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Nostradamus Predicts: Speaking Animals |
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This week's verse:
Quand l'animal à l'homme domestique.
Apres grans peines & saults viendra parler:
De fouldre à vierge sera si malefique,
De terre prinse & suspendre en l'air.
Translation for today:
When animals are domesticated
After a lot of pain and jumps they will start to speak:
The shock to the virgin will be so strong,
She'll be walking on air.
Meaning:
Wow! This one isn't easy, especially since I can't think of any animals that can speak. But wait! What about Koko the gorilla, and those chimps that are trained with sign language?
The "virgin" must refer to the scientific community, and those who see humanity not as a special species unique to Earth, but part of the continuity of all life forms on earth.
This quatrain refers to the current debate in American schools about "intelligent design". There is no prescription here, Nostradamus wisely doesn't point fingers, but who is "walking on air", and doesn't have their feet on the ground?
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