by Psychotic » Mon Jul 23, 12 1:50 am
So was Nostradamus apparently but people fail to realise he made large numbers of predictions, many of which were else false or extremely exaggerated by mistranslation after mistranslation.
After the initial earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, there was a man going around making subsequent predictions. When he was right he would be praised and get much media attention and glory. The problem people failed to realise was that he made numerous predictions on his blog and most of them were based on nothing but guesswork. The guy made so many predictions that one was bound to be true sooner or later, and he called his predictions "true" because of this.
I don't know Kurzweil though, and so I do not know how many so-called "predictions" he has made, but I've seen and heard enough predictions in my short lifetime to become very cynical and jaded by anything being claimed by a random stranger I've never ever heard of.
This is why I would much rather know how they come to such conclusion. The man in my example above made numerous false predictions but each one he made he believed was true. What I found more interesting wasn't that he was talking bullshit but that he was trying to back up his claims with scientific data. Ultimately, he could have been trying to ruse everyone (and I believe he was, personally) but he had more reasons for his predictions than "God told me, dickz."
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Psychotic on Mon Jul 23, 12 1:51 am, edited 1 time in total.
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