Tony Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 Has anyone come across a Notradamus quatrain that can be shown to be accurate through fact rather than interpretation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halibut Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 Overblown storyteller. Load of bollo**s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heyesey Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 A better question might be, "has any Nostradamus quatrain been interpreted to refer to a specific event, before that event took place?" Not a single one of them ever has. They've always been interpreted to refer to something that HAS happened, and therefore do not qualify as prophecies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mort Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 Has anyone come across a Notradamus quatrain that can be shown to be accurate through fact rather than interpretation? Nope...... nor is anyone likely to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabberwocky Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 I reckon that any one of us could make up a highly cryptic line and within a year someone could interpret it as a vision of the future, AFTER the event. For instance I could say something like "From the skies they fell to teach us" and someone could interpret it in a hundred ways, maybe a plane load of teachers from Spain are hired to make up the numbers of teachers in this country. Just about any so-called prediction can be seen in a half a dozen different ways and adapted to suit an event that only touches on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scozzie Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 A better question might be, "has any Nostradamus quatrain been interpreted to refer to a specific event, before that event took place?" Not a single one of them ever has. They've always been interpreted to refer to something that HAS happened, and therefore do not qualify as prophecies. how can you say they are not prophecies when they were foretold hundreds of years ago. Just because people cannot interpret them, doesn't mean that they are untrue until after tha fact. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivor&Mel Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 how can you say they are not prophecies when they were foretold hundreds of years ago. Just because people cannot interpret them, doesn't mean that they are untrue until after tha fact. What's the point in making a so-called prophecy in obscure language? If you could see the future, would you write it down for future generations in arcane language? So arcane that people can only interpret it post hoc? It would hardly be helpful! All it would achieve is an intellectual ego-trip for you ("I told you so") - but, then, you'd be a bit dead, wouldn't you?... Or the same ego-trip for a bunch of imaginative cranks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heyesey Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 how can you say they are not prophecies when they were foretold hundreds of years ago. Because they are meaningless. In order to have any meaning whatsoever, they would have to be interpreted before the event to which they refer, not afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 because like with most "prophecies" of that type, they can be interpreted in any one of a hundred or a thousand different ways. like when you go to a fortune teller, and you get so much generic and non-specific waffle... you "hear" the stuff they say that you "think" applies to you, and ignore the stuff you don't think of. It's like horoscopes in the paper:- how the heck can they each apply to 1/13th of the population? Is everyone born between, say, the 21st of June and the 20th July going to meet a tall, dark, stranger with whom they are going to fall madly in love? Gubbins, pure gubbins! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted September 7, 2008 Author Share Posted September 7, 2008 Wow, I'm delighted that so many people see this nonsense for what it is. For anyone who does believe his bunkum it is worth remembering that Nostradamus enjoyed a long period of high status and profitable employment at the French Court through his fortune telling antics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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