Now you've piqued my curiosity with your above.
Can I predict the future? I have and most likely will continue to do so with even a great deal of accuracy I might add. You do the same I would imagine.
Just some of my more mundane predictions off the top of my head for the very near future:
Tomorrow will come.
I will blink my eyes within the next 5 seconds.
I will eat and drink for the next two days.
Our air supply will continue for at least the next day and potentially longer.
We will play another NCAA Tourney opponent within a matter of hours (less than 24 hours).
I could go on like this for a long, long time. And, these, for the most part, didn't even require empirical research. For the record, some of the above have already successfully occurred and are now in the past. Ta-daaaaa!
Why don't you give it a try? I bet your list will greatly exceed mine. Your clairvoyant abilities and tendencies might be self-enlightening especially for one who doubts the possibility.
When did I predict/say that OU with a walk-on QB would be doomed and that he couldn't make it at another school? If true, that would be on record in the past so I'm sure one as clever and resourceful as you can find the post(s) that includes such. It would certainly validate your contention that's presented by you as fact. I await your response.
The empirical data known last Spring regarding Baker revealed just the opposite. He was an accomplished and decorated student-athlete while at Texas Tech. Commentaries attributed to Coach Kingsbury reveal that Baker was not in their plan to start the following season so he transferred.
I am so glad you are cautiously optimistic. Does that mean I, too, have to be in your eyes. When I make an opinion/prediction, I almost always support it empirically and allow others to absorb and reflect upon it. I encounter a great deal of feedback (not always positive) in the process which I find refreshing and often enlightening. I've been proven wrong on more than one occasion.
So you are not fond of predicting? That's cool. Others find it stimulating.. Is that a reason to be seemingly bitter towards them? As I previously mentioned, you do it almost as a matter of routine just like everyone else. You just seem to prefer poking holes in the expressions and boldness of others rather than attempting to understand where they are coming from. It appears safer for you to conduct your behaviors in such a manner.
So I'm a "pessimist" now? In what way? Can you support and defend such an absolute of your own making? Could it simply be that your level of understanding is occasionally inferior to that of another. I know mine is at times.
Could it also be that your level of bias/emotion occasionally exceeds your ability to reason and rationally comprehend another's perspective especially when it runs counter to yours? Just throwing it out there.
You might wish to discover the phenomenon of "trending". It does require research and possibly a measured degree of boldness. It's the kind of "out of the box" and "outside one's comfort zone" approach to attain perhaps deeper understandings. It just might open your eyes to new possibilities and likely new discoveries.
Oh wait, you posted you are tired of "predictive opinions" that come across to you as being "negative". It's not your cup of tea so you elect to castigate those who choose to partake.
How can you be so negative?
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