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Old 10-26-2001, 01:30 AM
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Is anyone claiming -- even after the fact that he predicted the WTC incident? Do you claim to be psychic in the least? In the most?

C'mon, don't be shy. Tell all to uncle Edmund.
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Old 10-26-2001, 09:13 AM
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Life actuaries have predicted that everyone on the face of this planet will die. Isn't that good enough?
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Old 10-26-2001, 09:30 AM
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That "I Can Talk to Dead People" guy on daytime TV claims he's made contact with some of the victims. The network decided not to air those segments.
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Old 10-26-2001, 09:37 AM
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No - but I had a dream the other night about a bomb exploding in an airport - I think it was LAX. I was afraid to turn on the news that morning!

(Once in a blue moon, a dream like this becomes a reality)

I had no visions of 9/11, although, believe it or not, I had had the uneasy feeling since about the beginning of the year that we were about to go to war. I told myself it was silly, since I didn't know of any conflicts that were brewing that would trigger a full-scale war.

I know - y'all think I'm pretty strange anyway!
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I'm sure the TV psychics (like Miss Cleo) are claiming that they saw it coming but that nobody would listen. Wouldn't it kind of hurt your credibility as a psychic if you couldn't foresee something as big as 9/11?! (Wait - did I just use "credibility" and "psychic" in the same sentence?)
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Old 10-27-2001, 11:53 AM
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Something posted on the web 2/16/2000:

"The United States support of Israel guarantees that the United States will attract retaliatory strikes, which the perpetrators of the strikes — victims of American-Israeli terror — will view as warfare, and the American-Israeli perpetrators of terror will view as terrorism. However, in a world of mismanaged nuclear arsenals, the retaliation of the oppressed could conceivably escalate to the destruction of an American city in a nuclear detonation, and in a world in which biological expertise cannot be contained, the retaliation of the oppressed could conceivably escalate into the loss of millions of American lives in a smallpox attack. Exposing Americans to such dangers in return for the benefit of briefly maintaining an American colonial outpost in the Middle East may strike some observers as rash and inadvisable."
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Old 10-27-2001, 12:10 PM
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Something posted on the web 8/27/2001:

"Two hijacked planes will strike the World Trade Center, causing the buildings to ultimately collapse. A third hijacked plane will strike the Pentagon. A fourth hijacked plane will will be downed by its passengers in western Pennsylvania or Ohio in order to prevent its attack on the Capital."

Wow, this is really eerie, isn't it?
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I'll believe that when i see it.
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Old 10-28-2001, 07:40 AM
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I saw a local news report that a preacher claimed to have predicted it. It seemed rather vague to me. Although he did mention something about flights over Long Island, it really was not specific enough, in my opinion.

Of course, if you are vague enough, you really cannot be "wrong". Jeanne Dixon claimed to predict JFK's assassination. A friend found an original edition of that book. One of her ten predictions was that "something bad would happen to the Kennedy family." Subsequent editions did not have the list of predictions. (None of the other ten predictions came true.)
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Old 10-29-2001, 10:56 AM
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I don't like to publicize probably kooky websites, even when they've gotten something right, but here it is (see item 9):

http://www.ukar.org/jewsnot1.shtml
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