Questions tagged [divination]
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Did this Twitter bot predict the Paris shootings 2 days before they happened?
A (now suspended) Twitter bot under the handle PZFeed Ebooks (@PZbooks) posted this tweet on November 11th, at 11:44 AM. Note the date carefully, that's November 11th, 2015.
It reads:
BREAKING: Death toll from Paris terror attack rises to at least…
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Did Pablo Reyes post a Facebook update that predicts the future?
It has been widely reported that the Facebook post of a user called Pablo Reyes made a number of startling predictions:
Call me crazy but in 2016 Hillary Clinton will be the first female president, the world will go crazy over the death of a…
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Can Bruce Bueno de Mesquita predict the future with mathematics?
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is called the "New Nostradamus". According to his claims he is able to predict (and has predicted) big economic events such as the 2009 economic crisis. Supposedly he has a mathematical model that he is unwilling to reveal.…
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Can a cup of coffee be used as a barometer?
A recent Instructable was picked up by Lifehacker. It states:
When you pour the coffee into your cup, watch the bubbles.
If the bubbles move to the edge of the cup rather quickly, that's a good sign. Expect clear skies for the next 12 hours.
If the…
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Did the Zohar predict 9/11?
Several websites claim that the Zohar predicted the event of 9/11 (for example, this, this, this, and this). The following quote is from the last link:
On 9-11, not only the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center collapsed after being flown into by…
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Do pendulums have any explanatory power?
The use of pendulum to answer all sorts of questions is quite widespread. People use it to make decision about their lives or to find a lost object. Talking about several people believing in these things, two of them argued that the efficiency of…
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Did Kim Clement predict the Russo-Ukrainian War?
Recently many Christian commentators have told me that a Christian prophet by the name of Kim Clement predicted a wide array of events like the Russo-Ukranian War.
This video summarises Kim Clement's prophecies, and starts:
Russia! My spirit has…
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Can cows accurately predict when it is going to rain?
And do they show when they know it's going to rain by lying down, as the common saying suggests. Or is this just folklore?
A quote on this Discovery Channel discussion board says this:
Cows are quite large and heavy which could easily put a lot of…
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Can manipulating a lucid dream change the future?
In his self-published article, Theory of Precognitive Dreams, Ian A. Wilson describes the concept of déjà rêve - feeling you have dreamt this situation before.
He describes one anecdote where he had a lucid dream, and altered the dream experience by…
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Have the predictions of Tatsuki Ryo come true?
The Japanese manga author Tatsuki Ryo claimed to predict several events like the 1995 Kobe earthquake, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, the COVID19 pandemic, the deaths of Princess Diana and Freddy Mercury as well as some not yet happened…
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Did the Qur'an predict the defeat of the Persians at the Battle of Issus?
The Wikipedia page of the Qur'an and Miracles states
Some Muslims believe that the Qur'an predicted many events years
before they happened. They argue that such prophecies are proof of the
divine origin of Qur'an.
For example, Muslims say that…
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Did Abraham de Moivre Predict His Own Death?
According to the website I was perusing, found here, it stated that a mathematician named Abraham de Moivre, predicted the date of his own death (using some nonsensical method of when he had slept for 24 hours more than usual).
At the last point of…
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Did Jayabaya predicts cars and airplanes?
http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/jayabaya-seer-king-java-who-predicted-dutch-and-japanese-occupation-020803
He would appear, according to Jayabaya, "when iron wagons could drive
without horses and ships could sail through…
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Did Tomi Arayomi predict Russia would invade Ukraine, Trump's second impeachment, and Benjamín Netanyahu being removed from governance in 2021?
In this YouTube video, dated Jan 5th, 2021, at the 17:41-18:04 mark, Tomi Arayomi, author and pastor of the My Church, in Windsor, England makes some predictions [hat-tip for the link: @Schwern]
"2021 shall be the year of hastening the Lord says -…
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Did Elvis Mbonye predict the 2012 Ugandan helicopter crash, 2018 Oscar winners, and Kenyan election dispute?
According to these videos, Elvis Mbonye, a self-proclaimed African prophet, predicted events such as the 2012 Ugandan helicopter crash, 2018 Oscar winners, and Ugandan election dispute:
Kenyan Election dispute
"I shall begin to cause…
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