On the subject of Oracles. Is it wrong to seek knowledge of what lies before us? Only a fool denies that he has never wondered what the future holds. But acting on this is a different story.

There are many methods for seeking knowledge about the future. These may include astrology, tarot, runes, i-ching, going to a fortune teller, having a precognitive vision.

Aside from any disscussion about the nature of the future, a discussion about divination mostly involves the subject of desire and pride on the part of the seeker. Unfortunately, any prediction about the future is just that, a prediction. Until it happens, you can never be sure about what you find through divination. The only thing you have to assure you is the reputation of the method of the oracle you use.

Knowledge of the future is a dangerous thing. especially knowledge that is deemed accurate. To know for certain what is to come is a curse i would wish on few people. Yet, we all seek to know, even myself. Desire to know what the future holds is often a desire for power over the uncertainty that is everpresent in our lives. We seek control in that part of our lives that still lies ahead. We have lost the battle to control the past, and so the future is all we have left.

Do we suffer from pride when we seek the keys to the future? Should we leave it to 'divine providence' to provide for us, as our CHurch fathers would tell us? Here we get into the subject of faith. Do we leave ourselves in the hands of fate, God, DOC? But does not the Church also teach us that 'God helps those who help themselves'?

Here also, we come into the subject of where such knowledge comes from, if it is deemed accurate. Most devout Christians will decry divination as spawned from hell. But did not the prophets have knowledge of the future? Are we only to assume that those mentioned in the bible had the power of prophecy? Or perhaps those who have a television ministry? In their cases such knowledge was taken for granted as coming form the Divine, perhaps after their death as a heretic, but divinely inspiried none the less. If one has faith in God, and tries with all his heart to remain faithfull, and finds himself with skill in divination, can it not be assumed that such knowledge comes from God? What man can truly know the mind of God? WEre that the case, then we would not need religion.

As to the accuracy of Oracles? Who can say? HIndsight is 20-20. To rely to heavyily on divination for what path to take is the fools path. It is the path to stagnation and uncertainty. Divination, when it can be ascertained with accuracy, should be used as a guidline for what MAY come, not as a gospel for what will be. The universe is a tricky thing, and what you think may happen, may happen, but not in a way that you may recognize or be prepared for.

The nature of the future is in debate. It will probably never be satifactorily answered. My thoughts on the matter are difficult to explain, and even more difficult to understand. I believe in a fated path for us all. Yet, i believe in free will, that we all choose our own path. The future is as written as the past. For this reason we can divine both what may be and what may not be. For when it comes down to the juncture of the past and the future, either we do it or we don't. WE either drink from the glass, or we don't. We don't know what will happen until it happens, but once it happens, it is over and done. Our path is fated, but this truly matters little, since the future hasnt' happened yet. ONce we reach the juncture of the future and the past, we can play all we want that we have freedom of choice in our fate, but even that is written into the past. for someone in the past, what we do is now is still uncertain, still in the future, yet what lies between us and someone in the past, is written as memory. Unchangeable. We know waht will happen, even if they don't. We would even laugh at them as they think that they are masters of their fate, and seek to avoid the possible doom that awaits them around the next corner, unheeded. Each of us just happens to exist in a juncture of the past and the future, that we call the present.