02-23-2017, 11:49 AM
(02-23-2017, 10:46 AM)speakeasy Wrote:At very close to 106 I will not likely know either, but not putting any money on it myself.(02-23-2017, 10:29 AM)jsgrimm45 Wrote:(02-23-2017, 10:02 AM)speakeasy Wrote:(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.
How about this predictions can be made on a horse race a football game, using pass events to make a prediction. Prophecy would saying 2017 that on April 1st 2057 a horse named Good Night will win the triple crown and a Green Bay will win the superbowl. We would have to wait and see if this were true. No past events could be used that far out to predict this. Now if I was correct on both I would be a prophet now note the date I used April fool.
I'm happy to report that I won't be around to see if that prophecy is true or not. Your idea about suggested use of the term 'prophecy' is as acceptable as any other, but I wouldn't bet the horse-farm on it, haha.