Nostradamus: Is he superhuman?
By kevchua
@kevchua (1004)
Malaysia
November 8, 2009 8:14am CST
Tell me a person who has never heard of Nostradamus. But who is he actually? How is it possible that an "ordinary human" is able to see what's going to happen hundreds of years or perhaps even thousands of years later? Are his prophecies real? If he could predict the future, could he recap what had actually happened to earth a long time ago? He even predicted that something big would happen in 2012! Since he was able to prophecize so many incidents, why could he not suggest ways in which humans could overcome the problems? Or was he merely telling us that we have to face these continuous calamities, like it or not, so we shouldn't fight what we could not control?
1 response
@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
8 Nov 09
Nostradamus was anything BUT a prophet. One can take his writings and apply them to any number of events in any number of ways. there has never been a case where someone looked at one of his "prophesies" and made a prediction about an event before the event happened. And none of his writings ever even mention the year 2012, that has been mixxed up with the Mayan calander (which doesn't predict anything either) and it all gets jumbled in to one story.
Sorry, Nostradamus wasn't super anything, he was just a human with a flair for writing and disguising political and social commentary durring his own time. It was not prediction, he has never predicted anything.
@rg0205 (2636)
• Hong Kong
8 Nov 09
I wouldn't say that he is superhuman but he somehow has an uncanny sense or ability to predict things which to me is strange. Going as far as saying he is superhuman seems to be a little far fetched though. I think he had a way to "calculate" things just as astrologers do but that's as far as it goes.
@xfahctor (14118)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
8 Nov 09
Again, no, he hasn't predicted anything. His writings have only ever been interpeted after an event has happened, often multiple events being interpreted at different times from the same quatrain. It was poetry and nothing more, than cleverly written commentary in poetry form. It would be like someone in the future taking the work of Edgar allen Poe and using it to interpret some event that had happened such as like applying "the raven" to a war that occures, or claiming Robert Frost's "a yellow wood" as a fortelling of an earth quake that has occured somewhere.
There has NEVER been a case where someone looked at one of Nostradamus' works, said, "hey this quatraqin says there is going to be a volcano erupting in Italy on such and such a date!" and then had a volcano erupt in Italy on the apointed date.
In other words, no one has ever been able to use one of his writings to predict an event before the event actually happened. that is not prediction, that is POSTdiction and anyone can do that.
