09-22-2016, 02:56 AM
(09-22-2016, 02:02 AM)taramarie Wrote: As for his predictions well lets just say i will believe it when i see it. THEN i would want to see more evidence of past success. I believe in evidence as to how predictions are made and results. THEN and only then there may be something to it. I am naturally skeptical when someone states they are a prophet.
Now you know why I dislike Boomers in general and Eric the Obtuse in particular. No matter how many times something doesn't work they keep doing the same thing over and over in the hope that it will work if they just believe in it just a little bit harder. After a half-century of being on the receiving end of that kind of stupidity and knowing it won't end anytime soon tends to wear out my patience.
I do pretty well in figuring out how things are going to go but I always have a backup plan for as many of the failure cases as possible. Just part of the low level paranoia Nomads often develop to deal with the chaos caused by those who are so certain they can predict the future. Plus I always remember that the perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum. Not quite sure why that works so often and so well.
Skepticism is a valuable survival skill as you already have figured out.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises