by Domnall Óg
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So what does this year hold for us? What lies just beyond the vision of mortals ?
There will be a general election in the Spanish state. This, of course, is not a prediction but rather gloomy resignation. The level of debate will be poor, the poor will watch the telly and the telly will be full of adverts for cars and diet products. However, I do predict a predictable election campaign where content and coherence are substituted by image and sound bite. Three cheers for democracy.
The North Americans will see the first black president sit in the Oval Office. Hilary Clinton will leave politics to work for the United Nations.
We will have one of the sunniest and most beautiful springs for years. New species of birds will be seen.
Real Sociedad football club will announce the signing of two new Chinese players and they will return to the Spanish First Division. Real Madrid will decide to form a rugby team.
In Sligo, Eire, a sad and slightly inebriated man will enter a florist’s and order a rose and a vase. He will place the rose in the vase on the shop counter.There will be great advances in the technology of the iBook but it will be the Apple iPhone that continues to make waves. A photographer will even snap Bill Gates with one.
There will be a major shake-up of hip-hop music and big stars will speak out against sexism.
Summer will be pleasant and not too hot. Spain will get stuffed in the Euro Championship and journalists will lament the end of the world as we know it.
In a genetic food experiment apples will grow on an ivy tree in Italy, giving great hope to old people everywhere, and US scientists will finally develop a three-legged chicken to cater to the average-sized US household. Nobody will know what the chicken tastes like, however, as nobody will be able to catch one.
But as Julian of Norwich said, ‘All will be well and all will be well and all manner of things will be well’. And that’s not a prediction. That’s a promise.
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Are you using the stars to help you with this Dónal? It can’t be the tea leaves?!...
Amazing, Dónal. How did you know that I had planned to buy a rose for humanity the next time I was home? My prediction for 2008 is that, after years of providing us with exquisite cured ham for our discerning palates, our friends the pigs will sprout wings and fly away to a better, safer place where all animals will be equal. Obviously, some will be more equal than others, but isn’t that always the way. So, enjoy your pata negra and jabugo while you can. The chollo is coming to an end!
Jeremy,
Years ago I became interested in the occult and I used to read Tarot cards, practise the I-Ching and also draw people’s birth charts. This was in the old days when you had to look up the positions of planets in books and learn geometry. Now it’s all done with computers. I never read tea-leaves though. That’s because I use tea-bags, I suppose.
Of course, the tea-leaves, the crystal ball, the incense and all the other paraphernalia are just ways to occupy your consciousness while your subconsciousness taps into the right vibrations.
Once I found myself outside my body. Since then I have been convinced that there some very strange things for which we have few adequate explanations.
I could tell you lots of stories about my paranormal experiences but you would probably think I was crazy.
Joe,
As a man who loves fried bacon and eggs for breakfast I am distressed by your prediction of aeronautical porkers! I shall have to buy a rifle to bring home the bacon.
In a genetic food experiment apples will grow on an ivy tree in Italy??
Yeah… only Italians could do something like that, I guess :-)
I wish, I wish
I wish in vain
I wish I was a youth again
But a youth again
I can never be
Till apples grow an ivy tree
I love the Italians!
Greetings from my new L-shaped desk in my new apartment in Brisbane! Life here is good, though I’ve had some strange dreams in the past two nights. I dreamt that an acquaintance of mine (hence, nobody close) died. In the first night, I gave my condolences to the widow, who said she was selling their house. In the second night, I was bequeathed their generous-sized jacuzzi (of which I know nothing.) What could all this mean?
Hi guys.
Thank God to forecast the future is not possible, if it were many would take adavantage of others and it wouldn´t be nice.
There are many facts that make you believe those predictions, but nothing is sure.It is true that this coming summer seems that will be the hottest due to the weather conditions are in January.Even is not crazy to forecats that US will have the first black president in History if things in the campaign elections keep going as now.
I wonder if anyone would be able to make a predictions about when the VIH vacum will be discovered, or who is the winner of the next lucky dip, so this is to make a good predictions.
Obviously some facts are unpredictable, no one could image my local football team winning the Champions League or in my particualr case going out with Tyra Banks, so if anyone is completly sure about this facts I would be able to pay a fortune for those predictions.
Greetings