RE: does the "Israel becoming a nation again prophecy" have any value
March 31, 2017 at 11:41 am
(March 31, 2017 at 5:53 am)Stimbo Wrote:(March 30, 2017 at 9:38 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: You sure it didn't happen because people read the prophecy and made it happen because they wanted to fulfill the prophecy?
Yesterday I had a prophecy that I was eating a meat feast pizza with extra pineapple. Imagine my surprise later that evening when I went and bought a meat feast pizza with extra pineapple for my tea. Prophet status: still unmatched.
That is the insidious flaw in our species. Even with no name small "cults" like Heaven's Gate. It isn't that there is any such thing as a prophecy, but in that humans will try to force an event after an ambiguous claim. Even cons like the ball and cup or three card Monty, and psychics work backwards like that. If you really want to see something that is not there it is very easy for a con, or deluded nut or both, to convince you of such.
I used to work with an idiot at a pizza chain, that kept on claiming that when he would go out to smoke, it would make the phones ring. All I could think screaming in my head every time was, "no you fucking moron, the phone rings because we are open". Selection bias and sample rate error. He never noticed the times he was not interrupted nor all the other employees who also smoked who also didn't get interrupted sometimes.
He even thought that because on a slow day, once, that three people in a row, after hours of no calls ordered the same pizza, that there was something spooky about it. Yea funny how he ignored, maybe because of marketing and it being lunch time the company bought TV adds selling it? He stupidly mentioned this to a customer and I responded, "What would amaze me is if three customers in a row called us asking to buy tires for their car".
Great analogy on your part.
