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15 Prognosticators and Other Distractions I have news for you. Predicting that tomorrow’s happened long before it’s even here is like remembering ahead of time. By definition prophesying means to see and say what’s happening. Although the present must become the past before it’s understandable, if then, we crave the comfort of such wisdom in advance. Driving near Abilene, I heard a radio evangelist predict the world would end in seven days. Thousands believed though nothing happened on the seventh day or after. They loved his certitude and overlooked the faulty math . . . In training once I had to ford at midnight with a rifle and full pack a stream in flood. Water battered boulders, and the sky was two dim stars. 16 I stepped in darkness like a hooded sailor walking the plank. Halfway across . . . Why bother saying how it ended? All you who think that endings are conclusions, think again. Conclusions show what endings mean, which leaves you stalled with me alone at midnight in midstream in mid-thought and certain only that’s uncertainty is all that’s certain as we go. ...

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