I've been reading a bit about prophecy at the moment in The Guises of the Morrigan and her prophecies around the first and second battles of Magh Tuiread and how that'll all work out. She even predicts the end of the world herself - as does everybody else. I'd say the most popular prediction or prophecy involves the end of the world. As in this prophecy, the terms are quite loose and can be interpreted however you wish, really. I don't know if ancient prophecy is significant today. Maybe. I don't place much stock in the whole we're-all-going-to-die-in-2012 thing, unless we have some kind of spontaneous necular war. Some have suggested that it might just signal the beginning of a new age, like the whole thing with the age of aquarius. Personally, I don't think anything will happen at all. Like the Y2K thing - nada. But maybe on a more organic level, a prophecy is just the insight of a particularly skilled individual witnessing the great tides of how things will naturally come to pass unless there is a huge shift. I could accept the idea of prophecy as legitimate in those terms perhaps.
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I don't know if ancient prophecy is significant today. Maybe. I don't place much stock in the whole we're-all-going-to-die-in-2012 thing, unless we have some kind of spontaneous necular war. Some have suggested that it might just signal the beginning of a new age, like the whole thing with the age of aquarius. Personally, I don't think anything will happen at all. Like the Y2K thing - nada.
But maybe on a more organic level, a prophecy is just the insight of a particularly skilled individual witnessing the great tides of how things will naturally come to pass unless there is a huge shift. I could accept the idea of prophecy as legitimate in those terms perhaps.