Hi Carol,
We listen to predictions every day from different sources. We watch the weather forecast, the futures market, the expert who tells us who will win the next race, even Gypsy Rosa Lee at Blackpool.
The experts on the stock markets can't even give an acurate prediction as to how much the bourse will rise or fall from one day to the next. They can only have an educated guess asd on the information they receive. Do we criticise them?
Giving exact dates and times, even proximate ones has always been a problem. Before the internet, do we all remember those "The End of the World is Nigh" people carrying their bill boards on street corners?
I think in general, the prediction people are getting the information, evaluating it, translating it and then coming to an educated conclusion with the information they have in hand.
So why do we criticise the 'doom and gloom' merchants as they are so often called because their predictions are off key? I think it's because we could doubt their reasons for arriving at the conclusion that they do.
For example, I'm a facts person. I like to see it in black and white laid out in front of me. For me to accept something exclusively from 'hearsay' or from 'messages' is a little more difficult. However, if there was a solid reasoning, or something 'extra' like a document or newspaper report (me and my black and white) to explain their predictions I would take on board what could happen - after all nobody is infallible.
Some people more spiritually orientated perhaps wouldn't need a document or two (that doesn't mean to say I'm not spiritual).
That was the problem with what's her name, Blossom Goodchild, who had the world on tenter hooks because of her 'message'. Of course because she couldn't 'prove' what she was saying, the public stuck the boot in.
She still has her supporters (of course the more spiritual ones) and life goes on. Others come and others go.
You have to see how they arrive at their prediction. Every case is a seperate case, based on what you want to hear and what you already know.
What I'm trying to say is that we beleive in what is interesting to us as individuals.
Best regards,
Steve
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Originally Posted by Carol
I really do not like it when someone gives dates that this is going to happen or that is going to happen. How many months out of the year have been ruined with this disinfo? How many years? I say.. RAISE CHICKENS and train them to lay eggs at your front door. At least you will eat and can depend on a critter that is reliable.  |