Prophecies

I adore prophecies. Was at a bookstore and browsing through the occult section. What caught my eye was the strangely large number of end-of-the-world prophecies, some even putting exact dates to the end times. In my opinion, prophecies are just like those books that teach you how to make money: You don't know if they work out until you try them out. The bookstore predictions have a sell-by date. If the time elapses(say, 2006) and the world still has not come to an end, the prophecy loses all of its credibility. In the meantime, however, they hold some degree of credibility as what is written within would be by definition improbable, but not impossible. I'd figured that I could write one such book every five years or so to supplement my income. Just how anyone can put one's faith in a prediction method that "discovers" significant events after they occur is really beyond me. I'd seen too many 9-11 prophecy books that had managed to find the event in their texts only after it had occurred. IMO, we need better seers.