I've been following the predictions of the "time monks" (i.e., the Web Bot guys) for quite a while, and it's absolutely amazing how this stuff works. The theory is basically that there is such a thing as a collective subconscious, and that, if there's a lot of buzz around certain terms on the Internet, it can actually predict the future.

They don't scan everything on the Internet, only message forums and the like, and they look for certain terms showing up in correlation with other, seemingly unrelated terms.

For example, it will raise a red flag when on a gardeners forum, people talk about growing food, and then someone comes in and talks about being afraid. Food + fear = a potential Web Bot meme. Of course, you have to take this times a million or so, since the time monks don't just look at ONE forum but thousands to come up with their memes.

Since I've been following their predictions, they've been bang on a number of times. Not always, since sometimes those things don't manifest, or manifest in a lesser way than the memes hinted at. But some things have been amazingly accurate.

1. Veterans seize a national monument in May/June. At that time, the IWVP (Iraq War Veterans for Peace) held a huge protest and seized the National Archives. It wasn't widely reported in the press, but it happened.

2. Major, major earthquake coinciding with/disrupting a wedding. Jenna Bush's wedding was 22 hours before the huge earthquake hit China last month. Also, there were photos of a Chinese wedding going around the globe that was disrupted the Sichuan earthquake. You can see the debris falling in the photos, etc. That was so spot on, my jaw dropped. What they didn't get right in their predictions was the location -- that's a real problem with the Web Bots -- they thought the earthquake would be in the US.

So, the Web Bots do have their vagaries -- as I said, location, for example -- but there have been enough right-on hits that I believe in them. I'm definitely keeping updated on this stuff.

Tip: if you want to keep in the loop on the predictions, read George Ure's (www.urbansurvival.com) daily economic newsletter. It's free, and it frequently mentions and evaluates the Web Bots predictions.

Nevermind, getting confused. The one on the web bot predictions, number 3 is not available, which makes me curious what was in it. The number 3 I watched was called, Prophecy & the Coming Deception, which I clicked from the users videos and provided an interesting quote.