If you look at the world today you could say he was right, there is just too much chaos going on. Yet, despite this, I am not sure predictions are good enough, everyone is to blame for our world falling apart. There are ignorant people out there who think they are better than everyone and force their beliefs on other people, then kill them if they won't believe. There are people with lots of money who never share it, yet complain about their tax cuts. There are hungry people all over the world, yet we here in the US are fat. And I can go on and on.
Americans are not the bad people, people all over the world make decisions to do bad to one another. If Nostradamus were alive today he'd probably have a best seller, yet I don't think it would be anything like his works of yesterday.
Finally, we can destroy one another regardless of predictions. People have the capacity for hate and greed and they will not stop until they are satisfied. That goes for anyone who kills another person (hate). Until we can all be strong and stand up and say "enough is enough," people will turn to predictions and prophecies to ease their pain.
Good question..
2007-09-21 01:37:32
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answered by accountrep2001 2
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He is known mainly for his "Centuries" that are collections of quatrains. These 4 line verses are badly mistransalated by frauds. I am French and know much Latin, so I know what the verses really say. One verse is said by frauds to predict the 1666 Great London Fire. A book my brother has transalates it as saying something about the blood of the just in London and 66. It actually says when one sees the original "vingt trois les sixes". That means 23 groups of 6, not 66, and certainly not 1666. It surely refer to catholic queen bloody mary burning 23 groups of 6 Protestants at a time. That was happening when Nostradamus wrote the verse, so he was not foreseeing anything. Two of his verses mention Hister. Frauds say that means Hitler. One of them says "Rhine et Hister". In the Greek tale of Jason and the Argonauts, he sailed down the Ister when he left the Black sea. Ister or Hister was an old name for the Danube River, and when it is mentioned with the Rhine, it is obvious that two German rivers are meant. I can give many more examples of frauds trying to make a 16th Century fraud into a prophet. Nostradmus wrote other verses. One said there would be very few people alive in the I8th century. A verse in "Centuries' is about the 7th month of 1999. He was quite wrong both times here. One fraud tried to say July 1999 meant 9/11/01. How absurd can these con men be?
2007-09-21 03:44:29
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answered by miyuki & kyojin 7
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No, they were very vague and open to a lot of interpretation. The future is not written in stone.
2007-09-21 01:35:38
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answered by GBOY 2
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I think they are very vauge and open to many interpetations.
2007-09-21 01:46:23
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answered by Miss 6 7
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its quite interesting but i dont believe it, too vague
2007-09-21 01:37:55
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answered by ? 4
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