What do you think about Nostradamus ?

[Charlie P]

How was this guy able to predict with a great deal of accuracy some of the stuff he did. Missed Hitler by one letter. Did he predicted the Twin Towers attack,here's a couple of his Qoutrans on the subject.


In the year 1999 and seven months
The Great King of Terror will come from the sky,
He will bring back to life the great king of the Mongols.
Before and after the God of war reigns happily.
Century 10, Q 72

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At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn,
Fire approaches the great new city,
Immediately a huge, scattered flame leaps up
When they want to have verification from the Norman

(Century VI, Quatrain 97)

[Popere]

His predictions have always freaked me out how close they really are. How is that?

[Charlie P]

Here's some stuff on Hitler:

The second anti-Christ Nostradamus wrote about was "a man stained with murder...the great enemy of the human race...one who was worse than any who had gone before...bloody and inhuman." Experts are in agreement that the sixteenth century prophet was referring to Adolf Hitler (Guentte).

Out of the deepest part of the west of Europe,
From poor people a young child shall be born,
Who with his tongue shall seduce many people,
His fame shall increase in the Eastern Kingdom.

Adolf Hitler, born in Austria of poor parents, with his knowledge of mob psychology and powers of speech, was successful in seducing many people , even in the Eastern Empire of ***an (Roberts 88). In some quatrains Nostradamus refers to Hitler as the child or sometimes captain of Germany. Here are two examples:

He shall come to tyrannize the land.
He shall raise up a hatred that had long been dormant.
The child of Germany observes no law.
Cries, and tears, fire, blood, and battle.

A captain of Germany shall come to yield himself by false hope,
So that his revolt shall cause great bloodshed. (Guentte) All of these images certainly describe Adolf Hitler. After seducing his people, Hitler ignored all treaties and began a massive invasion of Europe (Guentte). In the following verse, some experts say that Nostradamus actually referred to Hitler by name but missed by one letter.

Beasts wild with hunger will cross the rivers
The greater part of the battlefield will be against Hister.

Finally, Nostradamus sums up Hitler's life and even predicts the fact that his death in Berlin in 1945 would never be satisfactorily
confirmed:

Near the Rhine from the Austrian mountains
Will be born a great man of the people, come too late.
A man who will defend Poland and Hungary
And whose fate will never be certain (Reader's Digest 515).

[etothepii]

It's a bunch of hooey! He has not predicted one thing. All of his quatrains have been applied to events after they happened. Quatrains loosely fit actual events, but they are always off by some detail. It's the hit and miss thing that so called psycics also use.

And about Hitler, or Hister in the Quatrain: Hister is the name of a geographic object. Sorry I'm without the exact detail myself, but I believe it is a river.

Finally, many of his quatrains can be applied to events that were occuring in Nostrodamus' life. Many scholars believe he was making vailed commentary on political issues of his day. When applied to the right historical events -- events that had already happened in his lifetime -- there isn't even the hit and miss aspect of his quatrains.

In the year 1999 and seven months
The Great King of Terror will come from the sky,
He will bring back to life the great king of the Mongols.
Before and after the God of war reigns happily.
Century 10, Q 72

The date is not correct for 9/11
Great king of terror is singular, and as you know, there were 4 hijacked planes.
By no stretch can Osamma be classified as king of the Mongols.
The God of war, figuratively speaking, has reigned happily since the dawn of man.

At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn,
Fire approaches the great new city,
Immediately a huge, scattered flame leaps up
When they want to have verification from the Norman

This quatrain puts a huge emphasis on fire. 9/11 was about much more than fire. More about impact, more smoke than fire, and collapse. There are hits on the 45 degrees and "new" city. But 45 degrees can be applied to lots of things, not just latitude measurement. And throughout history, there are a number of fires that broke out in what could be considered new cities. Finally, the Norman is a reference to the French. Yeah, we don't like 'em, but they did not plan or carry out 9/11.

For great skepticism of Nostradamus, see Penn and Teller. These guys are great.

[Aught Six]

You nailed it, -1. It's not too difficult to take any historical document out of context and apply it to the modern day. Nostrodamus was a fascinating person, but I don't buy his prophecies.

[Tazman]

Nostadomus is one of the best psychics that ever lived, none of his predictions are clear enough to truly predict a single thing, as with the psychics of today they are worded in a manner to where they could by using a wild imagination be construed to match up with something. Every time something major happens in world history a fan of his will spend weeks trying to find something in his jibberish that could be construed to be a prediction of said event.

When some one can take his quantrains and state that it says that 5 years from now this will happen and it does I may give him a bit of validity, but that has not happened yet and it never will! That is my predicition!

[Tazman]

Did a little net searching on the Hister bit and came up with this

The fact is that Hister is the Latin name used by Nostradamus for the Danube River. One of his quatrains even mentions a bridge ...

[kevin1]

I've never put any stock in prophesy ,
it might as well be tarot cards as far as I'm concerned .

[aunsaber]

I don't believe a word of it.
Hitler's real name was Schwartzengrubber(SP) he changed it to hitler some time after reading Nostradamus. He was a fan of his writtings. The swastika was also predicted by Nostradamus only the "arms" were bent the opposite direction.

Pretty easy to predict things when you have some idiot to carry out your thoughts.

[Charlie P]

The date is not correct for 9/11

He missed it by two years and two monthes, not bad.