>Some of us speak out prophecies.
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>There are two types: Self-fullfilling prophecies and self-denying prophecies.
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>Can this become a useful thread?
Ok, I'll jump in on this on, since you related it to the future-of-VFP thing:
There is a third type - the self-aggrandizing prophesy - based on the delusion that one's predictions have any impact on the outcome < s >
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
