Answer please
2007-10-28 17:41:06 · 23 answers · asked by Mike 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not a one. It's all humbug. It's just like the so called 'psychics' of today, but only on paper. Any vague references can be interpreted by people who are LOOKING for a meaning.
2007-10-28 17:43:13 · answer #1 · answered by FRANKFUSS 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Considering the fact that a number of his predictions concerning events that wouldn't take place for several hundred years after his death have already come to pass, it seems obvious to me that at least those predictions were legitimate.
Predictions are forecasts of future events. Nobody is 100% accurate every time they open their mouth, or put a pen to paper.
I'd say he's at least as accurate as your local meteorologist. And, the only people who have a right to call anyone a fraud are those people who predict future events with 100% accuracy.
His preditions were written in a complex format, to prevent understanding by rulers of his day, because making predictions was illegal. They are puzzles, created by a brilliant man. And, because they are puzzles (with no answer in the back of the book) written in ways that only brilliant minds can decipher, it takes brilliant men to figure out what they mean before the event, and less brilliant men to interpret what they mean after the event. I suggest you get your hands on any one of several documentaries about Nostrodamus, and you'll at least be able to judge his track record for yourself.
2007-10-29 01:03:28 · answer #2 · answered by teaser0311 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I just watched a show on the History channel about this..that's pretty freaky. I don't think I believe it...if somebody back in the 1600's could predict this stuff, why can't anybody else do it now? That's all I'm saying...
2007-10-29 00:44:42 · answer #3 · answered by brittanyuhl9 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO!!! I lived in AZ and waited for CA to fall into the ocean. I sat outside in a lawn chair and shorts drinking beer thinking we were gonna have an ocean and that people were gonna float by and I was gonna grab all thier wallets. NOTHING HAPPENED!!!!!! What a bummer day that was. So much for get rich quick schemes.
2007-10-29 00:46:02 · answer #4 · answered by shootit247 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nostradamas was SO vague that he makes Chloe look like a precision instrument. Maybe Nostradamas can be reached through the Psychic Hotline, whaddya reckon?
2007-10-29 00:44:19 · answer #5 · answered by Marc X 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
is this cause of the show on history channel? anyone can predict the future say something very vague that most likley will happen and when it does ppl will fill in their own predictions
2007-10-29 00:51:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
In HS (around '92 or '93) we watched a video about him in history class - in my diary that night I journaled the things I learned. So far 2 things that *I* know of have happened SINCE I saw that. I kept my diaries from my youth & look through them occasionally.
I just watched part of the special on the history channel - I think there's enough info to help us believe.
2007-10-29 00:45:49 · answer #7 · answered by mkt 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. Anyone who makes thousands of predictions is bound to get a few right, just by the law of averages. Those who believe in him point to the few he happened to get right, and just ignore the hundreds he got wrong. And most of those they say he got right really require a stretch of the imagination to connect what he said to what actually happened.
2007-10-29 00:42:54 · answer #8 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes very much so.Out of all the people who have predicted stuff his is more accurate and in time with the bible than any others
2007-10-29 00:44:13 · answer #9 · answered by Wanda D 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. ppl can misunderstand their visions besides only the Almighty knows the time when this system of things on earth will end. Even Christ didn't know when it would end so why would god give that knowledge to nostradamus.
2007-10-29 00:45:51 · answer #10 · answered by BklynNative 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋