| There are a few certainties in life we all cope with. I will always have a Visa balance, meagre hair and my Futurama DVDs. We all have comfort zones that we spend most of our day-to-day lives in, and when we need to escape we have digital TV, yoga and a good book. And there’s always that grey area of daydreams and musings. With the start of a new year, people tend to get a little wacky. They start making weird demands of their morals, or start visiting the gym. It’s an exercise in looking at the year ahead and setting goals. But, for others, a new year can mean a multitude of things, like a new armpit disease, Jim Morrison is alive, or a new, black pope.
Meet the predictors, a class of personalities (Art Bell and cronies) that deals in conspiracy theories, what’s really going on in the world today and, more importantly, tomorrow. Peruse a solid track record at myweb.tiscali.co.uk/aspie/trueorfalse. It’s a site that not only posts the year ahead but an evaluation of past predictions that have come to pass and others that just didn’t cut the mustard.
Predictions are broken down by each particular swami, Sean David Morton rubs elbows with Father Wingate and Sylvia Browne. Predictions range from the painfully obvious: real estate is up in California (Browne), to the downright bizarre: Lisa Marie Presley will have a hit song (Bell). Buy gold they advise, and watch out for a city under a lake in Peru. And, should we expect an alien invasion in 2005? Forget it. They’re already here. |
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