“And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima .” MenMadeSaidBodyMightSpiritTakenEventsFitSpeechMadProphetProphecyCavesMad MenOraclesIntoxicatedVaporGentilesDelphi Book:Leviathan Source: Leviathan
“To divine the course of world events, you'd do as well to probe the entrails of dead animals. Better still, ask your hairstylist. She will be at least as insightful and probably more entertaining a prophet than anyone you can read in Foreign Affairs or the op-ed page of the Washington Post.” WorldWellsStillsCoursesAsksAnimalEventsDivinePagesAffairPostsProphetInsightfulEntertainingForeign AffairsWorld EventsHairstylist Author:Andrew Bacevich
“The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt. The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify mens curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world.” IfsMenWorldHas BeensMightEventsDesignCuriosityProphetFollyContemptExposedProvidenceFulfilledProphecyTestamentOld TestamentEnablingInterpreterRashness Author:Isaac Newton
“You could be attached to merely a description of a plant or a flower. Or a narrative of an event. Or rage at injustice. Isaiah and the other Hebrew prophets, in their rage, were being altogether attached - not at all detached, although as I think of the word "detachment," I also think of a sheet of paper, loose from its notebook, fluttering around somewhere in the wind trying to find its home again.” ThinkingTryingHomeEventsWindFlowerPaperPlantInjusticeRageNarrativeProphetDescriptionSheetsDetachmentNotebookDetachedHebrewFluttering Author:Gerald Stern
“I make sure the events I do have the element of entertainment that Allah (swt) and his Prophet (pbuh) permit. Having said that, I would also like to make sure they are contemporary and our children can actually relate to them.” ChildrenSaidEventsElementsOur ChildrenEntertainmentContemporaryRelateProphetPermitAllah Swt Author:Junaid Jamshed