was nostradamus an actual prophet, seeing future events in self induced trances and recording them for postartity in cryptic quatrains..... or were his recorded visions that of more mundane origins, ramblings of his own mind?
supporters of him have accredited him with foretelling horrific tragedies such as the great fire of london and the september 11th attacks as well as the rise of napoleon and hitler.
skeptics of him say that his predictions are made true by attaching the quatrain to events after the occurance has taken place.. or in otherwords interpreting them to fit an agenda. in fact none of his predictions have been clear and precise enough to fortell any event.
most skeptics say that his predictions fall into one of the following categories that seem to give them credibility
vague: making a non-specific claim on a non -spcific date
open-ended: there is no cut off date, and thus can be made to fit any time period
statistically likely: an event given past events.. is likely to occur
counting hits and not the misses: self explanatory
allegorical: self explanatory
moving the goalposts: overlooking small details such as time differnces, or locations
what are your thoughts on the man and his predictions?
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Wed Sep 09, 2009 7:47 pm
GRAVEYARD HOUND
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Re: nostradamus
I think he was a man gifted with a supernatural ability to see into the future and be pretty accurate about what he saw, including his death and what would be done to his body. History proved him right.
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Mon Nov 16, 2009 2:02 pm
FindingTruth
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Re: nostradamus
I am going to make a prediction that somewhere, somewhen, and somehow, someone will die from a t.v. falling on them in China. I'm pretty sure that that is something Nostradamus did. Made predictions that seemed plausible to be able to happen.
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