Chapter 66 Truth and Doubt

Nostradamus and his "Centuries" have been admired and admired by everyone since their publication, but they have also been questioned.Especially in the new century, on the one hand, there has been a boom in the reprint of "Zhu Century", but on the other hand, it has been questioned more rigorously and systematically by scholars. Whether Nostradamus' prophecy is true or not has become a dish that everyone can't agree on. Everyone has their own reasons, but no one can finally defeat the other's theory. Among all the voices of doubt, the basic standpoint is that people think that the historical time of later generations and the sentences in the collection of poems in "The Centuries" are actually just a random coincidence, and there is no necessary connection between them.Nostradamus and "The Centuries" can be popular in the world, and the real credit should be attributed to those later generations who spared no effort to interpret and tie the poems and historical facts together.It is precisely because of their creative interpretation that "The Centuries" is covered with a veil of mystery.

But when Nostradamus wrote "The Centuries", the narrative technique used was very obscure, and because it contained a lot of metaphors, people were more willing to believe that the images in the poems meant something else, rather than simply It is Nostradamus's personal imagination.Phrases such as "hungry beast", "great man" and "iron cage", the more metaphorical they are, the more interesting they are. Moreover, when Nostradamus wrote "The Centuries", the vocabulary and vocabulary used were medieval French, and many words were inevitably ambiguous.Therefore, when many scholars studied "The Centuries", they were not only surprised by Nostradamus, but also impressed by his writing method and the beauty revealed between the lines.

It is precisely because of these characteristics that when later generations interpret "The Century", they can freely add their own understanding, or delete words that they think are unnecessary.Such intentional or unintentional misreading, as well as the random interpretation of symbols and metaphors in the poems, made the truth of this prophecy even more confusing, so that the translation of "The Centuries" we see today is likely to be different from the original version. There was a difference of one hundred and eight thousand miles. The interpretations that are diametrically opposed make it possible that the originally unrelated poems and historical facts come together far-fetched, thus making Nostradamus' prophecy even more mysterious.

However, the thousand or so prophetic poems in "Zhu Century" are not actually arranged in chronological order, and they are intentionally or unintentionally avoiding time points.So that anything that happened in the 400 years after Nostradamus' death can be found in any verse in the book.It is actually not difficult to find the two who are compatible with each other in the vast ocean.Moreover, in the poems written by Nostradamus, most of them mentioned death, war and disaster, just like what he predicted happened again and again, it is not difficult to explain why later scholars The prophetic nature of this book will be seriously questioned.

Counting from major historical events such as airplanes flying into the sky, automobiles appearing, atomic bombings, the rise of Hitler, the outbreak of World War II, the Allied forces landing in Normandy, the assassination of US President Kennedy, and the so-called "9.11" terrorist attacks, when someone starts It is no longer news to claim to have discovered that "The Centuries" successfully predicted a certain historical event.Some people even started to say that all Nostradamus' predictions about future generations are just hindsight, because no one has ever made an accurate judgment based on the words and sentences in "The Centuries" before things happened.

As soon as this remark came out, supporters and opponents immediately split into two factions. But all the prophecies that have been successfully verified in history will be believed by the world only after things happen.Therefore, this argument against Nostradamus does not hold water.It is obviously a bit overpowering to completely overthrow Nostradamus and "The Centuries" in the history of prophecy by relying on a few inferences. After all, everyone still maintains a sense of unknown and mystery about the future, especially the horrible catastrophe of the century. No one has the right to deny the success or failure of this prophecy before it happens.