--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, she probably would have dismissed him out of hand just because he was a Freemason, which is one reason I didn't bring him up. But the thing about Pike is that not only did he predict WWIII, he also predicted WWI and WWII accurately long before they happened. Would that carry any weight with her? Moreover, he studied at Harvard.
Angela, this kind of nonsense is why I don't take you seriously on this conspiracy stuff, and why I find your reluctance to cite your sources very suspicious. First, to dismiss somebody out of hand just because he was a Freemason, obviously I'd have to also dismiss out of hand many of the most prominent figures in modern history, so that's just a ridiculous surmise on your part. But there are plenty of other good reasons to dismiss Pike. Second (speaking of the other reasons), it isn't at all clear that Pike's purported predictions weren't a fraud, written at a much later date. The prediction of the third world war is way off anyway, given that it appears to describe only prolonged conventional, non- nuclear warfare. In any all-out world war in this day and age, nuclear weapons would be used, and it would be over very quickly. If he didn't foresee nuclear weapons, he wasn't much of a psychic. Third, Pike didn't study at Harvard. He passed the entrance exams but couldn't afford the tuition. And even if he had, having attended Harvard does not automatically immunize a person against crackpottery. This isn't the first time by a long shot that you've revealed bad judgment and very poor command of the facts.
