02-23-2017, 10:02 AM
(02-23-2017, 09:32 AM)irukandji Wrote: I also believe they are the same thing for an entirely different reason. While many people don't use the word, prophecize, these days, it can be used in place of the word, prediction.
I am shooting off this post without fact-checking myself and that's always dangerous for me. But it seems somewhere, on this thread probably, someone brought up the two words prediction and prophecy as being very similar, but with distinctions in emphasis. Prediction has a worldly meaning for me and prophecy tends to infer a religious, spiritual or divine component. For that reason I tend to see the stick and cloth very closely associated with a prophecy rather than a prediction. Splitting hairs, though, I realize.
But to concede an important point, the word prediction is much more contemporary than the old-world sounding term prophecy.
"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation." Bertrand Russell - printed on a beer mat in "Shaun of The Dead".