Context of Prophecy
Pseudoscientific schemes of prediction in ancient civilizations did not always involve astronomy. Numbers themselves had mystic properties and could be used to make predictions. One finds some Babylonian usages in the Book of Daniel and in the writings of the Old and New Testament prophets. The Hebrew “science” of gematria (a form of cabbalistic mysticism) was based on the fact that each letter of the alphabet had a number value because the Hebrews used letters to represent numbers. If the sum of the numerical values of the letters in two words was the same, an important connection between the two ideas or people or events represented by the words was inferred. In the prophecy of Isaiah, the lion proclaims the fall of Babylon because the letters in the Hebrew word for lion and those in the word for Babylon add up to the same sum.
Examples with Prophecy
GPT-3′s training dataset encompasses a wide array of content, ranging from news articles, recipes, and poetry to coding manuals, fanfiction, religious prophecy, guides about Bolivian songbirds, and whatever other materials one can conceive.
–Technology
Stephen Hawking sought to refute Bekenstein’s concepts but ultimately validated Wheeler’s prophecy by discovering Hawking radiation, his most pivotal scientific contribution.
–Science
Central bankers are crossing their fingers that the speedy rise in prices will calm down before people start expecting prices to keep climbing, as this expectation could trigger a prophecy where shoppers don’t mind paying more and workers ask for higher wages, causing prices to increase even more.
–Business
When Neymar got injured, the entire country seemed deeply saddened, leaving the remaining players to get ready to face Germany amid widespread sadness and prophecies of bad outcomes throughout the nation.
–Sports
Croft translated Tokarczuk’s “The Books of Jacob,” a lengthy historical novel exploring the life of Jacob Frank, an 18th-century Eastern European cult leader, through diary entries, poetry, letters, and prophecies.
–Arts and Culture
