The Game of Predictions
Originally posted to Galactic Roundtable Discussion group on May 24, 2009. The post concerns the increasing number of predictions being made that were not coming true. Eventually the predictors left the group and the group itself stopped listening to predictions and settled down to the business of preparing for the events themselves, regardless of when they happened.
I’ve been listening to and enjoying the conversation about the so-called “hard date” of July 10, 2009.
Lately I’ve been giving a great deal of thought to the subject of predictions as a consumer and (by now) a connoisseur of them. Perhaps I can join in the discussion.
I enjoy predictions. They are a big part of what draws me to GRT sites.
I say “predictions” and not “prophecies.”
Predictions arise as a result of people analyzing data.
Prophecies are inspired expressions of the divine will, purpose, or command.
You may say that “prophecies” are more certain. Not necessarily.
Notice all the prophecies that have not come true about the “end times.” Where are Gog and Magog, pray tell? Where is the great beast sweeping down from the North? Where is Armageddon? Where is the lake of burning fire and souls cast down for a thousand years?
(I’m not sure if I have these right by the way. I’m just going by memory to make a point.)
The timelines on which these events would have occurred have, I’m told, all been erased so the prophecies have been “overtaken by events.”
So not all prophecies come true and neither do all predictions.
Therefore predictions are what we say things and prophecies are what God says about things.
A prediction is like a game. The basis of a game, as I see it, is that we make something more important than something else.
Let’s create a game called “going to Disneyland.” Before we had no game; now we have one. Having it organizes our time, gives everyone something to do, provides a subject matter for discussions, and promises enjoyment in the future, where before we had no game and none of the rest of these.
So now we have a game called “I predict that NESARA (etc.) will occur before July 10, 2009.”
Having it, a portion of our GRT time is now spent researching the likelihood of these events, finding and analyzing data, asking and answering questions, discussing the pros and cons, and looking forward to what will happen in the future. The site is abuzz. What a great game!
Now the date comes and the event either happens or it does not.
If we agree to play this game as consenting adults, knowing that the event could happen or not, no matter who has lent it credence, then we emerge laughing if it does not come off.
If we play this game like gamblers and addicts (as I have done), for whom much rides upon events happening, making crucial financial and family decisions on the basis of predictions, we’re asking for trouble. If the prediction is incorrect, we may come out the other end flaming mad.
Again, if we play this game for ego reasons, puffing up our chest and saying to friends and family that we know that a new economy is coming within two months, along with a few million flying saucers, we invite looking foolish if these predictions do not occur.
For me, I don’t care who is making the prediction – X, Y, Z, [names removed to prevent a channel war], Peter Rabbit, or the Ace of Spades. The same principle applies. I accept or reject the prediction as a mature consumer who agrees to play the game from a point of responsibility and awareness. (I have not always done so, as you know.)
I play the prediction game because I enjoy it. I realize that the predictor – X, in this case – is making his forecast on the basis of analyzing data available to him. I accept that the prediction may or may not come true.
Certainly some day it will come true. As time rolls by our chance of being right increases. We could say each week that the events will happen next week and one week we would have to be right, regardless of analysis or data.
But, in making predictions, X is applying the benefits of his intelligence (internal and external), is asking sources to confirm, is analyzing data, etc. There are more chances that he would be right than, say, me, if I were to make a prediction.
In regard to the prediction, I am not foolish with my statements to others about it. I only say as much as I need to and as much as people can take about these events. I hope I know when to stop and when not even to start.
So I invite you to enjoy the game of prediction, analyze the data, read “the signs of the times,” and have fun.
But I also caution you against becoming obsessive or compulsive with it, betting the family farm on it, leaving your spouse (or marrying someone else) on the basis of it, or using it to create the persona of an expert. Be responsible with your participation and enjoy.
Whether or not it happens, we remain headed for Ascension and a Golden Age by 2012. That is a prediction I feel safe in making. Predictions more specific than that are harder to make.
