What if, on Dec 31, 2019 you interviewed the 100 most prominent self-described psychics, astrologers and fortune tellers and asked then to tell you what the biggest thing in the world would be over the next year. I suspect that none of them would have mentioned a pandemic. I haven’t done the research, and I don’t know who the best-known psychics are, but I do know that “Psychic Nikki” struck out. None of these Vox writers got it right, probably because they are not professional psychics. Sylvia Brown is causing a stir among those fans who only look at the parts of the pandemic that she got right. And I see that Psychic Rick Tobin made his predictions about the pandemic on March 24, 2020.
Maybe the pandemic is not the biggest thing to happen this year. (Hopefully, if it’s something other than the pandemic, “biggest” can be something good as well.)
Gab: I often find myself thinking of silver linings during the pandemic. The huge challenges and impositions have brought out the best in many people. They have caused many of us to reevaluate who we are as a society. They have caused us to make do in little ways and bigger ways (upping our games on learning how to cook and give each other haircuts!). They have provoked many of us to become more creative in living our lives. They have caused us to appreciate the importance of our physical, face-to-face connections to each other. The pandemic is unfortunate, disruptive for all of us and horrific for many of us, but as Seneca, one of the original Stoics, once stated: “Misfortune is virtue’s opportunity.”
A tarot card reader writes the following at Huffpo: “What I’d never imagined, however, was a global pandemic.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tarot-cards-reading-meaning-covid-19_n_5ebd5a55c5b6db31b5f9ad36
When you are a fortune teller who misses something THIS BIG, you should resign, right? Or is it possible that the tarot card industry has its own malpractice/ethics division that should be looking into this lapse?
Apparently, in this day and age, the bigger your error the greater your fame.
Yeah . . . “At least they know my name!”
I wonder if there’s a swath of people who would take this more seriously if this had been predicted by psychics? I mean, geez, it WAS predicted by scientists. Scientists sounded the alarm for years and they were ignored, not as quacks but as bearers of really too difficult and expensive information for our leaders to deal with.
One must be very careful quoting what I said about this pandemic, and my other many posts on LinkedIn, Twitter and at randomthoughts.guru I wonder how Monday Morning Quarterbacks will feel when the next pandemic I described comes…a truly world-shaking disease that leaves hundreds of millions piled in the streets…but you won’t remember that I warned about it then, because you won’t survive it. You pander after your click baits now…but there will be no haven for your myopia then. Nor will your hobbit hole in St. Louis be left standing when the New Madrid moves in our lifetime. This is a time of great Earth changes. Those who prepare can help themselves and those around them. That is the true value in predicting: not fear…readiness and avoidance when possible.
No psychic worth their salt sees all…any worth their salt also admits to mistakes and misses. I prepared people professionally for disasters for over 30 years. When it is obvious things are going to hit the fan most people still don’t listen…including the media…who are only ready to report the carnage but not to prevent the pain. How else would they sell their pharma to treat anxiety and diseases spawned from the peddling of fear, treated by drugs, alcohol and mental decay?