Not a believer in numerology per se. But I do believe there are many patterns and coincidences in history. Maybe there are no coincidences at all, we just don't know. Just to refresh some of your memories, there is the "Curse of Tippecanoe". Here, read all about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_Tippecanoe And I myself discovered the Mount Rushmore coincidences. Here: https://www.hipforums.com/forum/topic/452218-mount-rushmore-coincidences/ Anyways, as I said, for whatever reason, there are some unmistakable patterns in history. As I said before on these boards, long, long ago, I have noticed every year that is a perfect square, seems to be a time of political change. (The next year like that is 2025, if you keeping records.) And playing around with my calculator, I have found other patterns that seem to come up. I won't go into all the details. There are actually several important patterns involved in this one. But I am pretty sure 2160 will be an important year. In fact, I think it will be the year we finally form one, just world government. I'm not kidding. Also, FWIW, that is around the time, in the fictional Star Trek universe, this happens. Star Trek is sometimes wrong in its predictions. But sometimes they are right. What do the rest of you think?
science fiction doesn't really set out to make predictions. its just a genre in which some writers are most comfortable, or have had the most success, telling and selling their stories. but an interesting thing does happen. people who read them are sometimes inspired to become scientists or engineers, with the stories that inspired them in the backs of their minds, and sometimes they develop things inspired by those stories. and so, as life moves on, we find ourselves ever moving into a world in which some of the things once mentioned, and only existing in them, have become a part of everyday life. our computers, internet, cell phones, are all examples of this happening. 2160 is long enough off, almost anything can happen between now and then. (when i was born in 1948, the year 1984 was, and then the year 2000) one thing i expect to see happen, though its possible we might avoid the worst of it, though only if our priorities adopt to avoiding it, is what i am calling eco-pocalypse. of which, global climate change is only the beginning and the tip of the iceburg. if what i expect is most likely, and at this point it is more likely then not, nearly all of humanity will have died slowly and painfully from a plethora of pandemics, sometime quite possibly not many decades, or even years from now. this will be a terrible thing for those who live through it, and it is something we still have a chance and a choice to avoid the worst of, but it will also have been a very good thing, for those who will have been born a long time after it, if anything human will have actually survived it. i don't expect many people today to understand how or why a less populated world would be a better world, but i seriously believe that it will. and we have now, the all the technologies we would require, to avoid inflicting this time of suffering upon ourselves. and it is ourselves, not something from somewhere else or a god or any of that. just the statistic of our choice of priorities. i don't believe anything is concretely fixed in time, just that there are probabilities and things happen.
Thing is, anyone can claim that their magical system will let them predict something that will happen after everyone they are talking to is dead. Use it to predict something that will happen in the next two years that is: A) not already a popular prediction B) more specific than "It will be a significant year politically/a time of political change". There really aren't any years in human history which this couldn't be applied to. The mount Rushmore and Tippecanoe things are just coincidences, and not even very good ones, especially in the case of the latter.
these also places that have very good reasons to be haunted, considering all the terrible things that in the one case happened there, and in the other, that they represent, covertly if not overtly. haunted, even it that were to be only something in our minds. but it is fun to play what if games about the future. i won't criticize anyone on the basis alone of doing so. ecopocalypse could have come and gone and begun faiding into history by then, almost a couple of hundred years into our future, if it happens over the period of the next decade or so. far enough into that future's past that maybe we will have reached the stars anyway, AND have learned to avoid many of the mistakes we currently make, and maybe not replace them with as many or more, as yet unforseen, new ones. speedbumps and potholes, don't prevent there from being a road beyond them. even ones as big as an ocean.
