What do you think of Nostradamus?

Question

I've been watching a TV program about him. I find it amazing he came so close to predicting Hitler and the 9/11 disaster. Was it just coincidence?

Answer 1

i think we're missing alot of the picture.... alot of 'his works' in la prophecies (or whatever) were done long after his death... so we don't even really know if these works are in deed his or just someone else adding on to his ideas.

'His poetry, in a form called, 'Quatrains,' is very interesting. But as a psychic and prophet, he was nowhere near as consistent nor as accurate as was a certain 20-Century phenomenon known as, Edgar Cayce.

Almost predicting Hitler and the 9/11 Attack, well I'd heard about the Hitler one, but as for the 9/11, it's not hard to go back to the writings, after the fact, and draw up apparent similarities.'

you do realize the edgar casey made predictions that didn't come true either right?

i agree nos' predicitons are written in a very vague style... but you can't descredit a prophet just because it didn't come true....

that was very long ago... for all we know, nos did just as many readings and had just as many correct as cayce.... time has a way of erasing history (just look at the maya.... pretty much forgotten until a pyramid was discovered deep in the jungles nearly about 400-500 years later....)

lik ei said, i think there's alot missing, and some has evidently been added on.... but of all the prophets and psychics in recorded history, he is STILL one of the greatest....

regaurdless of how his prophecies are written, his ideas do indeed suggest he had some uncanny ability to see the future.... back then almost anyone would have picked their words carefully so there couldn't just be one interpretation.... back in those times, that was grounds even for a beheading (providing false information, claiming to have powers to see in the future and then get the future wrong etc)

besides.... the king and the golden visor... we KNOW this is his work, and look at ASTONISHINGLY accurate it is... this one isn't written so much in code that it could be construed to fit the readers intent (and the person who ended up readining, the queen.... wasn't ever even suposed to know he wrote it... his journey when she summoned him was a dreadful one, he was surely reporting to her to be beheaded...) although that's not what happened, she believed his prophecy and it genuinely worried her... she actually begged the king NOT to carry on...

and what happened? exactly what his prophecy said..... like i said, this one is more on the specific side, sure you could construe meanings here and there.... but the event that eventually DID happen, is proof he must've had some way to see in the future, it's too precise for him to of just gave a vague prophecy and have someone else find where it fits.

Answer 2

This "prophecies" are so general, they can be related to most anything. Like for example, when he's talking about some "great war", he could be talking about any future notable war...which will inevitably happen...  

Answer 3

he is pretty nuts. and if his nuts theories continue to come true, the universe will end on December 23 2012

Answer 4

yea it prolly was

Answer 5

A lot of people have deciphered his quatrains. Each one coming with a different result. You have to find a program that offers different points of views and not just one. I seen about 3 Nostradamus documentaries and each one has a different take on his quatrains.

Answer 6

Nostradamus did not foresee this answer.

Answer 7

Well his so-called 'prediction' for July of 1999 never came true, did it?!!! He's a crackpot.

Answer 8

His prophecies are not even agreed upon by people who study them.  We can put bits and pieces from different centuries and quatrains together and make them seem to mean whatever we want, as they did with that silly email that was sent around after 9/11.  That was all hashed together from his different prophecies.  I looked up his prophecies when I received the email right after 9/11 and found that it was a mishmash put together from different parts of his prophecies.

"Nostradamus Predicted the Terrorist Attack on New York-Fiction!

Summary of eRumor

An eRumor is circulating that quotes what it says are predictions of the famous 16th century astrologer Nostradamus that seem to anticipate the attack on New York by terrorists on September 11.   The prophecy is said to have referred to the month and year, the location, and a reference that could be interpreted as referring to the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York.

  

The Truth

Nostradamus experts say this not accurate.

Part of the eRumor seems to be based on a writing of Nostradamus that goes like this:

"At forty-five degrees the sky will burn, fire to approach the great new city: In an instant a great scattered flame will leap up, when one will want to demand proof of the Normans." (quatrain 6-97)

There is no reference in the original writing to the place called "york" and no reference to "the year of the new century and nine months."  

Other parts of the eRumor seem to be based on the following text, "In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn

apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb."

That quote is not from Nostradamus, however.  It's from Neil Marshall, a student at Brock University who created the text as part of a critique he wrote about Nostradamus.

The bottom line is that the eRumor is not an authentic quote from Nostradamus.

A real example of the story as it has been circulated:

Nostradamus' prediction on WW3:

"In the year of the new century and nine months,  

From the sky will come a great King of Terror...  

The sky will burn at forty-five degrees.  

Fire approaches the great new city..."   "

In the city of york there will be a great collapse,  

2 twin brothers torn apart by chaos while the fortress falls the great leader will succumb  

third big war will begin when the big city is burning"     -

NOSTRADAMUS    

He said this will be bigger than the previous two.  

2001 is the first year of the new century and this is the 9th  month.   New York is located at the 41st degree Latitude."

Answer 9

Your question is interesting but has nothing to do with either Astronomy or Space.

So you rather change your category.

As far as your question is concerned, I don't think it was some coincidence. He might be having some powers.

Answer 10

Yes. I think he ate some of those crazy mushrooms and had a bunch of nightmares while wide awake. i get like that real often, myself. You know... I eat a bunch of really spicey food and go to sleep. When I wake up I have gone through all these detailed dreams with crystal clear vision and total memory recall. Sometimes the dreams are so completely real to me that I jump up and try to run away from the situations. Of course, when I do that I crash into the wall, or fall onto the floor because one of my legs is caught in the blankets.

Really spicey salsa seems to set off the dreams pretty well. try it yourself.  

Answer 11

He didn't directly predict any of these things. People can interpret his writings to fit anything. They can twist them to the point where they can say he predicted the LHC. Its just clever writing.

Personally, I think he is a nut.

Answer 12

I met him a couple of times, he had shifty eyes and cheated at cards, he used to talk about the future allot.

Answer 13

I think he's a pretty DEAD subject. Hahahahaha!

Answer 14

His poetry, in a form called, 'Quatrains,' is very interesting.  But as a psychic and prophet, he was nowhere near as consistent nor as accurate as was a certain 20-Century phenomenon known as, Edgar Cayce.

Almost predicting Hitler and the 9/11 Attack, well I'd heard about the Hitler one, but as for the 9/11, it's not hard to go back to the writings, after the fact, and draw up apparent similarities.

Cayce also had his failures, though.  His most infamous one was his failure to find the son of Charles Lindberg.  The poor kidnapped infant was found eventually, murdered.