Do you think the writings of Notradamus have credibility?
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mrs.ANONYMOUS
ANSWERS: 9
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I take him with a grain of salt, just as I do Edgar Cayce.
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G'day Mrs Anonymous, Thank you for your question. Nostradamus's predictions are so vague that they can be interpreted so that they appear to predict past events. It is when they are used to predict the future that they run into difficulty. So far over the past 30 years, the Antichrist is supposed to have been Chairman Mao, Colonel Quaddafi, Ayatollah Khomeini and no doubt others. I remember a 1979 special on Nostradamus which stated that Nostradamus had predicted that Ted Kennedy would be elected President in 1980. Kennedy wasn't. To date, no one has used a Nostradamus verse to predict an event in advance. There is an urban legend that it predicted September 11. I have attached sources for your reference. Regards Wikipedia Nostradamus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus#_note-ref2 Snopes on Nostradamus http://www.snopes.com/rumors/predict.htm
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I have to agree with keithold. I have yet to read or rather see anything that leads me to believe that he is a true prophet. It's one thing to find truth after the fact and quite another to be right before the fact.
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They seem to have held up well so far, but they're so vague that that doesn't really mean much. I'm not going to make any plans around them, but if they do continue to come true, I can't say I'll be at all surprised.
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No, no credibility at all. Lots of his followers, throughout centuries, have been finding predictions on his writings adjusting them to events that are taking place at one specific moment. As an example, many predictions involve wars. The problem is that the same writings relative to wars have been assigned to Napoleonic wars, different European wars, First and Second World Wars, Vietnam, and I bet, to wars that will be taking place years from now. There is no credibility of any kind, they can be adjusted and fit into anytime or any event you may want.
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No, no credibility at all. Lots of his followers, throughout centuries, have been finding predictions on his writings adjusting them to events that are taking place at one specific moment. As an example, many predictions involve wars. The problem is that the same writings relative to wars have been assigned to Napoleonic wars, different European wars, First and Second World Wars, Vietnam, and I bet, to wars that will be taking place years from now. There is no credibility of any kind, they can be adjusted and fit into anytime or any event you may want.
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No, no credibility at all.nonsense
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About as much as my last fortune cookie!
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Load of nonsense. If he had predicted next weeks lottery results completely unambiguously then maybe but they are open to a interpretation to fit anything after the fact. Predictions need to be specific. Astrology is the same you can twist it to fit the facts afterwards no problem but it can never be used to accurately predict the future.
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