Danny R
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Its a proven fact that given any "prediction" of sufficiently vague wording, you will get a hit of some sort. After all, Nostradamus published hundreds of verses supposedly predicting the future... but people can only point to a handful of possible hits, and of those not a single one is an exact prediction without some flaws. Not exactly proof he was seeing the future in my view.
For instance a few years back someone published a book about the "Bible Code"... where if you put all the first 5 books of the bible together and then start skipping x number of characters forward, you can spell out new words that supposedly have relevance to the future.
However a mathmatician found he could find the same phenomenon in War and Peace.
Basically such prophecies are like what supposed psychics today use... a form of cold reading where you throw out seemingly random garbage and then narrow it down based on a sophisticated analysis of the person you are reading's feedback. Given enough random stuff, you are bound to get a hit.
[Edited last by Danny R on September 14, 2001 at 01:11 PM]
For instance a few years back someone published a book about the "Bible Code"... where if you put all the first 5 books of the bible together and then start skipping x number of characters forward, you can spell out new words that supposedly have relevance to the future.
However a mathmatician found he could find the same phenomenon in War and Peace.
Basically such prophecies are like what supposed psychics today use... a form of cold reading where you throw out seemingly random garbage and then narrow it down based on a sophisticated analysis of the person you are reading's feedback. Given enough random stuff, you are bound to get a hit.
[Edited last by Danny R on September 14, 2001 at 01:11 PM]
