via nytimes.com
Jump in, People, if you believe you have prophetic inclinations. Only, remember ‘Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit’? literally translated from the Latin means ‘Man proposes, God disposes’– not what it says in the piece.
Why Do We Need to Predict the Future? – Room for Debate
I completely disbelieve that we have any reason to predict the future.. Can we, really, predict the future? Isn’t the essence of living captured in those few moments spent pondering over what the possibilities may be?
well, it is only human to wonder what the future holds… we are true to our nature in expressing our curiosity by way of attempting to predict what tomorrow may bring. this goes for everything, in some way or the other… we wish to time-travel into the future so that we might be able to control it. and if only it was quite as scientific as predicting weather patterns, though… but since it is not, we are left w/ what we believe will come to pass and what we hope and fear will. our times are in the hands of God, and like the Bard says, ‘there’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.’
Very well put!!