Does anyone believe in Nostradamus' predictions?

According to some interpretations, we are just now beginning "the end of days". World economy is in turmoil; power in Russia, Middle East, and China are rising; US dollars are becoming worthless. Can anyone answer it without using religious references?

Does anyone believe in Nostradamus' predictions?
not really, just a bunch of generalizations
Reply:Isn/t it wonderful how all his predictions turn out to be correct AFTER whatever he predicted happened. If you twist and interpret his double talk long enough, you can come up with tomorrows winning lottery numbers (I wish) No, I do not believe he had any special insight of things to come. If you make enough predictions, some of them are bound to come true.
Reply:no
Reply:I think he could visualize some future events and he described the images quite well, especially for not having the knowledge of centuries of technological progress.
Reply:But there has been turmoil for years and years and years. Why are we any closer today than when Genghis Khan ran across Europe, or when the Black Death destroyed a lot of the world?
Reply:The I Ching, Mayan Calendar, and the Web bot project all agree that 2012 will be the close of an era.





Is that what you were looking for?
Reply:A lot of people do, to answer your question.





I don't, however. You can twist his already vague words enough to make it sound like he has predicted past events. But nobody can look at his words today, and tell us what will happen tomorrow.





It's still fun to follow, though.
Reply:probably not but who is nostradamus?
Reply:that can be used now 20 years ago or 30 years from now, sorry it all means nothing
Reply:I don't believe I just know.
Reply:just a crap i wont buy it.
Reply:I believe in the fact that they're all an utter pile of bunk.
Reply:Yes I do





His depiction of ww2 was amazing, the description of flight and of te masks used-were something he couldnt even concieve of back then. No suck technology-He described the men to look like pigs-with a big nose-showing the masks that we now call gas masks when ww2 happened.





Although I don't believe anyone can predict the end of th eworld, I do believe what he saw was a terrible mess of chaos that he probably had reason to believe was the end of the world-compared to what he was used to. We will be going through many destructive changes-hopefully we as humans can wake up and smell the roses- and act Green!




















"Beasts ferocious from hunger will swim across rivers:


The greater part of the region will be against the Hister


The great one will cause it to be dragged in an iron cage,


When the German child will observe nothing."





With Hister as an anagram for "Hitler", this quatrain has Nostradamians certain that it predicts the final end of Adolf Hitler. Hitler is also refered to as one of Nostradamus' anti-christ figures by those who study and interprete his writings.








"Pig half-man. Here, he was attempting to describe how a man would look with what appeared to be a strange pushed up nose and the slick skull of a pig on a man's body. This was an accurate prediction (for a man who had no knowledge of why men might look this way) of the breathing masks and slick, leather headgear worn by fighter pilots during World War I."