Are prophecies fulfilled because the prophecy exists?

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Three things usually happen:

The prophesy is vague.
The prophesy is misinterpreted into a different language.
The prophesy is written after-the-fact and claimed to have been written a long time prior.

All of the Jesus prophesies fit into one or more of these. The Jesus story is a myth.

Rev. Neil
 
History Channel has been talking about Armeggedon all day. One would think that if we could recognize the signs (e.g. the re-building of Solomon's Temple), we could do something to stop it. On another note, perhaps the prophecy inspires people to make sure it's fulfilled.
 
Prophesies are fulfilled because they exist, even if the fulfillment is made up.
 
No, I think maybe it's possible that the signs we create are tied to some core truths about human kind in general, and in that way they always seem to ring a little true. That coupled with the fact that given a large enough data pool, even random coincidences are going to fall on true patterns every so often. (search for a topic called "Random Matrix Theory"). If you flip a coin millions of times, you expect to get a random scattering of heads and tales, but not a single statistician will raise an eye if you get 100 tales in a row because that is just statistics. It's going to happen. (even more trippy, do it long enough, and eventually it will land perfectly on its side, statistically it has to happen given a long enough timeframe and data set).
 
It's called "poisoning the well." Of course humans bring about much of what they prophesy just be being dumb enough to float around in La La Land.
 
If you play the lottery enough times you will eventually win

If you make enough guesses you will eventually get some right
 
Londo: The dream is prophecy.

Image of Vir: Prophecy is a guess that comes true. When it doesn't, it's a metaphor. You could put a gun to your head tomorrow and pull the trigger, and then the dream is just a dream, and the prophecy is just a metaphor, and so are you. You're out of time, Londo. Turn around.
 
The Christian understanding of the fulfillment of prophesy is that God, who gives any genuine prophesy, will bring about the fulfillment. Thus, according to the Christian understanding, it would not be possible for a prophesy from God to be "stopped" or frustrated.
 
usually, especially involving the abrahamic religions, the prophesies are written after the event occurred (Daniel). And sometimes neither the event nor the prophesy ever occurred.

Alexander the Great was actually approached by Hebrews claiming that he was a fulfiment of various prophesies...but he rejected them so he never became the messiah. True story.
 
Prophecies are generally vague enough so you can fulfill on just about any situation. Like psychics.
 
Prophecy becomes true because those who believe in it will, unconsciously, work to realise it somehow.
 
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