Are you Scared about the predictions of Notradamus?

Question

IS it crazy that I am obsessing over this? Do you think it is strange that I am scared to have children believing that if Notadamus is correct the world will end in 2012. Thats in 4 years. I cant eat or sleep. And not only is it a prediction by him, but Mayan Calenders stop on the same date. Is anyone else believe this and if not Please tell me why you believe different, I would really like some hope.
I just dont believe that if god is really the god of love, he would destroy the earth he created..I guess if you dont believe in god though, you would believe that it is possible. But this isnt about religion.

Answer 1

Very interesting question.
I personally dont think the world will "end" in 2012.
Now the mayan calendar does actually continue on after that, but its noted that 2012 is the end of this cycle. Example of a different "cycle" would be the dinasaurs era
But I choose to live my life to the fullest and enjoy the pleasure of my children instead of being afraid of the unknown. You should do the same, it will be much healthier for you mentally than freaking out for the next 4 years.

Answer 2

That's funny. The HBO special (produced 1978) claims Nostradamus predicted that 1999 will be the end year. In 2001, they made a second film using footage from the first to claim how all of the 1978 film's predictions had come true (hoping you had never actually seen it) and that he predicted 2005 to be the end year. That's the way these assmunchers work.

All I can tell you is that Nostradamus and the Mayan Calendar freaks are bullshitting you in order to scare you into buying their books/films/whatever. I can't tell you what to believe, but please promise yourself that when 2012 comes and goes and the world is still here, that you will remember how the mystics lied to you. They've been claiming The End Is Nigh for 10,000 years of human history, and we are still around.

Answer 3

Predictions always tend to wind up on some major astronomical date. Like 2012 for instance, the year the sun will be in line with the center of our galaxy. This happens once every 12000 years. The world is not going to end. I'm sick of all these mistranslations anyway. When predictions say the end of the age in Greek, or Latin, or any language other than English, translators here in America seem to always mistakenly put the word world in place of age.

Answer 4

No, I'm not scared in the slightest. I have no idea what the predictions are. Maybe you should focus on real things instead of some old, unverified prophecies.

I suspect 2012 will be a bad year hear in the UK as we are hosting the Olympics in London and we are rubbish at organising things - just look at the Millennium Dome or Wembley Stadium. How we got the Olympics is beyond me!

Answer 5

Sorry, but I'm more worried that Santa Claus won't bring me a new digital camera.

If you actually read up on much of Nostradamus' predictions, they're encoded. The accuracy of his alleged predictions has never been verified. People here stories of "he predicted this" or "he predicted that" and they never bother to check to see if it's real. The Psychic community for one have latched onto this premise of "alleged facts" and accepted them as pure gospel just as your doing.
The reality is if you do your fact checking you'll see much of it is bunk and such a waste of time it's not even funny.

Answer 6

Throughout the centuries, people have been saying that Nostradamus's predictions apply to their era of history. The current hoopla about him is nothing new. I am 55 years old, and he has been invoked so many times in my lifetime that I have come to think of his "prophecies" as part of the constant background noise in our culture, right up there with the latest miracle diets.

Here's one sign of something fishy: everyone seems to know about what others CLAIM Nostradamus said. How many of us have actually read the guy's writings ourselves? Or even know someone who has? (Reading a 'quote' in a doom and gloom article doesn't count.)

A friend of mine is fluent in Latin and actually has read Nostradamus's original writings. (Yes, he wrote in Latin.) My friend's impression was that Nostradamus was pulling everyone's leg. All his predictions were written in the vaguest possible language, so that people would be able to apply them to just about any event they wanted to! He was, apparantly, a prankster.

If my friend's assesment is correct, then the one prophecy of Nostradamus that HAS come true is his prediction, "Ha! This drivel I'm writing will ensure that people make fools of themselves for centuries!"

Answer 7

Nostradamus did not make any predictions. He wrote some interesting verses which other people claim to be prophesies. But those claims are made after the event happens. So they are not prophesies., because they don' tell anything specific about he future, only about things that have already happened.

Answer 8

How about you just live your life and don't worry about it. If the world ends, it won't matter if you freaked out about it the whole time or not - it's still gonna end. If it doesn't end, you've wasted years of your life for no reason. So how about we just move on and you can go about your business.

Answer 9

All of this is interpretation of his 'predictions' I have never given them a second thought.