Premier Rock Forum

Hindsight proves how clearly Griffin was thinking on that day

clocker bob wrote:

ivan wrote:so in summary

That was good, especially the part where you quoted Griffin stating that all the predictions would be completely proved accurate by 6/1/06. Oh, you didn't find that part?

That's the cool thing about making predictions without deadlines- you can potentially be right for as long as the countries and organizations cited in the predictions exist.

that Griffen dude wrote:Unfortunately, they have all come to pass. Here they are as stated on September 14, 2001.

nihil wrote:

that Griffin dude wrote:Unfortunately, they have all come to pass. Here they are as stated on September 14, 2001.

emphasis mine.

ivan wrote:well to quote your good self, mr bob

Hindsight proves how clearly Griffin was thinking on that day

and as i say above, bullshit, even the most cursory inspection of "reality" shows that these predictions remain unproven and totally off the mark, because they are in fact motivated by fanatical rantings about the UN and an isolationist militia mindset. But you are quite right, they might all come true four hundred years from now, man will my great great great grandkids get a chuckle at my expense.

clocker bob wrote:
Warmowski- The UN is the face of globalism that the public sees, and it is specifically kept looking inept and powerless for that very reason- so casual observers will see it as a reflection of the progress of world government, and relax. If Griffin replaced every reference to the UN with New World Order or IMF or GATT or NAFTA, etc., would he then sound like he was ringing an alarm for a real fire?

rayj wrote:Honestly, I take the 'tone' of the predictions as casually accurate, not necessarily the details...not a popular stance for 'conversation lawyer' types, but the stance of someone exhausted with the whole process.

“’I have never doubted the truth of signs, Adso; they are the only things man has with which to orient himself in the world. What I did not understand was the relation among signs. I arrived at Jorge through an apocalyptic pattern that seemed to underlie all the crimes, and yet it was accidental. I arrived at Jorge seeking one criminal for all the crimes and we discovered that each crime was committed by a different person, or by no one. I arrived at Jorge pursuing the plan of a perverse and rational mind, and there was no plan, or, rather, Jorge himself was overcome by his own initial design and there began a sequence of causes, and concauses, and of causes contradicting one another, which proceeded on their own, creating relations that did not stem from any plan. Where is all my wisdom then? I behaved stubbornly, pursuing a semblance of order, when I should have known well that there is no order in the universe.’

‘But in imagining an erroneous order you still found something…’

‘What you say is very fine, Adso, and I thank you. The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw it away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless…’”

Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

tommydski wrote:thanks for posting this bob, i enjoyed reading it a lot.

but still, ivan raises a good point.
i was 17 when he made these predictions and honestly, i remember i made exactly the same ones.