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Originally Posted by Xplicit
After watching 'decoding nostradamus' im somewhat 50/50 about him.
How he accurately predicted his king would die is pretty crazy.
BUT, it does seem like he wrote SOOOO MUCH STUFF that some of it eventually has to become true, espically since he never said WHEN these things would happen.
So believers get excited when a 'prediction' becomes true, and then claim he's never been wrong because everything else hasnt come true 'yet'.
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Why don't people consider something else besides the "magic" aspect of a psychic.
For example, how about a term like "precise determination" which I just coined. Is it possible for a person to be aware of human nature and circumstances to the point that they can make a precise determination about the events to happen? Everybody can do this for a case where someone says "I'm going to stick my hand in the fire for 2 minutes". We can all precisely determine that this dumb ass is going to the hospital in 5 minutes.
The problem comes in when we (meaning you and me) don't have the full information about human nature and circumstances to do this but the other person does. We then call that person a "psychic".
I predicted the US would still be fighting in Iraq in 5 years before the war started. I was not "psychic"! I just recognized the stupid human nature of the idiot in charge and understood the circustances in the middle east that would make Iraqis fight a guerilla war until the end of time. To those who had no clue about the nature/circumstances I would be a phsysic to those who had a clue I would simply have been logical.