Bumble Bee Tuna

Dude, your vague language, friend of wannabe prophets all over, is coming back to bite you in the ass.

"The Month of Iyar will be restful". This is great, semi-vague elaborate language that prophets love to use. Unfortunately, it wasn't a good time for it. If the prophecy was something along the lines "The war with the enemy will be significantly lessened in scale in the month of Iyar", that'd be great. Instead, we have that it will be "restful".

Do you think May was very restful for anyone in Iraq? Guerrilla war all over the country, looting, rioting...it was not restful.

Status: Failed.

TrueThinker

This is funner than I thought it would be. We'll see who gets the last laugh.....

Abel Stable

TrueThinker, didn't you also say on another thread that there would be a miraculous economic recovery in October? And that Bush would be vindicated? How's that prophecy coming along?

Aethernaut

"Funner" isn't a word.

And your "prophecy test" failed miserably so I guess I got the last laugh. Har har har! Har har har har! Har har!

And if you think that the single inane sentence above is a rebutal to my breakdown of your failed "prophecy test" than you're sadly mistaken. Put up or shut up. Concede already.

Again, F-! The "prophet" you got this crap from has pulled the wool over your eyes. He probably could have bilked you for a lot of cash too.

Gawdawful

I just don't see how predicting, on the eve of the conflict, that the war part of the conflict, the part where we basically blasted the hell out of everything shooting everything that moved, would last fewer than three weeks is any kind of a prophecy. Hell, Rumsfeld or one of his minions said the Iraqis would greet our triumphant troops with flowers and cheering crowds in 3-1/2 weeks. He wasn't that far off... well, except for that flowered parade thing. The only celebrants in the early days of Saddam's defeat were the looters. "Thank you America" said one of them right to an imbedded newscam, just as he was toting off a television set. Like I said previously, a specific, supposedly devine prophesy several years in advance would be quite meaningful, anything less is meaningless.

Back in December 2000, I predicted the US would go to war with somebody in the Middle East within a few years, most likely Iraq, but then with the belligerant BushCo being crowned President by the Supreme Court, it wasn't that big of a stretch. My Yahoo! ID is warren2002, first set up back in 1997, was not just my name with a random year on it, it meant I thought there would be "war in 2002". So, I missed it by a year, big deal, it was still prophecy. Now, if I just had been able to correctly predict the 90% drop in my 401K account that same year....


Warren in Oklahoma

lunachick

Oh, bum.

I saw the thread title and thought this was going to be one of those fun blog test thingies.

Oh, well....

TrueThinker

Where is your joy? Do you have it? Do you want it?


Is the month of October over?

Please keep it coming. I like this.

Or Do you think I did not expect such responses? Hey, I am more than willing to concede but concede to what? Of the prophecies I posted observe the ones that had deadlines.

The information minister disappeared on the 21st day. So what happened to the voice? It was there for 20 days, on Day 21- nothing.

"Seeing they do not perceive, hearing they do not understand, lest they turn......."

War time-line from Fox news:

March 20 -- U.S. forces launch early morning airstrikes at sites near Baghdad where Saddam Hussein (search) and top aides are believed to be sleeping. Ground war begins in afternoon near Kuwaiti border.

March 21 -- Ground troops reach one-third of the way to Baghdad. Airstrikes on Baghdad leave government buildings ablaze.

March 23 -- Twelve U.S. soldiers, including Army supply clerk Jessica Lynch, 19, go missing after Iraqis ambush convoy near Nasiriyah (search). Iraqi TV airs footage of five captured U.S. soldiers and shows bodies of at least five others.

March 24 -- Two U.S. soldiers captured after their helicopter crashes, then put on Iraqi TV.

March 26 -- Two missiles hit Baghdad neighborhood, killing 14 and injuring 30, according to Iraq. Northern front opened as 1,000 Army troops parachute into Kurdish-controlled enclave.

March 28 -- With port of Umm Qasr (search) finally cleared of mines, British ship makes first sizable humanitarian delivery.

March 29 -- Suicide attacker pretending to be a taxi driver needing help kills four U.S. soldiers.

April 1 -- Lynch rescued from hospital by U.S. special operations forces. Eight bodies buried nearby later identified as members of her unit.

April 4 -- Soldiers seize Saddam International Airport, rename it Baghdad International.

April 7 -- U.S. tanks rumble through downtown Baghdad. Bunker-buster bomb hits buildings where Saddam and other officials are believed to be. British forces take Basra.

April 9 -- American commanders declare Saddam's regime no longer rules Baghdad. Jubilant crowds greet troops, go on looting rampages, topple a 40-foot statue of Saddam.
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Count how many days from March 20-April 9.

And there is no need to get childish when discussing a matter.

Peace.

Aethernaut

"And there is no need to get childish when discussing a matter."

Lovely ad hom.

The goalpost is about a 1000 yards from where it started. I'm done. You're wrong. You've proven nothing with your "tests." Enjoy the delusions. Adieu.

Abel Stable

I can't wait to see how our economy completely recovers in the next two days. And to see Bush vindicated and hailed as a visionary hero. So, TrueThinker, let's see what happens in these 48 hours...
Will your autumn prophecies be as barren as your springtime ones?

Bumble Bee Tuna

Are you going to actually respond to the criticism that the month of Iyar was not "restful" at all?

Also, if the information disappeared ON the 21st day, then he really didn't disappear in less than 21 days, did he?