Psychic Nikki's amazing predictions for 2011!

[cobrien]

The year is almost over and, as the honored end-of-year traditions and customs command, Psychic Nikki has looked into the mists of time and foreseen the shape of 2011.

And here it is!

She also pats herself in the back at the beginning for getting things rigth last time, but I don't see the predictions about Atlantis found, reptile invasion of El Paso, or Miami being wiped out by a hurricane in there, funny that...

Ok, let's go to the predictions:

A gold rush in Hawaii.

Get yourself a pick, a donkey and a beard and hop on that plane, there's gold in them islands!

President Obama has to be careful of parades.
President Obama’s children in danger.
Danger around President Obama.

Terrible news for mr. Obama, what kind of dark diabolical plan lurks beneath the cheerful surface of those parades? *cue ominous music*

Polar bears and penguins moving south due to global warming.

Ok, this will be something you really want to watch, I guess that the bears will leave the Arctic for Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, Russia and places like that, while the penguins head south from Antarctica to... ummmm...

Widespread damage when a meteorite hits two states in the southwestern United States.

A meteorite that lands right on the border, or maybe it bounces after the first hit? Either way it will be sometinhg out of the ordinary indeed!

Passing of Fidel Castro.

And here it is, it never fails, year after year she foretells the doom of her communist nemesis.

Category five hurricane wipes out Miami.

If at first you don't succeed...

Danger around the Queen.
Buckingham Palace on fire.
Royal staff will quit because of too many ghosts at Buckingham Palace.

And a misterious police box will be spotted somewhere around the place, surely...

 

[Robert Maxwell]

There are people who take psychics pseriously?

 

[Jadzia]

If we stop calling them psychics and turn it into a game of let's-guess-what-will-happen-in-2011-and-see-who-is closest-this-time-next-year, then I'll be happy to join in.

 

[Itisnotlogical]

I think there are a very few genuine psychics out there, and once in a great while they make a true prediction, but I don't think this is either a true psychic or a true prediction.

 

[judge alba]

If all these psychics are so good then how come they cant predict the lottery numbers?

 

[Jadzia]

I think there are a very few genuine psychics out there, and once in a great while they make a true prediction.

Once in a while there will be a person who claims to be psychic making a prediction with uncanny accuracy to a future event. But from a statistical point of view, it's like monkeys with typewriters.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

If all these psychics are so good then how come they cant predict the lottery numbers?

I guess they don't know any lottery numbers to whom the name "John" is important.

 

[Shaytan]

29. A Paris suburb on fire.

Ce soir on vous met, ce soir on vous met le feu !

A royal wedding.
Wedding in Monaco.

What a psychic...

 

[Franklin]

I think there are a very few genuine psychics out there, and once in a great while they make a true prediction.

Once in a while there will be a person who claims to be psychic making a prediction with uncanny accuracy to a future event. But from a statistical point of view, it's like monkeys with typewriters.

Or stock brokers.

A pyschic is only as good as the gullibility of his or her audience will allow.

Here are my 2011 predictions:
-- A tornado will damage a metro area in the U.S.
-- A beloved actor will die.
-- A major politician will be cited for corruption.
-- A plane will crash, somewhere.
-- The Cubs will not win the World Series.
-- NASA will announce that they have found further evidence that could lead to possible evidence that there could be or could've been at one time, perhaps, the elements necessary for life as we know it on another planet. Or not.

If I took a minute to pound back a couple-three Budweisers to "enter the proper psychic state," I could come up with more.

 

[Itisnotlogical]

I think there are a very few genuine psychics out there, and once in a great while they make a true prediction.

Once in a while there will be a person who claims to be psychic making a prediction with uncanny accuracy to a future event. But from a statistical point of view, it's like monkeys with typewriters.

When it comes to one in a million statics, I tend to place myself on the side of the one occurrence rather than the 999,999 times it doesn't happen. I know that humans sometimes are gifted with extraordinary abilities: strength, endurance, willpower, etc. I just also think that psychic faculties are also there, although, as you said, once-in-a-millennium occurrences.

I have experimented with star signs, numerology and tarot cards and all that and so far it does appear to have a little bit of credence; not much, granted, but I think there's more there. I guess I'm certifiably bonkers then

 

[Amaris]

It's all about confirmation bias and the law of large numbers. That's why it seems that there are some psychics who "get it right", when in truth, they've just guessed so many times on so many possible random events that one of them matches up.

 

[Jadzia]

To be fair though, there are people with strong intuitive abilities, like me. Some of the thought processes that psychics go through look familiar to me, because what they do is something I can do. But I would never call it being psychic.

At best it's educated guesswork with elements of empathy and using known associations to make inferences on fragments of information. Quite often it can get close to truth, although the cognitive process isn't an analytic one. It's better described as a process of adding detail with your imagination, and in a way that feels like it fits.

In Jung terminology it is predominantly the [Ni] function at work. We use this function to process and make sense of all sorts of fragmented (even contradictory) information. It's the function we are using when we notice slights and subtleties and read between the lines. We use it when we gain insight, when we understand things, when we derive meaning or see the significance of something. It handles the complex and the indescribable. Using this function feels like a lightning strike happening in slow motion, where our mind forks out in many directions looking for ground, and if/when it finds that ground, it explodes into mind brilliantly and almost fearfully.

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I think this skill is strongly present in but poorly understood by people who claim to be psychic. They don't know what else to call it. They may be led astray by the whole psychic industry and end up misusing this function, stretching it beyond usefulness by making predictions that are far beyond educated guessing, where It becomes wild guessing.

And then there are con artists.

 

[Amaris]

To be fair though, there are people with strong intuitive abilities, like me. Some of the thought processes that psychics go through look familiar to me, because what they do is something I can do. But I would never call it being psychic.

At best it's educated guesswork with elements of empathy and using known associations to make inferences on fragments of information. Quite often it can get close to truth, although the cognitive process isn't an analytic one. It's better described as a process of adding detail with your imagination, and in a way that feels like it fits.

In Jung terminology it is predominantly the [Ni] function at work. We use this function to process and make sense of all sorts of fragmented information.

I think this skill is strongly present in but poorly understood by people who claim to be psychic. They don't know what else to call it. They may be led astray by the whole psychic industry and end up misusing this function, stretching it beyond usefulness by make predictions that are far beyond educated guessing, where It becomes wild guessing.

I agree, there are people who are intuitive like that.

And then there are con artists.

And those would be the ones I'm thinking of when I talk about confirmation bias (on the recipient's side). People hear what they want to hear. Cold readers will get a lot more wrong than right, but people only hear the right answers, and most of those were given by the recipient not minutes prior.

 

[Mary Ann]

If all these psychics are so good then how come they cant predict the lottery numbers?

I guess they don't know any lottery numbers to whom the name "John" is important.

The English National Lottery show used to have a psychic called Mystic Meg, who made exactly these kinds of predictions ("I see a woman with the letter E in her name"). And the crystal ball, the dyed black hair and purple cape only added to her credibility. No, really.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

If all these psychics are so good then how come they cant predict the lottery numbers?

I guess they don't know any lottery numbers to whom the name "John" is important.

The English National Lottery show used to have a psychic called Mystic Meg, who made exactly these kinds of predictions ("I see a woman with the letter E in her name"). And the crystal ball, the dyed black hair and purple cape only added to her credibility. No, really.

Ah, Mystic Meg. I remember her... now.

 

[Mary Ann]

Ah, Mystic Meg. I remember her... now.

Erm, sorry. Still friends?

 

[Trekker4747]

Trouble on the moons surface and atmosphere.

Nope. Probably a bit scientifically impossible.

A hostage taking incident at a New York City bank.

Nope

An avalanche at Whistler, B.C.

Nope.

The Lost City of Atlantis will be found.

Nope.

More ancient Mummies will be found in Egypt.

If they haven't found any more after the last 2000 years I doubt there's any more to be found.

Treasure from a Spanish Galleon Ship will be found under the sea.

Nope. Good plot for Indy 3, though.

A worldwide power blackout.

Impossible, short of a massive solar storm or a distant gamma-ray burst.

A tsunami in Japan.

Possible, but didn't happen.

Reptiles invading El Passo, Texas.

Close. It was a zombie horde, er, "Tea Party."

Another shooting, this time at a US Naval Base.
A terrorist attack at Edwards Airforce Base.

No and no.

A fire on Broadway in New York.

Also, a liquor store in the Bronx will get held up. I'm sure at somepoint in the last year there was "a fire" on Broadway.

A famous castle will burn to the ground.

Slightly impossible. Rock and stone aren't known for being greatly combustible.

Giant bats will attack a city in South America.

Awesome but didn't happen.

Tragedy at an oil rig.

Ok, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

An oil spill destroys the Mississippi River.

Eh, not quite, but close.

Trouble at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.

Rush Hour!

A mysterious insect will kill the corn crop in Iowa, USA.

Nope.

A huge breakthrough in the cure for Diabetes through stem cell research.

Probably close to it but not this year.

A fire at the home of the Wall Street Journal.

Eh, it has another home in Malibu.

A commercial airliner crashes over the state of Arizona.

Crashes into... itself? A cloud? A UFO? How does a single jet crash over a land mass?

Passing of Fidel Castro.

It's been well known Castro has been dead for 30 years.

A very large earthquake in Seattle, Washington destroying a lot of landmarks and killing many people.

As earthquake are known to do. Also, no.

A tragedy in the Rain Forest around a swinging bridge.

Nope.

A blimp exploding over a stadium.

Helium? Not so combustible.

Danger around President Barack Obama.

Part of the job.

Assassination attempt against President Barack Obama.

Part of the job.

Assassination of Barack Obama.

Goes with the others but, no.

Yet another sex scandal in Washington, DC.

Not so much a "prediction" as a "what else is new?"

More exotic insects in fruits and vegetables which are imported attacking people.

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

Giant earthquake in California.
Giant earthquake in Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego.

Well that would follow, yes.

Former US President Jimmy Carter has to watch his health.

As all people have to do, especially those who're in their late '80s.

A cure for the disease Lupus.

An ocean liner will sink like the Titanic.

Or, you know, sink link any other boat does.

Air Force One will be hijacked.

As is known to happen, in decade-old Harrison Ford movies.

A famous Hollywood actor will be held for ransom.

Does Randy Quaid count as a "famous Hollywood actor?" Eh, half a point.

More ancient dinosaur fossils will be found.

As pretty much happens all of the time.

Explosions in Iran.

Also called "Tuesday." Also "Wednesday", "Thursday" and "any other fucking day of the week."

Hillary Clinton has to watch her health and an assassination attempt.
Bill Clinton has to watch his health.

Also common for people middle aged and over who hold public office.

Sarah Palin will divorce.

Reality? Been there, done that. Bought the T-Shirt.

Problems with North Korea.

Also called "any day of the week from the last 60 years."


North Korea will launch a missile towards Japan and South Korea.

Another half-point.

Americas Most Wanted John Walsh has to watch for danger and his health.

Also expected for people of advanced age.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have to watch their marriage.

As any good couple should.

Cher will be hot again when her career takes off.

She was never "hot."

Megan Fox will portray a Porno Star in a film.

Or, "be in a film."

Michael Buble will get engaged.

Who?

Cindy Crawford will split from her husband.

I wish.

A remake of the movie Towering Inferno.

I'm sure it's in the pipeline somewhere.

Tiger Woods will split form his wife.

No points for predicting the obvious.

Perez Hilton will have his own TV talk show but has to watch his health.

God I hope not. And everyone has to watch their health! But, Perez Hilton should probably abstain.

Animal TV shows will be hot again.

They were never "not hot."

The movie Precious will win many awards and will be nominated for Oscars.

No points for guessing the obvious.

David Letterman has to watch his health but will divorce.
Penny Marshall has to watch her health.
Burt Reynolds has to watch his health.


As old men should do! How is it even a prediction to say someone has to do something?

Clint Eastwood will have health problems.

Again, not uncommon for men who are 80!

Hugh Hefner has to watch his health.

The man is 84.

Donny and Marie will produce a documentary on their home state of Utah.

And make the most boring movie ever.

A judge will walk off American Idol.

Pretty well known when this was made Cowell was calling it quits. No points.

Robert D'Niro will do an impromptu appearance at a comedy club and will bring the house down

What he's going to bring a bulldozer? What of the people?! Did the comedy house not pay it's protection money?! Why?! Why?!

- he will be funny.

Oh, that makes sense too. When is DeNiro ever not a delight to watch?

Category Five Hurricane wipes out Miami.

Nope

Typhoon in Taiwan.

Nope

Typhoon and floods in Bangladesh.

Nope.

Hurricane hits New Orleans.

Nope.


More tsunamis' in Sumatra, Indonesia, Alaska, Hawaii, and Japan.

Nope.

Mudslides in California.

Also? The sun will rise.


Great earthquake in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego.

Already predicted.

Part of the Polar Ice Cap melts.

The North Pole melts every Summer so, yeah.

The Royals

Yeah, I know, they suck. Oh, it's a topic heading...

A wedding around the British Royal Family.

Ehhhhh. Half a point. I'm sure this is another one of those things that was obvious.

The Queen has to watch her health.

The woman is, like, 108 so, yeah.

A blimp explosion over a sports stadium.

Asked and answered.

Tiger Woods divorce.

Not a prediction. And obvious conclusion.

A ball in a baseball stadium injuring a fan.

Happens at least 162 times a year for every team.

A streaker on a baseball field.

Also fairly "common."

A riot at a soccer stadium.

Actually is part of the game experience.

Fishnet boots.

I don't even know how that would work.

Jewelry from the sea.

You mean like pearls or something?

Ugh, this woman sucks.

Ok, this will be something you really want to watch, I guess that the bears will leave the Arctic for Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, Russia and places like that, while the penguins head south from Antarctica to... ummmm...

How much further fucking South can penguins get?!

 

[Kestra]

Fishnet boots.

I don't even know how that would work.

Not that I own any ...

 

[Trekker4747]

Not what I was thinking of when I read "fishnet boots" but my interest is piqued.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Ah, Mystic Meg. I remember her... now.

Erm, sorry. Still friends?

It's a long story.