Predictions: what is fate preparing for us?

Prediction is a description of events before they occur. Predictions are religious, magical, astrological. The basis of religious prediction - prophesies Lies, as believers believe, the revelation of God. This prediction is proclaimed by a special person - a prophet and it can be addressed to individuals as well as to entire nations or to the whole of mankind.

Astrological predictions are made on the basis of the analysis of the arrangement of stars andstar systems in the sky - astrologers believe that this factor has a strong influence on the fate of man. One of the most popular types of astrological predictions - horoscope.

Magical predictions based on the interaction of a person with somesupernatural forces - magic. This includes communication with the spirits of the deceased, and divination by the crystal ball, by hand, by coffee grounds, etc. In some cases, the person himself is the possessor of the "gift of prophecy", in others, various objects and phenomena act as predictors.

Confirm the correctness of the prediction is very difficult. The text of the prediction is most often voiced oris recorded in allegorical form, indirectly. Therefore, any more or less suitable event can always be "rigged" under the desired prediction. For example, the text of one of Nostradamus' predictions for 2010:

Attempted murder, terrible adultery,

The great enemy of the whole human race,

Which will be worse than his ancestors, uncles and parents.

The sword, fire, water [will rule] bloodthirsty and inhuman.

There are several dozens of interpretations of this prediction, if not hundreds-and in reality there are very, very many events suitable for such a description.

One of the most popular predictions is the predictions about the end of the world. In various Internet publications you can find whole lists of "the ends of the world", painted for the next 10-20 years. Here are just a few of them:

• 2010 - oil will end, and the world will be swallowed up by the war for resources;


• 2012 - the end of the world according to the Mayan calendar;


• 2013-th - Ragnarok, he's the Judgment Day;


• 2014-th - a cloud of cosmic dust will destroy the solar system;


• 2015-th - the end of 9576-year cycle, which leads to the death of civilization;


• 2018 - the nuclear war on the prediction of Nostradamus;


• 2019th - death from collision with an asteroid 2002 NT7;


• 2020 is the end of the world according to the calculations of Isaac Newton, which he made on the basis of the predictions of John the Theologian.

Particularly worried about mankind is the prediction of the ancient Maya about the end of the world in 2012 - it is in December of this year that the time for "expiring"representation of the ancient Maya Indians. Thousands and thousands of different sites, articles, notes have already been devoted to this prediction. As many other sources deny such a prediction ...

Believing or not believing in predictions is a personal matter for every person. However, the predictions or, at least, what people understand under them, should be distinguished from common fraud and deception. One has only to remember fortune-teller fortune tellers, unceremoniously grabbing passers-by by the hand right on the street.

They seem to be looking straight into the soul - so surethey name the names of friends and relatives, talk about what happened. In fact, it may turn out that a street fortune-teller is a very knowledgeable swindler waiting for his concrete victim. Thanks to the Internet and social networks, personal information of a person becomes open: everyone can find out all the necessary data. The swindler can easily arm himself with the necessary information and go out to the "hunt".

Predictions and attempts to look into the future of many world religions, in particular, Christianity, are strictly prohibited. But there is also a scientific, non-forbidden, version of the prediction - forecast. Unlike religious and astrological predictions, scientific forecasts have a serious logical basis.

Knowing certain initial conditions, propertiesthis or that object or phenomenon and the laws of its action, it is possible to predict with some accuracy the further development of events. Thus, weather prediction is based on an analysis of various indicators, such as air temperature, atmospheric pressure, relative air humidity, and on the identification of patterns in the variation of these indicators.

The ability of people to predict the future still has no official scientific recognition and confirmation. Are some people reallynon-standard abilities and can perceive "cosmic energy" and "subtle information"? In our age of rapid development of information technologies, even video and photo-capture of extraordinary abilities can not convince anyone - such materials are easily forged.