My Opinion

[El Morgan Stern]

Ok, so this is my first time using this forum and it seems pretty cool i suppose... anyway, to get to my point, i was DEEPLY concentrating on the book 1984 and i felt my mind wonder off into thinking whether Orwell might have been a new age Notradamus... I'd say his research of the past and and present(during 1948) was quite correct on what we might be experiancing today. You can tell that he was correct by the things he describes as not being exactly the we live in today, but maybe one of the most educated guesses you could have found (if looking for one that is). The way he describes the monitoring that occurs and what we thought was a life law of free speech that does or does not happen, whichever way you look at it, makes me think a lot. His accuracy of how we are watched ALL the time EVERY-time we turn around is appalling because whether you believe it or not we are, ourselves, being watched by either security cameras, or a tracking device for our cell phones, etc., etc., etc... But what you have to stop and ponder is if you think this "monitoring" is violating the right to your own privacy and that is what is enabled in the book 1984. If only we could live a day in the way those people did. Thinking every single minute of every single day if there are hundreds of thousands of people thinking the same thing you are thinking or if... maybe you are the only one out there thinking beyond what Big Brother TELLS you to think... its quite remarkable actually and i plan on posting more every week about this. Thanks and goodnight.

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[HehBubawatchis]

There is no way that Orwell can be compared to Nostradamus. Nostradamus was a man that predicted certain future events, like 9/11 and the destructions of the earth. He looked to experiments that can be considered witchcraft. For example he would pour hot lead into a bowl of water and then through the results he would make predictions and spin out dates. Orwell was a man that looked at the past and compared it to his present time. Looking around at the changers and the direction at which he felt things were going he made predictions and created warnings for future generations. What they predicted was different and how they came about their predictions were totaly different, what they had in common was that they were both brilliant. I also think more people look to Orwell for guidence instead of Nostadamus. Dont get me wrong Nostadamus did brilliant works, but what im saying is that he and Orwell cant be compared.

[XXdarkclarityXX]

Orwell looked at the clouds, but Nostradamus made his own.

[starrwriter]

Orwell looked at the clouds, but Nostradamus made his own.
Nostradum predicted the world would end in 1999. The last time I looked it was still here.