Is Nostradamus' prophesies for real or a ridiculous myth?

Answer 1

Its hard to tell.

Its like a fortune teller they give you a generalisation like your going to meet a tall dark man.

You go on the bus to work everyday, you work, you go shopping, eventually you are going to run into a tall dark man right?

Nostradamus is the same. I would love to believe hes for real! But I believe more in that they use generalisations that affect everyone on a day to day basis. When these things happen the believers are skipping around saying I told you so but before the prophet told them about the vision that person had already come into contact with the same situation before and had never bothered to notice because its only just been made aware to them.

Answer 2

I've read a few books by "experts" on Nostradamus. And even the experts disagree on what some of his poems represent. In some of the books you can read Nostradamus' 14 line poem, and then there will be 5 pages from the author trying to convince you that some obscure reference stands for some big event that happened 150 years ago. It's a bunch of crap. You could probably predict the future better with a deck of tarot cards.

Answer 3

Nostradamus was a real prophet and prophesied through his knowledge of astrology. Many of his prophesies have already come through such as his prophesy of the beginning of World War II, although some have not come true. I guess no one is perfect. That is why I believe that prophets exist, but I don't hold my breath until their prophesies come true.

Answer 4

Just as information. My brother and I are very inquiring minds and don't take anything lightly, we go deep with research before accepting stuff. Our researches a few years ago, led us to find that there is no reccord what so ever of Nostradamus before 1940. We think, like the "journals" of some so called important people, they were totaly fabricated. If anyone of you wish to search, you must go deep, talk to people in europe and so on, but there is no reccord of him existing at all under either names: Nostradamus, or de Notre Dame. There are no prophets by that name or any written stuff of any kind before 1940... Another human scam to make people not believe in God...
That is what we found.

Answer 5

Although you will get people who believe that everything he said has come true or is going to come true, what he actually wrote was so vague that it would be a miracle if we couldn't find events to match them. Everything is easy to predict in retrospect. If he really did see the future, why didn't he just come out and say it straight? And please discard that stupid email that went around after 9/11 claiming to be his predicition of the event - he didn't even write that. Go to www.snopes.com for this and more claims about Nostradamus that have been proven false.

Answer 6

i understand some Christians who're very fascinated in Cayce and Nostradamus. besides the undeniable fact that, i'm no longer awaiting sainthood lawsuits for any of the figures you've named. In maximum denominations, they're seen faux (or defective) prophets. besides the undeniable fact that, that does no longer mean that they did no longer have moments of inspiring Christians (convinced, even Rasputin), or putting forward issues that proved to be properly faster or later.

Answer 7

I Perdict a hurricane very terrible will happen to Florida withen the next 20 years! J/K. He left his prophesies open for anything to happen how hard is that i just did it now!

Answer 8

Well, do you believe in divination? I suspect that the latter portion of your question indicates an inherant dis-belief in divination.

All beings are capable of communication with Divine Energy, however one may define THE DIVINE. However, all beings are not open to such. E.g. Some folks have intuition, and others close themselves to it. And, in many instances, those with the greatest inclination toward reception also share a disability in other areas. Much like those who are blind have a propensity toward greater hearing capabilities.

Nostradamus was a physician of his time, who was far ahead of his time. He preached cleanliness to combat what would later be deemed bacteria. Furthermore, many of his propehsies fell in line with other prophecies from other cultures, oceans apart from his homeland of the European continent.

His prophecies may be difficult to understand, as they are in rhyme, but his concept of how to deal with the Beubonic Plague of his time were remarkably 'on track'.

Many would argue that his prophecies have proved true, in many instances. However, since they are cryptic and rhythmic, they have always been subject to interpretation. And, interpretation is fallible ... as man is fallible.

Do I, personally, give credence to his prophecy? Well, yes I do! He lived his life as a pauper ... was inclined to dispense his energy on the destitute and dying ... foresaw how to best prevent the onset of bacterial infection ... and desired to warn his descendents of peril.

Sounds like a pretty good guy to me!!! You decide.

Answer 9

The answer to this one is only within yourself.

Anyone can read a vague prophesy and say well, this happened and that is what this means so he obviously predicted it.

Answer 10

I could sit here and write 1000 things down and say they are going to happen. I bet some of them would. Less than 5 percent of what he said has really happened and I think any Joe Blow could do the same.