what do you think of his predictions?
2007-11-02 13:41:47 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
All of his his predictions are coming true
he said
the second world war will be fought with "iron birds and pigmouthed people"
iron birds: planes
Pigmouthed people: gas masks
he predicted world war 3 to start in the gulf ie usa and iraq
2007-11-02 19:42:01 · answer #1 · answered by fly_flow_ronak 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Nostradamus was a doctor/magus/scientist at a time when science and what we call magic had not separated into two different realms.
He experimented with a great many plants, some of which may have been hallucinogenic.
Fearing the authorities, he wrote his predictions in a dialect version of medieval French. The predictions are allegorical--which means they are open to interpretation.
Because his predictions are allegorical, and because there are reasons to question his mental state, I do not put much faith in anything he had to say.
2007-11-02 14:01:38 · answer #2 · answered by Silver 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not much. It's the same principle as modern horoscopes -- his predictions are so broad and open to interpretation that they can mean anything. At first glance a well-known historical event might come to mind, but you can make almost any vague statement and find a situation in the past to fit it.
2007-11-02 14:48:33 · answer #3 · answered by Mandy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Those predictions were written for the people of his time. He was anticipating events in the 16th century, and to make people take him seriously he needed some serious mumbo jumbo, cryptic, able to be interpreted any way one wanted, to have the princes take him seriously and pay him well.
2007-11-02 14:29:47 · answer #4 · answered by Cabal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't think they're real (at least not as a tool for predicting anything). I think people have put them up on the wall and drawn the target AROUND them, making them fit their interpretations.
2007-11-02 13:49:00 · answer #5 · answered by Resident Heretic 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
YES SOME HAVE COME TRUE AS IN THE KING IN A JOUSTING MATCH TAKING IT IN THE EYE . HE WAS ( NOSTRADAMUS ) CALLED BEFORE THE KING EVEN BEFORE IT HAPPENED , AND TOLD THE KING I JUST WRITE WHAT I SAW . THE KING HAVE BEEN WARNED HE WOULD DIE WENT AND JOUSTED ANY WAY AND DIED A VERY LONG AND PAINFUL DEATH .HAD HE TAKEN THE DAY OFF ,WHO KNOWS HOW LONG THE KING WOULD HAVE LIVED .
2007-11-02 13:58:49 · answer #6 · answered by D.C. 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
My thought -- Why have none of his predictions prevented anything??
2007-11-02 13:45:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
A joke
2007-11-02 19:10:37 · answer #8 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i think he was possessed by a demon.
my opinion
2007-11-02 15:30:22 · answer #9 · answered by Zorkmonkey 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋