Is this really true?

[Donald M. Lance]

Not to worry.  Numerology aside, the millennium really began 4 years ago (or is it 5?)
because Dionysius Exiquus failed to count the 4-year reign of Octavian and failed to
include a zero.
DMLance

Alice Faber wrote:

> RonButters at AOL.COM said:
> >Does anyone know if the following is really true? (I realize that we are not
> >historians of prophecy, but I don't know where else to turn!)
> >
> >>> In 1555, Nostradamus wrote:
> >    >> Come the millennium, month 12,
> >    >> In the home of greatest power,
> >    >> The village idiot will come forth
> >    >> To be acclaimed the leader.
>
> There's been a lot of discussion of this in the past week or so on
> alt.folklore.urban, most of which I haven't paid a lot of attention to; my
> impression, though, is that it's at best misleading. Folks were looking at
> various web sites and unable to find transparent year references anywhere
> in Nostradamus. There was another alleged prophecy also referring to the
> son of a leader (and fearing something from France also) that was equally
> debunked.
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