Continued from above...

Jehovah's Witness have predicted the "Return" no less than 9 times thru the years..1874...1878...1881...1910...1914...1918...1925...1984...they now claim to be out of the prediction game but I predict they will be back when they find another way to make some money off of their predictions.

Bill Maupin of the Lighthouse Gospel Tract Foundation predicted the "Return" to occur on June 28 1981...When that date past it was changed to August 7 1981...and finally changed to May 14 1988. His predictions all based on the founding State of isreal in 1948.

Some other predictions do not cover Gloom and Doom so much as just the future of our tecnology and again they fail.

1949 the March edition of Popular Mechanics predicted that computers would weigh no more than 1.5 tons...heck of a lap top

In 1943 Thomas watson chairman of IBM is quoted "I think ther is a world market for maybe 5 computers"

In a Western Union internal memo from 1876..."This telephone has too amny shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communications. the device is of no value to us"

1929- "Stocks have reached a permanently high pleateau" Irving Fisher a professor of economics at Yale

1966 - Arthur C Clarke...love his stories...predicted "Flying Houses" by 2001. He envisioned whole neighborhoods flying south for the winter or for just a change of scenery.

This is why I have a hard time accepting predictions based on just the word of someone else. Too many post on ATS offer some wild theory and end with the Words "Just Trust Me". I think events are going to happen each and every year or every day that could lead some one to say I told you so. Lets relax and enjoy the life we have and concentrate on makeing 2010 a good year without looking ahead at another prediction. If its meant to be its meant to be and nothing we do will change it but past track records of predictions do not look good.

never seen an correct prediction myself... and people claiming that Nostradamus got things right are full of #.

my lines are too short...

When it comes to prophesy there are two sides to the coin. There is the dream (or inspiration) and there is the interpretation of said dream.

Remember the story of Joseph and the Pharaoh. The Pharaoh had the dream of the 7 fat cows being swallowed by the 7 skinny cows. The Pharaoh had he premonition but none of his priests knew how to interpret the dream...but Joseph was wise enough to interpret it properly.

The point is that you can have one talent without having the other (Joseph, according to scripture, could do both).

But the ability to prophesize is real...most people can perform one end or the other...but it's the degree of accuracy that's difficult.

I can only assume that they're frauds...that they make their living off of their sensationalism...hoping that something comes true that they can point to and claim as a success...or, in the case of the Internet, they're probably a bit wacky...or just out to pull your leg.

I must agree with you...HOAXERS. It seems that is the game plan for profiting off others. If its not some doom and gloom preacher with his hand out, its a 2012 end of earth prediction with links to Amazon for survival equipment. If the 2012 stuff is correct then no amount of survival gear is going to help unless its like faith and gives people peace of mind.

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If you're interested in prophesy, pick an event, like an upcoming football game, and as you go to sleep think of dreaming about the final score; as you go deeper into sleep, keep that thought in mind...keep a pad and pen near your bed-stand so that if you wake up in the middle of the night, you can write down your dream...but you have to really want/desire the dream...try it a few times and don't get frustrated if nothing happens (sometimes it's very difficult to wake yourself out of a sound sleep to write down your results and believe me, you probably can't rely on your memory in the middle of the night)...anyway, try it...you'll be surprised by the results.

Good luck.

If this is true I will be the richest man in the world before long! LOL I mean imagine the choas in Vegas if a dream could predict the outcome of a football game. And if I am pulling for the Cowboys and my dream shows them winning 42-0 then they win 42-0 right? But what if some guy is pulling for the Eagles and dreams that the score will be 24-0 in favor of the eagles...who's dream wins out mine or his? Same thing for lottery tickets...I know there are people out there who play the same numbers every day and dream even pray that those numbers will come up as the winning numbers so they will be rich. i understand what you are saying that the dream provides the answer not that i can make those numbers come up if I dream about them but still 2 opposing dreams would nullify each other so the last one to dream the correct score is right or what?

There's only one right answer...not opposing dreams...one dream is right and the other is incorrect.

The dream doesn't change or affect the future...the dream shows you the future.

I'm sure this sounds "kooky" but just try it for a while and see how you do...just remember, you have to want it...but you never know, you may be a natural and it will come easy.

Now that's too funny...as a child I used to have dreams about flying like Mighty Mouse (with the red vapor trail and all). Most amusing.

As for the black and white dreams, that's not quite true...lots of people dream in color.

As for remembering your dreams, if you don't have a purpose (i.e. you're trying to figure out the football game score), then what's the point in remembering the dream? In other words, if you have a purpose (figuring out the football game score), and you've set yourself up to think/dream about it, then you will dream about it...capturing the dream is the difficult part...but it can be done...

If I managed to "Capture" the dream as you say there is no way for me to know if it is the real one or the false one until after the event, in this discussion a footbal game. Therefore it cannot be a way to foretell something since i would never know if it was the real one or not and as a predicter I always have that to fall back on when my predictions fail to come about...Oh it was just a false event so predictions cannot be real maybe more like guesses and guesses will not make me rich with money that according to a lot of people I need to spend it before December 2012.

do predictions ever come correct?

How about *this* one?!

about a year ago, my deceased father came to me, in my dream. he died about 1987. Here in the dream he looked about 40 years old, not 73 when he died. This dream had all of the hallmarks, to me, of a Direct spirit visit.

In life he was interested in weather, a lot. He also was psychic.

the Dream of about a year ago.

"2010 WILL BE *VERY* COLD"!

The tone was serious, a great empathies upon the word "cold"!
[as if all the year will be colder than normal, summer too.]

yes?
warmed up to 39 today in North Florida! Orlando had 37 degrees at 9 AM!
No end in sight, they say.

freestone

SOME PREDICTION ARE NOT CORRECT...
BUT THIS PREDICTION IS 101% CORRECT
that our SWAMI RAMDEV is going to rule the world
the indians worship the sun and in every ritual and custom we make swastika which is the symbol of prosperity...which has become a symbol of evil after hitler used it in his evil plans the coming era is of INDIA..
further proof nostradamus says that the country who will rule the world will be surrounded by water on all the three sides...see the map of india and you will see that we are surrounded by water on all three sides
EAST-BAY OF BENGAL,WEST-ARABIAN SEA,SOUTH-LACCADIVIA SEA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN
and forget the EXTREMELY WEAK LEADERSHIP OF OUR COUNTRY...because in the next elections we are going to @#$% congress..
and also HINDUISM is a religion which had been on this earth since the advent of mankind so which religion is the greatest..even a kid can decide..also about baba RAMDEV I WILL JUST SAY GOOGLE "bharat swabhimaan" and also see the photo of baba ramdev zoom it and see his fore head there is a clear sign which nostradamus says about the SECOND christ
HE IS THE TO KALKI AVATAR OF KALYUG
do not go by the appearance he has followers in billions
THERE ARE ONLY THREE RELIGIONS IN THIS WORLD WHICH CAN BE PROCLAIMED THE PATH TO GOD OR THE TRUE RELIGIONS THEY ARE CHRISTANITY,HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM
ALSO ISLAM IS THE RELIGION OF DEVIL AND MUST BE ERADICATED FROM THIS EARTH FOR THE BENEFIT OF MANKIND
JAI HIND!
JAI BHARAT MATA!!