Do you believe the Nostradamus prophecies?

Question

i watched the Nostradamus lost book on the history channel and it said he preditced the apocalipse in 2012, what is your though on this?

Answer 1

Nope. People have been taking his vague poetry and stretching it to mean all kinds of different things, including past end-of-the-world predictions that obviously never came true.

Answer 2

Back around 1997 or so, everyone was talking about how Nostradamus predicted the world would end in 1999 or at least how the beginning of a cataclismic war would begin in 1999. It did not happen. However, in 1999 people began talking about how Nostradamus predicted that the year 2000 held unprecedented horrors. That came and went and nothing happened.

Now someone has attached the Mayan calander thing to Nostradamus. This one will come about like all of the end of the world prophecies before it. January 1, 2013 will come around and the end of the world prophecy people will scrounge up another prophecy.

Answer 3

The orbital precession of the earth and it's postion towards galactic center were known both to Mayan and European astronomers. A very signficiant event such as the line up of the two--not surprising that date was noted as a beginning or ending point with attendant prophecy. In watch it did you notice that the kennedy assasination, the twin towers, Hitler--all could just have easily been interpreted as someone else. I'd predict that if I threw a ball up in the air in a ball park full of players--someone will catch it.

Answer 4

He also predicted the end of the world when I was in the 7th grade, and guess what, we're still here. If you ever look at the large number of books that he wrote, each full of prophecies written in quatrains and poetic form you wouldn't take too much stock in what he wrote. I could write the same amount that he did, in the same way he did, and someone could come along and make my writings fit the circumstances too, but that wouldn't make me a prophet.

Answer 5

Although I did not see the tv program, I read a few of his books. Most of his predictions are convoluted and open to interpretation. No, I don't believe him or any of the many versions of his works that people have attempted to translate.

Answer 6

No...most of them are really vague, and only given importance after some event resembling the prediction has happened

Answer 7

Yes. But that's only because I had my brain transplanted with a pumpkin.

Answer 8

no