2006-11-28 23:18:03 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
No. Nostrodamus made hundreds of predictions in his lifetime and just the sheer number of them made it possible for a few to be right. We all could do the same thing: there will be three car accidents next week, an unusually warm day in January, a large earthquake in an underdeveloped nation in the next two years and a plane crash in 2007.
I just gave four examples of "predicting the future" and there's a possibility that at least one will come true. Doesn't make me a genius or fortune teller, just someone who knows how the world is these days...just like he knew how the world worked when he was around.
2006-11-28 23:30:30 · answer #1 · answered by gachickinaz 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't think his predictions are real. I once saw a show about Nostradamus on the Discovery Channel. It said that he had predicted the event of 9/11. But the show was broadcasted in 2003 or 2004. Why do they need to say that Nostradamus had "predicted" these events when it already happened?!
2006-11-29 18:52:20 · answer #2 · answered by 3lixir 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In order to keep out of trouble with the church by being labeled as a heretic, Nostradamus had to be very careful about his writings. As a result, he was very vague and selective about the words that he chose. Consequently, his writing are open to wide interpretation, thus being applied to a number of events that has happened in the past, or even currently. Yet, nobody has been able to use his documents to accurately portray the future. Only after an event has passed, do people associate a quatrain with an event.
2006-11-29 07:19:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you are interested in Nostradamus, there is this really great book called Conversations with Nostradamus by Dolores Cannon. Decipihers and explains the actual meanings of his quatrains, primarily dealing with the next 50 years of mankinds future on earth. He has come to warn us, prepare us for a long and painful struggle ahead. he decribes new "secret" weapons being developed. Which countries will be developed and more she actually has three of these books out they rock.Dolores Cannon is a past-life regressionist and hypnotherapist who specializes in the recovery and cataloging of "Lost Knowledge". and to answer your question yes I do believe in his prophecy
and more and more lately.
2006-11-29 15:29:47 · answer #4 · answered by Tracy.W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, because like all the others Nostradamus' predictions can be interpreted by the reader many different ways because of the vague way in which they were written.
2006-11-29 10:19:07 · answer #5 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously not because according the translations of the quatrains we would all be dead and in a nuclear war by the year 2000. Coincidence and similarities can be stretched a long way. Like statistics.
2006-11-29 07:27:22 · answer #6 · answered by bicentennialbuck 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to him, the end of the world was supposed to happen back in the 90s, I beleive...
2006-11-29 16:39:23 · answer #7 · answered by Fonzie T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i do. there is a video narrated by orsen wells called "the man who saw tomorrow".get it and watch it ,it is correct and even goes to the year 3037.
2006-11-29 12:11:11 · answer #8 · answered by smdglvr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. They are so vague they could be twisted to mean anything.
2006-11-29 07:34:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋