>Subject: RE: virus: Prophecy
>Date sent: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:34:02 +0200
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>> But why choose Cheney as the prophet? I cannot imagine that he was the
>> only one to notice that a disaster was looming. Of course you can call
>> me on this, but I feel confident that I will have no trouble finding
>> other 'prophets' of an event that was more or less inevitable.
>>
>I didn't say that there aren't plenty of others (although, considering
>Hermit's many failed predictions of doom if his appeasatory and self-
>blaming US foreign policy advice was not followed, he is
>unquestionably not among them), just that in the context of that single
>statement, Cheney was indeed prophetic.
>I have the feeling, however, that if I'd titled the post "A Prophet" instead,
>I still would've been flamed, simply because some people onlist cannot
>stand for anyone in the current administration to be right about
>ANYTHING.
>>
>> Blunderov
>>
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>> Dick Cheney asserted that if X was not done, then Y would eventually
>> happen.
>>
>> X was not done.
>>
>> Y indeed eventually happened.
>>
>> This defines Cheney's assertion as prophetic.
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Why not make the more likely assumption also that the event was a conspiracy,
intended to help take control of the US peoples?
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