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ttaaee
11-01-05, 10:15 AM
The old Royal astrologers' had made predictions about the future as follows:
* Many good rice fields and orchards have become villages forcing the farmers and orchard owners to be under the yoke of agribusiness.
* Lazy men will die from starvation.
* Mountains will move.
* Land will walk.
* Monks will not follow the Abbots.
* Lord of demons will fight against the king.
* Monks will loot and pillage the cities.
* The streams and canals will be narrowed.
* Even rice husks will be pricier than gold.
* Chickens, hogs, dogs and men will die without getting sick first.
* New diseases will eat human beings.
* People with projecting suits will come to rescue the dead.
* Failed real estate projects will eat people's money.
* Men will drink water from artesian wells reserved for the Lord of Naga.
* The poor will roam the cities.
* The monks in saffron robes will have wives.
* Couples will have too few children.
* Wildlife will be extinct.
* While talking, people will raise their tails like angry animals.
* The noblemen will beg like vagabonds.
* People will go to battlefields.
* Corpses will be scattered around the cities

I think the above predictions were a little taken out of the context. It says in the article in Manager (http://www.manager.co.th/daily/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9480000002327) that this was only an excerpt of predictions, yet not the whole, about the future. I guess the author of the article only chose this part of the predictions because it seems to produce a shocking effect on the readers.

Wesley HSu
25-01-05, 02:24 PM
If you open a hundred fortune cookies, a few are bound to be right. All astrology depends on vagueness and interpretive flexibility in the absence of anything factual to say. Thai Royal Astrology is no different.

That said, I'd love to see monks pillage a city.

jpatokal
25-01-05, 05:28 PM
That said, I'd love to see monks pillage a city.

The people of Kyoto might not agree with you:

http://www.ospreysamurai.com/book_war70.htm

Standard operating procedure was to march into Kyoto with a portable shrine in tow, so nobody dared to fight back, and rape & pillage until their demands were met. :eek:

Wesley HSu
25-01-05, 05:35 PM
The link doesn't work. Might be my browser.

Portable shrine, you say? I could use one of those. Of course, in Thailand, if one group of monks started pillaging, the city would just hire another group of monks to stop them. Sort of how they bless and un-bless trees to protect and un-protect them from loggers.