2007-09-09 13:38:58 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
absolute garbage
2007-09-09 13:42:00 · answer #1 · answered by tasty 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I have studied his quatrains and can tell you that they could be interpreted in such a way that makes it seem that he had predicted events. Also, many of the predictions attributed to him are nothing more than hoaxes. For example after 9-11, it was widely reported that Nostradamus predicted it with this quatrain "In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb",
The third big war will begin when the big city is burning"
- Nostradamus 1654
The problem is Nostradamus never wrote this.
2007-09-09 20:45:45 · answer #2 · answered by Pangloss (Ancora Imparo) AFA 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I used to be fascinated with his "prophesies". Then I did some research. I found that he wrote in code, wasn't very exact. We can put almost any situation in those quatrains and make the out come to be anything that we would like. Also, of the many thousands that he wrote, there is a very small percentage that seem to be true. He isn't all that he is cracked up to be. Then I started in on Bible prophesy. I have found that each and every prophesy written in the O.T. came true in the N.T. These are clear, concise, and to the point prophesies that can't be misconstrued as anything but. There are hundreds of them that were fulfilled by Jesus Christ alone! There are also many more that will come to pass as written. I believe this because the Book hasn't been proven wrong in thousands of years, so why would it be wrong now!
2007-09-09 20:50:57 · answer #3 · answered by michael m 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure one of his predictions was that the world would end either on or before the year 2000, but in that same year a book was in the stores and the title was, Nostradamus, predictions for the millennium and beyond. something like that anyway. now that's a contradiction.
2007-09-09 20:46:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anyone who makes thousands of predictions is bound to get a few right. Nostradamus did get a few right. Very few.
2007-09-09 20:44:52 · answer #5 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He was a philosopher and astrologist in his time...like many others...
In our days scientists predict too...what will happen to the people, what will happen to the flora and fauna, what will happen to the sun and sky, etc...but we believe them.
Nostradamus made many predictions open to interpretation....many might look similar with real life facts...but then again it might just be the way we see things..
I can't say his prophecies are real...but I can't say they're not....just because I haven't read them all.
2007-09-10 05:15:35 · answer #6 · answered by AlinutaUK 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His prophecies are too generalized and he didn't give exact dates. What good is a prophecy if you don't know when to duck?
2007-09-09 22:46:20 · answer #7 · answered by humanrayc 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are not prophecies,
More like the thoughts of a fool wrote large.
2007-09-09 21:26:33 · answer #8 · answered by wolfe_tone43 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hi
Too close for comfort, I had a clairvoyant friend who predicted that Russia and China would be joined with a middle east country to cause the next threat to world peace, anyone noticed what Russia's been up to lately? (watch this space).
Ray. West York's. U.K.
2007-09-09 21:23:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The first extremely good con artist. The funny part is how people say that he predicted the future, and still does. Then why can he only predict things that have happened?
2007-09-09 20:47:30 · answer #10 · answered by x2000 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A bunch of writing , so vague it can be interpreted in any way the reader wants to do so....Prophet? I don't think so. But he was a master at writing....everything open to others agenda...so much so, it seems he is a brilliant prophet, when in fact, he was a brilliant writer.
2007-09-09 20:42:42 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋