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Originally posted by RFBurns
As many times as WEBBOT has been wrong, why do so many keep on thinking it will be right the next time around?
Sounds to me like too much faith and hope is being put into a hopeless non-living thing over and over again...which has only led these believers in WEBBOT to the same dead end only to start up another prediction, that will no doubt repeat itself as it has many times before.
Talk about false God's!!!!
Your better off just guessing for yourselves than to be relying on some web based word searching bot software that does nothing more than count words and forms a conclusion based on paranoia and very little fact.
Cheers!!!!
Originally posted by RolandBrichter
I happened upon an interesting prediction made by Dannion Brinkley..He wrote a book "Saved By The Light" which was published in 1994 after he suffered a near death experience in the '70's....
"But the end of America as a world power came as visions of two horrendous earthquakes in which buildings were swaying & toppling over like a child's wooden blocks. [..] The voice in the vision told me that it would be this way while the images from the box showed Americans starving & lined up for food."
His timing may be off, but it is eerily similar to the webbot predictions
Originally posted by DarkSecret
i can predict great economic turmoil, wars and famine, quakes and tornadoes, lots of death and broken dreams before the middle of this century. i can even predict that humanity will be wiped out at some point which may be "a bit off" but will happen.
seriously. really?! you do believe this kind of generic prophecy? are you reading your horoscope regularly?
again my challenge for all you prophecy believers - why are you still in your comfy homes, living the life and posting on forums? shouldn't you convert all your money to gold coins, stock up on supplies and rent a bunker? and live there 24/7 because you may be at work when the big one strikes and then your bunker is useless if you die while the freeway pancakes!
there will always be fears that something goes wrong in our lives and takes away what we hold dear so a doomsday prophecy will always be fashionable. but people forget that WE ALL DIE eventually and there's NO escape whatsoever just hope we can prolong life to maybe 200 years. is THAT part of certain death not scaring you? but an earthquake / flood / tornado is? it's probably time to grow up and leave childhood fears behind...
He described how technology worked. A system of spiders, agents, and wanderers travel the Internet, much like a search engine robot, and look for particular kinds of words. It targets discussion groups, translation sites, and places were regular people post a lot of text. When a "target word" was found, or something that was lexically similar, the web bots take a small 2048 byte snip of surrounding text and send it to a central collection point. The collected data at times approached 100 GB sample sizes and we could have used terabytes. The collected data was then filtered, using at least 7-layers of linguistic processing in Prolog, which was then reduced to numbers and then a resultant series of scatter chart plots on multiple layers of Intellicad ( www.cadinfo.net... ). Viewed over a period of time, the scatter chart points tended to coalesce into highly concentrated areas. Each dot on the scatter chart might represent one word or several hundred.
Originally posted by Totakeke
I'm interested, but you can't completely predict the future like that; you can only predict the speculative future. You can only predict what people are expecting to happen.
Originally posted by pjslug
reply to post by Darthorious
If they happen, it just means someone's interpretations of the predictions were right. If they don't happen, you'll live another day to see yet another prediction come and go without incident.
Originally posted by RolandBrichter
Try reading my post again....
I agree that we should not live or die by someone's or something's arbitrary predictions...I personally find them fascinating and entertaining....But, if you had the evidence that someone or something might be on to something (their predictions tend to happen in a timely manner) and you could possibly save lives based on these predictions would you take action?
Some will understand and some won't...
Originally posted by DarkSecret
predictions of disasters will never save lives except maybe in movies. why? because people are too preoccupied with maintaining the status quo. if i'm not wrong a few years ago when the bridge collapse during rush hour killed dozens there were warnings that the bridge needs repairs but the funds were not approved. or that tunnel slab that collapsed onto a car and killed a woman inside. there were warning signs, scientific signs, but they were ignored. humans just don't want to deal with such major changes either because it impacts their dreams of the perfect and safe world or because of other reasons like incompetency, financial reasons, etc.
[edit on 3-12-2008 by DarkSecret]