Wow, a revived thread! I get a kick out of folks who claim there is no such thing as a psychic and that you cannot predict the future because it is logically impossible. This has been scientifically proven. Period. End of Story.
Obviously, it has never happened to them.
I have a very trivial example that is either one of the most amazing coincidences ever, or it is an example of predicting the future. In the last 30 years I have received one speeding ticket. I deserved it: 40 in a 25. I say this simply to establish that I have very little recent history of being a bad driver. (Don't ask about my teenage years!)
Several years ago I had a very vivid dream. It was vivid enough that I still remember parts of it. It involved a police car, flashing blue lights, and driving to work, and 'near' work. At the time I commuted 25 miles each way to my job.
The next day I was driving to work. I was within a couple of miles when I uncharacteristically changed my pattern to avoid a few stoplights and turned left. A block up there was a car waiting to turn left into a parking lot. It was a one lane road. I zoomed around him to his right. Much to my surprise a police car got behind me, turned on its blue lights, and I pulled over. Seems that was illegal. I didn't know. The officer and I had a discussion about it. He said most peole don't. He did the usual checks of license and insurance, and then he let me go. As he was leaving I said, "Hey, I dreamed about this last night! I dreamed I was stopped." He put up his hands as if to ward off my words, laughed, and said, "I don't want to hear about it--too freaky!"
Explain that away if you like. You can ignore it. You can say it's 'anecdotal' and therefore not evidence. You can always say that means nothing. It was a coincidence, or even that I've made the story up. There's nothing I can do to convince you that this was a pre-cognitive dream any more than I can convince you that after a lifetime of study I'm pretty sure there is some sort of 'life-after-death' and I've got some interesting evidence. If you are more cosy in your rationalist comfort zone because anything else is 'too freaky' then you shall live the rest of your life in your zone. That's okay with me. You certainly will not be contributing anything insightful to further our understanding, but I don't need you to affirm what I know happened to me.
A stopped clock is right twice a day.
One out of a thousand professed psychics might be legit, however the likelihood that even they get it right 100 percent of the time is impossible.
I learned an interesting lesson over the last 3 weeks.
I had a large kidney stone that literally made me wish I was dead. I languished in agony with it for about 9 days. I have never been ill like that in my life.
The point is, the thing was only 3mm in size. I am a large person. It affected me in ways that I cannot even begin to describe, but it's what came after that was important.
I lost 40 lbs in water weight after the kidneys started working at full capacity. I am healthier now than I have been. My attitude is better, and will hopefully stay this way, because I am happy to be healthy again.
The kidney stone is a metaphor for the future. A person, or an event, can change everything. Which is why the future is nearly impossible to predict. A person making one decision can affect change without even knowing it.
Psychics who say that they can predict the future, usually stick to the generalities, like disasters, or war. That way they can be right nearly all the time, as there's always a war, and always a disaster somewhere.
To predict when an event will happen to an individual, or a nation, is nearly impossible.
I can predict things all I like, but rare is it that anything comes true. That is unless I'm directly responsible. Like the demise of pies, cakes, and cookies as an example. I can predict those sorts of events with 100 percent accuracy.
I think that there are people who have gifts, but I would hope that those who do remain anonymous so that they don't ever become exploited, or exploit others for monetary gain.
