DRBUZZ0
2nd February 2006, 06:21 PM
Hi.
I recently saw a show on the History Channel which I think should be mandatory viewing for any skeptic or psycic enthusiast.
I was up late at night flipping through the channels and there was a rerun of a documentary produced around 1997, which I had a vague recolection of seeing a few years ago.
The documentary was on modern and past profits and their proficies. They interviewed a bunch of self-proclaimed profits and interperated a lot of ancient writings.
These profits made a number of predictions, applying to the years 1999-2005, none of which came true at all. Some of them included California sinking into the sea, the United States being devided by a great geological rift down the center, as well as a dramatic increase in sea level.
It should be noted that the "profits" talked about this in a very literal sense, drawing maps and describing their visions. So, this was definately not any kind of metaphoric rift.
They also completely missed some major events. There was no mention of September 2001 or New York City being in danger. No talk of a war in Iraq or Afganistan. No indication of Enron or the Columbia disiaster. There wasn't even anything close or which could be vaguely interperated to refrence these events.
One "profit" was so bold as to assert that the "end of the world" would begin in 1999 and that the process of destruction would be complete by the year 2001.
It was nice to look back on some claims as they were recorder a few years ago, rather than hear the current explainations of how predictions had fortold of events, but only were discovered after the fact.
-Steve
I recently saw a show on the History Channel which I think should be mandatory viewing for any skeptic or psycic enthusiast.
I was up late at night flipping through the channels and there was a rerun of a documentary produced around 1997, which I had a vague recolection of seeing a few years ago.
The documentary was on modern and past profits and their proficies. They interviewed a bunch of self-proclaimed profits and interperated a lot of ancient writings.
These profits made a number of predictions, applying to the years 1999-2005, none of which came true at all. Some of them included California sinking into the sea, the United States being devided by a great geological rift down the center, as well as a dramatic increase in sea level.
It should be noted that the "profits" talked about this in a very literal sense, drawing maps and describing their visions. So, this was definately not any kind of metaphoric rift.
They also completely missed some major events. There was no mention of September 2001 or New York City being in danger. No talk of a war in Iraq or Afganistan. No indication of Enron or the Columbia disiaster. There wasn't even anything close or which could be vaguely interperated to refrence these events.
One "profit" was so bold as to assert that the "end of the world" would begin in 1999 and that the process of destruction would be complete by the year 2001.
It was nice to look back on some claims as they were recorder a few years ago, rather than hear the current explainations of how predictions had fortold of events, but only were discovered after the fact.
-Steve