Could Nostradamus Predictions stop disasters?

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1stmarine

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I do believe that the predictions are accurate, but I say "no" for two reasons:

One, stopping the event would create a paradox. Since the event is stopped, it never happens. If it never happened, then Nostradamus never predicted it.

The second reason is, in the prediction that correlated to 9-11, skeptics asked why they couldn't stop the incendent. Along with point one, I say to them "How do you know that somebody didn't go to authorities on 9-10-01, and say 'there's gonna be a terrorist attack tomorrow'"? If someone cited a cryptic writing dating back centuries as evidence, they would either be laughed at and dismissed, or sent to a mental hospital.

Edit: Sorry about forgetting the poll. I remembered that just as I hit the submit button. I'm half asleep today.
 
...and half right. Preventing something that has been predicted does not create a paradox. Your logic is severely flawed here. I'm somewhat surprised by that.

If I predict that Georgia Tech will win the Peach Bowl and LSU comes up and prevents that, I still predicted it. I was just wrong.

You are attaching something supernatural to Nostradamus as if he really had some power to accurately predict the future. He made some lucky guesses...that's all. Sometimes, the local fortune cookies are right, too. Sometimes the horoscopes seem to fit. That doesn't mean that the writer's actually knew anything about their future readers.
 
What the...

His 'predictions', if they can be called that, are highly subject to interpretation. They tend to be very vague and written in 'code' that makes them virtually pointless.

Furthermore, if you're a Christian...he's a FALSE PHROPHET in accordance to Deut 18.

Anyway, since they are so vague...you typically only know they 'came true' after the fact...when you shoe-horn all the interpreted details together.
Previously, the 911 prediction...was thought to have been something else...or, even greater in magnitude, like the nuclear destruction of a city.
And, in about 1,000 years, someone may come along with an event that fits this 'prediction' even more accuratly than the 911 did.

You want to know how prophets/psychics work?
They throw as much vague junk against the wall as possible...and what sticks/happens, is something they take credit for...dismissing the fact that the majority of their predictions didn't come to pass.
Another one is the self fulfilling prophesy. Where the prophet makes it come to pass themselves.
 
Just checking, but you guys do realize that the most popular "Nostradamus" prediction about the 911 was actually just a prank by a modern person?

Well, not a prank, more like a research piece. He made up a number of vaguely worded random predictions and then predicted that at least some would be fulfilled soon.

Let me find that link again...
 
Never heard of it.

The 'version' I'm going by was pushed during the cold war era (pre-2000) and hd more to do with 'twin sisters' and degrees that put it on line with NYC.

Was pushed in several movies about the subject.

Think there was a revival for it around the time of GWI in the early 90's.
 
Ethmi, explain how you can stop disasters with predictions that are exorbitantly vague and can be interpreted to mean a huge variety of events?
 
Pretty much. Is still remains to be seen if Nostradamus actually predicted anything rather then being one of those after-the-fact writers. More then a few have been discovered.
 
The trust in Nostradamus' predictions reminRAB me of the same type of delusions that surround the so-called Bible code - i.e. that there are codes hidden in the text of the Bible that can predict future events. Some clever group took the Moby Dick volume and were able to also derive worRAB that one could interpret to have predicted various world events - all to prove the ridiculousness of people's willingness to delude themselves.

Now, if any of those who imagine that any of these texts can predict the future would actually predict something in the FUTURE in any detail (not just reinterpret the past), then it might be worth listening to. Such a prediction would have to be detailed and not just vague and obvious events that will always happen - ex. that a war will happen between people, or that there will be a great natural disaster, or that a leader will emerge who will bring his people to ruin, etc.
 
I don't believe in Nostradamus prophecies. The interpretations are interesting. I think they're like the ink blots used by psychiatrists. People see what they want to see.
 
Actually, the ink blot tests are specifically designed with images for people to see. Those who don't see what most people see...tend to be abnormal.
 
How many times did Jesus warn us about false prophets of the last days?He told about many wolves in sheep uniforms who will delude many mere people including the chosen ones.Talking about this Devil's lying servant Nostradamus.This lying false prophet is in Hell for too many centuries and eternity is left.
 
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