is Nostradamus's book telling the truth?

Answer 1

No, most of it is so ambiguous that people just read whatever they want to into it.

If you are inclined to believe in such things you can always find them if you look hard enough. Like horoscopes, or people who believe there is a secret code in the bible.

Answer 2

Who knows? The problem is that Nostradamus wrote his 'quatrains', four line poems, containing his prophesies in code so that he wouldn't be arrested and burnt as a wizard. The 'interpretations' are, themselves, interpretations of what the quatrains mean and have been fitted, retrospectively, into many subsequent occurrences. The ones that cannot be adapted are said to relate to things that haven't yet happened. Nostradamus came to prominence in the 1930's when Goering convinced Hitler that the prophesies included the Germans conquering the world. One of the prophesies mentions 'Hister' which Goering assumed meant 'Hitler'.

I, personally, have read all of the prophesies in the translation and book by Erica Cheetham, which also includes his life story. Nostradamus wrote in a mixture of French, Provencal (a French dialect), Italian, Greek and Latin. I have not found any evidence that any of the prophesies particularly came true although in those times with conflicts between France, England, Germany and Spain commonplace it is simple enough to ascribe subsequent wars as having been predicted.

I think we should take his prophesies with a large pinch of salt. As Nostradamus predicted the end of the world in 1999 following an attack on the west by 'little yellow men from the East', and we are still here, then I think this is a good indication that he was wrong.

Answer 3

Nope. He was writing for his contemporaries, all the allusions to Eagles, bears, kings of the west etc had local meaning irrelevant today. And a lot of the things attributed to him are phony.
Why, you should ask, are new books about him, new prophesies, published every few years, after all the old ones have been quietly forgotten? In the late 90's, there was a plethora of Nostradamus books predicting the end of the world at the millennium. It didn't happen, and now there are a new set gobbing on about how he predicted 9/11 etc - all retro-fitted, of course!

Answer 4

Nostradomus's book is akin to the book of Revelations in the bible. It can be interpreted however the user wishes.

Nostradomus was into opium heavily, as was Joseph Smith, the founder of the LDS church. If I was doing opium I could predict the future and start a new religion also. Think about it.

Answer 5

No. You can make the quatrains fit absolutely anything you like.

The same can be said of so-called codes in the Bible. There was once a study done of "Moby Dick", which also found codes in that. It's simply humans searching for meaningful patterns where none exist.

Answer 6

Nostradamus was so ambiguous there's no way to know what he was saying. He was just another selfish jerk who invented another quasi-religion for his own benefit. There's a million of em.

Answer 7

Through various interpretations, the world should have ended several times by now. Answer: NO, written so that you can predict through it, and then make excuses when the event doesn't happen. GARBAGE

Answer 8

you can write a book about the future and people can pick thing out and make you believe want they want,I trust the bible and only the bible

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

It's uncertain.
It's all just what he see, what if he commit mistakes.
So we must not rely on it too much.