Re: Nostradamus gets it wrong again!

The problem with your thought process is that you relate open-mindedness to
belief. I do not believe that Nosty predictions (or particular
interpretations) will come true any more than they will not, but I would
like to be aware of ALL predictions (even off-the-cuff sarcastic ones) so
that I can be OPEN to the possibility.
--

Jim Scannell
jscannell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Your link on things that are truly im****tant)

"John Griffin" <thathillbilly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "Not Im****tant" <someone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > "John Griffin" <thathillbilly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> > news:Xns9458B2BD0F97Bthathillbillyyahooco@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> The trouble with falling for nonsense like that
> >> Nostradamus garbage is that it goes into your head
> >> unaccompanied by any rational thought, so facts won't help
> >> you get rid of the affliction.  If you didn't desperately
> >> want to believe it, you couldn't.
> >
> > You assume too much. I always consider that what I've been
> > told could be untrue no matter who tells me or what it's
> > about. For instance, I understand the fallibility of human
> > beings that allows people to occasionally not say what they
> > mean like "turn left up ahead" when they really meant
> > right. That's just an example but I find people
> > unintentionally saying incorrect things when I know they
> > know the truth and are NOT trying to lie. I like prophesies
> > because I hate when something happens and someone said
> > AFTERWARD that I should have expected it because of
> > so-and-so prediction. Then I feel stupid for not
> > considering that it could have come true. I believe that
> > there is some prophesy in every work of fiction
> > (unintentional of course) like the book about an unsinkable
> > ****p that hits an iceberg and sinks, decades before the
> > Titanic went down. It is uncanny how often fiction becomes
> > reality. I believe that everyone has the ability to see the
> > future but most everyone ignores it or does not know how to
> > interpret it. Your skepticism is only limiting yourself.
> > Don't mistake other people's open-mindedness with blind
> > faith. --
>
> Rational thought led you to believe that Nostradamus stuff?!
>
> Of course people can "see the future."  I'm completely certain
> there will be a high tide and a low tide tomorrow.  That's just
> some blind faith, but I'm completely open to the possibility
> that there might be two of each.  Anyway, the fact is that a
> million people put a million different "interpretations" to the
> clown's cutesy little poems.  How open minded would you have to
> be to believe every one of them?
>