Prophecy doesn't make sense

[arewethereyet]

I was thinking about the nature of prophesies today and it occurred to me that tying something that happens to something someone said previously and trying to hold that up as supernatural, doesn't actually make sense.

I thought about putting a caveat on that, like, "Well, if it's super specific..." but no, that falls prey to the same flaw as regular, vague/ poetic prophecy does.

A prophecy is "you have told me how this will happen." You have given me directions to follow. If I want to fulfill a prophecy, I could(or likewise, anyone else who comes along with the intent to do so). The fact that I do so, doesn't mean you actually predicted the future. And isn't that poisoning your control group if you tell people a prophecy? There's no way after that to determine if the future was predicted or some one did something to fulfill it deliberately. 

The only way you could know a prophecy was real and true is to blind fold the prophecy speaker, take them to an unfamiliar place, and keeping them blindfolded, they predict things happening mere seconds before they do. 

Or, you predict a bunch of stuff, write it all down, but don't tell anyone, then lock the prophesies in a box with the date you locked it written inside. It would have to be untouched until after the prophesies were fulfilled and you'd need to prove without a doubt no one heard them before, after, or during the locking it in a box. Then you could open it and see all these super specific things and dates that were predicted before they happened. But proving a prophecy IS a prophecy and not just directions in a scam, is a very unhelpful magic trick at that point.

I see the prophecies as sort of like horoscopes.  Most are vague enough that you can make them fit with enough mental gymnastics.