So continuing after my question
So continuing, if nostradameus was never right, why do people listen to nonsense like his predictions, he was wrong his entire life, why do they bother listening?
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People are gullible? People believe an awful lot of strange things?
Why does this need a new thread, by the way?
He wrote his verses in a mixture of Latin and French and made them vague enough that his believers can interpret his words to mean whatever they want them to, after the fact. Read translations by three different people and you'll get three different interpretations.
This is a great point. If you look at the original language, there are lots of words that aren't quite Latin and aren't quite textbook French. He used a provincial dialect and it wasn't modern French, but Middle French. So the translations do vary widely and a good number of them are done by people who figure their audience isn't going to know better, or look up the original quatrain, so they can claim anything they want. The Weekly World News used to love to do that.
Basically, I can start claiming that Nostradamus claimed pink and purple unicorns would fall out of the sky, make up a quatrain and people would believe me. 9 out of 10 would accept what I said blindly. Only 1 in 10 would ask me to point out exactly where he said it.
if nostradameus was never right, why do people listen to nonsense like his predictions, he was wrong his entire life, why do they bother listening?
People like mysticism, they like to think that there are people who can predict the future and converse with ghosts etc. People can and will believe in whatever they like, make up your own mind. If you think it's nonsense, then why do you care what others think?
The great thing about science is, it's true whether you believe in it or not.
why do people listen to nonsense like his predictions, he was wrong his entire life
Simple. There's money to be made and if you can convince people that Nostradamus was correct most of the time, you can sell them your latest book about how you've interpreted his prophecies and can foretell events for the coming year/decade.
Since the statement by P.T. Barnum "There's a sucker born every minute" can be applied, there are plenty of people who won't take much convincing that the latest book about Nostradamus' prophecies is worth buying. Frauds like John Hogue have virtually made a career out of this sort of thing.
if nostradameus was never right, why do people listen to nonsense like his predictions
Why do people keep on yelling that rapture is coming, while this claim has even a failed track record that dwarfs Nostradamus failed predictions?
as gary explained to me a while ago its the not understanding the subject although hard to understand sometimes things should not always be made the worst scenario of there are far too many people doing this but more so over the internet,so unless you figure out the facts yourself,then the websites or certain media anyone is seeking unfortunately make the mountain out of the molehill
But the rapture is the worst claim you can ever claim. It is proven to be wrong every single time and it destroys your own religion because it makes people lose their faith if it fails again and again and again. How many people lost their religion after the Harold Camping fiasco?
i know and he has the bare faced cheek to say no apologies,nothing to the people who have believed and believe in him,anyway hopefully they will no longer fall for it in the future how on earth can a rapture even be possible anyway it makes no sense again it just takes a few reasonable minutes of thinking to yourself and you realise whats really going on,and learn to walk away shaking your head(this is where the great juju should put in one of those moving cartoon pictures) and get on with your life
how on earth can a rapture even be possible anyway it makes no sense again it just takes a few reasonable minutes of thinking to yourself and you realise whats really going on
Unfortunately the people who believe in a rapture generally don't have the capacity to think for themselves, they need the next prophet to do it for them. They hear the words "it's in the bible" and instantly believe it.
It is proven to be wrong every single time and it destroys your own religion because it makes people lose their faith
I think if these people are believing in guys like Camping, the lost their faith boat sailed a long time ago.
The great thing about science is, it's true whether you believe in it or not.
So continuing, if nostradameus was never right, why do people listen to nonsense like his predictions
Nostradamus made predictions about the royal family. Which got the attention of the royal family. By the time he died, he was a trusted advisor to the royal family. Also, rumor has it that he predicted his own death the night before. So hey, the rest of it must be right. Right?
But let's update this a bit. Jean Dixon used to be very famous in her lifetime. Everyone used to rush out and read her predictions for the year. As far as I know, her only claim to come true was, in the 1950s, she predicted that the person elected in 1960 would die in office. Considering how everyone was into the zero effect, presidents since Lincoln who had been elected in a year ending in zero died in office, well, it wasn't that much of a stretch. But she didn't get her predictions right. Yet she had a syndicated newspaper column, she was on all sorts of talk shows, she made all sorts of predictions where the events never happened. But she had a major following.
Let's update it a bit more. Sylvia Browne. She went on national TV, told a family their son was long dead. He was found alive for years after being kidnapped by a sexual predator. She has refused to apologize. She has constantly given families misinformation about missing people, yet people still line up to pay $850 for a phone reading with her. Who knows what in person costs.
The thing is, people are going to believe what they want. The more famous the psychic, especially in their own lifetimes, the more people are going to believe them.
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