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Nostradamus.......

He's a poster boy for the Weekly World News.

Heck, if all his prophecies about the end of the world had come true, we wouldn't be neffing here today.
 
Originally posted by: Wuffsunie
He's a poster boy for the Weekly World News.

Heck, if all his prophecies about the end of the world had come true, we wouldn't be neffing here today.
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We're not, really. It's just the Matrix.
 
Anybody here can make generalized prophecies for the future and then claim to have predicted events that partly reflect what they claimed would occur AFTER the fact. Hell, it's how modern day psychics make a living. He was just the Miss Cleo of his time. 😛
 
If he was alive today, his name would be Miss Cleo.


**Edit, damn you Panzer, didnt scroll all the way down to read your post. 🙁
 
The problem I see with all his prophecies is they never give a time or place.

That being said, there are always things that can't be explained in our world, and we have the realm of mysticysm and all that stuff that people explore trying to explain stuff.

And as usual, the masses will disregard it as untrue and nonexistent, so they can feel comfortable living their lives and continue to rationalize every aspect of their life so they feel sane and sure.

I personally don't believe in any of it, I think beliefs are too strong and stupid a concept. But, I don't like to rationalize some statement away like in the case of nostradamus, just because no one has predicted an exact event yet. But I do like to observe what we know, and leave it at that.

I know a lot about astrology, mainly because my dad knows a lot about it, and it's peculiar to see certain trends with certain aspects. I don't try to make predictions, but I just see some things that make you stop and wonder that it couldn't be coincidence. Like how people who are water signs are supposed to be emotional and sensitive types (Pices, Cancer and Scorpio), and they tend to be musicians. I polled my whole HS jazz band, and 75% of them were water signs, when typically only 25% should be. But astrology is complicated and I'm not going to lecture about it here. check out www.astro.com if you're interested, but the stock interpretations on that site are just that, stock.

I do think there is a good chance that our perception of freewill is either powerless or nonexistent. Most people don't matter to the rest of the people and their choices don't seem to effect the world. I don't rule freewill out, but I don't rule out some things are inevitable and prophecies can and do come true.

I only say all this because there has been a history of my family having prophecies, usually in the form of strange dreams. My dad's aunt dreamt her own death 20 years before it happened. It frightened her so much that she told the family the details of the dream. She was in a hospital, and a black woman ran in and killed her. She told everyone in the family, and when she was older and sick in the hospital 20 years later, she asked specifically that no black people be allowed near her, not as a racist, just because of the dream. Well, a black woman from the mental ward on another floor got off the elevator ran down the hall to my great aunt's room and gave her a heart attack and she died.

This kind of thing runs in my family. My dad had a dream that a good friend's dog was sick, and that the dog came to him in a dream. My dad called up the dog's owner and she was taken to the vet and operated on something lodged in her stomach, without my dad's dream, the dog would have died.

I have only had a small experience, hopefully I don't get it as bad as my ancestors. But I had a dream one night that predicted something random that I didn't know about until the following day. It wasn't deja vu, it was a situation that contained information that I did not know until the future.

Not that any of you care. But prophecies do exist, the question is wether or not they are inevitable. I'm not sure about nostradamus, the facts are few and far between now. But the important thing in life is to never be sure and to always question what you know.
 
call me a fool, cause chances are that i am one...but personally i think it is much too difficult to get a good translation of his writings and then make accurate predictions based on them. that is why, as it has been said, everyone discovers that he predicted events after they have already happened.

real or not, i find it all very interesting.

i vote real.
 
Originally posted by: seepy83
call me a fool, cause chances are that i am one...but personally i think it is much too difficult to get a good translation of his writings and then make accurate predictions based on them. that is why, as it has been said, everyone discovers that he predicted events after they have already happened.

real or not, i find it all very interesting.

i vote real.
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It's bullsh*t. Every once in a while we have a nostradamus thread and people have to explain how it's crap.

 
He made a thousand vague predictions in another language, and in no particular order.

Now lets imagine that YOU made up 1000 predictions. What are the chances that many of them would come true over the next thousand years?

And that's not taking into consideration the fact that these predictions need to be translated first, and the translation varies wildly depending on the motives of the person doing the translation.

Since nobody can even recognize a prediction until after the fact, they call it "postdiction". Nostradamus hasn't predicted anything...but he can postdict anything!

It's just like the bible code. It can postdict anything that has happened, and the close proximity of the crossword-puzzle-like words often seems eerie. But the truth is that you can do the exact same thing with any large book.

Edit: for spelling.
 
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