I was watching the History channel last night and it was about his predictions and it made me think. What do you think about it? I always wonder what the heck all this is...No one truly knows, but I would just like to hear other people opinions. I mean we are on a big rock circling in space...I mean really....what the heck is all this? Even if you do not believe in God...where did it all come from?
Does anyone believe in what Nostradamus predicts?
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he predicted the Great Depression, Princess Diana's death and 9/11 "metal bird in the sky" he called the planes. And many more. I have book somewhere.
Nostradamus was a highly spiritual man and looked to the path of enlightenment. Yes he used Opium when mediating but in those days alot of people did. It is said that he was so en-lighted he floated above the ground once whilst mediating.
So, Yes I believe in Nostradamus why not?
Nostradamus was a highly spiritual man and looked to the path of enlightenment. Yes he used Opium when mediating but in those days alot of people did. It is said that he was so en-lighted he floated above the ground once whilst mediating.
So, Yes I believe in Nostradamus why not?
psychedelic_celtic
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why do you have to know all the answers? why do you have to prove everything so you can feel secure and like your life is meaningfull? i mean hell, athiests and bible-thumpers alike, just go with it and stop pondering crazy shiz.
No, I don't believe in Nostradamus', or any others for that matter, predictions of the future. It's atrology and speculation run amuk. Essentially I or you could write passages in the same manner and they would have the same effect. The 'predictions' are so broad you can interpret anything into them and point back to them after the fact. It's a good example of the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy along with a cognitive bias called a clustering illusion. You should check it out, cognitive bias is a very interesting subject on how people think.
cisneneegro
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I believe.
I am Brazilian and on the eve of the attack to the twin towers (September 11) I was attending Sônia Abrão's program A Casa É Sua (the House is yours) and the seer Rodrigo Thudor called the program and he asked that the people prayed asking to God that didn't allow that happened what he was seeing, he ordered the people to pray because he saw an airplane falling on a Shopping center, Sônia Abrão asked the possibility of him there was been to identify which Shopping center would be reached by the airplane, he answered that not. Him only through the people running and everything was hidden by smoke the people were desperate and there was a lot of fire and he heard the people say that an airplane had reached the building.
I saw that September 10 and I forgot the following day I went to work and looked for the bus window and people stopped on road in the stores of appliances and in the bars looking at the tv and I didn't understand what was happening, I was late. When I arrived in the work heard somebody scream another airplane beat at the building, I cost to believe. Only the night when showed the copy of the program of the previous day and I remembered that I had seen the warning and I forgot it.
That report is continually repeated in Brazilian TV. It is alone you seek in the Internet that the news is there.
I am Brazilian and on the eve of the attack to the twin towers (September 11) I was attending Sônia Abrão's program A Casa É Sua (the House is yours) and the seer Rodrigo Thudor called the program and he asked that the people prayed asking to God that didn't allow that happened what he was seeing, he ordered the people to pray because he saw an airplane falling on a Shopping center, Sônia Abrão asked the possibility of him there was been to identify which Shopping center would be reached by the airplane, he answered that not. Him only through the people running and everything was hidden by smoke the people were desperate and there was a lot of fire and he heard the people say that an airplane had reached the building.
I saw that September 10 and I forgot the following day I went to work and looked for the bus window and people stopped on road in the stores of appliances and in the bars looking at the tv and I didn't understand what was happening, I was late. When I arrived in the work heard somebody scream another airplane beat at the building, I cost to believe. Only the night when showed the copy of the program of the previous day and I remembered that I had seen the warning and I forgot it.
That report is continually repeated in Brazilian TV. It is alone you seek in the Internet that the news is there.
I have to be a bit heretical here, because unlike either most Christians or most atheists, and probably most other people on this board, i have to say that to some extent i do believe in Nostradamus's predictions. You have to bear in mind that they are constantly reinterpreted, but in about 1980, i went through them all and tried to work out if they meant anything. Among other things, i found that they appeared to predict the US destruction of oilrigs in the Persian Gulf in October 1987 and an attack by aircraft crashing into skyscrapers in New York City at some unspecified date within my lifetime. That was my interpretation at the time and not with hindsight. There is a story floating around the internet that that prediction was a hoax. Maybe there was a hoax quatrain, but there was also a real one from which i drew that conclusion.
So, my answer to you is yes, i do believe it because it predicted 9/11 successfully at least. They can be dated through the astrological information and are sometimes uncannily accurate, but the rate of fulfilment is rather low because there are roughly 1000 of them and they are supposed to take 5000 years to come true, which makes one every five years or so on average. Therefore there are probably about five or six which were fulfilled between 1980 and now, and i'm aware of two without looking at the notes i made at the time.
So, my answer to you is yes, i do believe it because it predicted 9/11 successfully at least. They can be dated through the astrological information and are sometimes uncannily accurate, but the rate of fulfilment is rather low because there are roughly 1000 of them and they are supposed to take 5000 years to come true, which makes one every five years or so on average. Therefore there are probably about five or six which were fulfilled between 1980 and now, and i'm aware of two without looking at the notes i made at the time.
HowdoesGodmeasureyoum
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You didn't see it all. This fellow has been shown to have written many of his predictions after the fact.
Personally I think he was ahead of his time when many found out how to make money from foolish generalizations.
Imagine sitting back and writing fiction for a living, and coming so close as to get people to put stock into it as real!
Also note he was pictured as being >>>>well fed<<<<<..........
Personally I think he was ahead of his time when many found out how to make money from foolish generalizations.
Imagine sitting back and writing fiction for a living, and coming so close as to get people to put stock into it as real!
Also note he was pictured as being >>>>well fed<<<<<..........
I don't know about others...but I personally don't. The stuff he wrote is vague to the point of being good vacuum.
Anyone whom claims to believe it, I tend to look to their sanity or IQ...and expect either (or both) to be unusually low.
With the possible exception of the one prediction he made..."that, come what may the sun would rise on the morrow." Mind you, EVERYONE has made that prediction at one time or other, so...
Unless someone can give me the lotto numbers for the big drawing, then accurately predict at least 10 or more additional unrelated items that human influence would have no control over, I would, and will continue to laugh at prognosticators in general.
Good Luck!
Anyone whom claims to believe it, I tend to look to their sanity or IQ...and expect either (or both) to be unusually low.
With the possible exception of the one prediction he made..."that, come what may the sun would rise on the morrow." Mind you, EVERYONE has made that prediction at one time or other, so...
Unless someone can give me the lotto numbers for the big drawing, then accurately predict at least 10 or more additional unrelated items that human influence would have no control over, I would, and will continue to laugh at prognosticators in general.
Good Luck!
I do believe in God and I also find it very interesting. My opinion is that Nostradamus was a prophet. I do also believe that he was capable of making mistakes because he was human. Therefore I believe that some of his predictions will be accurate and some of them will not. I also feel that prophecy is usually meant as a warning, so things can change and catastrophy can be avoided.
IgnatiusJeReilly
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Depending on the way they are interpreted, Nostradamus runs about 50% accuracy. The quatrains are vague and many can be interpreted many different ways.