Why are DUers so interested in predicting the future?

[OneGrassRoot]

And so confident, or arrogant, that he/she can indeed do so accurately?

There are always so many threads predicting the future.

We get irritated at the pundits and "journalists" (cough, cough) for doing the same thing rather than commenting on and investigating what is going on NOW.

Why this obsession with predicting the future? While DU has little influence in the real world, are those always predicting here (consciously or subconsciously) trying to influence how things will indeed play out, just as MSM does?

Reporting on what's going on now would create a much different climate and playing field than the constant projections into the future. It's this kind of thing that created the Clinton-Obama show...with only two people in the race...before the primaries even started.

I wonder why there is such focus on predicting the future?

[SpiralHawk]

1. Because our current pResident is a republicon occultist

Commander AWOL Bush, of the Skull & Boner occult cabal, has sparked pubic interest in the occult, just as republicon pResident Ronald Reagan sparked interest in the Stars with his routine employment of Astrology...

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Because threads predicting the past get very little attention?

:shrug:

[MoonRiver]

3. It's a prophesy thing.

You wouldn't understand.

[GodlessBiker]

4. Everyone around here thinks they are Nostradamus.

[OneGrassRoot]

5. LOL...I just don't get the purpose of it. Ego, agenda, boredom? n/t

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

6. I don't understand it either, especially since I'm really the only one here who knows exactly what

will happen from this moment on. Of course, if my predications are somehow incorrect, I'll just get all humble and say that we all make mistakes and can't we all just get along.

Then, I'll make my next ironclad prediction, because I'm really the only one here who knows exactly what will happen from this moment on.

:-) MKJ

[OneGrassRoot]

8. Alrighty then! ;) LOL n/t

[protect our future]

7. Boredom and/or curiosity

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. Predicting the future is simple. The media determine who can be heard in a presidential race

and as such significantly slew the election's outcome. This is not democracy.

As such, the future will be more of the same.

[Kokonoe]

10. But I can tell the future

I think it's debatable if you can can change the future after it has been seen. But I can tell you it from experience that it can be seen. I know you don't believe me, thats OK. But I thought I would answer your question.

[OneGrassRoot]

11. Thanks, kokono. :) n/t

[Kokonoe]

13. Thank You

I like your aviator. Anything you want to know?

[Kokonoe]

18. Oh, I do support Edwards but I have not been predicting for

him to win or against his opponents to lose. The best view is from a distance. :hippie:

[ronnykmarshall]

12. We long for the Miss Cleo years

[OneGrassRoot]

14. OMG - I had forgotten about her! LOL n/t

[CK_John]

15. IMO, it's the difference between the sheep and the herders, those who

are passive and accept their fate and those that see possibilities and try to help by warning others or pushing them away from the cliff.

[OneGrassRoot]

16. I can see what you are saying, in some instances.

And maybe it's all in the delivery.

Someone saying, "Hey, in all likelihood, the following scenario may play out. Here are things we should be considering in that event."

But so many here and on MSM state flat out: This is the way it is. If you don't think so, you're a glassy-eyed, ignorant, dumbass lemming. (paraphrasing...although, sometimes that's pretty much what is said verbatim...lol)

Claiming full knowledge of a future event (as opposed to a likely scenario) seems as willfully ignorant as completely ignoring what is likely to happen.

In both cases the person doing so has a closed mind to all possibilities.

[CK_John]

17. When I see the forum going into tunnel vision mode, I post things that

I feel we should be looking at. Mostly they sink like a rock, other times I know I hit the nail because it is like an instant attack of the agenda police. But it's my way of feeling that I contribute to the debate.

[Seabiscuit]

19. Cockiness, arrogance, nastiness - all about their own candidate excelling at the expense of others.

As in: "When is Edwards going to drop out of the race?"