Soothsayers

Soothsayers have been around as long as recorded history, probably longer—after all, knowing what’s to come has always been accorded more value than knowing what’s already happened. Even in  Karnataka we  have  seen  may so  called God  men or charlatans who have  not  read ABCD  of  Astrology but enjoy shouting from the television screen, and even  last election  some  so  called  soothsayer said that  Modi is  going  to be  defeated in general  election which  was  picked up  by  all  local channels  !!

 Yes ,there has always been power and notoriety to be gained from prognostication. But considering that most (if not all) of these seers/bogus  gurus —whatever market expertise or God-given insight they might claim for themselves—are just shooting in the dark, it’s not altogether clear what makes a good prophet. Showmanship and some lucky guesses, to be sure, but beyond that? This is the question that surrounds the strange and enduring popularity  and  one of  the  person  we  are  talking  now is  about   an ex-doctor from southern France named Nostradamus.

His name is almost a by word for cataclysm, trotted out over the centuries in the wake of major disasters as evidence that long ago someone had figured out they had been foreordained. Such was the case in the aftermath of September 11, for instance, when Nostradamus most recently reappeared in the spotlight. Today, venture into any bookstore’s occult section, and you’re bound to find multiple translations of The Prophecies, his best-known work, alongside books hotly debating its significance and validity. Or turn on the History Channel, and you might catch repeats of The Nostradamus Effect, a show that explored apocalyptic prophecies throughout history, with episodes bearing titles like “The Third Anti-Christ?” and “Armageddon Battle Plan.” His name and work have permeated our experience of doom and destruction, but

. You’ll find apocryphal prophecies, such as the one which warns that “two steel birds will fall from the sky on the Metropolis,” or logical contortionists like Nostradamus “expert” and self-styled prophet John Hogue, who contends that the prophecy beginning “When 1999 is seven months over” can be made a reference to 9/11 if one only reverses “1999” to “9-11-1,” and translates the French sept as “September,” not “seven.” There are literally millions of web pages like this, and the man himself—Michel de Nostredame—is scarcely evident behind all this noise.

After  every major  event  we are eager  to  link that  event  with Nosradamus and his predictions be it 9/11 or  the recent  caraoan virus   and yes  nowadays Not a single major event in the world passes without Nostradamus and his predictions. Like many times before, the media succeeded in linking the coronavirus to Nostradamus, and the goal is one and only – to get as many clicks and readings of the texts as possible by using sensationalism. And getting  maximum  TRPs fo

: for  example  let  us  look at one of  his  so  called  prediction which  reads

”Big plague in the seaside town” is  the standard text which  is vaguely  written but  we love  to  link  that with  caraona  virus !!

: Nostradamus predicted the coronavirus, and here is the date when it will stop…the  narrative  goes  on  and  on

[if  you  are referring  to word sea  side  town  definitely  Wuhan  does  not  have  sea !!!]

Nostradamus’ prophecies are vaguely written, so it is impossible to link them directly to a particular event.

Nostradamus’ work is expressed in four-line stanzas, verses and puzzles, which are not chronologically arranged. In fact, most of Nostradamus’ prophecies are poorly translated and vaguely worded, and thus open to various readings and interpretations, which in turn leaves enough room for a lot of speculation.

There are many interpreters of Nostradamus, and most of them interpret one same verse about the future in different manners precisely because of the ambiguity of his writing.

This makes it impossible to claim that Nostradamus in his work was specifically referring to the coronavirus, which, despite the panic present among the public, is far less dangerous than the common flu which results in about  650.000 deaths yearly.

Social media posts have been used as sources of information in the text, with the phrase “somebody tweeted”. Anyone can post what they wish on social media, which does not mean that the story is true and should be republished in the media without further inspection, and intimidate the public by republishing articles that say “we will die soon”.

The title itself misinforms on two occasions. First, even Nostradamus truly predicted a “plague”, the title says that it is taking place in a seaside town. The coronavirus originated in the city of Wuhan in China, which is not a seaside town, which can be confirmed by a simple Google search.

The second manipulation of the public is in the final part of the headline that says “here is the date when it will stop”. This leads readers to click on the text, thinking that they will read when the virus will stop spreading. But there is no such information in the text.

It is irresponsible for an extra click to publish media articles full of sensationalism, misinformation and speculation related to the coronavirus that only exacerbates the panic that already exists in the public. The media should carefully and cautiously publish information related to coronavirus and focus more on educating the public on how to deal with the virus than on increasing readership through sensationalist reports.

"There will be a twin year (2020) from which will arise a queen (corona) who will come from the east (China) and who will spread a plague (virus) in the darkness of night, on a country with 7 hills (Italy) and will transform the twilight of men into dust (death), to destroy and ruin the world. It will be the end of the world economy as you know it.

We could find no passages in Nostradamus’ collective works that resemble these words. this  is  all  fabricated I  will  tell  you  why  so  because

Nostradamus is best known for"Les Prophéties,  a collection of poetic quatrains that are united in sets of verses, or "centuries," that was first published in 1555.

This purported prediction does not follow the pattern of his typical vague, four-line poems, and we couldn’t find anything resembling it, "Les Prophéties or in  various of  his other  writings

 Recent social media posts also appear to be the first and only occurrences of this prophecy online, and none provide additional details or evidence as to where it was found, which typically indicates it was fabricated.

There is no evidence Nostradamus wrote this, it doesn’t follow the quatrain format of his predictions and the words cannot be found in his works.

Despite what is shouted in the mass media, the ratio between quality and quantity speaks for itself: in less than three years Nostradamus wrote almost every day, reaching over 4,500 verses. The supporters of Nostradamus dare to say that the precision is mathematical, but the reality is very different. The “amazing prophecies” of Nostradamus made with “mathematical precision” are not amazing at all and they do not have the slightest precision. They are totally chaotic and this thing is reflected in absolutely all the failed forecasts based on his quatrains.and  best  part  is  any  event  down the  years have  some relation  to his  so  called predication and  can  be  given  credit  to  him  as  I  said earlier  a plague that  occurred some  200  years  or  the  recent corona virus can  be  linked  to  so  called statement  of  his

”Big plague in the seaside town” is  the standard text which  is vaguely  written

But, ironically, the prophecies are popular exactly due to their vagueness. The quatrains deliberately contain vague and general terms in order to stimulate selective thinking: there are no rules of interpretation, the texts can be suited to any major event, the prophetic failures are omitted or ignored, and the seeming successes are overrated. The message of Nostradamus in the letter to his son César, in which he states that the quatrains were written in a nebulous form rather than clear prophetic, can easily be seen as a “blank check”: they can mean almost anything they are supposed to mean

. A proof in this regard is also the fact that the Nostradamic exegesis is full of linguistic evasions such as “it is possible,” “probably that,” “might be,” “might mean,” thereby minimizing the failure and leaving the possibility for the texts to be recycled for other real correspondences. very clever use of words

So, the ratio between the total volume of the Nostradamic prophecies and the volume of prophecies said to come true is weaker than pure chance.

In  conclusion  let  us  not  give  much  importance  to  these  so  called God  men and  sootsayers