Originally posted by inimalist
proving the negative now, are we?Prophets aren't real, what they predict doesn't come true. But if it does...
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also, I don't think prophets ever claimed to be the cause of such events
😂 quiet you. you know we're in agreement, but choose to play the semantic devil's advocate.
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prophecies are like horoscopes. if you're determined enough, you can twist them around to mean anything.
it's very nice that the mayan had such a developed astrology system and mathematic system. but nobody should get all 'y2k' about december 21, 2012. remember how silly those people ended up feeling... they're probably still eating those canned goods.
Originally posted by siriuswriter
prophecies are like horoscopes. if you're determined enough, you can twist them around to mean anything.it's very nice that the mayan had such a developed astrology system and mathematic system. but nobody should get all 'y2k' about december 21, 2012. remember how silly those people ended up feeling... they're probably still eating those canned goods.
The Mayan's didn't have astrology at all, but they were great astronomers.
Originally posted by siriuswriter
prophecies are like horoscopes. if you're determined enough, you can twist them around to mean anything.
Very good point. I had the same discussion with Nuclear Winter in the conspiracy forum when he took umbridge to the fact that deep within one of his massively long posts he used a Nostradamus prediction to try and say that sometime before the end of this decade a huge disaster was going to occur but he actually deliberately missed out the line from the prediction that gave a specific date being in 1999.
He continually claimed that it didn't mean 1999 when it literally translated from French into "the 7th month of the year 1999".
He simply wouldn't back down on the point. Making all his other postings seem equally as tainted.
Originally posted by jaden101
Very good point. I had the same discussion with Nuclear Winter in the conspiracy forum when he took umbridge to the fact that deep within one of his massively long posts he used a Nostradamus prediction to try and say that sometime before the end of this decade a huge disaster was going to occur but he actually deliberately missed out the line from the prediction that gave a specific date being in 1999.He continually claimed that it didn't mean 1999 when it literally translated from French into "the 7th month of the year 1999".
He simply wouldn't back down on the point. Making all his other postings seem equally as tainted.
exactly. i watched the much-played 'nostradamus effect' on the history channel the other day, and the quatrains they attributed to both 9/11 and 'the end of the world' i saw could also be describing, respectively, the black plague and hurricane katrina [or a particularly bad tsunami.]
however, since people want to know the answers to the great mysteries - just like people want to know when that tall dark handsome stranger is going to appear, they'll use whatever material they can grasp at to point to the wanted meaning.
i suppose this post will make me unpopular with any conspiracy theorists. ah, well. i'll mourn and move on.
You just made 4 pots in 5 minutes. IN A ROW. Thats just rude.
There is an edit button. Use it.
Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
I dont know to much about the mayans but did they believe in god?
if they didnt than this is not religious...
They believed in the real gods.
Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
how about the people who predicted 911?
this one guy said something like."3 birds will fly to a building and it will crumble" before it even happened
...but thats not what happened.
Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
IMO yes they can, but i have no way to back this up
I have no reason, I just do!
Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
how about the people who predicted 911?
this one guy said something like."3 birds will fly to a building and it will crumble" before it even happened
That is not prediction. That is postdiction.
Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
IMO yes they can, but i have no way to back this up
Some people believe in unicorns, and Santa Clause. Those belief make it true?
Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
some people dont believe in god does that make it true?
Your logic is cercular. Beliefs only make something true in the mind of the believer. This is a delution. Someone can believe that a bullit will not kill them, and if they believe it enough, they will act like bullits cannot hurt them. However, that does not mean they can survive the impact of a bullit.