About prophecies or would-be prophecies from even the most minor characters.
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"Prophecies are dangerous things," Melisandre told Daenerys in their season seven encounter, warning that prophecies are never crystal clear and often not what they seem.
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Okay, But Do the Prophecies Actually Do Anything To Help?
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Prophecies are either going to come true or get debunked.
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The House Of The Undying Prophecies What is the prophecy?
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And in a roundabout way, it would fulfill both prophecies.
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On the other, they're like prophecies of everything that followed.
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But how does this tie into the Game of Thrones prophecies?
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Trump's targeted nicknames have the potential to become self-fulfilling prophecies.
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The show needs humor to offset the portentous threats and prophecies.
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Nicolás Maduro has a knack for defying prophecies of his demise.
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"There are prophecies around us," Mr. Cahn intoned from the pulpit.
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Sure, prophecies are funny things in the world of Game of Thrones.
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Secrets will be revealed, questions will be answered, prophecies will be fulfilled.
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Some of his advisers are probably whispering these prophecies in his ears.
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I am afraid that speaking these fears will turn them into prophecies.
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Stannis Baratheon and Melisandre are undone by their obsession with these prophecies.
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"The prophecies came true," Michael Caine sobs, in that voice of his.
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So why is its longtime governor, Jerry Brown, issuing prophecies of doom?
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Sometimes the catastrophic thoughts can become self-fulfilling prophecies, Dr. Smith said.
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Now, that's actually good, because apocalyptic prophecies can galvanize people into action.
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Some believe Mr. Ayah's prophecies are literal, others believe they are allegory.
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Especially that part about the prophecies that foretell the end of the world.
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Finally, PornHub has jumped into cryptocurrency craze just as the ancient prophecies foretold.
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Other than vague prophecies about the Tuatha de Danaan, however, not much happens.
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Maybe it's "math phobia," maybe it's self-fulfilling prophecies of lower teacher expectations.
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Dark prophecies, and talk of a Second Avenue panacea, go back a century.
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Like the others, it concerns biblical prophecies, with Trump again making an appearance.
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Before they were generally confined to prophecies and visions about Dragonstone and the Wall.
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"Part 21" If this episode were to have a theme, it would be prophecies.
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Did you think that maybe, maybe it might be useful to mention these prophecies?
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All these angry prophecies are the "what not to do" guide of your reading.
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Brexit may not be catastrophic for the London Stock Exchange, despite naysayers' dire prophecies.
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Possible prophecies could include: A dark jester will attempt to storm a light house.
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I was always scared about the end of the world, the prophecies, the apocalypse.
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Sometimes Twain does criticize the prophecies of the fall of cities in his book.
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You may find these are not happy prophecies, but please don't disparage the messenger.
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Some of Rosenberg's books deal with biblical prophecies about the end of the world.
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Houseman says there's nothing harmful or illegitimate about trying predictive text prophecies for yourself.
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So, it makes sense prophecies, visions, and mystical foretellings are practically in the GoT air.
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Hero Jon Snow (Kit Harington) is a contender for a near comical number of prophecies.
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When you play the Game of Thrones your prophecies either come true or they... don't.
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Yet there is a parallel between today's market chatter and the prophecies of medieval cults.
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The big idea: If you have enough money, your investments can become self-fulfilling prophecies.
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After 15 years of preaching and gathering followers, he began to seriously doubt his prophecies.
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We can now add Lady Gaga to the animated series ever-growing list of prophecies.
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The House of the Undying prophecies not included from the books are very telling, too.
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Yes, this involves a bit of confusing logic including time travel and self-fulfilling prophecies.
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But these dire prophecies may give short shrift to the role of the federal courts.
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Not every Muslim believes such apocalyptic prophecies, most of which don't exist in the Quran.
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Muslims should also consider that the prophecies about end times might be better read metaphorically.
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Meanwhile, Adam's doomsaying prophecies made him feel more like a plot catalyst than an actual character.
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That means these prophecies will have an even greater influence on HBO's fantasy drama than before.
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But prophecies are meant to be interpreted and can be synthesized differently depending on external factors.
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In other words, prophecies sound cool, but in the end, the story is much more important.
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She is droll about their chicanery and non-judgmental about their conspiracy theories, prophecies and prejudices.
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One of these prophecies was delivered to Cersei Lannister by Maggy the Frog in season 5.
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How high can it go before the prophecies of doom made in the 1990s come true?
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There are a ton more prophecies and visions in the book version we'll get into interpreting.
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Trump "thinks recessions or booms are often self-fulfilling prophecies," an unnamed source told the publication.
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The Islamic State just goes further by claiming that it is bringing the prophecies to life.
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A note on curses—whether you believe they are mystical truths, self-fulfilling prophecies, or dogshit.
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Negative thoughts can become self-fulfilling prophecies if you say them to yourself enough, she added.
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But her prophecies are on target, leading a star athlete, Matt, to ask for a reading.
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As Uranus retrograde begins, consider the stories and prophecies that have been shared with you, too.
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For many years, fans have been speculating about certain prophecies that claim more dragons will be summoned.
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He was eight, and already perplexing his Yiddish-speaking family by reciting Blake's "Prophecies" around the place.
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Here, Netflix houses dozens of films about prophecies, exorcisms, demons and no less than seven Hellraiser movies.
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QAnon is two years old this week, and despite numerous debunkings and false prophecies, the chatter continues.
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Some Islamic prophecies portend Dabiq to be the site of an apocalyptic battle between Christians and Muslims.
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Lately he's started to hedge, alternating prophecies that he'll win Iowa with statements that he hopes to.
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It looks like this Season of Game of Thrones could be a good one for fulfilled prophecies.
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She struggles with anxiety, panic attacks, and mental breaks that aren't explained away by magic or prophecies.
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For another, even an accurate measure of individual intelligence can only make statistical predictions, not ironclad prophecies.
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Bran's uncle seems to know all about the Three-Eyed Raven, his prophecies, and Bran's powerful purpose.
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Marwyn helps connect these threads, and his "Book of Lost Books" also sheds light on various prophecies.
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There are special powers and talismans and fate and prophecies and even (or inevitably?) a demented superhero.
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But constant, widespread doomsday prophecies are not going to help — it's only going to make matters worse.
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Is this the moment when all the prophecies of big trouble in big China finally come true?
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What's so great about George R. R. Martin's prophecies is that there are endless ways to interpret them.
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There is a lot packed into them: a quest, prophecies, dragons, quite a bit of action, and more.
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Melisandre says that Daenerys and Jon Snow are crucial to the prophecy: "Prophecies are dangerous things," Melisandre intones.
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One of the most debated prophecies also arguably came true in episode 5, though with a tragic twist.
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Journalists, in particular, should resist the temptation to accept EIA projections uncritically, or to treat them like prophecies.
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As we've learned throughout Game of Thrones, visions and prophecies in this world are a double-edged sword.
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Browne, the author and psychic, was consistently criticized for the inaccuracy of her prophecies when she was alive.
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As a komoru, or mystic of the Mursi tribe, Golonkiwo's duty is to receive and interpret dream prophecies.
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They have offered prophecies and prayers, ceremonies and services, as well as donations totaling more than $30 million.
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This belief is based on the prophecies of a Sahtuto'ine elder named Eht'se Ayah, who died in 1940.
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In the books, there are even recurring prophecies and dreams about waking dragons, particularly ice dragons, from stone.
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Khalidi said most evangelicals tend to be "pretty cautious" about associating individuals in history with biblical figures or prophecies.
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Again, how any of this will actually work out is anyone's guess, and I'm done making prophecies about blockchain.
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There are prophecies for how certain queens will die — looking at you Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) — and for romance.
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But it can be turgid and long-winded; parts are dedicated to prophecies of the kind Popper thought nuts.
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But rather than catalog accomplishments from his time on the Hill, his campaign website lists a series of prophecies.
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Dire prophecies of a Chinese housing bubble have been a staple of economic punditry for at least a decade.
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When recent history and current events are seen as best explained by prophecies, it becomes difficult to analyze them.
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Ross Douthat EVERY January I write a column exploring my faulty analysis and failed prophecies from the preceding year.
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Women vied to be one of his "Sweets," an inner circle of secretaries dedicated to recording their leader's prophecies.
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We then follow each character as they live their life with the prophecies, accurate or not, hanging over their heads.
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One of the biggest twists of Season 8 is that one of the most oft-debated prophecies, Azor Ahai, a.k.a.
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For me, a moderate Remain supporter, the prophecies of doom and gloom have hardly had the effect Osborne hoped for.
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The researchers used an algorithm named after Pythia, the woman who in Greek mythology was a vessel for Apollo's prophecies.
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She's a mysterious, looming presence throughout Dany's journey, giving her prophecies that have almost all come true in some capacity.
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There are violent wedding rituals, talk of prophecies and demons, and bonfire-lighted bacchanals at which public sex is optional.
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Fans of the books, in particular, know there are a lot of prophecies swirling around the Game of Thrones world.
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Game of Thrones loves its prophecies, but there might be one hidden for Daenerys from her time spent in Qarth.
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Because who cares about prophecies when you've got the late Stan Lee giving Thor a haircut with a power saw?
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The landings on Mars, the cycles of our years, the prophecies show us that our world has not yet ended.
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The Mothman legend was further popularized by paranormal writers, and a book called "The Mothman Prophecies" was published in 1975.
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Each petal thriving from self-fulfilling prophecies hope for sympathy, self-generated stress, overeating, undereating, and critical self-evaluations (Luna).
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According to popular prophecies, the body politic descends into chaos with the progressive weakening of a divine monarch's mortal body.
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Fans love to try to decode these visions and prophecies, but we should be wary not to repeat Melisandre's mistakes.
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According to the mysterious tome, The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world is about to end.
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The fact that the "Trump Prophecies" is even a thing is a mystery to me and most other evangelical leaders.
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Mr. Neyelle said climate change added a note of urgency to the prophecies; they may come true sooner than expected.
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Characters keep tossing around fragments of prophecies whose origins are never properly contextualized and whose predictions are never fully explained.
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After it's all (seemingly) over, Anathema receives a second book of prophecies, which had been kept safe by generations of lawyers.
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Anyway, it's his one great wish to fulfil both prophecies of each part of his name and become THE CHRISTMAS WIZARD.
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However, despite all the prophecies and rumors, no one has been able to show proof of such a device actually existing.
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That's a nice misdirect that was set up literally six seasons ago, but hey, prophecies are always meant to be interpreted.
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But here there are no mysterious prophecies about parentage and destiny, or unsolved murders, or even a queen riding a dragon.
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"Despite all the prophecies of doom, the U.S. economy did not collapse in the first quarter," said Commerzbank economist Christoph Balz.
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He'll definitely be important for Season 8 Martin likes to purposefully phrase his prophecies as red herrings with multiple possible interpretations.
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With only one more episode of Game of Thrones left, you'd think there wouldn't be many relevant prophecies to think about.
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Otherwise we are all prisoners to our deepest fears, and dwelling on those fears can turn them into self-fulfilling prophecies.
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His dream prophecies were not, he insisted, the result of voices from the dead or instances of occult or astral communication.
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In 2006, in 22 lectures on "The Hereafter," he cited prophecies about a future apocalyptic battle between Muslims and all others.
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Some evangelicals believe that American foreign policy should support Israel to help fulfill biblical prophecies about the second coming of Christ.
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Part of the issue with economic and market downturns is that the panic around them can result in self-fulfilling prophecies.
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To his parents' dismay, Leo returns spouting ideals about helping Syrian refugees as well as doomsday prophecies about our endangered planet.
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Nor did theories of personal divinity, goofy pseudoscience, communication with the dead or prophecies of worldly glory distinguish these spiritual entrepreneurs.
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AFTER NEARLY coming to blows in 2019, America and Iran celebrated the new year in fitting style: with prophecies of war.
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On other occasions, he is a character in a horror film, replete with miracles and prophecies and voices of the dead.
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For a far more salient model, look no further than Oedipus — the one who claims that he alone can end the plague (carnage); the one who loves prophecies (polls) that favor him, but sees conspiracies everywhere when the prophecies turn against him; the one who above all is in total denial that he himself is the problem.
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From the Oracle at Delphi to the prophecies of Nostradamus, there has always been a healthy market for prognostications about the future.
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"Prophecies are dangerous things," Melisandre said at the time, warning that they aren't always clear or what we believe them to be.
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Yes, it's a sci-fi fantasy world, but if Biff Tannen can become President, it feels naive to dismiss the movie's prophecies.
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There are ancient kings, powerful gods, and prophecies of a hero of light, but the story shines in smaller, more relatable moments.
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Jeremiah started his prophecies at the age of 13 and ends up murdered by his own countrymen when he is in exile.
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Game of Thrones has religions devoted to stallions in the sky, a secret cult devoted to death, and prophecies up the wazoo.
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We are seeing school administrators across the country include transgender students in common spaces without any doomsday prophecies ever coming to pass.
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Maybe he was out there on the street corner offering offering end-times prophecies, visions of a time after the machines won.
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Later, a 2002 movie adaptation of "The Mothman Prophecies" starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney made $23 million at the box office.
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"Despite all of the prophecies of doom, the upswing is not only alive, it's also kicking," Bankhaus Lampe economist Alexander Krueger said.
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"Despite all of the prophecies of doom, the upswing is not only alive; it's also kicking," Bankhaus Lampe economist Alexander Krueger said.
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Given all the different prophecies and all the different beliefs that people hold about how this will transpire, why wouldn't it be him?
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North Carolina football coach Larry Fedora had some pretty, um, radical prophecies of doom he decided to relay during ACC media day today.
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In particular, the critic's writing on Amiens' Notre Dame Cathedral charts how the Church's art and architecture concertize Biblical narratives and Christian prophecies.
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PD: I-, I did say to him, I said, 'Are you more happy or less happy that many of your prophecies came true?
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An elder, Martin Gashweseoma, first told me of the Hopi prophecies and the petroglyphs on prophecy rock in Arizona about 15 years ago.
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In the books, these prophecies are delivered to Dany by a key character and many of them have turned out to be accurate.
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"[T]he President's prophecies that he will be indicted and denied due process in state proceedings are, at best, speculative and unripe," he wrote.
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On Ancestors, Payment's drums take a back seat, providing balance, nuance, and depth while the strings and vocals fulfill grandiose ambitions and ancient prophecies.
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In mythology, Cassandra was blessed by Apollo, who cursed her after she spurned his affections so that no one would ever believe her prophecies.
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Sony says a full AI-written album is coming out next year, and presumably that will complete these mysterious prophecies, charting our dystopic future.
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Brexiteers dismiss this as another "Project Fear", like the prophecies of doom before the June 2016 referendum which turned out to be too gloomy.
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But as a vision of what populism and polarization could deliver to Catholicism and Western politics, it is not the most implausible of prophecies.
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The others: to preserve Sahtuto'ine culture, to develop tourism, to honor elders and ancestors, and to prepare for the realization of Eht'se Ayah's prophecies.
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How The Nice & Accurate Prophecies Work Agnes didn't really make this book for everyone's consumption — seeing the future, she already knew they wouldn't read it.
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This theory was later immortalized in the film The Mothman Prophecies, which portrayed Mothy as a ChapStick-loving creature alongside Richard Gere and Debra Messing.
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"Buddha I" (pictured) has been programmed to read faces to detect a few basic emotions including happiness, anger and sadness, and dispenses lighthearted prophecies accordingly.
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Despite the extensive lore, history, theories, prophecies, books, and shows about the Game of Thrones universe, we know next to nothing about its central antagonists.
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The hot air around young and savvy tech startups is not going anywhere, despite dark prophecies that saw 22014 as the "winter is coming" year.
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Its loss of territory will cause some supporters to lose interest, but since its formation, ISIS has painted territorial losses as a fulfillment of prophecies.
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" Among his prophecies were that "electronic music as such will gradually die and be absorbed into the ongoing music of people singing and playing instruments.
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The report's examples vary from the current to the far-off, like mind-reading AI. But they're not prophecies that humanity is doomed to suffer.
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The word was also hijacked by the Bolsheviks and other communists to claim that Marxist prophecies and Leninist practice would inevitably deliver progress for humanity.
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All sides are clearly keen to signal just how ready they are for conflict if necessary, and such moves can easily become self-fulfilling prophecies.
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She published several essays on the scholar Thomas Malthus, rejecting his pessimistic prophecies about population outrunning food supply but endorsing his call for moral restraint.
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Many evangelical Christians believe that God holds Israel in special favor, and some see the country's existence as an element of prophecies about the apocalypse.
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HBO is reportedly developing a slew of Westeros spinoffs, and Martin is dropping some prophecies about them, giving us some hope after Game of Thrones concludes.
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But this could be one of those self-fulfilling prophecies: If markets don't get above 20,93 right away, it might struggle for awhile to get there.
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"Prophecies are dangerous things," Red Priestess Melisandre (Carice Van Houten) tells Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) upon meeting the khaleesi-queen in Game Of Thrones' seventh season.
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Republicans on the FCC have sworn up and down that such scenarios are merely wild "prophecies of doom" touted by crazy, freedom-hating, anti-business liberals.
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This means that even though generations have cataloged and pored over each of the thousands of prophecies, many of them remained cryptic until the very end.
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Littlefinger's cunning, Varys' spy networks, Tyrion's battle strategies, and Melisandre's prophecies and fire magic have all been involved in manipulating and shaping the kingdom's current chaos.
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It's Game of Thrones fandom writ in microcosm, with all the ridiculous prophecies, backstories, revenge plots, and theories rolled into a single, easy-to-shout catchphrase.
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" As a result of the clampdown on press freedoms, she prophecies, "The world will grow murkier," as "Coverage, and thinking, will drift in a Trumpian direction.
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Daenerys gets bombarded with prophecies left and right In particular, she gives Dany a riddle that basically states she'll have to go to the Shadow Lands.
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Sure that last bit still seems like 50/50, Mayan prophecies aside, but one thing's for certain: webcams just aren't the hot commodity they once were.
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In so many games, the RPG systems are self-fulfilling prophecies, but it really feels like success in The Division will necessitate a well-rounded team.
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At the time, the Bolsheviks were not the country's largest or most popular socialist party, but they were the most fervently certain of their own prophecies.
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The China Dream may one day still come true, if Trump fulfills the dark prophecies of Orwell, Bradbury and Postman by amusing us all into tyranny.
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After taking a few hits off Osborn's fretboard, living in Electric Wizard's world of black nebulas and dope priest prophecies starts to sound pretty fucking appealing.
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Melisandre's prophecies about Stannis Baratheon, for example, were a direct thumbing of the nose to the very common fantasy trope that every prophecy must be true.
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That these people have to actually learn how to do things before they can become a ruler, and even so, should bloodlines and prophecies even matter?
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But some who study religion and prophecies for a living say it's time for these social media prophets and psychics to take a self-enforced quarantine.
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Markets often exhibit herding behavior and excessive volatility, and even at best they are judging probabilities in an uncertain world, not issuing prophecies about the future.
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" Describing the team as "ardent fans," he added that, "We cannot get enough of the world, its characters, or the endless theories that its many prophecies generate.
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He is, instead, the beneficiary of both a favorable national political environment for Democrats and also of the self-fulfilling prophecies that a favorable environment can create.
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The one semi-bright spot was the six-minute opening track, "Angel of Death," which frontman Phil Lynott wrote after binge-reading a book of Nostradamus' prophecies.
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It begins with an attack on "historicism," or grand theories dressed up as laws of history, which make sweeping prophecies about the world and sideline individual volition.
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Dany's received lots of prophecies that have yet to come to fruition — but we've only got six more episodes in Season 8 left to see them happen.
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It's considered by some Islamic prophecies to be the site of an apocalyptic battle between Christians and Muslims, and its reclamation represented a major loss to ISIS.
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Just as the building fell short of its promise, so, too, did the early Soviet Union fail to deliver on its prophecies of a just, classless society.
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Almost 23 months before the 2020 election, we're handicapping contenders, edging toward prophecies and setting ourselves up to look every bit as foolish as we deserve to.
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Prophecies are like propaganda — they can be useful for propping someone up but they rarely tell the whole story, and believing in them can ensure your doom.
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It is a gain for President Vladimir Putin of Russia, a calculated meddler, who proved all prophecies of Syria's soon becoming "Russia's Vietnam" to be ridiculously shallow.
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecies The appraiser who went to Brooklyn in the 19503s to assess Bedford-Stuyvesant for the government summarized the neighborhood's prospects on a single page.
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The story is intertwined with secrets of pokémon lore; during your quest to become the very best, you'll also uncover mysteries involving ancient creatures and dark prophecies.
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Because if his followers are basically just using White Walker magic and repackaging it as a righteous religion, why do we implicitly trust them and their prophecies?
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And one could have easily concluded that this was just Melisandre remembering that they met that one time — but this is Game of Thrones, and prophecies are everything.
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You might still be clinging to the picture painted by the many prophecies that speak of a hero wielding some sort of special sword to end the darkness.
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Shaffer told deputies he had been the prophet of the church — which believes in doomsday prophecies and practices polygamy — but had recently passed down the title to Coltharp.
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George R.R. Martin may not have finished the books yet, but he left enough hints for the showrunners to work from in the form of prophecies and visions.
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Vanity Fair adds that there are a few important Aegons in the show and books, because Rhaegar Targaryen was somewhat paranoid when it came to prophecies and destiny.
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But there's way more work for you to do, and you can start by confirming or denying these prophecies that are driving us all up the wall. Please.
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She still matters to Game of Thrones' endgame, though, because of the prophecies she tells Dany about that will likely play out in some way through other characters.
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Despite the mollusc gaining some national notoriety for its prophecies, the fisherman who caught it, Kimio Abe, sent it to the market before Japan's third match against Poland.
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But the key element of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is cognitive restructuring, which challenges you to reframe negative ways of thinking that can become their own self-fulfilling prophecies.
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Maybe it was another statement from Biblical times saying these are the perfumes that are typical of the prophecies of God, these are the gifts of the land.
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You have your collection of "end times" literature with titles like The Islamic Antichrist and The Trump Prophecies, which will guide you through the bloody tribulations to come.
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Yet many of his adherents continued to support and obey him during and after his trial—long after his old prophecies had lapsed and new ones were promised.
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In his preface, Amis notes that "political prophecies" tend "to be instantly dismayed by events," and he can hardly be faulted for underestimating Corbyn as an electoral force.
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"They are the heirs of yesterday's foolish fortune-tellers," he told the Davos crowd, which happens to believe in the prophecies of the current generation of fortune tellers.
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The Hope prophecies which predicted such things as the talking cobwebs, the House of Mica (the UN), flying villages, and many Earth changes had started to take shape.
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THE CASSANDRA By Sharma Shields It's difficult to imagine a myth riper for harvest than that of Cassandra, the tragic Greek figure who uttered prophecies no one believed.
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Shaffer told deputies he had been the prophet of the church — which allegedly believes in doomsday prophecies and practices polygamy — but had recently passed down the title to Coltharp.
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This is so confusing, because wouldn't Agnes have foreseen that she would do this and instead left the prophecies with someone who wasn't sick of being a professional descendant?
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But, despite their talk about breaking the wheel and ending the cycle, these two characters (Dany even more than Jon) are largely driven by prophecies and talk of destiny.
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Here, we digest the most urgent prophecies hanging over GoT season 8, whom they could apply to, and even which episode you need to watch to really understand them.
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That was all due to Daenerys Targaryen whose prophecies come true during episode 5 of the season, specifically in regards to her visions in the House of the Undying.
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Many also believe in the legends and prophecies claiming one hero (known as the Last Hero, Azor Ahai, or the Prince who Was Promised) defeated them in single combat.
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She was only supposed to have three kids so either she's lying, is going to have a miscarriage in Season 2100, or will prove that all prophecies are bullshit.
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Less than a year after the predicted end of the EU, we are possibly about to witness the demise of the populist Euroskeptics' prophecies of the European Union's collapse.
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But while Chris Carter's series may have been the modern progenitor, J.J. Abrams made it a mainstream staple, first with Alias' relentless Rambaldi prophecies, then in 2004 with Lost.
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But the lyrics wore him down, until he played Dylan in that addicted manner of college kids who cordon off portions to decipher the prophecies of their favorite band.
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That view is particularly pronounced among charismatic and Pentecostal Christians, a subset of evangelicalism that puts special emphasis on prophecies, believing that God is omnipotent, immanent and extremely active.
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Continuing in the vein of political activism is Cassandra Press, a zine publisher rooted in the origin story of Cassandra, the Greek mythological figure whose prophecies were never believed.
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Their ambitious new album, Awaken, takes great care to show off the band's masterful command of melody, even as vocalist Christina Blom delivers its ominous prophecies through bared teeth.
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Huge decisions have been made based on Mormon presidents' prophecies, according to church leaders, including ending the practice of polygamy and opening the priesthood to men of African descent.
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But Dreher's deeper, "how to build a counterculture" argument matters regardless of whether his prophecies are accurate, because it matters in the polarized, fragmenting America that exists right now.
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Geillis is a Disney villain in search of a story that needs her to hoard sapphires, wander around parties looking sinister and hiss about prophecies to anyone within earshot.
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It rings many notes expected in such tales: larger-than-life rogues, heroes and villains, bickering and meddling gods, prophecies and Machiavellian maneuvers that would shame anyone in Washington.
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This, of course, is a difficult promise for a documentary to fulfill, despite the fact that Baldwin's prophecies about race in America feel perhaps closer and truer than ever.
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There's Only One Copy Of The Book We're going to bet that one of the prophecies warned the family to make some more copies of the book for safe keeping.
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David eventually becomes king of Israel, winning back the city of Jerusalem and becoming the subject of prophecies stating that his family lineage and throne will last for all time.
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Similarly I don't think it's controversial to note that prophecies of the hyperinflation and collapse of national currencies, the downfall of central banks and fractional reserve banking in general, etc.
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Melisandre comes to Castle Black early in the episode to find Jon Snow dead, much to her surprise, as she had seen him fighting in the fires of her prophecies.
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Bitcoin and, subsequently, a proliferation of other cryptocurrencies had become an object of global fascination, amid prophecies of societal upheaval and reform, but mainly on the promise of instant wealth.
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It was us versus them, and it appealed to Mr. Morton, especially when his teacher began sharing the prophecies of the destruction that was going to befall the United States.
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Made popular by "The Mothman Prophecies," a book by John Keel, the Mothman is thought to resemble a cross between a man and a brown or reddish moth with wings.
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The volumes currently crowding bookstore front tables — George Orwell's "1984," Sinclair Lewis's "It Can't Happen Here," Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism" — offer time-tested prophecies and autopsies of dictatorship.
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Though romance tends to take a backseat to battles and darl prophecies and the occasional beheading, Khaleesi has had quite the shippable storyline with Jon Snow (Kit Harington) this past season.
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Muslims — and perhaps other apocalyptic believers as well — should see that obsession with prophecies might cost them not just rationality, but also a very fundamental value of their own faith: humility.
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His other books include "Saving the Text: Literature, Derrida, Philosophy" (1981); "Minor Prophecies: The Literary Essay in the Culture Wars" (1991); and "Scars of the Spirit: The Struggle Against Inauthenticity" (2002).
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"People with higher IQs tend to do better in life, but that is partly because they are given more educational and other opportunities, which can create self-fulfilling prophecies," Sternberg said.
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This in turn will, ironically, reify its primacy as the center of the global tech industry, the sun around which all the faraway planets orbit, after so many prophecies of decentralization.
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"He was something of a pioneer televangelist, someone who was utterly confident about his esoteric interpretations of biblical prophecies," Dr. Randall Balmer, professor of religion at Dartmouth College, said by phone.
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If behavior tracks the recession-era sentiment among Democrats, who account for 32 percent of respondents in the survey, prophecies could quickly become self-fulfilling by affecting spending and investing decisions.
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With so much about our politics uncertain, particularly pertaining to this region, the spectacle of a rash, sex-crazed despot; ignored prophecies; and their looming, mortal consequences elicited one thought: This?
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The second most recommended video, which linked a series of recent natural disasters to apocalyptic prophecies from the Book of Revelation, was recommended to viewers of 126 of those top channels.
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Where The Prophecies Started: Lancashire, England, 1656 This is when Witchfinder Major Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Pulcifer (Jack Whitehall) works up a mob for the last witch burning of the era.
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In the show's visit to the House of the Undying, these prophecies were condensed: Dany enters the Throne Room in a vision — but evidently winter has already come and destroyed King's Landing.
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Alongside the right's unfulfilled prophecies of doom is a long history of promises that the mythical Republican alternative will accomplish the same things Obamacare does, but in better, more freedom-y ways.
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Ultimately, it could just be that Martin has a natural gift for creating prophecies that are specific enough to seem destined in retrospect, but vague enough to fit so many different events.
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"Fundamentally, one would expect some connection given the Brazilian ethanol factor, but correlations can also become somewhat self-fulfilling prophecies especially as more people (and machines) start looking at both markets simultaneously".
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After dinner, four selections of house-made amari—one infused with dandelion and rhubarb, another with blessed thistle—smooth the descent back underground, making easy the way home, prophecies of pinsa fulfilled.
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It's taken a long time for "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch," Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's 1990 end-of-days fantasy novel, to reach the screen.
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As long as Sanders was in the lead, Trump had the best possible platform for making dark prophecies about what the socialist takeover of America by a President Sanders might look like.
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This mysterious character dates back thousands of years and provides the basis for Game of Thrones' Azor Ahai prophecy, arguably one of the most important prophecies in the novels and in the series.
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Here was a fantasy show that focused not on the portentous prophecies and heavy spellbooks, but on the politics and personalities of its medieval realm—and in the process, cultivated millions of fans.
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Fortunately for the world, she is able to write down all her prophecies, send them to a publisher, and acquire a bound copy to pass down to her daughter Virtue Device (Bryony Corrigan).
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Once you throw away all that extemporaneous garbage about prophecies and inter-kingdom squabbles and the Lord of Light, the actual necessary stuff you need to know for the finale is pretty manageable.
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Yes, that Good News: the television adaptation of Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman's beloved book Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch will premiere soon on Amazon Prime Video!
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Pai discounted such scenarios, calling them "hypothetical harms and hysterical prophecies of doom," and pointed out that there was little evidence of such behavior before the Obama administration imposed the regulations in 2015.
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"Finally, the safe asset is needed in order to prevent self-fulfilling prophecies, when market overreaction pushes countries into insolvency, even though this there is no good fundamental reason for that," he said.
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Keel took his findings and published them in a book called "The Mothman Prophecies," which alleged that Point Pleasant residents experienced precognitive thoughts related to the collapse of the bridge before it happened.
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"The inspirational leader is coming up with new ideas, they often make additional prophecies that fail and don't amount to anything, but that's not noticed, because everyone looks at their successes," Dawson says.
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The government's analysis was met with derision by pro-Brexit lawmakers, who quickly reminded voters that Brexit opponents had issued similar prophecies of economic doom before the referendum, only to be proved wrong.
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These countries now face a choice between deeper integration on terms set by Germany and France or political marginalization — and the fears of a two-tiered European Union could become self-fulfilling prophecies.
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The way Israel sees it, the cease-fire is thus a gain for Mr. Assad, a despicable and dogged warrior who once again proved all prophecies of his imminent doom to be premature.
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Other prophecies followed: Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, would also be arrested; members of the media would be "jailed as deep cover agents"; there would be a Twitter blackout heralding a government purge.
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In the prophecies, the Jews restored to their homeland prostrate themselves before the ascendant King of the Jews, the returning Messiah whom they once spurned—and Judaism is erased from the Earth forever.
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John Ruskin: An Idiosyncratic Dictionary, Encompassing his Passions, his Delusions and his Prophecies, compiled by Michael Glover (2019), is published by Lund Humphries and is available from Amazon or your local independent bookstore.
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The show may not even choose to pursue this lore at all; George R.R. Martin, the author of the book series, has gone on the record as stating that all prophecies needn't be fulfilled.
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There are the historical, calendar-based ones—Ancient Egypt and their pyramids; the Tudors and their worryingly rotund kings; the Mayans and their world-ending prophecies—and there are also geological and cosmological periods.
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Like Y214K and the Mayan prophecies concerning December 22009, 2012, the apocalypse heading for New York City comes with that "mark it on your calendar" feature you just don't get from surprise nuclear attack.
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"A recession is not in our baseline, but we note the dangers from the recession bias leading to self-fulfilling prophecies," said Lydia Boussour, a senior U.S. economist at Oxford Economics in New York.
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It also helps that some of Black Mirror's prophecies came true since they were made, justifying creator Charlie Brooker's pessimistic outlook on where the increasing reliance on mobile and wearable technology is leading humanity.
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In his opening prayer on Monday, he alluded to biblical prophecies about a Second Coming, referring to the founding of the modern state of Israel 70 years ago as a "regathering" of God's people.
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If you thought that this song was just a regular old song for the show, think again, because it's, of course, got a deeper meaning and possibly hints at one of the show's many prophecies.
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Dig into the many prophecies Nostradamus made during the height of his making-things-up phase, and it's right there, clear as day: Nostradamus didn't divine the French Revolution or rise of Nazism in Germany.
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Rather than celebrate this as an opportunity to end America's chronic addiction to welfare, however, left-wing talking heads are once again terrifying the American people with more doomsday prophecies of social and economic collapse.
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It comes from the 2008 book "End Of Days: Predictions and prophecies about the end of the world Paperback" by Sylvia Brown, an American author who claimed to be a psychic (see the page here).
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Mr. Cahn soon stumbled on "The Late Great Planet Earth," the 1970s best-seller that argued doomsday prophecies of the Bible were playing out with events like the Cold War and Israel's Six-Day War.
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Assassin's Fate by Robin Hobb In this conclusion to Robin Hobb's epic fantasy Fitz and the Fool trilogy finds Prince FitzChivalry Farseer's daughter Bee kidnapped by a secret society, a tool to use in their prophecies.
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The small city, which is about 10 kilometers (just over 6 miles) south of the Turkish-Syrian border, is considered by some Islamic prophecies to be the site of an apocalyptic battle between Christians and Muslims.
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"Doctor Who" star Matt Smith plays Manson, a wild-eyed petty criminal who sets up a hippy commune where his followers worship him like a messiah, clinging to every word of his incoherent prophecies of Armageddon.
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For all the brawling and sorcery, at the play's heart are the lulls in which Macbeth mulls the witches' prophecies and the crimes they incite; in which he decides what kind of man he will be.
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Not to instill too much fear in the audience, the entrepreneur who named his former employer's robotics unit after the androids in Blade Runner made sure to ground his prophecies in more reasonable concerns, like encryption.
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"As the world has gotten richer," Pinker explains, "nature has begun to rebound"—as if the failure of a few prophecies of ecological disaster to come to pass on schedule means the planet is infinitely resilient.
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Perhaps these prophecies will eventually be fulfilled if Britain manages to make a success of life outside the club, although the chaotic process of Brexit seems to have given the EU's popularity a bump everywhere else.
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They had proved they could march into a historic bastion of nonviolent liberalism and troll its occupants into a frothy-mouthed rage, fulfilling their own prophecies of an extremist "alt-left" while also making national news.
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Two hours from show time, the line stretched into the distance, a van owned by a local boxing gym registered voters while blasting Mexican pop music, and a Trump Zoltar machine foretold prophecies of America's despoliation.
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To say it's depressing, then, is to state the obvious; less evident is why Mr. Pellington, previously known for suspenseful thrillers like "Arlington Road" and "The Mothman Prophecies," would dive down this rabbit hole at all.
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The Prince/Princess Who Was Promised, the Stallion Who Mounts the World — are these prophecies real, or is it dangerous to believe in any such cryptic concepts, real though they might actually turn out to be?
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The organization renamed its magazine Rumiyah , or Rome—an allusion to the prophecies foretelling the fall of the West and a signal that the Islamic State operations may increasingly shift from inside the caliphate to outside.
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Since its inception in 1970, Earth Day (April 22) has been a strange mix — a celebration of springtime and the great outdoors, combined with doom-and-gloom prophecies of destruction, centering on overpopulation, pollution and capitalism.
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The museum also claims to have the world's largest collection of props used in the 2002 film "The Mothman Prophecies" starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney, based on the events surrounding the events in the late 1960s.
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Q's prophecies are something closer to a grand unifying conspiracy theory, one that incorporates older absurd theories (stretching back to the Kennedy administration) and continuously spins off new tendrils, glomming itself onto news events as they unfold.
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Their opposition is righteous, but how will millions of voters who notice smaller withholdings from their paychecks and more money in their pockets square that seemingly good fortune with such prophecies of doom on a biblical scale?
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And The Crimes of Grindelwald implies strongly that Credence may also be the subject of a previously unknown-to-us set of prophecies that involves brothers fighting one another and impacting the fate of the wizarding world.
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Rather, she says, many evangelicals traditionally speak more generally about "signs of the times" or indicators that the end, more broadly, may be at hand, without speaking specifically about linking modern politicians to given biblical prophecies or parallels.
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Further, Game of Thrones' final season has already shown that prophecies may not always come to fruition, as Melisandre believed in season seven that Dany or Jon, not Arya, would be the one to kill the Night King.
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They are neither helped nor hindered by "The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch", which is the name of a book of predictions in "Good Omens" and also the subtitle of "Good Omens", the book, itself.
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The highly anticipated series, based on the novel Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Gaiman and the late Terry Pratchett, centers on two otherworldly beings determined to save the earth from Armageddon.
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Typically, the reborn Azor Ahai is known as the Prince Who Was Promised, although as with all things Game of Thrones, there are different interpretations; some fans think the reincarnated Azor Ahai and the Prince are different prophecies.
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And in a sense what we're trying to deal with is self-denying prophecies, by predicting that things will lead to serious problems, we set in motion the adjustments that caused them not to lead to serious problems.
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As I watched the year unfold on Twitter, between tragedy and dire prophecies, people taking action, stories of loss and triumph, and the beginnings of some social change—other, smaller stories unfolded in shared postcards from virtual worlds.
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The fifth in the series, it was released for the Super Famicom (what the SNES was called in Japan) in 1999, and like the others, it's a tactical RPG set in a fantasy world of politics and prophecies.
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"The truth of the matter is that we decided to abandon successful policies solely because of hypothetical harms and hysterical prophecies of doom," Mr. Pai said in an April speech about the creation of the net neutrality rules.
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There's a distinct pleasure in the gradual realization of the metatextual game this episode plays, but once everything's out in the open, viewers get that cherished sinking feeling that always accompanies Brooker's dark prophecies of our impending computerized doom.
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One of the pleasures of reading this book is watching Nesbo meet the formidable challenge of assimilating elements of the play unsuited to realistic crime fiction, especially the supernatural: the witches, prophecies, visions, and the mysterious figure of Hecate.
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While the Prince/Princess and Dragon Rider prophecies are related, it might be better for now to consider them separate entities with nifty parallels, since Game of Thrones the TV show has jumped ahead of the books, timeline-wise.
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And then, one day, as he was riding his bike in the California sunshine, enjoying the carefree life, no longer burdened by prophecies and messianic ambitions, he heard me on the radio, being interviewed about my book on Jesus.
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Vallow, along with her new husband Chad Daybell, an author who writes about religious doomsday prophecies, moved to Idaho from Arizona with Vallow's children, 17-year-old Tylee Ryan and seven-year-old Joshua "JJ" Vallow, in August 2019.
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But they may not realize that extreme poverty can be psychologically and physically incapacitating — a perpetual cycle of bad diets, health care and education exacerbated by the shaming and self-fulfilling prophecies that define it in the public imagination.
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In a similar manner to last season's bold flashback to prehistoric Jarden, this season kicks off with a trip back to 1844, when a band of religious pilgrims suffered the mockery of their frontier town for their apocalyptic prophecies.
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For a while it seemed like all of Maggy's prediction came true, but as with all prophecies in Game of Thrones, you can rationalize that Cersei's belief and attempt to avoid them iconically caused her to fulfill them all herself.
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The sightings were popularized by John Keel's 1975 novel The Mothman Prophecies, which was later adapted into a 2002 film starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney—and since 2002, the town has commemorated the "Mothman" sightings with an annual festival.
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Sybill Trelawney and Her Great-Great Grandmother, Cassandra Named for the Greek sibyls (or prophetesses), Trelawney has a reputation for being a fraud, despite uttering a number of small, accurate prophecies in addition to the two she made while entranced.
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Against prophecies of despair, Pinker wants to "restate the ideals of the Enlightenment in the language and concepts of the twenty-first century," using a slew of evidence to disprove the populists and intellectuals and fire up new rounds of progress.
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It's not that it's not a big public health issue, but no one talks about the fact that Alzheimer's rates are dropping fast and the real epidemic is anxiety over memory loss and these become very damaging self-fulling prophecies.
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They also believe in the prophecy that the Jews must return to Israel from the diaspora before Jesus will return — but evangelical leaders insist that these "end times" prophecies are not a major factor driving their passion on the issue.
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The light is hazy, but the man is squinting, as if staring into the face of divine radiance — a reminder that buses are anticipated as eagerly as the Second Coming and that timetables are best regarded as prophecies of dubious reliability.
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The play covered the events from the prophecies of Jesus's birth, the Annunciation (the announcement from the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would give birth to the son of God), and finally the Massacre of the Innocents.
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L22016: Pretend We're Dead tells the tale of the anti-glam squad rockers' trajectory, from takeoff to crash landing, set during the backdrop of the hopelessly nostalgic grunge era, and includes some interesting self-fulfilling prophecies about fame as we see them unravel.
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The vehemence of this belief brings to mind the now-quaint and overexuberant pundit prophecies in the wake of Barack Obama's elevation to the presidency, which proclaimed in near-unison that America had officially passed into a "post-racial" phase of political life.
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As a case in point, Christopher Columbus argued in "The Book of Prophecies" that his discovery of the New World was part of a divinely ordained plan for the End Times, recasting Bible passages to make himself the hero of the coming apocalypse.
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Sarah will listen to your problems — whether they involve prophecies, shadowy global conspiracies, or any number of assorted forces of darkness — and she will have the Regional Office, its Oracles, and the superpowered young women whom the Office employs take care of it.
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"Both Q and the broader UFO community operate fundamentally on a premise of hidden knowledge yet to be revealed, whether it's 'Disclosure' or the idea that all Q's prophecies, mass arrests, dark warnings and ominous half-messages will someday be made clear," Merlan said.
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There was rap with direct fidelity to the four element traditionalists at the Stones Throw showcase, courtesy of Homeboy Sandman and Edan, teasing cuts from their very raw just-announced new album that sounded like they'd received prophecies from the Kool Herc oracle at Delphi.
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Because their religion—a fundamentalist interpretation of traditional Mormonism—believes that prophecies from God can come to you in your sleep, as they did to the original Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, members of the Order place special significance on the literal interpretation of dreams.
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It's a commonplace — but a true one — that there's a Dylan line for every occasion, and another commonplace that a stray line of an old Dylan song can suddenly nail a situation decades after it was written: Through the years, his riddles have become prophecies.
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But having seen the way a resort to the American military often becomes the default response for foreign policy matters in many countries all over the world, I also wonder about momentum, and whether spending choices today might create self-fulfilling prophecies of conflict tomorrow.
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See, Paul believed that many prophecies in the New Testament Book of Revelations had come to pass and it would be only a matter of time before the four horsemen were riding down the Hollywood Freeway wreaking havoc on our modern Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Still, the fact that Sam is now finally in a maester-filled city that is largely considered to be the intellectual capital of Westeros, we will probably learn a lot more about magic, prophecies, and the future of the Seven Kingdoms in season seven.
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Unlike the book it is based on, which gathers the accounts of retired firefighter Mark Taylor and Mary Colbert talking about Trump prophecies, Eldridge said the movie only focuses on one prophecy from Taylor: that Trump would become president and impact the relationship between America and Israel.
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"On Tuesday, the Trump White House formally endorsed Pai's plans to rollback net neutrality, which critics say will result in internet providers like Verizon and Comcast curtailing their customers' access to certain websites and services—concerns which Pai has openly criticized as "hysterical prophecies of doom.
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Rastafari, an evolution of Marcus Garvey's Pan-African prophecies which condemned the corrupt legacy of Western imperialism and urged a strengthened connection between people of the African diaspora, developed elaborate rituals where rhythmic drums and chants, combined with psychoactive ganja, helped followers rise above their pains.
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Moreover, research by the organization I work for, Mercy Corps, shows that there is no one profile of someone who joins a violent extremist group; thus, our ability to profile such at-risk people remains limited, and instead we may create self-fulfilling prophecies by targeting people incorrectly.
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The paradox is well known: The beliefs of many evangelical Christians that Israel is special to God — and, for some, a marker in apocalyptic prophecies — lead many to hawkish support of the Jewish state while they simultaneously insist that salvation awaits only those who accept Jesus as their savior.
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The film's interviewees highlight the importance of a close relationship between America and Israel — the two countries to have "special covenants" with God — and praise Trump's controversial decision to move the Israeli embassy to Jerusalem, which many evangelicals see as a necessary step to fulfill various end times prophecies.
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That may seem anticlimactic, given how fast it all happens and that he doesn't even live to see the effect of his sacrifice, but his protection of Arya does speak to something more significant: the consistency between the prophecies Melisandre had from the Lord of Light and those Thoros had.
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You can tell this is on the mind of 12 Monkeys, Syfy's rip-roaring four-season series version of the Terry Gilliam time-travel film of the same name, from the earliest frames of its final episode, when actor James Callis turns up to offer a few dire warnings and cryptic prophecies.
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In very much the same way that redlining in minority neighborhoods created a self-fulfilling prophecy of uninsurable communities, overpolicing and predictive policing may be "fair" and "accurate" in the short term, but the long-term effects on communities have been shown to be negative, creating self-fulfilling prophecies of poor, crime-ridden neighborhoods.
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And Time magazine decides that now is a good time to devote its cover to dire prophecies about looming US insolvency, with the lead article by James Grant — signatory of the infamous 2010 letter warning Ben Bernanke that his policies would cause inflation and debase the dollar, crusader for a return to the gold standard.
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As a child I marinated in doomsday prophecies like these, as my parents (and those of my poverty-stricken friends) gave ten percent of our yearly income to conmen like Bakker—about as much as I've spent on therapists attempting to treat the PTSD caused by spending 20 years waiting for the world to end.
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" Mi'Jan Celie Tho-Biaz, a documentarian and oral historian who calls herself a "cultural worker and cultural producer," is using her Vital Spaces studio to work on a project called New Canon of Mythologies, which compiles and shares "ancestral stories and future-facing prophecies of New Mexico-based Indigenous, Black, and woman of color iconoclasts.
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Well you may not know it if you haven't read George R.R. Martin's books, but one of the biggest prophecies actually concerns Daenerys — it was given to her by the character Quaithe, and although it's never spoken in the show it's a passage in the books that has long been pored over and analysed for clues.
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We live in an era when many of the genre's most far-reaching prophecies have come true, from radical inequality and authoritarian doublespeak to irreversible climate change and unsettling breakthroughs in AI. Dystopian fiction is inherently political, but it also gained steam because it was good entertainment, an escapist adventure into the frightening hypothetical consequences of human frailty.
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It's said that, back then, people listened to Koyle because his prophecies were mostly accurate: His first dream led him to find a missing cow, in a nearby pasture; later, he was said to have predicted the 1929 stock market crash and the start of World War I. So when he told others about the mine, they signed on.
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The belief is based on a few different theological ideas: the idea that God blesses those who care for Israel (rooted in an interpretation of Genesis), that God's divine covenant with Israel is ongoing, and that various biblical prophecies made about the ultimate fated restoration of Israel must come to pass before the end times can occur.
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The New York–based author came to mainstream prominence in 2006 with the release of his book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, which used indigenous prophecies as a launch pad for exploring fringe phenomenon including crop circles, shamanic practices, ayahuasca, and aliens with an open-minded approach as aided by loads of psychedelic experiences and a few treks to Burning Man.
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