Nibiru vs Gaia 2
As abovementioned, prophets of Gaia followed the basic tendency of the older Jesus prophets. When the apocalypse fails, NEVER NEVER NEVER abandon your theory. Theory is permanently correct. ALWAYS adjust your math. The failure is a miscalculation or a missed epicycle.

More recently the Gaian prophets borrowed a trick from astrologers. Fortune-tellers make predictions that are always true. "Today you will experience troubles and triumphs." They've developed a wide vocabulary of generalities, enabling each prediction to sound unique while always applying to every day in every life.

After thousands of failed predictions and zero successes, the Gaian Astrologers finally figured out the same trick. It's not global warming, it's Climate Change. "Today you will experience changes in the weather."

No meteorologist could get away with such nonsense, but meteorologists don't have PhDs and Grants and Correct Names, so they have to do real science instead of Prophecy.

Now the Nibiru prophet has returned the favor. After recalculating his missed world-end date, he has recalculated his verbiage so it works for everyone all the time.

Oct 15 is the new date, and Oct 15 is not the "End of the World"; Oct 15 will be the "End of the world as we know it."

Clever! Our knowledge of the world changes every minute, so Oct 15 will reliably and predictably be the "End of the world as we know it", just as Oct 16 and Oct 17 and every other day when you're alive and conscious is the "End of the world as we know it" and simultaneously the "Beginning of the world as we know it."

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Actually I'm being unfair to astrologers, just as I was a couple weeks ago when I tried to scoff at a 1964 astrologer in Aberree, only to see that the astrologer got the firing of Khrushchev DEAD TO RIGHTS.

So, in recompense to a profession that does a better job than economists or Gaians, here's what Horoscope.com hands me for today:

You may meet some new people in the next few days, Sagittarius. Someone in your professional life may help you launch some unusual experiments that have never been done before. Or someone may want to create a new service or get into a completely new market. You will be the one they seek to explore these exciting new avenues!

Well, I'm not going to meet any new people unless they're burglars. I don't meet people. But the second part hits a non-generic mark. I'm "launching" some new experiments related to Volney's work as described in Aberree. The experiments are useless but they are unusual and new. You could also describe the graphics I'm doing for courseware as "unusual and new" experiments. Launching experiments is a fairly rare activity, not "triumphs and troubles" as I mocked above.

Sorry again, astrologers!

Labels: Aberree, Carbon Cult

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