A few questions on Nostradamus?

Question

Why do you think his predictions are written in such cryptic language? Do you believe his prophecies are or ever were relevant to events of the past, and our future? If you believe so, why is it that he has written so many prophecies, yet so few of them (compared to everthing he's written) are relevant to actual world events? If you believe the contrary, what is your opinion on everything he has predicted and later found to be true; is it cioncidence?

Answer 1

The reason that Nostradamus wrote in such cryptic language it the Catholic Church. Remember that he wrote at the time of the Inquisition. People were put to death for lesser infractions. How does anyone explain what Nostradamus wrote? Unless he could explain his writings as being divinely given, then he woudl have been labeled a heritic or a worlock for being able to see the future and killed by the Inquisition. With the cryptic language which he wrote, he coudl always leave open to reader interpretation what he wrote to be free from the Inquisition. Their is also the problem with him not having known about some of what he wrote about. How does someone from his age right about Airplanes flighing into buildings? (fire over the new city and the twins will fall)? He had to write in cryptic language either because he had no other way to describe what he was fortelling or he had to protect his own life from the Inquisition.

Answer 2

Well put it this way. Suppose that you woke up this morning with visions of the future. You now know the truth about everything that happened in the past and all that will happen on a big scale for the next thousand years on the entire planet. You for example could see the many political mistakes made by governments and their results. What do you think you could say about them ? Suppose you were living in a communist country. Suppose you were living in your actual country. Do you think you could go around trying to point out their mistakes to them? Only if you had a death wish. Would they listen to you? Dream on! First of all such a view would immediately teach you better. You would understand that when one pushes against anything, one attracts more of it. It is like a poker player with a bad hand continually bluffing other poker players with bad hands. In the end, even though he might win the odd pot, he loses everything including his shirt.
My opinion is that Nostradamus would have had to be cryptic, not only because of the inherent danger in telling what he saw, but he would surely understand the futility of pushing against.
Why did he write anything? So that you and others might at some time ask your question. So that you might question your programming. So that you might make the effort to wake up. It is all a loving being can do for others.

Answer 3

Well, to tell the truth, perhaps it may be coincidence. I say this purely out of what I've read. At school, we're studying the 8th book of Herodotus' works, and at some point he mentions a prophecy of old. Our teacher informed us that this prophecy may have not even been told at the time of the specific event he was reporting, but rather it was so vague that it could easily have been one of the older prophecies, that someone remembered and simply applied to the specific event. All I am saying is that perhaps we too are matching up older prophecies with events that have occurred recently.

Answer 4

Sometimes things are shown to us in dreams, visions etc.
Not everything makes sence or that you expect them too.

I have writen things in half dream like states and gone back later when i have woken fully, still searching for the meaning of what i have writen.

Sometimes visions and dreams can be past and some can be furture. it isnt always a rule of thumb. (well not in my case).

I have dreamt my furture (10years of it), i didnt like the outcome so i woke myself from it and told people around me(friends etc).
even though my dream was not blow for blow excacty as i dreamt it, there were alot of sign posts along the way that joined them up. Why didnt they match? - well because i still have free will. to make choices in life.
and i believe this is the same with nostradamus.
WE know what can happen, but if we go on another path sometimes it wont turn out that way.

maybe it might bounce back to the end product a few times but if we keep making our free will choices it will change world events.

Just my ideas.
BB. ALD

Answer 5

I don't believe in him at all. i think he basically based his prophecies from the bible.

I don't believe anyone can tell what can happen in the next 2000 years. You have to be a God to do that Even people who are gifted with the ability to foresee things can only predict at some limits or extents like time frame for instance.

Answer 6

As an impressionable boy, I saw a short-subject movie (one- or two-reeler) about Nostradamus, which was so enthusiastic about him that I bought it completely and wondered why he was not more recognized. According to the movie, he predicted the death of a king in a joust, and predicted the NAME HITLER, as well as events of the second world war.
He actually won fame in his time, for predicting the death of a (French, I think) prince or king in a martial contest. As for Hitler he misspelled it as Hitner, which it turns out was the name of a river in his time. Ha ha. When I first read his poems, I thought to myself. Is THIS it??? None of it made any sense to me at all. You have to make an enormous effort to find any meaning at all in his gibberish. But the same is true of any modern-day idol, isnt it?

Answer 7

I think there may be something to it, however as you say they're written in cryptic language that's difficult to decipher. Because it's vague & poetic rather than literal & specific it's easy for people to twist it around to mean whatever they like. I think you just have to take it with a grain of salt, like horoscopes or any other vague reference to the future. There may be something to it, but I wouldn't rearrange my life based on it!

Answer 8

The mind is a powerful thing in our lives. At night on a clear night sky! Space is like the mind of time. Not everybody is born with that gift. There's a saying that babies have this kind of gift. like seeing angels, scents good and evil. threw times pastes it go away. To some it hunts them, Like with Nostradamus spirits that stood with him telling him threw the eyes of what they saw in the future. Strange right.

Answer 9

you can predict a thousand times one way or another some will hit a jackpot,,,,some of my predictions
if you didnt look after your self you will got sick
if you dont stop drinking you will get sick too
if you stop being sociable you will lost some friends
if you didnt study hard you will fail in the school
in another 500 years pollution will take over us
in another 500 years traffic will come very bad

Answer 10

I am not sure, but I am absolutely convinced that the prophecies of scripture are

1) not vague, and
2) absolutely true

The point is that God has already told us what we need to know. If we reject His Word, then no matter where we look for truth, we will be lost.