RE: Truly Psychic...Not Ashamed.
September 27, 2015 at 7:51 am
(This post was last modified: September 27, 2015 at 8:00 am by Fake Messiah.)
All psychics are frauds, except one who, if alive today, would be mega trillionare since he saw future so clearly that he would see lottery numbers. I'm talking of course about Aristonidis, the sixteenth-century count whose predictions continue to dazzle and perplex even the most skeptical. Typical examples are:
“Two nations will go to war, but only one will win.”
(Experts feel this probably refers to the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05 — an astounding feat of prognostication, considering the fact it was made in 1540.)
“A man in Istanbul will have his hat blocked, and it will be ruined.”
(In 1860, Abu Hamid, Ottoman warrior, sent his cap out to be cleaned, and it came back with spots.)
“I see a great person, who one day will invent for mankind a garment to be worn over his trousers for protection while cooking. It will be called an ‘abron’ or ‘aprone.'”
(Aristonidis meant the apron, of course.)
“A leader will emerge in France. He will be very short and will cause great calamity.”
(This is a reference either to Napoleon or to Marcel Lumet, an eighteenth-century midget who instigated a plot to rub bearnaise sauce on Voltaire.)
“In the New World, there will be a place named California, and a man named Joseph Cotten will become famous.”
(No explanation necessary.)
“Two nations will go to war, but only one will win.”
(Experts feel this probably refers to the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05 — an astounding feat of prognostication, considering the fact it was made in 1540.)
“A man in Istanbul will have his hat blocked, and it will be ruined.”
(In 1860, Abu Hamid, Ottoman warrior, sent his cap out to be cleaned, and it came back with spots.)
“I see a great person, who one day will invent for mankind a garment to be worn over his trousers for protection while cooking. It will be called an ‘abron’ or ‘aprone.'”
(Aristonidis meant the apron, of course.)
“A leader will emerge in France. He will be very short and will cause great calamity.”
(This is a reference either to Napoleon or to Marcel Lumet, an eighteenth-century midget who instigated a plot to rub bearnaise sauce on Voltaire.)
“In the New World, there will be a place named California, and a man named Joseph Cotten will become famous.”
(No explanation necessary.)
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
