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Religions > Atheism |
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"John Hearsey" |
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20 Oct 2005 02:33:40 PM |
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Astrologer in India predicts own death ... |
.... and lives.
Obviously he needs to learn how to predict the power of prayer
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R30A2540C
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyI
D=2005-10-20T132907Z_01_SPI033906_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-INDIA-ASTROLOGER.XML
BHOPAL, India (Reuters) - Hundreds of people flocked to a village in central
India on Thursday to see if an astrologer who forecast his own death would
indeed die as predicted.
But the 75-year-old man survived the day.
Kunjilal Malviya, who lives south of the Madhya Pradesh state capital
Bhopal, had been meditating in his house after announcing he would die on
Thursday between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m (10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. British time).
A police official confirmed the astrologer was fine and quoted his family
members as saying the prediction failed because many of those gathered had
prayed for him to live.
"We are afraid of his prediction coming true because all his predictions
till date have been correct," his son Anirudh said by phone earlier on
Thursday.
"My father had predicted the death of my grandfather 15 years ago and it
came true exactly like he calculated."
Police have been posted near the house to prevent the astrologer from
killing himself, authorities said.
Millions of Indians consult astrologers about their futures as well as
marriage and job prospects.
Malviya's prediction is not the first of its type by an Indian astrologer.
But in the past, crowds have beaten up astrologers when their predicted
demise failed to occur.
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John Hearsey
aa1886
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| User: "Uncle Buck" |
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| Title: Re: Astrologer in India predicts own death ... |
21 Oct 2005 12:09:29 AM |
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On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:33:40 +0100, "John Hearsey"
<JHtest@testzolien.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
<snip>
in the past, crowds have beaten up astrologers when their predicted demise
failed to occur.
Man. Sounds like a "self-fulfilling prophesy - but on demand" sort of dealie.
:-#
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