A Prophesy

[M. T. Cross]

Heh!

I mention the Canucks winning the Cup and the Albertan falls silent.

[Overaged]

Heh!

I mention the Canucks winning the Cup and the Albertan falls silent.

yeahoo!

[Overaged]

Originally Posted By: Overaged

What is your definition of prophecy? What do you base this definition on?

You sir have asked the million dollar question!

You can just send me 500 dollars...

[fccool]

I think prophecy would be believable, if it was fairly specific, and did not fall into the category of self-fulfillment.

There are a number of prophetic modes found in various religions historically. I'm not merely speaking about the Bible.

1) Writing about present events as though they are future, to validate the work as prophetic.

2) Giving very vague and symbolic predictions about the future events that would fit just about anything.

3) Hijacking the prophesies of the past to make them look like these have been specifically fulfilled by a certain person, or event when constructing new mythology, or extension of the mythology.

4) Giving inevitable predictions that will happen given certain set of circumstances that were known

These "prophecies" happen in virtually any culture and mythology. In fact, prophecy is very common to mythology. Oddly enough, these seem to stop in the age when information propagation increases, because it's much easier to verify things and call fraud. It's much more difficult to do so with unverifiable past, that's why the holy books largely reside in ancient times.

[OzarkWoman]

I am sorry to butt in here, but I have a question about prophecy if you don't mind. What about someone who has dreams that come true? Is that considered prophecy?