(June 11, 2024 at 5:23 pm)Questor Wrote:(June 11, 2024 at 3:53 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: How can the movement of a star hundreds or thousands of light years away have any effect on a person? A car driving past will have a greater gravitational field than a distant star, I can't think of any other force that a star can produce. (the same is also true for planets too!)
I don't know, but some people are quite entranced by the idea.
I believe the point being made was that the liklihood of prophecy being accurate was akin to that of a horoscope being accurate.
I might check your horoscope, if I knew how to do so, but how would I ever discern its accuracy? It would be about your personal life, and how you subjectively saw it to apply to you.
Prophecy being specifically targeted to the history of a well-tracked group of people allows each prophecy to be checked objectively.
Bolded, You should have stopped right there.
"For the only way to eternal glory is a life lived in service of our Lord, FSM; Verily it is FSM who is the perfect being the name higher than all names, king of all kings and will bestow upon us all, one day, The great reclaiming" -The Prophet Boiardi-
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