Welcome to the Third Degree: Tough, Brief, Weekly Interrogations on matters public and private that force thinking and response. This Sunday we target: Prophecy and Prophesy

  • Do you desire to prophesy or prefer plain old guesswork and leave prophecy to others, difficult anyway regarding the future? Risky business?
  • In this presidential debate week, will the soothsaying media and social media mediums prophesy and work prophecy overtime to read the runes really trying to affect outcomes?
  • Are we on guard and duly warned against false prophets, and hucksters in general, but do all try for a field day?
  • Are we citizens busy, burdened by imposed and assumed complexity, vulnerable to a kind of political, Barnum Effect trap and prophecy prey for the witch doctors?
  • Are such shamans shameful (grant you, a bit entertaining) but can we see through the glass clearly without the fog of hot air and bias?
  • When accessing the always threatening and dangerous world, who do you judge to be best positioned, along with a likely second in command, to lead the charge, fight for, American interests?
  • Can you feel the table move, bells ring?
  • Do actual domestic conditions, visions and voices convey spirits of satisfaction now and in the past couple years or previously?
  • What portends for the future? Are you not clairvoyant or is the obvious onerous?
  • In the struggle between truth and untruth, fair versus unfair, prosperity versus decline, open versus closed and guarded, strength over weakness, resiliency beating fragility, trust trumping suspicion, unity rather than division, good versus evil, what do the cards show?
  • Do we need tea leaves or palms read, aeromancy, alectryomancy or astromancy or any of the mancy(s) to tell us our fortune?
  • Is what we want, what we choose to prophesy, “more of a better same?”
  • Is our fortune and our future what we will it to be, based on personal efforts and excellence recognizing and respecting national values and accomplishments by our people, all our people, over the hundreds of years with a form of government, economy and personal freedom plus responsibility that know no equal in history?
  • Bumpy road ahead, who will best assist us to live up to our own best prophecy?

Socrates reminds: “The unexamined life is not worth living. The answers and actions are yours.