The World Cup this year is very interesting. Who would have guessed that the older the game is, the more superstitious it gets? Hahaha. I mean, who am I to speak of this. I haven’t watched a single match on tv and only watched people’s behavior chanting over their favourite team and then smashed the door when they lost the bet. Hahahaa. It’s fun. But speaking of being Superstitious…I can’t help but hear about the popularity of the Modern Era Oracles that get high profile media coverage. I mean, WHAT? They aren’t human? Freaking kidding me! Hahahahahaha. If I ask you to guess which animal can be so close to being a clairvoyant – Maybe you would guess that it could be a dog? a cat? A bird? Okay a bird is possible because some birds can chirp and even talk. So here comes Mani The Parakeet (a type of small parrot) owned by an Indian restaurant owner in Singapore It picks the winner using its beak where it would pick the rolled paper which has the name of the team. So far, Mani has made correct predictions for the 4 quarter finals successfully. And guess what, out of nowhere…the competitor of the bird, which is two times more famous than the bird is…What? An Octopus? Okay, I gave that reaction too. Hahaha. Isn’t it cute? Need no introduction, it’s Paul The Octopus. I learnt about it sooner than I learnt about Iker Casillas so you know this must not be just any octopus. *giggles. Paul the Octopus is not new in the profession. It has been predicting for Germany football team even before the World Cup (2008 European Championship). Its predictions are correct 11 from 12 matches. But for matches that include Germany for this World Cup, Paul is a sharp shooter. It predicted wins and losses of Germany team, correctly.
As a layman who only watches and listens from afar, I see all this as something so explosively interesting and rather Hilarious! Hahaha. These animals even earn a portion in the primetime news on tv, recording them picking the winner. For the final prediction, they both agreed on Germany will win the third place and there’s only 1 game left. If they both are flawless oracles so far (at least for the World Cup 2010), one of them will go down since each of them has different pick for the final winner. Mani goes for Holland and Paul goes for Spain! Omigawd…are they ready to lose reputation cos surely one of them is wrong. Wait…wait…don’t you think they are soo smart?! Why I think that this is the best thing to happen? Yes! I tell you why.
These animals have seen the obsessiona on their so-called powers and how they influenced people into believing their random choice to be something that is coming from their special ability to predict. Some people earn a lot of money from this. Yes, if they are smart enough to predict the future, they must be smart enough to fool people!! So there isn’t a better time to fool people than to give opposite prediction so the thrill of the game will still be there – cos we ARE talking about the final match here! Imagine if both animals are giving the same prediction, it can turn out to be a handicapped game because the other team who is predicted to lose would lose a bit of drive to fight. Now tell me what can be better than this? The oracles have spoken and they are giving both teams the reason to fight until the final whistle blow! Thanks to them for not killing the thrill prematurely. Hehehe. You guys are so smart! *Lols
At the end of the same… I translate this as a message for everyone. This is what we have been doing. We want to know the future. We want to know the destiny and if you call this destiny, you know there’s nothing u can do that can change it. So are you sure u want to know it before time? Are you sure you want to waste your time and energy to find out what is going to happen tomorrow when it’s still going to happen anyway? I have written about this a few times before. In this frenzy of trying to find out the future – some people could answer me back, At least we can be prepared and do something to lessen the damage. It’s good. But speaking of footballs…most of the fans are only spectators. We don’t step at the field and are not even there to chant them live. Yes, it’s their legs that kick the ball. It’s too bad that what you say won’t have anything to do with how they kick the ball around and how they finally shoot it to the goal. So you guess it…I don’t believe in predictions. It’s what’s real, what’s factual that can contribute to reality. You can take these animals’ prediction just for the fun of it but in reality, people who only care to look for the clairvoyant to see their future have wasted so much time to live the presence with Hope of the uncertainties that the cloudy days are not gonna stay forever. My opinion is, if God wants us to know our future, He might not create us in the first place cos Life has no points when you start it knowing how it’s going to end. So u can do it for fun, but never waste your time on predictions cos you’re losing your minutes to make bad predictions turn into a REALITY that you choose to make for yourself. And Guess what…besides all predictions, ONLY REALITY that matters. :)
Note: Whoever wins the World Cup, the prediction doesn’t make you win. It’s your skill and sweat that do.
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