What is the level of accuracy of Nostradamus's predictions?

Answer 1

we're all still here...does that answer your question

Answer 2

The years 2007 through 2012 are explained in precise detail. Referred to by Nostradamus as the Time of Troubles, this period is full of war, despair, and evil, but also of hope and promise.

Well, I should says, nostradamus prediction has already been predicted in the bible a long time ago, and will surely come to pass without delay as prophesied in the bible.

Birth pain is now in progress and the level of his prediction is about the same as the time comes.

Answer 3

The older a prediction is, and the more language translations and interpretations it goes through in being transmitted from the originator to you, the more distorted it will be. A simple case of "whispers down the line," even if everyone tries to do their best. And many times, hidden agendas of the translators/interpreters get involved. Few forecasters of any kind have been subject to more of this distortion and speculation than Nostradamus, outside of the Bible itself, of course.

Still, there are some uncanny interpretations out there, and it is a useful mental exercise to examine some of them. Because what it may reveal is that Nostradamus perceived patterns in human behavior, and human responses to developments, that few others of his time did, and in fact his pronostications may have been pretty valid in places. I will not, however, attempt to put any score card on them, as I have not made such a study to any great degree.

It's neither "just luck or coincidence" nor yet "a miracle" when predictions come true. Sometimes it is this subtle ability to recognize underlying patterns and interpret from them. People who really make it on Wall Street are often that kind of predictors. There are also people who are able to perceive patterns far more complex and subtle than even the modern financial world. We sometimes call them wizards, or philosophers, and sometimes poets and sometimes saints.

Seer is a good word, because it implies nothing of the method or source of the Sight.

Answer 4

To be honest it depends who you ask. I recently watched a documentary that said all of his predictions have been tagged on to many things that have happened. One man who is a believer in nostradamus' prophecies put his reputation on the line by saying that he believes one of the quatrains point to an attempted assassanation of G W Bush. If he is right things look pretty bad after that including large scale war!

I see alot of people are quick to say that he has predicted the end of the world around the year 2000. Not true he merely predicts some serious problems starting around that time.

Answer 5

` How did Hitlers Germany do in WW11? Silly Nostradamus had the Germans down to win! It`s all a bit like religious predictions, ignore the glaring errors, invent another one a few years into the future, call the man a `visionary`, and wait for the next non-event. All bunk.

Answer 6

Well i remember as a kid thinking a nuclear war would happen in 1991 because he wrote:
" The end of the world will come, in 19 hundred and ninety one,
a great fire will rise from the east and destroy the world"
Naturally i assumed Soviet attack, then in 1991 after soviet threat was gone Sadam set fire to the Kuwait oil fields and sealed our fate as slaves to Global Warming (at the time they said one big volcano going off might be enough to start Climate change then he did that LOL) so i GUESS that was the great fire in the East.
And didnt he say the Anti Christ would be born from the Ashes of New York?
George W's career was born from 911 and he is evil.
I think he is right......and lucky for us we are too dumb to work these predictions out as of yet.

Answer 7

About 0%

Answer 8

Just be patient 2007 to 2010 is full of events. He said it will all start from Persia. If wrong news about Iran throwing a nuke at Israel continues Iran may well throw a nuke at Israel. This is what Nostradamus said and I believe in him. He was the Prophet of Disaster. Patience my dear just 3 years.... I don't wsh it but I do feel we are heading that a way!!

Answer 9

Since Nostradamus wrote in rather vague mystical language, and it is necessary to interpret the language, and further, there is the drive in the human mind to impose order on chaos, the predictions can be wrestled into meaning nearly anything the mind wants them to mean.

In and of themselves, they are nonsense, but we humans, longing as we do for patterns, impose meaning upon the nonsense, hoping that it will not only explain our future, but reassure us that the future can be determined.

Answer 10

To para quote him "men with pig like faces flying machines in the sky talking to people far away"
now take a look at a pic of early fighter pilots they wore a mask remarkably similar to a pigs snout !
i think perhaps he is often taken out of context BUT HOW could someone who lived in a time when flying was simply never even considered a possibility come up with such uncanny but accurate ideas . i suppose doubt is his own fault because if he had visions of the future they should have been in technicolour with subtitles stating what everything was called and showing the dates and all other relevant info .
please note that if indeed he did have accurate visions of the future it would have been impossible for him to understand them , the fact that he recorded them at all is remarkable as it might very well have caused him to be marked as either a lunatic or a witch , the cure for both problems was death in those days .

Answer 11

Not all that accurate. We're still waiting the end of the world that he predicted in 2000!. and quite a few other things have been proven wrong too. Now as for Mother Shiptons prophecies.......thats worth reading!