Reggie Bautista wrote: > Sorry, I saw this and just started laughing. It's not that I > don't take his > ideas seriously, it's just that you said Criswell and space in the same > sentence, and all I could think about is Criswell the psychic. > > Criswell is the name of the psychic who appears at the beginning of _Plan > Nine from Outer Space_, talking about how we are all time > travellers and the > future is important because we will all live the rest of our lives in the > future. > > Here are a few of his predictions from his 1968 book: > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/andy_crickett/prophecy.htm (Snip) ... > and my favorite one is: > > >1999 - 200 space colonies contain the only survivors of humanity > when, on > >18 AUG, all Earth's oxygen is sucked away by a mysterious force. > Earth, as > >a result, loses its gravity and floats off into space!
And we were doing so well up that point, too... "1 JUNE 1995 - A state of utopia exists on Earth, due to the swift elimination of fossil fuels (replaced by solar power), nudity taboos, disease, crime, economic markets, tight underwear, eyeglasses, many sports and natural insemination!!" Darn that natural insemination! ;-) But thanks for the link! It was a good laugh. Kevin Street
