I suppose you're correct, Orion But...is there any other point to this thread?
Actually, yes.
The main point is in many of our previous predictors of the future, who reside dead in the past. My point is a question: Why do people take such faith in people who predict the future? We have had many people like this in the past, and all of them have been proven wrong except in one area: Generalized predictions. That's where my OP comes in. I made several semi-specific and general predictions, much like the ones in the past. They are highly likely to occur, probably in the next 200-400 years, tops.
So yes, my question is why people cling to such generalized predictions made by people who could predict the day they would die?
If ANYONE gets what that quote above is from you can....well...I'll think of something.
Can I Haz cookies?!?! Ain't it from Modern Warfare II spent ages at my mates house playin' that game.... still haven't got it myself though (but my bday is next month so fingers crossed lol)
As for the thread it's actually quite intersting I think. "Psychics" use the same kind of stuff to make predictions that appear like foresight but are really just general statements that are true of most people.
Most of the predictions, I reckon, are merely coincidental. Although, that may be an understatement. However, I think predictions usually upon the given factual information and circumstances. So, if there is a higher probability of it occurring and even if it was only partly true, we'd jump to the conclusion that the prediction was correct. Although, stating an obvious occurrence would be equivalent to making a laughing stock of yourself.
For instance, if I predict that tomorrow would be a Friday, people would throw shoes at me. However, if I predict that a major war would commence in the next forty or hundred years and even if a cold war erupts, some people would immediately call me a Psychic.
This is from the end of campaign in Modern Warfare ll.
That was so completely irrelevant it's pathetic.
For instance, if I predict that tomorrow would be a Friday, people would throw shoes at me. However, if I predict that a major war would commence in the next forty or hundred years and even if a cold war erupts, some people would immediately call me a Psychic.
Which is why I question why people lay such trust in 'sychics'. They make predictions about likely things, and they happen. That's just, as you put it, coincidence.
Which leads me to believe people are really stupid, or really gullible, or both.
While part of me accepts your explaination for your original post, another part of me feels the urge to call you an idiot for putting a time frame of 200-400 years on such things.
