** 20-Nov-2019 World View: Prophecies
richard5za wrote:
> I think that this website is about fully understanding and
> interpreting the signs of the times and using that to draw
> conclusions on where things are headed. I certainly don't think it
> helps to be Catholic, or any other faith. Interpreting the signs
> of the times was something the biblical prophets of the First
> Testament were good at, some say divinely assisted, others say a
> deep understanding of where human nature was taking events. To be
> human is not to know the future, but you can interpret and predict
> with some accuracy.
> I do think, John, that you are onto a remarkable method of
> understanding human behavior cycles and the expected type of
> events that this would lead to. Like the prophets of ancient
> Israel that makes you despised by people who regard their ways,
> wealth and other privilege as a god given right. I suspect your
> name will be held high long after you have passed on!
Lol! Well thank you for that. Unfortunately, I expect to be
forgotten, except by a few dozen people, within two-three weeks after
I'm dead. I expect my fate to more like that of the mythical
Cassandra than that of the Biblical Jeremiah.
In fact, I have no further goals in life except not to be assaulted,
raped and murdered like Cassandra, and not to be thrown into a pit and
then stoned to death like Jeremiah, but instead to die quickly and
painlessly.
Having this conversation with you now is evoking memories of about a
decade ago, when you suggested that I should write to the local
Catholic Church and tell them that you said that I was a prophet. I
thought that whole idea was extremely bizarre, but I did it anyway
because you asked me to and you encouraged me too. So I did write a
couple of e-mail messages. I don't recall what I wrote, but I could
dig them out of my files if you're interested. At any rate, I was
simply blown off -- I received no response. This was not surprising
to me. In fact, I would have been shocked to receive any reply at all
to a claim that I was a prophet. (Though other people have also told
me that I'm a prophet, which is amusing to hear, of course, but not
worth much.)
I'm trying to remember what I hoped might come out of such a contact,
if they ever responded. I remember having a fantasy around that time,
or perhaps several years earlier, that some Monastery would offer me
free food and board and medical, and also provide computer, internet
and cable tv, which is really all I need to live, so that I could
continue doing what I was doing them (and am doing now). In exchange,
according to this fantasy, I would go around the Monastery and make
sure all the computer systems were in order, and fix them if they were
not. I could also produce a "Words of the Prophet" newsletter of
sorts. Looking back at this it's all hilarious -- and I even think
that I thought so at the time -- the idea that the Catholic church
would declare me to be a prophet, and would give me a Monastery room
with all I need to live on, in exchange for fixing their computers.
It just goes to show what a pathetic person I am. Any reasonable
person's fantasy would involve being locked up in a room with
beautiful women. But not me. My fantasy is to be locked up in a room
with a computer. Pathetic.
richard5za wrote:
> But getting to the "group think" I was on about. Its much easier
> to interpret the direction that the amplitude. We all seem to be
> agreed that the stock market is much, much too high and will
> correct a lot. The debate is about things becoming so bad that it
> results in the global devastation as predicted by Aeden and
> Higg. It may happen, but I think the view is too black/white with
> all the shades of grey cast aside. There's no probability cone
> with high, medium and low probability interpretations.
I have to dispute the "group think" concept, which has the implication
that we're all going along with some fad. In fact, everyone's views
are strongly held outside this forum. Higgie and I, for example, have
quite different views of the direction the world is going, and we've
had dozens of discussions of this. His view that the world is
entering a new Dark Age, which he's described many times and provided
evidence for, is not one I can agree with. I see the world just
having "another world war," worse than the last one, but not the end
of the world. In fact, I expect some four billion people to be killed
by ground war, nuclear weapons, conventional weapons, disease and
famine, leaving some five billion people behind to rebuild the world.
Furthermore, technological progress, including the development of
computers and AI, will have proceeded and will proceed as if no war
has ever occurred, since that's what always happens.
richard5za wrote:
> But in gratitude: I purchased your book on China, John, and its a
> fascinating read. I have read your posts for some 14 years and
> find them an excellent way of understanding what is going on, I
> have recently returned to the forum and really enjoy the
> informative posts of Aeden and Higg, same personalities as a dozen
> years ago. Thank for all your inputs.
Well, thanks for buying my book, and I'm glad you enjoyed it! Now if
only 10,000 more people would buy the book, I would be in good shape.
Your observation about Aeden and Higgie is interesting, and I hadn't
really thought about it before. Many other people have come and gone,
but the three of us have been fairly constant contributers.
(Actually, Higgie disappears every now and then, and whenever he does,
I assume that he's losing money, but I could be wrong.)
richard5za wrote:
> Changing the subject: I have a horrible feeling that the crash is
> not that many months away.
Well, you may be right, but I've that feeling any number of times.
I always like to point to the fact that today, 90 years after after
the 1929 crash, no one yet knows why there was a panic on October 28,
or why it didn't occur a few months earlier or later.
So, if you correctly call the time of the crash, then you too
can be called a prophet!