faginsgirl

Just wondered what people thought of this guy and his predictions? To me, they are not specific enough to take seriously, a bit too vague. Saying that, in that time he wouldnt have percieved things like we do today, and the word Hister, as has been said would have meant Hitler, may have something in it.

But overall not really accurate enough for me.

What do you all think?

xx

We`re changin` lodggggggggings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Steve Crook

A load of rubbish. As you say, they are so vague they could be made to mean anything. And then there are the ones that people make up like the ones that were supposed to predict 9/11. You won't find those in any books of his predictions that were published prior to 9/11

Don't be amazed at all the things he could have meant.
Be amazed at all the other things that the same "predictions" might have meant and try and dream up any scenario that isn't covered by them.

It's like when you're thinking of somebody and they phone you. It's not paranormal, it's statistics. Try and remember all the times you've though of a friend and they haven't phoned you

Steve

christoph404

The writings of Nostradamus are very interesting and informative if you are interested in history because that is what his writings are based on. He always wrote in "quatrains"( in French of course) which is a poem or a stanza within a poem that consists always of four lines, a very popular style of writing in Europe at the time. Nostradamus always maintained that he was not a prophet, he is one of the most misinterpreted and mis-translated writers ever! I would say his writings are not rubbish, they are actually quite interesting taken in the context of the time, what is rubbish is the stuff attributed to him over the years by other people, and claims by sensationalist writers and translators that he has somehow predicted world events of the 20th Century.....now that is nonsense and Nostradamus if he was alive would probably agree!

donna

werent seers and soothsayers the in thing then like pop stars are now, its easy to predict when you wont be around to get pelters isnt it.

Steve Crook

Sorry, I didn't mean that his writings were rubbish, just the way they're taken as predictions of anything. His writing is very nice as poetry

Steve

Moor Larkin

I like the one where some bloke did wordsearch with the hebrew bible and came up with some well-weird hidden messages........................
Computers Find Encoded Messages in Bible

I was thinking of trying it with Barbara Cartland....... or J.T. Edson - now there was a writer!

batman

I quite like J T Edson's books, much better than that charlatan Zane Grey!



This is a good one.

I wish I had claws.

christoph404

No prob, I think we agree that it is what is attributed to him by others that is rubbish!

rskershaw

It is complete rubbish.
The most laughable part is that its "interpreters", from god knows where, say that his constant mention of "Hister" is a reference to you know who.

I think it's time to listen to a little Strauss who at least knew what he was writing music about.

And what's all this about me having me leg off?

john audley

Actually Hollywood was going to make a block buster of his life but then someone studied his 'century's' more closely and one said that any feature film would lose millions So they never bothered.

'You should be kind to us normals, there are not many of us left you know'!

DB7

All fascinating stuff, but why is Enjoy the Silence *King of Terror*? Are you sure you're not confusing Corbijn's promo with the WTC rooftop performance?

samkydd

That's the problem with trying to predict the future accurately; Nostradamned if you do, Nostradamned if you don't!

"...the chairman of Littlewoods stores made a Keynote speech!"