Thoughts that's being thought in the middle age

[mapuc]

Some weeks ago I read the headlines in a Danish news paper

"He foresaw World War 3 and it would start in 2018"

In the article you could read how Nostradamus had foreseen this war would break out in 2018 and it will start in France and then they showed a picture of Mr. Putin and some Russian weapon

This is not about this famous person Nostradamus, but more about what kind of thoughts he may have had.

Lets look at the time this Nostradamus lived and when he could have written those words(forgot the real name for these 3-4 lines)

Let us assume he wrote them between his 1550-1563

Before we continue we need to turn back the time to October 1517 and Wittingborg.

From a documentary I saw a few days ago about Martin Luther "Reformation- Holly war in Europe."
it was said: No one could have foreseen that it would throw Europe into a 200 year long and bloody holy war and terror.

Back to this Nostradamus and what I assume he may have been thinking or foreseen.

Affected by what was going on around him, the plague and this religious war

I think what he may have foreseen or think he may have foreseen was an all out war between Catholisme on the one side against Lutherans and Protestants on the other.

This is what I think
I doubt he saw Mr. Putin and those weapons.

Markus

[Sailor Steve]

The first time I heard of Nostradamus was in the 1960s. There were books then that said he predicted this or that, and it was complete. Every decade or so since then someone has come along and re-interpreted the same prophecies to include the newest events. It keeps changing, over and over. Until it actually happens, prophecies are always open to interpretation, and someone new is always changing what this or that "prophet" actually said. When you're my age you'll see a whole new set of interpretations claiming that what he really meant was something entirely different from what they said in 2018. Or 2000. Or 1993. Or 1984. Or 1968.

[Rhodes]

The book of Nostradamus prophecies that I have talks of WW3 starting in 7th of July of 1997.
Beginning to think that my book is a bootleg or something...

[Eichhörnchen]

You need to download a more recent copy

[Jimbuna]

Reading Steve's post and that below pretty much sums it up for me

Nostradamus’s popularity seems to be due in part to the fact that the vagueness of his writings and their lack of specific dates make it easy to selectively quote them after any major dramatic events and retrospectively claim them as true.

https://www.history.com/topics/nostradamus

[fireftr18]

While in college, I did a research paper that dealt with prophecies. As a result, I did a good bit of research on Nostradamus. I didn't use anything from him in my paper.