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Post by questionable on Aug 30, 2020 11:22:32 GMT
I’m watching the History Channel and I’m totally undecided if the bloke was in fact legit or preaching to the gullible, second most published books after the Bible.
Either way his predictions are rather uncanny, or am I gullible...
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Post by somersetstokie on Aug 30, 2020 11:49:19 GMT
Nostradamus's "quatrains" are of course open to interpretation as they can be construed in several ways, but scholars have reasonably established that there was a lot in what he said, and he is generally thought to have an impressive record of prediction and success rate, without going into detailed discussion here.
Alongside the acceptance that he made some pretty stunning prophecies, it has always been a particular concern of mine that he made no apparent predictions of the future for any period after 2020, the "twin year".
For what it's worth, the so-called "Twin year" prophecy speaks of a plague rising in the East "to destroy and ruin" the world.
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Post by lordb on Aug 30, 2020 13:54:05 GMT
Nostradamus's "quatrains" are of course open to interpretation as they can be construed in several ways, but scholars have reasonably established that there was a lot in what he said, and he is generally thought to have an impressive record of prediction and success rate, without going into detailed discussion here. Alongside the acceptance that he made some pretty stunning prophecies, it has always been a particular concern of mine that he made no apparent predictions of the future for any period after 2020, the "twin year". For what it's worth, the so-called "Twin year" prophecy speaks of a plague rising in the East "to destroy and ruin" the world. Apparently he didn't
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Post by bucknall67 on Aug 30, 2020 14:00:55 GMT
Mysteriously his predictions get updated every few years about was has just happened. But not a lot about what will happen.
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Post by somersetstokie on Aug 30, 2020 14:47:08 GMT
You can of course take the words of Nostradamus in any way you wish, as nothing that he apparently said is at all conclusive. His predictions can seem compelling, or they can be otherwise considered to be anything from mischievious, through misleading to some form of confidence trickery. However his work and writings remain fascinating to this day, some 450 years after his death, and it is certainly interesting that most people are aware of his existence and activities, and usually have some opinion of his legacy.
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Aug 31, 2020 9:25:06 GMT
He basically uses the same technique that mediums and clairvoyants use - vagueness and suggestion until someone reads something into it that chimes and bingo, it must be right...human suggestibility and desire to find meaning essentially.
If a medium/clairvoyant ever did a (highly lucrative, no surprise there!) session where once, just once, they said "I've got a message from David Smith here for his nephew, John Cartwright sat in Row 4, seat 25, he says he's fine but probably best not to catch your usual train tomorrow as it's going to crash..." (which then does) I might be less cynical!
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