or do you think that his quatrains can be made to fit any event in history
2006-09-07 10:43:22 · 23 answers · asked by pebs 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Of course I do, I read them. They exist so there fore I believe in them. Do they predict the future No. As a matter of fact they have to be so twisted to have them come near the event you want them to that it is obvious that he should have stuck to being a doctor. One expert on these writings now admits to adding and subtracting words to clarify the meaning. All we need to make it complete is him to say that Nostradamus told him which words. I have to mention Hitler. According to some he was predicted in the quatrains. If you read the quatrain refered to as the Hitler quatrain you will find that He speaks of someone coming from a specific region on the Hister river. We are told that Nostradamus had to conceal the prophecies with this type of word play. My question is why hide something that no one would recognize if they saw it plain?
2006-09-07 21:03:11 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think he had some type of gift. And to hear Einstien say it..Time travel is possible. Maybe not for us as humans to hop in a machine...but possibly some other way to "see" the future or be able to trance and connect with future events. This also leads to alternate realitys...which is why, in my humble opinion, Nostrodomus has been able to predict certain events but not be 100% correct on his prophesies. He may have been seeing another reality, or using his imagination. But the truth is that he DID predict numerous events...too numerous to be coinsidense.
So my official answer is I believe in some.
Five and forty steps the sky will burn (New york is on the 45 par)
Fire approaching the large new city (obviously the New City)
Instantly a great thin flame will leap (the towers)
When someone will want to test the Normans (People attacking the states
I believe this one
2006-09-07 10:56:48 · answer #2 · answered by Answerman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not believe in such stuff. He predicted great difficulties in the 18th Century and some wild stuff for July 1999. None of it happened. Some charlatan tried to twist the July 1999 one to mean September 2001. He wrote in obscure laguage, and I see mistransalations of his quatrains to suit some idiotic prediction. "Hister" is in two quatrains, and con men say that's Hitler. One says "Rhine et Hister" and obviously means the rivers Rhine and Danube, for the Danube was called the Ister or Hister in ancient times. He is said to have predicted the 1666 Great Fire of London. The verse says " ...vingt trois les sixes". That doesn't mean 3X20+6. It simply means 23 the 6's. It probably refers to Catholic Queen "Bloody" Mary burning Protestants in groups of six. He just wrote about things that had happened recently in obscure language. He and the ones who make predictions based upon his works are frauds.
2006-09-07 11:50:57 · answer #3 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think this was a very gifted man. I think he did see some future
events and some things that happened in the past. I think that
any mistakes are in the interpretation of his prophesies. I also
think that no one can actually say exactly in what year something
is going to occur because theres so much of a non precise
calendar since the beginning of time. I heard dates of 2011 in
our future and whom has a future. I hope that these dates are
wrong.
2006-09-07 14:41:14 · answer #4 · answered by nemesis 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He did use specifics ,but they weren't applicable in his era. I don't believe in trying to use God as an excuse for everything. I'm not going to totally agree with the validity of his prophecies ,but I'm not going to close myself off to the possibility that it may be true. Some of the things he for told are a bit too matter of fact to be dismissed as coincidental farce.
2006-09-07 10:50:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont not believe in them at all. all of his statements were very vague and can be applied to anything, so if some event conveniantly happens that can be linked to something the nostradamus said, then it still isnt true......if he knew the future then why didnt he use specifics?
2006-09-07 10:47:07 · answer #6 · answered by jordanswiener 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, people find the info after the event happened and then assume it was predicted. He just got lucky.
2006-09-07 10:56:10 · answer #7 · answered by Jenn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some of his predictions are pretty specific and spot on. Others are vague and iterpretable to say the least. He used a lot of psychotropics and in some of his visions it really shows
2006-09-07 10:53:58 · answer #8 · answered by peter gunn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, the same way that i believe that a rolling football means that the Sun is going to rise tomorrow
2006-09-07 10:46:48 · answer #9 · answered by quest1494 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, becasue the world is still here and he predicted it would end a few years ago.
2006-09-07 10:48:55 · answer #10 · answered by Michael S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋