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Thread #77273   Message #1379109
Posted By: frogprince
14-Jan-05 - 02:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: I did 5 Tsunami paintings 1 year ago
Subject: RE: BS: I did 5 Tsunami paintings 1 year ago
"All people also have a potential for prophecy...The spirit can easily tap into future events"
L.H., I was just about raised on Biblical prophecy. I haven't thrown out the Bible, but I frankly no longer believe in prophetic prediction. There are a few things we can predict with reasonable certainty, such as chemical reactions or the trajectory of a projectile, if we are sure we actually know all the variables. When it comes to the distant details of social and political history, not a chance; everything depends on a virtually infinite number of human decisions, not one of which can be predicted with any certainty. Long range "prophecy" could only be valid if the future was absolutely fixed and determined from the beginning; Calvinism to the Nth degree.
If the mess in Iraq could be predicted a thousand years ago, there is no point in even expressing regret about it; it was inevitable.
I do believe you are, in many regards, a conscious and spritual person. To me that would mean that you should be able to "roll with"
the uncertainty of the future, not depend on alleged foreknowledge.