall. It's not even a quatrain.

Nostradamus never wrote anything of the sort, in either of the languages he'd used in his so-called prophecies: medieval French, Provençal, Latin, and Greek to a lesser extent.

It's all superstition

or khorafat. But a level or two better than believing in healing miracles from some emamzadeh in some obscure place in Iran. Note that I said just a level or two better.

Some replies

Some specifics:

Rea: Nostradamus did predict 9-11. "In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb." It can't be any clearer. The fortress is the Statue of Libery which was not hit, and the great leader who succumbed was Saddam. And they say Saddam had nothing to do with 9-11!

HG: Hafez's best prophecy for Iran. Resid mozhdeh ke ayyaam gham...

DM: JJ moves around too much in the world and even Nostradamus couldn't get a fix on him.

Souri: Happy Birthday! I will always love you too.

MM: Fortune cookies, is a great blog idea. Do you have some in mind for Ahmadinejad, Obama...?

SamSamIIII: Nostradamus is always best when served fresh and hot. Would never serve his guests chaii brewed in 1919?

Nostradamus , my interpretation of his hokus pocus

 From Egypt there will go forth a man who wants the edict withdrawn, changing money and standards

 If anything to interpret this hocus pocus why not consider Egypt 1919 great popular revolution which led to Egypt total independence, via the British Edict granting sovereignty to Egypt, changing of the money & standards ?. Brilliant haa ;)? or better yet how about Egypt's revolution of 1952... :)Yet if one might want to inject Israel or neocons into everything then all be it, different folks, different strokes. cheers!!!

Path of Kiaan Resurrection of True Iran Hoisting Drafshe Kaviaan //iranianidentity.blogspot.com //www.youtube.com/user/samsamsia

Prediction is easy

I normally suck my finger and then keep it above my head to predict the future, and it does wonder. Thanks for your intelligent analysis Ari, I just wish and hope that you and Nostradamus are wrong and we have seen the last of the resurgence of medieval religions.

alimostofi

I wonder if Nostradamus knew where the Adriatic sea was, let alone made any prophecy.

In case you can't locate it:

//media.croisiere.net/fr/images/villes/151-sp...

Cheers. ;o) 

Why not look at this one as

Why not look at this one as well. Scroll down to number 86:

//www.nostradamus.org/q_en_c2.php 

Wreck for the fleet near the Adriatic Sea:
The land trembles stirred up upon the air placed on land:
Egypt trembles Mahometan increase,

The Herald surrendering himself is appointed to cry out. 

Ali Mostofi

//www.alimostofi.com

Ari, I'm with you so far, But

I see Dem Now and underground sources in your future, rather than Fox (even though I got the pun:). Very Enjoyable blog, Thank you.

Let's Rock This Joint!

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkQYbIc6zUw

Seriously, Chinese fortune cookies r much better predictors!

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Monday morning quarterbacking is very easy

It would have given Nostradamus a lot more credibility if his followers actually came out and predict the events beforehand!  Or any other even, for that matter.

Dear Ari

I don't have much time now, but very fast and hastily:

Nostradamus was not even known worldly before the 90's. Those who had previous plan (political ones) made him known and built some interpretation of his predictions, to make people (the more naive ones :)) believing that things will happen due to the faith and destiny.

In fact, the same people (CIA) are continuously creating propaganda and rumours about some other predictions of Nostradamus, but I don't believe a word of that. Because the ones who have the most predictable truth, are the ones who have plans for the future of the world.

I believe more in "Angles and Demons" than in Nostradamus predictions which are mostly ambiguous and not clearly detailed. I had read a book about Nostradamus predictions in the 80's when I was in France. Nothing really objectively significant.

I may be back to this trend later. Have fun :)

BTW: You didn't greet me for my BD, why? LOL

Doesn't matter. I will always love you :)

AH

I hate to get off track here and derail this blog...

First : Propose a Good size mehrieh for the Magasak and rest-assured he will put his tail on his kool and leave you alone for good. Problem solved!

Dovomandesh.. Arz shava ke.

Given Mr. Comrade's Knack for such professionally confusing comments. I think you are right on the money on this one.

But. Think about setting Up a huge, I mean Megasize Dowery when gets down on one knee for you.

Raoul

So therefore...

I am inductively reasoning and deductively and logically conclude that You are wrong pal. :)

Just you wait and see...

Ok Rea, I will promise that...

That even if I will elope, I will not empty my husband's account. Actually, presently there is no husband. Albateh dar shahr peeshnehadatee boodeh such as one from Marhoum Kharmagas. However, I am afraid if I accept his proposal, he will comment that my acceptance of his proposal has been the first smart decision that I have made in my life. The relation between my comment and Ari's blog is that many events in life happen when you least expect them and sometimes events don't even happen. If this comment is confusing, blame it on the fact that I have read too many comments written by comrade.

i don't know about you ari

i don't know about you ari but i get all my prophecy needs from hafez.

Doctor mohandes:

Postdiction is when some folks begin deciphering the so-called 'predictions' after the fact.  LOL

Well, [it is] not possible to see into the future although one can use deductive logic based on inductive reasoning to 'predict' that if a muslim majority nation adopts 'democracy' that it [the muslim nation] becomes a repressive and oppressive society...

Anahid n Dr Mohandes

In French they call it: "après-coup".

Whenever one of our neighbours eloped with another neighbour empting her husband's account, my late grandma used to say she'd known it all along. 

Ari Jan

Any predictions on the fate of JJ and IC and what all of these events' impact will be on them?:)

I am sure The admin is eager to know.

Anahita khanoom

Maan.. I can not relate to that scenario more. Absolutely agreed. Seen it sooo many times.

Raul

Post-diction? LOL .

Amazing

Except that Nostradamus never predicted anything, least of all Sep 11.

PS. Lot of things circulate on the net. But the number of adherents doesn't make it true though.

Great read Ari

And what about the British & Freemasonry Connections? //iranian.com/main/blog/all-iranians/muslim-brotherhood-egypt-and-iran

Wonderful piece!

I enjoyed reading it.
The guy seems to have post-dicted lots of events.  LOL  Otherwise one has to believe in a steady state universe where all events have been predetermined by some dude up in the sky.  :-)

Thanks Ari, very interesting blog.

This reminds me of one of my relatives. After some events would happen, she would say that she had had a dream about that and would go on and detail the dream which was related to the event. However, it never occured that she told us a about a dream that she has had and based on it, she will think certain events would happen. It was always after the fact. In any case, predictions are only good if you can use them to clearly say what will happen in future. I predict couple Arab countrie will have their government changed in the next year and in Iran, Ahmadinejad will lie about how great economy is.

Brilliant!

The most highly intelegent piece of wirting I have read here in the last..., well, in a long time.  You are a clever man!  Your wit is exceeded only by your intelligence.