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                           “But they will be tasty!”
                                        
It sounds like a battle zone outside as I sit here in the Computer Room
during the waning hours of 2004, looking for some guidance, some assurance in
what the New Year™ will bring. Predictions of 2005, in other words.

And i come across Psychic Fred [1], a “cyber caster” of dubious talents who's
predictions of 2005 [2] reassure me.

> Mother Nature (or, Planetary Mind if you prefer) is struggling to cleanse
> Earths oceans in an evolutionary plan to create new ocean species as a food
> source for humankind. Soon there will be some very strange looking life
> forms coming out of the ocean—but they will be tasty! Also, they will be a
> life form with minimal self awareness so that consuming them will be karma-
> free.
> 

“Predictions 2005 [3]”

Reassure me that I shouldn't look to psychics for reassurance of the future.

I tried viewing his predictions for 2004 [4], but sadly, they're expired.

But I've saved a copy of the page and if I remember, will visit them next
year to see how well ol' Fred here scored. It won't be easy, since some of
his “predictions” aren't predictions at all:

> Emissaries of Light have been arriving on Earth since the late 1970s. These
> are children who were trained in spirit-form to help elevate world
> consciousness. Unfortunately, many of these children have not been able to
> cope with the prevailing negative energy of current Earth. These children,
> who are brilliant and spiritually powerful, are literally disintegrating
> energy-wise and falling into mental confusion such as ADHD (Attention
> Deficite Hyper-activity Disorder), ADD (Attention Deficite Disorder),
> depression, and anxiety. We try to make them conform to our sense of
> reality by medicating them. The medications are literally interfering with
> the unique neural activity that was the tool they were given to help the
> world. By reducing their sensitivity through these harsh medications, we
> have done them and the world a great injustice.
> 

“Predictions 2005 [5]”

Um … yeah. How is that a prediction?

My prediction? He'll sweept these under the carpet and have new, even more
innane predictions for 2006.

[1] http://www.psychicfred.com/
[2] http://www.psychicfred.com/predictions_2005.htm
[3] http://www.psychicfred.com/predictions_2005.htm
[4] http://www.psychicfred.com/predictions_2004.htm
[5] http://www.psychicfred.com/predictions_2005.htm

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