tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143976828657199217.post1945198520170149383..comments2023-05-27T08:37:06.936-07:00Comments on No Longer Reading: Some thoughts on psychicsNo Longer Readinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12716199759491512542noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143976828657199217.post-57023914288130629902021-03-01T22:12:46.076-08:002021-03-01T22:12:46.076-08:00I think you are correct with regards to profession...I think you are correct with regards to professional psychics. Another thing that might happen with them is that if they try to make predictions for people who want to know about the future for bad reasons, the psychics may be prevented from doing so.<br /><br />Also, good observation about global or national predictions. I would think that very few people have the gift to make predictions on such a large scale. Also, the character of the predictions may change. It's interesting that many of the biblical prophets predictions were highly poetic and symbolic in character.<br /><br />When modern people think prediction, they think something quantitative and detailed at the micro-level. As you point out, because of individual free will, predictions don't work that way.No Longer Readinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12716199759491512542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143976828657199217.post-24489091914563634632021-03-01T09:25:41.612-08:002021-03-01T09:25:41.612-08:00Thought-provoking post. It is striking, as you ind...Thought-provoking post. It is striking, as you indicate, that even those minority of clairvoyants and psychics (such as Steiner) who precognitively foresaw some things accurately (were genuine prophets) - also many many errors; and the more 'prophecies' they make, the more errors they make. 'Professional' psychics, people who do channeling for groups etc, and for money; make mostly wrong predictions or else are so vague as to mean nothing substantive - even when they have (or began with) some genuine talent and achievement. <br /><br />I think the reasons you give are the likely cause of this. And that even genuine (and impartial) precognitive prophecy can be negated by free agency, including the free will of God. <br /><br />Another aspect is that the larger the scale of a prediction, then the less likely it is to be true insofar as it depends upon divine will. Detailed global predictions seem always to be wrong. <br /><br />Since God works on the basis of love of individual persons, it may be an intrinsic error to try and predict the future of great masses of people... societies, nations, the human species, the planet... Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143976828657199217.post-42767742380051620002021-03-01T07:42:25.989-08:002021-03-01T07:42:25.989-08:00Interesting synchronicities.Interesting synchronicities.No Longer Readinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12716199759491512542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8143976828657199217.post-35942809932083437092021-02-28T22:48:01.468-08:002021-02-28T22:48:01.468-08:00"The Dalmatian of Faust" is funny. In Go..."The Dalmatian of Faust" is funny. In Goethe's version of the story, the devil first appears to Faust in the form of a dog -- a poodle, though, not a Dalmatian.<br /><br />When I read this post on my screen, the word "maid" was directly above "Tycho's sister." "Tycho" suggests my own name, of course, and I have recently received several email messages about my sister's portrait of Joan of Arc, whom my correspondent always refers to as "the Maid."Wm Jas Tychonievichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07446790072877463982noreply@blogger.com