Can people be great future predictors?

[Demon]

Logically predicting the future may be done by studying the past and coming up with a list of probabilities. But I'm talking in a less computerized form, where you can simply conjure up visions of the future. Of course, most people probably wouldn't believe you.

So that is my question. If someone gave you a prediction of your future, would you consider it something reliable or just a bunch of nonsense? What if you are a skeptic but half those predictions came true... should you then believe that the other half of the list of predictions would come true?

Also, I think that just because someone's prediction was wrong, doesn't mean they can't predict the future. Because the world isn't static, people have free choice and changing a path might alter the future a different way.

 

[DarkShadow]

Well if someone predicted my future.........I would take it seriously but maybe afterwards I'd take it as a load of nonsense.

Anyway I'm not with the future thing here..........Wouldn't really believe most physic people..........anyway most seem to not give a perfect perdiction of the future,they rather say something like "keep going forward and you'll find success"

Except maybe that physic octopus who predicted every germany match in the world cup correct

 

[Rydrum2112]

if someone could truly predict the future they would win Randi's million dollars.

 

[GalaxyFlare]

Scientifically you can predict probable futures, but these are just well educated guesses.
Anything that can happen is happening, has happened or will happen.......outside probable futures there is as the OP says visions of psychic nature, these are very ambiguous though
and rely on faith and belief in such things.

The truth, at least l see it, is that the whole universe is one big future prediction or predictions, and a greater understanding of the true nature of the universe will find all thinks linked..........but thats just a fantasy at this stage.

 

[Demon]

if someone could truly predict the future they would win Randi's million dollars.

In defense of possible "psychics"... that test was kind of rigged against them.

It does bring up an interesting point though.

 

[Rydrum2112]

How is it rigged against them, they come up with a test and he agrees to it or not?

 

[Demon]

How is it rigged against them, they come up with a test and he agrees to it or not?

Because most people, I think, don't want to give away a million. Not to mention all the stuff I've heard they had to go through for that test.

 

[Sum1sgruj]

fortune tellers great concept, but a crock of shit all the same. Noone can predict the future. Even God, obviously

 

[Rydrum2112]

FinalC,

"At JREF, we offer a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event. The JREF does not involve itself in the testing procedure, other than helping to design the protocol and approving the conditions under which a test will take place. All tests are designed with the participation and approval of the applicant. In most cases, the applicant will be asked to perform a relatively simple preliminary test of the claim, which if successful, will be followed by the formal test. Preliminary tests are usually conducted by associates of the JREF at the site where the applicant lives. Upon success in the preliminary testing process, the 'applicant' becomes a 'claimant.'

To date, no one has passed the preliminary tests."

http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html

 

[Demon]

FinalC,

"At JREF, we offer a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event. The JREF does not involve itself in the testing procedure, other than helping to design the protocol and approving the conditions under which a test will take place. All tests are designed with the participation and approval of the applicant. In most cases, the applicant will be asked to perform a relatively simple preliminary test of the claim, which if successful, will be followed by the formal test. Preliminary tests are usually conducted by associates of the JREF at the site where the applicant lives. Upon success in the preliminary testing process, the 'applicant' becomes a 'claimant.'

To date, no one has passed the preliminary tests."

http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html

Um, thanks. But what you posted is just a bunch of words that I might see differently. Therefore, it's simply an argument of semantics.

 

[ShinkuHiro]

I have never taken the prediction of the future seriously because I like to live in the moment, but if someone is constantly right I would not think that they will be correct everytime they predict the future. However, I may take them a bit more seriously, but not much more than that.