And the third answer is that while our blog for The World in 2010 was prosaically called Predictions, The Economist's preference now is to give its blogs a name, witness Babbage and Gulliver or Johnson and Prospero.The reality, of course, is that some of our prophecies will come true, and others will not.
The danger is that by positing a single source of terrorism - a global jihad - and opposing it with a single global response - American-backed force - we will simply fulfil our own prophecy.
"We venture to make our small prophecy that his bookseller will not a second time venture 50" pounds "on anything he can write," a reviewer for Blackwood's Magazine wrote.
Many months later, she is seen sitting with Spottedleaf, the medicine cat, and hears the "Fire will save our Clan" prophecy.
A number of books, such as Woman Hating: A Radical Look at Sexuality (1974) and Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics (1976), followed, along with studies of pornography, which, according to Dworkin, is one of the main weapons men deploy to control women.
We are in a time of prophecy, our collective action will be significant, with all the love in our hearts, we must all resist this destruction, and stand for sacred water and Unci Maka.
As the exuberant First Couple slow-danced, Knowles did her part to turn basic romantic folderol into historic prophecy: our lonely nights are gone, the skies are blue, we've all found a dream.
One of MacLeod's spokesman heroes, a miner whose children will have a "better" life, offers a bitter prophecy: "Our sons will go to the universities to study dentistry or law and to become fatly affluent before they are 30.
Otherwise, we face the threat of a self-fulfilling prophecy: Our government can't do anything right, and therefore it will continue to fail.
We believed that F.D.R.'s "second Bill of Rights" spelled out a prophecy for our lives, our golden future.
