Some VERY Interesting Predictions
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Topic: Some VERY Interesting Predictions
Posted By: rider
Subject: Some VERY Interesting Predictions
Date Posted: 22-Oct-2007 at 18:36
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Well, today I happened to watch a show where a guy who predicts future talked. He said that he had never been wrong with anything (missed the date by more than 6 months)... I don't remember them all (there is a repetition on Thursday and I'll get the others then) but I remember the main ones:
* An asteroid will hit Earth in 2050 wiping out Iceland, the UK and creating large tidal waves * there will exist an unified Islamic state (in the next decade or two... couldn't catch the date) * In 2011 or 2012, Russia will vote for a new constitution * Russia will bail the US out of the Iraqi War * the US will be SEVERELY weakened I don't remember the other ones but what do you think about these? |
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Posted By: Akolouthos
Date Posted: 22-Oct-2007 at 18:50
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About the same thing I think about most fortune telling, which is not much. That said, they are interesting, aren't they? Most of them seem fairly reasonable, and the only one that is really, really out there is the asteroid one (then again, I am not astronomer).
-Akolouthos
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Posted By: Seko
Date Posted: 22-Oct-2007 at 19:29
I have a Sekoistic prediction. 
Here it goes:
- All empires will continue to have bizzare threads that appeal to the masses, specialists and...
 - Seko the Soothsayer
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Posted By: rider
Date Posted: 22-Oct-2007 at 20:15
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Well, by all accounts what he proved on the show he has never been wrong...
I wouldn't like to get hit by an asteroid... What are your evalutations for others? ------------- |
Posted By: Seko
Date Posted: 22-Oct-2007 at 20:35
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rider could you shine some light on that guy's previous predictions that came true? Doe's he pull a rabbit out of his hat or has he a better formula for his predictions? ------------- |
Posted By: SearchAndDestroy
Date Posted: 22-Oct-2007 at 22:24
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Everyone know we are goin to die in 2012. The Mayans said so! ------------- "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." E.Abbey 
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Posted By: Penelope
Date Posted: 23-Oct-2007 at 01:33
I agree with Seko. Rider, if you can give us a little bit of a background on the guy, and his previous "predictions" that supposedly came true, it would be very nice of you.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 23-Oct-2007 at 02:05
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I bet the last prediction is a no brainer. Everybody knows that if the U.S. continues to expend more than what earns, it will be in real throuble in the following decades... |
Posted By: pekau
Date Posted: 23-Oct-2007 at 02:29
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I got a fortune cookie in Vietnam restaurant. I was expecting the usual all-knowing statement, but I was surprised to see this. - GAME OVER -I wonder if that means something... ------------- http://swagbucks.com/refer/Malachi"> 
Join us. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 23-Oct-2007 at 02:39
Better get life insurance 
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Posted By: Omar al Hashim
Date Posted: 23-Oct-2007 at 05:41
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1 & 4 won't happen. 3 & 5 are almost certainties. 2 will happen eventually, but very unlikely in the next decade or so.
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Posted By: gcle2003
Date Posted: 23-Oct-2007 at 14:08
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I agree wiith Omar but Pekau has my sympathy. ------------- |
Posted By: rider
Date Posted: 23-Oct-2007 at 14:18
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I can tell you more after Thursday. I don't remember the most of them but he foretold the rise (correctly) of our politicians (Estonian, that is)... he also seems to have gotten some more things correct which I don't remember.
As I said, on Thursday... ------------- |
Posted By: Maharbbal
Date Posted: 23-Oct-2007 at 22:11
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More interestingly, using game theory, a bunch of social scientist managed to predict correctly 79% of the decision of the US suprem justice. Similarly, they predicted things as varied as the name of the new leader of Iran (in 1980), the collapse of USSR and so on. They are used by the state department and several major companies round the world. They don't really "predict" they estimated the how likely a given event is. They are often correct. ------------- I am a free donkey! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 24-Oct-2007 at 03:23
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But they ususally miss big events, say like the collapse of communism. ------------- |
Posted By: vulkan02
Date Posted: 28-Oct-2007 at 05:01
I think it might be the WWIII the prophetic Bush is warning us about - but then again I don't think we can do anything because he's going to start it  ------------- The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief - Le Bon Destroy first and construction will look after itself - Mao |
Posted By: Panther
Date Posted: 03-Nov-2007 at 23:40
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1.) Atleast i don't have to worry about my current investments as of present. 2.) Maybe in the latter half of this century or the next one? 3.) Perhaps?
4.) When pigs fly
5.) Up and down, down and up... who really knows? I'm still waiting on the predictions of the earlier part of the 19th century, that the US wouldn't be around long enough to be even mentioned by history! And yet...???
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Posted By: longshanks31
Date Posted: 04-Nov-2007 at 22:03
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well i live the uk and im not going to cancel my pension plan or relocate on the basis of this twaddle.
When im watching the olympics in 2012 whilst the russians have done nothing atall to help america and the islamic world is about as unified as william wallaces remains i may well write a letter to this man telling him to get a proper job.
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Posted By: Brian J Checco
Date Posted: 05-Nov-2007 at 06:11
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I'm all for writing that letter now. It would read, "My Dear Fellow, Do please stop scaring our children. We have enough to worry about now with global warming, massive famine in Africa, terrorism, totalitarianism, class-conflict, unremitting ethnic warfare, AIDs, drugs, typhoons, exploitative Capitalism, unaccounted-for Soviet nuclear armaments, George W. Bush, mad cow disease, avian birdflu, etc. Please get a real job, or at least quit this one. If you want to be a doomsayer, then at least get a job with FOX News. Anne Coulter and Bill "I'm a Big Baby" O'Reilley could at least use the company in hell. My most sincere thanks, Concerned Citizen, Brian J Checco, esq." Whatta ya think? |
Posted By: longshanks31
Date Posted: 05-Nov-2007 at 10:14
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That will do for me, i notice he decided to obliterate britain in his predictions and downgrade america to a third world nation, whats everybody got against us, the british and the americans are wonderfull people. ------------- long live the king of bhutan |
Posted By: Ulrich Wolff
Date Posted: 15-Nov-2007 at 16:50
Extremely unlikely. Russia would support the Iraqi's before the US. In fact at the moment Russia is supporting them in arms sales. |