| Darkland |
01-01-2008 11:29 AM |
Anybody who takes this stuff serious needs help. Lets think about it for a moment.
1. If there was actually people with some kind of pyschic ability to see into the future, why wasn't there more of them instead of just a few? It's been 100's of years. Are we saying that they alone had some access to divine knowledge or were chosen prophets and that not a single person since then could possibly possess the same powers. Odds are against it.
2. Why have there been no others since? And I am not talking about the crack pots who claim to have predicted something after an event or made vague general ones that they later attached to an event. Ever wonder why predictions never REALLY nail it right on the head but have to be curtailed to fit an event based on their general, symbolic or non-descript narrative?
3. Look at the time frame of his writings to date. It's been over 400 years. If someone were to write a book with vague or symbolic and non-desript predictions of the future today, it's a logical assumption that given enough passage of time, somebody will find something to attach your predictions to.
4. Many if not most of his predictions also referenced or described some of the social, economic and political climes of his time, including the ones he saw coming by means of cause and effect. Guess what? History always repeats itself. Those same issues they had back then are the same issues we deal with today. Human nature and it's views of the world around them will never change. So in a way the future is always predictable by merely looking into the past. There is nothing special in this.
5. Here is the one that gets most people. If you believe that he was gifted with psychic ability or that he was a prophet like most of his followers believe him to be, then you also have to accept all aspects of the supernatural and paranormal. It's a double edge sword. Just like in organized religion who denounce the existence of all things supernatural or paranormal without proof or investigation. They believe in God and the Bible, the book is full of the supernatural and paranormal, including a God they have absolute faith in that can never be realized through sight, sound or touch, yet they deny the possibilty of these unexplained events in present day culture. By there very nature you would think they would believe in it ALL.
Fact of the matter is, these types of subjects will always hold three views. The Logical View, which calls for reasonable doubt, only to be proved with rock hard data and evidence. OR. The Open Minded View, which calls for neither the belief or disbelief in anything. These are the side liners of our world and really don't contribute anything to the debate. OR. The Fanatical View, which only requires you to believe what you are told and read or simply what you WANT to believe, regardless of real proof or evidence.
It is easy to see which view is more popular just by these basic definitions. This is why the Fanatical View of the world is STILL so predominate in this day and age.
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