Comments for Prophecy at http://www.randi.org/site , comment 1 to 28 out of 20 comments http://www.randi.org/site Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:27:12 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/370-prophecy.html#comment-1577 Huree >:( The UK is the first country to make one of my predictions, i.e. extrapolations, come true: [url]http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5439604.ece[/url] >:( :'( - yarro Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:16:30 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/370-prophecy.html#comment-1555 Here are my predictions. 1. My team (the Raiders) will not go to the Super Bowl 2. No one will win the million dollar challenge...even if the price goes up. 3. The sun will come up every morning whether people at the poles believe or not. 4. Uri Geller will say something profound...profoundly stupid 5. There will be more dowsing claims. That's all the tea leaves and astrology books gave me for now. - KillJoy Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:13:29 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/370-prophecy.html#comment-1541 I would like to make just three predictions. 1) 2) 3) Finally - and this is a prediction for 2010: Everyone will become selectively blind. ;) BJ - BillyJoe Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:43:04 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/370-prophecy.html#comment-1522 tnskeptic spoketh thusly: [quote]"A tornado will strike a church during services killing lots of poeple. This will be explained away as God working in mysterious ways," [/quote] You forgot to add: Later that night on the news, some survivors are interviewed, and give thanks to god for saving them, despite the dozens who perished. Three days later, a teenager who was in critical condition, and after a half dozen long surgeries is finally on the road to recovery. This leads his mother to opine "For the grace of god he was saved!" while completely ignoring the efforts of a team full of doctors with hundreds of years of experience using the most modern medical equipment. LH - lennyhipp Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:18:23 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/370-prophecy.html#comment-1516 Psychics will make predictions. No one will check later to see if they come true. Any prediction that can be retrofitted to current events subsequent to the prediction will be touted as a "hit" & proof of psychic ability in general & the special powers of the particular psychic. Some of us unbelievers will later gather collections of the more ridiculous predictions & make fun of them at a later date. How'd I do? P.S. It's not the method, tea leaves, crystal ball, coffee grounds [really - there is a school of coffee-ground reading], tarot, I ching, etc. It's the audience that makes the predictor's career. - Trish Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:03:43 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/370-prophecy.html#comment-1510 I predict... 1. The JREF will put more Liberal/Democratic oriented material on its site. 2. Obama will in fact change nothing and Democratic control will lead to increased taxes. 3. Politicians will be accused of corruption and slip away unscathed. 4. The man who sued $54 million for lost pants will continue to lose in court. 5. Republicans will rely on Jesus and continue to trample on basic logic and science. 6. Constitutional rights will be trampled on and nothing will be done about it. 7. At least one troll will visit the JREF comments section (may have happened already). 8. There will be at least major news story about a multiple homocide which will terrify the American Public. To be fair number 8 has already and I suspect number 7 as well. - drowven Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:33:51 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/370-prophecy.html#comment-1509 I predict $cientology will lose even more followers and garner even more bad press in 09 after getting involved in a very ugly and public fight with one of it's "celebrity" adherants. - cwniles Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:28:30 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/370-prophecy.html#comment-1506 @Realitysage: Number 5 is completely up to us. I can tell you that the JREF often gets letters of thanks from people who've "seen the light." As for 1, I'm not so sure. 2 is doubtful. 3 is probable as is 4. - JeffWagg Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:52:11 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/370-prophecy.html#comment-1503 [b]5 Predictions.[/b]. 1. Woo-woo beliefs will increase threefold. 2. Profits from homeopathy will soar. 3. Main Stream Media will give psychics credibility. 4. Ineffective alternative medicines will remain a huge seller. 5. Religious kooks will continue their quest of imposing their view of morality on everybody else. [b]Bonus:[/b] Skeptics won't make a bit of difference in promoting rational thought. - Realitysage Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:26:14 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/370-prophecy.html#comment-1488 Speaking of prophecies, did anyone catch the mindnumbing set of shows on History this evening: "Nostradamus: 2012" and "The Other Nostradamus" (Edgar Cayce)? So, if the Mayans, Hopi indigenous Americans, Nostradamus, Shipton, and Cayce said it (as vaguely as possible and without particulars), then it must be true. The cavalcade of 'Nostradamus lovers' showed up to show how accurate the quatrains were in the past in 'predicting' (by associative postdiction) events and how all of these things all culminate to some major event in 2012 (the exact event which is, incredibly, left to our imaginations). I only saw the second half of the first show and half of the next farce (I've set the first show to record the second showing to view tomorrow and couldn't really take much of the efusive spewing over wunderkind Edgar). The one thing that had me howling in laughter - but really just replying to the TV with cogent arguments - was the association of the current economic downturn with some quatrain. Interestingly enough, this quatrain could be also directly associated with the stock market crash of 1929 and the depression/drought (dust-bowl) that followed. I'll put money (without even looking it up online) that it indeed was associated with that event. So, does this mean that Nostradamus' quatrains can be associated with multiple events? That is, any events that happen to satisfy these vague generalizations? Me thinks so. Even a caveman can do it... (Hey, I just saved a bunch of money with Anti-woo). Best in the new Sol and remember that humanity's only hope is to extinguish the false light of pseudoscience and blind faith for the candle in the dark whose light is replenished by the fuel of imagination and verification. - Kuroyume Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:07:07 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/370-prophecy.html#comment-1485 1. Huxters will continue to hype 2012 hysteria. 2. History, Discovery, Learning, and A&E will each broadcast some good informative content. 3. But they will broadcast a much larger amount of ignorance and misinformation. 4. A rocker, actor, or wrestler will be found dead, surrounded by empty bottles from liquor and perscription meds. 5. Infomercials will not be required to prove their claims. 6. A high profile liberal activist will be exposed as a mongamous heterosexual. 7. An elected official will be caught flagrantly keeping a campaign promise. 8. Some significant disaster will occur and it will turn out that Sylvia Browne had already predicted it. - dr pepper Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:51:15 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/370-prophecy.html#comment-1484 You cannot make a prediction based on something that doesn't exist. Predicting that Andy Warhol would be the first female president when it obviously isn't going to occur would be an example. He is neither female nor alive, so therefore the prediction is meaningless. - redwench Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:29:25 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/370-prophecy.html#comment-1482 Written in my nape for the year 2009 and beyond; " James Randi Educational Foundation will continue in the forefront fighting ignorance and idiocracy, debunking all kinds of nonsense, pseudoscience and paranormal." - Peter9971 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:19:05 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/370-prophecy.html#comment-1481 hey come on, these are predictions, right? why you get so defensive. - joed Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:08:43 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/370-prophecy.html#comment-1478 Joed, it's spelled America, using a K just shows ignorance. Also, it's not a country. Also you are wrong. - Starthinker Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:54:41 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/370-prophecy.html#comment-1477 I don't know what amerika is, but the United States of America (USA) is not a commonwealth. There are 4 states that are, perhaps you were referring to them? And really, the color of someone's skin has nothing to do with whether we kill them or not. The government of the United States will kill people of any color. - redwench Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:48:59 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/370-prophecy.html#comment-1475 Here's mine: 1. Penumbral lunar eclipse February 9, seen in east Asia, Australia, Indonesia, and the American west. 2. Another one, July 7. 3. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and the moon all appear clustered close together in the east half an hour before sunrise, April 17. 4. A similar clustering of the same planets (and Mercury, for the observant), June 18, 45 min before sunrise. 5. The biggee: total solar eclipse in east Asia, central Pacific, and Hawaii, July 22. That's enough, you get the idea. - DrMatt Sun, 04 Jan 2009 10:34:23 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/370-prophecy.html#comment-1473 1. amerika will lose its moral standing in other countries. 2. amerika will continue killing dark skinned peoples in other parts of the world. 3. the amerikan people will continue to be imature, ignorant and will believe what govt tells them. 4. the commonwealth of amerika will vanish. - joed Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:16:29 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/370-prophecy.html#comment-1471 1. Whoever won the most recent TV talent show (America's Got Talent, or X-Factor in the UK, or whatever is comparable) will have disappeared from the puclic eye by the end of the year. 2. Audley Harrison will finally accept defeat and retire from professional boxing. 3. Jeff Wagg will switch from Bombay Sapphire to Tanqueray. (Sorry, this is cross-pollenating threads!) 4. I will be unemployed by June. 5. Sylvia Browne will die of heart or lung disease. 6. An aging action star will make an un-necessary sequel to an old franchise. 7. Iraq as a sovereign nation will collapse. 8. The Rolling Stones will announce new tour dates. 9. A popular confection will change it's name. 10. The capital of the UK will change from London to Preston, Lancashire, and Helen Howarth will be crowned queen. I should qualify this with something: I'm already aware of Beverly Hills Cop 4 being in production, so I won't count that for #6. My Iraq prediction may be a little quick; I think it'll happen, but not necessarily within 12 months. Oh, and my friend Helen MAY have had a hand in picking #10... - lukedoughaines@hotmail.co Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:41:31 +0100 http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/370-prophecy.html#comment-1470 I predict that John Edwards will contact the spirit of the late Issac Asimov and that Asimov will transmit the contents of his first novel of the 21st century. Copywright laws suits will soon follow. - GMJ Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:31:28 +0100