The first paragraph prophesied a war between dark and light.
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In the books, Cersei's murder is prophesied by a witch.
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But its outlaw couple even more prophesied the "Pretty Poison" kids.
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That footage was shot in 1980, shortly after Ellison had prophesied apocalypse.
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Not because it was prophesied, of course, but because he chose to be.
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He is the Kwisatz Haderach and the messiah long prophesied by the Fremen.
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The person who prophesied this film, more than a century ago, is Freud.
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Still, Jack Kirby, the legendary comic book artist, prophesied what was to come.
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The arbitrary circling about of the main characters to delay a prophesied meeting.
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The parties prophesied by McGovern-Fraser activists would serve as vessels for movement politics.
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Two women, Barsalayaa Shefali and O Shizuka, are prophesied to help save the Empire.
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The writer Sinclair Lewis prophesied in his 1936 novel that it can happen here.
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Boston in 1776 was the "shining city on a hill" prophesied by John Winthrop.
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He seems to agree, having said that as a child his mother prophesied his rise.
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The same change was prophesied by Thomas Edison, at the dawn of the movie age.
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He cut income taxes sharply, let most small businesses avoid tax and prophesied economic nirvana.
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The story will follow Moiraine, a mage who might be one of the prophesied saviors.
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Is he the prophesied innocent who can redeem the knights by his experience of compassion?
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There was one after the Olympics, as I correctly prophesied in a speech in 2012.
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The Journal found 72 instances when Romo prophesied what a team was about to do.
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She's talked about going home, promised it, prophesied it—and now the moment is finally here.
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And yet the facts of our age are more absurd and insulting than anything Postman prophesied.
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As Kelli practically prophesied in Malibu, a newly single Issa's countless app-curated dates are all trifling.
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Whether this will trigger the long-prophesied collapse of the bull market in bonds is another matter.
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" One reviewer prophesied that the millennial college experience would "give a new meaning to the word 'overprotective.
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On days where bad luck was prophesied, I really did find fewer things out in the world.
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And as was prophesied, a look book for the company's fall collection was also released on Monday.
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It is worth recalling that none of the dangers confidently prophesied by legions of critics took place.
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She's also possibly prophesied to take Dany out by Melisandre; the Mad Queen has green eyes, after all.
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And what is happening to criticism in the age of digital opinion and the prophesied death of print?
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It turns out that apocalypse Thor is seeing is Ragnarok, the prophesied end of his homeworld of Asgard.
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Maybe I'll come around to using "fiancé" at some point during our engagement, as one friend recently prophesied.
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Many prophesied that it'd usher in a golden age of wearables, much like the iPhone did for smartphones.
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I noted earlier this year that Blackmun's prophesied darkness had finally arrived in the form of Brett Kavanaugh.
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His incredible musical lampooning of Putin prophesied the Russian hacks drama by just a few months, after all.
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He has vowed to sacrifice himself to save Flash and Supergirl from their prophesied deaths in the Crisis.
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He has called journalists "lightweights" and "liars," and prophesied the near demise of the Washington Post and the Times.
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Is your older half-brother the prophesied wielder of Lightbringer, the flaming sword that will kill the Night King?
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After Paul correctly prophesied that Germany would beat Argentina in the quarter-finals, Argentinian supporters threatened to eat him.
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"I think we're moving into a dangerous medium with virtual reality," Spielberg prophesied, for the sake of VR headlines.
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He stands out in this universe of prophesied saviors and virgin births because his mythic status is self-ordained.
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Fundamentalists believed that signs, prophesied long ago in the Bible to signal the approaching apocalypse, were beginning to appear.
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There was one after the Olympics, as I correctly prophesied in a speech in 2012, it was quite amazing.
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And lo: As it was prophesied in the book of celebrity comebacks, Britney Spears returned to the VMA stage.
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If Mr Trudeau loses, the world will no longer be looking to him, as Mr Biden prophesied back in 2016.
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Houteff believed that the Messiah prophesied in the biblical book of Isaiah was not Jesus, but was yet to come.
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And yet, billions of Christians do believe in the Second Coming—the Bible prophesied as much in its last lines.
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The shrinking gap between pop culture and politics has finally sealed like a wound, just as Kelly prophesied it would.
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Another possibility is Daenerys, almost certainly the "younger, more beautiful queen" who a wood witch prophesied would cast her down.
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Others, including Alex Jones, prophesied a false flag attack, whose professed aim would be to strip people of their guns.
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Such claims, while great for fundraising, are as nonsensical now as they were a decade ago when they were first prophesied.
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Still, after last night's episode, it's hard not to believe that Arya is at least one of the legendary prophesied heroes.
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Honoring diversity has in fact led to a more secular public sphere—the outcome that opponents of the prayer ban prophesied.
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Yet he also prophesied a world of "great politics" characterized by wars and revolutions fought over the very future of civilization.
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In the books, it's explained that Jenny knew the woods witch, the same which who prophesied about The Prince that was Promised.
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But the largest release of nuclear fall-out in the history of humanity seemed to be prophesied in the Bible's New Testament.
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Individuals must look within themselves to rediscover noble morality by becoming the übermensch prophesied in "Thus Spake Zarathustra", Nietzsche's most famous work.
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At the end of season 4, a prophesied blaze called praimfaya descended upon the Earth, swallowing every last bit of livable land.
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Evangelicals have compared Trump to the Persian biblical king Cyrus, and suggested (and even made films arguing) that his presidency was prophesied.
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We're witnessing the dawn of a new era of smartphone designs that bring us closer to sci-fi's prophesied all-screen communicator.
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Jon Snow (aka Aegon Targaryen) is often prophesied to be Azor Ahai, the reincarnation of the first man to vanquish the White Walkers.
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Roden's claims split the group, as did the claims of Houteff's widow, Florence, who had prophesied that the world would end in 1959.
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Initially, the proposed fight was part of a whole theory that the Hound was the "little brother" who was prophesied to kill Cersei.
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Dragon Quest Builders puts you in the role of the prophesied "Builder" tasked with restoring the land of Alefgard to its previous glory.
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Seven seasons later, Bran becomes King and Jon is exiled to the Night's Watch — which begs the question, was this prophesied all along?
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That picture is a nod to the Red Comet, which predicts when dragons would return to the world, as prophesied by many soothsayers.
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In classical mythology, the titan Cronus, who was reinterpreted by the Romans as Saturn, devoured his newborn children to prevent a prophesied coup.
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So was Kidd one of Joyce's prophesied professors, made so busy by the puzzles and enigmas that he was driven to literal madness?
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The headlines were filled with apocalyptic scenarios — hellish wildfires, North Korean nuclear threats, melting glaciers, not to mention a long-prophesied economic collapse.
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Space-obsessed years before Star Wars, he prophesied a Star Man, considered life on Mars, told us to freak out in a Moonage Daydream.
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Martin is known for making it so characters like Cersei basically manifest their own doom in their desperate attempts to avoid their prophesied downfalls.
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Private schools would prosper at the direct expense of public schools, an outcome prophesied by critics of Trump and his Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos.
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Millions of air passengers would be put at risk thanks to the industry's reliance on a grossly understaffed, unpaid federal security workforce, she prophesied.
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A legend states that Arahat Madhyantika, who brought Buddhism to the region, visited the site and prophesied that teachings of the religion would flourish.
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He was obsessed with the Beatles and believed that their "White Album" prophesied the war, which he called Helter Skelter after a Beatles song.
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That the paintings basically prophesied the age of smartphones and social media is testament to his vision, and that of his beloved French theorists.
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" At one point, Kanye performed a song all about Kanye, as was prophesied in the book of "How Has This Not Already Happened Already?
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For years, critics have prophesied the slow decline of the PC. However, PC gaming still makes up a little more one-third of the market.
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It is a name taken from the revered Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel, who enabled the Dharma to flourish in all directions as prophesied by Guru Rinpoche.
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Its ideological and strategic model depends on its claim to be the prophesied Islamic caliphate and its ability to prove that claim by holding territory.
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The other characters on Legion back David into a corner: agree to psychiatric care or be "terminated" for the crimes he is prophesied to commit.
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By then, the protests against the pipeline had, for the traditional leadership, become about far more: They had become a long-prophesied end to history.
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The dire future of machine rule, prophesied in the first "Terminator" way back in 1984, has been evaded, revised and reinstated in many sequels since then.
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Not even Albus Dumbledore could have seen it all coming, but just a bit of vision might have prophesied at least a modest-selling children's series.
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In 1982, Velvet Underground architect John Cale recorded Music for a New Society, an album of wrenching, emotionally-shattered torch songs that prophesied a denatured dystopia.
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When last we left our titular dudes, it was prophesied that their high school band would write the song that would save the universe (no pressure).
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Economic View John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist, prophesied that by 2030 people in wealthy nations would work no more than 15 hours a week.
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One was historical and ideological: Russian revolutionaries claimed to be the founders of the promised land prophesied by Karl Marx, a 19th-century Prussian-born philosopher.
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Lori was especially infatuated with "Standing In Holy Places" series, a fictional series about various "exciting prophesied events that still must occur before the Second Coming."
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Followers of one celebrity preacher who claims to have prophesied the coming of the insects last April have even flooded social media with calls to repent.
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So while Arya might not exactly match up to everything prophesied, if you look at some of the smaller details surrounding her, they sure could stack up.
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Tyrion could not look more grim While some speculate that Varys will be the one to fulfill Dany's prophesied betrayals, others think Tyrion is much more likely.
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Wouldn't it be a perfect twist of poetic justice if the "younger, more beautiful" queen prophesied to cast Cersei aside wasn't Margaery or even Daenerys at all.
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You — both the character you inhabit and, per the game's fiction, your actual human self — are the prophesied "Nomad Soul," the only being capable of defeating Astaroth.
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Is a terrorist attack involving apocalyptic fanatics more or less likely in a world of wars and natural disasters that appear to be prophesied in ancient texts?
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The California native who grew up between Pasadena and Santa Clarita took the less than glamorous life she was living and prophesied about the future she wanted.
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You have just prophesied a desolate future, one in which humanity becomes locked inside forsaken filter bubbles, each person consuming personalized shows, no longer engaging socially with television.
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This prophecy is what caused Jaehaerys to force his children Aerys and Rhaella to marry, because it was prophesied that the PTWP would be born of their line.
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At other times, books provided inspiration for the future, as in Theodor Herzl's "The Jewish State," a political pamphlet that prophesied the creation of the state of Israel.
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Press coverage was often simplified: Here is the so-called alt-right doing exactly what we prophesied—succumbing to in-fighting and political inexperience, fading fast into obscurity.
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You probably already know Azor Ahai as the Prince That Was Promised, the legend prophesied by Melisandre (and theorized by many to be Jon Snow or Daenerys Targaryen).
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The movie's plot hangs on a dubious report in the now-defunct tabloid Fate magazine that claimed Tate prophesied her own violent death a year before the murders.
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News images of the cult showed people, dressed almost identically, who had been convinced to end their lives together by a megalomaniacal leader who prophesied the coming apocalypse.
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Even Melisandre, when pointedly asked on the second episode of season seven why she thinks Jon Snow is a prophesied hero, made no mention of his death and rebirth.
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The public also doesn't fall for the myth of job loss that's always prophesied by big business lobbyists but that never comes true when the minimum wage goes up.
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Blake Charlton's latest novel concludes his Spellwright trilogy, in which a warden helps hunt down feared creatures called Neodemons, and learns that she's prophesied to kill someone she loves.
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As prophesied by the Hadith—the sayings and doings of the Prophet, compiled two centuries after his death—these radicals believed in a coming apocalyptic war with the West.
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But while the knights await a "pure fool" who, it has been prophesied, will bring renewal to the brotherhood, sometimes Mr. Vogt played the fool a little too well.
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Book readers may balk but all that's left for the season finale, it seems, is for her to commit the great betrayal that was prophesied in an earlier installment.
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ET The running of the table prophesied by Aaron Rodgers is complete, and now the Packers have a fully operational MVP-level quarterback ready to wreak havoc on the NFC.
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Cornered, Cersei had resorted to her credo about the "Game of Thrones" — you win or you die — and accepted her own dire fate, as prophesied by the witch years ago.
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But it was in the final lines that Taylor synthesized her own path thus far and prophesied what is to come, the spirit of church gospel flexing through her body.
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One of these mudokon janitors, it turns out, is a Chosen One who is prophesied to deliver the mudokons out of bondage and their own ending as a savory snack.
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The Saudis' logic is based on the notion that Imam Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam, will come and that they must control the Muslim world in preparation for his arrival.
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Relatedly, he could also forge the legendary flaming sword of Azor Ahai (AKA the Prince/Princess Who Was Promised), Lightbringer, which is prophesied to banish darkness and night from the realm.
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Outrageous luxury is only one element in Koons's masterly fusion of Pop content and minimalist aesthetics, which prophesied and still authorizes the cultural aplomb of our reconstituted, remorselessly ongoing gilded age.
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The blockchain not only makes digital currency impossible to duplicate: In principle, Casey prophesied, the technology could even replace companies, law firms, and agencies whose main job is to manage assets.
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Melisandre The Red Woman prophesied that both Daenerys and Jon Snow could be Azor Ahai, aka the Prince (or Princess) That Was Promised to end the war and rule the Iron Throne.
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Tourists queue to see the man who, 100 years ago, prophesied the end of an old world and a kingdom of freedom, while plunging his country into a whirlwind of self-destruction.
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But during this meeting, as Melisandre recounted their previous one years earlier, she pointedly reminded Arya that she'd prophesied that Arya would take many lives, including those of beings with blue eyes.
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There is perhaps an argument to be made that by defeating a prophesied, apocalyptic enemy with a literal sleight of hand from one of the smallest heroes works on a thematic level.
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None of you have any idea where you are or where you came from, but early on you learn that one of you could be the prophesied savior of this mysterious realm.
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I have wondered if this is part of the reason that many evangelical Christians seem eager for the Rapture, the prophesied event in which they'll depart the earth and ascend to Heaven.
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Year after year at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, start-ups have prophesied that everything in your home will be connected to the internet and automated with magical algorithms.
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After all, despite having all kinds of sex in all kinds of positions, the only way I could orgasm was via my little hooded friend—just as my mom's sex book had prophesied.
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This was the central thesis brought forward in the late 1990s and prophesied by thinkers like Bill Gates – who expected a beautiful, customized "road ahead" – and Clifford Stoll who saw only snake oil.
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We are now perhaps within reach of the scenario that Kurt Vonnegut prophesied in "Player Piano" (1952), in which people lack not for resources but for the self-respect that a profession provides.
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First was the world of charismatic religion, where people sought healing and spoke in tongues and prophesied, experiencing the divine as palpably as people in the secular world experienced, say, this newspaper's pronouncements.
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Lore has it that the nun who designed the grotto, which was dedicated 98 years ago, prophesied that Key West would never be devastated by a hurricane as long as the structure stood.
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After a US drone strike killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani last week, the online world saw two nations tumbling toward a war that could consume the globe—the long-prophesied World War III.
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Screenshot: YouTubeThe prophesied day of doom may not yet have come for Infowars founder Alex Jones, who proclaimed YouTube would summarily ban him on Sunday but rode out the day with the account intact.
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For a long time now, there's been a theory that the prophesied "three-headed dragon" — which Daenerys learned about in the House of the Undying — will consist of her, Jon Snow, and Tyrion Lannister.
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But Lord and Miller turned it into a meditation on creativity and childhood joy, with a side order of side-eye at some big, well-worn fantasy tropes, like the prophesied "chosen one" hero.
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Nope. The Princ(ess) We Thought Was Promised Jon Snow and/or Daenerys might've failed to realize their prophesied victory as Azor Ahai — but Arya fulfilled her lesser-known fated destiny delivered by Melisandre.
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Around 42 percent Americans are creationists who deem that God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago, and the same proportion expects the prophesied Second Coming of Christ to occur by 2050.
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But, like many redditors, she does seem to believe that the two will unite to become the prophesied Azor Ahai reborn, AKA The Prince (and/or Princess!) Who Was Promised to defeat the Others.
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Moore, the former chief justice of Alabama, quotes verses from the Old Testament's Book of Isaiah, which have been used by some fringe elements of Christianity to suggest that the Bible prophesied the attacks.
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But this small move may be the prelude to a coming war on federal employee salaries and benefits, part of a coming "deconstruction of the administrative state" former White House adviser Steve Bannon prophesied.
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She described the desire for the mass conversion of Jews not as an acceptance of Judaism as a theology or religious practice in its own right, but as "instruments" to reaching the prophesied Judgment Day.
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This suggests that the group's claim to be the infallible, inviolate kingdom of God prophesied in early Islamic texts is implausible, to say the least — and that maybe al-Qaeda had it right all along.
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Its slickest publication had been Dabiq , a magazine named for a Syrian town where, in the seventh century, Armageddon was prophesied to play out in an apocalyptic battle with infidel forces from the Roman Empire.
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In 2013, the megachurch pastor John Hagee prophesied in the book "Four Blood Moons: Something Is About to Change" that a series of four lunar eclipses within an 18-month span would precede the rapture.
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Reclaiming and rebuilding the prophesied Irkalla Gate created by Nergal, the ancient Mesopotamian God of Death, so that He and the wretched beings of Irkalla may once again reign supreme in this world and the next.
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The newcomers include Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), whose first solo adventure is prophesied during the final credits, and a very young Spider-Man (Tom Holland), whose solo adventures are the property of a different movie studio.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s last months with the figure of Henny Penny, the bird who either worried or prophesied, and she makes King's death feel as significant as the falling of the sky above.
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But to others, it is a step along Ben-Gurion's prophesied path: from occupation to endless conflict that would corrode democracy from within, endangering a national character thought to come from ideals as well as demographics.
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But the notion of a "grand bargain" with Pyongyang — in which all mutual concerns are simultaneously settled, as the "Perry Process" conjectured back in the 1990s and others have subsequently prophesied — is nothing but a dream.
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But I have a feeling Jimmy tipped us off to Chuck's ultimate fate when he prophesied, while awaiting arrest, that his older brother would die alone, besieged by electrical devices, during a trip to the hospital.
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While the defendant's prophesied nuclear war has not as of yet materialized, North Korea has spent the past few years stepping up development of long-range missiles that could potentially be used to deliver a nuclear warhead.
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Analysts outside the region have long prophesied that the failure of Israel and the wider international community to recognize the legitimacy of Hamas' 2005 election victory in Gaza would ultimately lead to the emergence of extremist groups.
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The Lego Movie introduces Emmet Brickowski (Chris Pratt), an ordinary little Lego dude who's totally average, apart from his obscenely chipper demeanor and his inexplicable role as "the Special," a prophesied savior for his threatened Lego world.
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" But Pessoa was to have an extraordinary afterlife, as he prophesied in his poem "If I Die Young": "roots may be hidden in the ground / But their flowers flower in the open air for all to see.
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Islamic State media outlets pointed out that other conditions for the prophesied battle had not materialized, like the appearance of a "crusader army," or the Mahdi, a messiah-like figure, or an 80-nation coalition of fighters.
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But with Mr. Corbyn failing to ignite the enthusiasm he did in 2017, and some right-wing anti-Brexit voters drifting back into the Conservative fold, the widely prophesied new coalition of the left has not materialized.
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For the last few years, going all the way back to season 2, there's been a pretty prominent Game of Thrones theory about a three-headed dragon — and specifically, three people to ride this prophesied three-headed dragon.
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There was a time when the idealists among us prophesied that the 21st century would be a golden age of free stuff, powered by a culture of sharing, and that targeted advertising would be a blessing for consumers.
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And naturally, as happens with all memes and cultural phenomenons in the 21st century, a strange market of Trudeau-related items and products has popped up to add to the already overbearing mythos of the prophesied Trudeau son.
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Though I'd spent my 32 years steering clear of all tarot card readers and psychics — aware that whatever they prophesied would indelibly burrow itself into my mind — one happened to be holding court at an event I attended.
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Knowing that his own hands are tied, he fathers children hoping that one of his descendants (perhaps the hero who has been prophesied) might take over his domain and, exercising free will, right his wrongs, while still maintaining power.
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The story lines, with their aggrieved outsiders and collapsing families, prophesied our current condition, post-9/11 — plagued as we are by forever wars, increasing wealth disparity and the oppressive rise of the autocrat, the bigot, the corporate state.
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Thoroughly researched by Kubrick and Clarke, large swaths of the film were like a documentary of the future: the space station, the moon base, the grand-stepping outward just as Clarke and people like Wernher von Braun had prophesied.
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JOHN GUARE With prescient works that include "The House of Blue Leaves" (1971) and "Six Degrees of Separation" (1990), he prophesied how star gazing would become this country's dominant religion, while finding the poetry in hopeless dreams of fame.
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With the prophesied 2020 return of low-rise jeans fast approaching, and yet another celebrity—actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani—debuting his abs-tacular body transformation in advance of his Marvel movie debut, abs must be here to stay!
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She grew up to be a red priestess of R'hllor (the Lord of Light) and a shadowbinder, whose life's purpose was to find a prophesied prince, Azor Ahai, who will lead the war and vanquish R'hllor's enemy, called the Great Other.
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"God forbid that we suffer any serious mishap—I'm afraid that not only Ukraine but the Union as a whole would not be able to deal with such a disaster," the plant's director, Viktor Briukhanov, had prophesied a few months earlier.
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This is another significant city for ISIS because the group believes that Dabiq is the site of a long-prophesied war between Islam and the West that its adherents believe will result in the victory of Islam and of ISIS.
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Futurism's men of steel would subsist on "food sculptures" created with the aid of "a battery of scientific instruments," Filippo Marinetti prophesied in The Futurist Cookbook (1932) — an uncanny premonition of the molecular gastronomy of the Catalan chef Ferran Adrià.
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Accordingly to legend, the owner of the San Jose, California, house was constantly building and adding onto it so that, by dint of all the additions, he could remain one step ahead of a prophesied looming danger and/or live forever.
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"Prophecy Girl" (season 2120, episode 211) Season one's finale is the first truly great episode of Buffy, mostly because of the scene where an anguished Buffy, having overheard that her death is prophesied for the next night, starts screaming at Giles.
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With no nostalgia-driven revival in sight, the "Buffy" legacy remains, frozen in time as a glorious pop-culture milestone and perhaps prophesied by one of the Slayer's lines from the series: "I may be dead, but I'm still pretty."
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On the one hand, we want to give the title of Most Game-Changing Lip Sync to season-long rivals Alyssa Edwards and Coco Montrese going up against each other, as was prophesied in the book of Reality Show Drama 101.
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Just as there has been local opposition to the Chinese-made railway over land issues, the British were attacked by a tribe led by a man who had prophesied that an "Iron Snake" would lure its people and colonize them.
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ROME — Officials at Link Campus University, a small Rome college lined with courtyards and gravel paths, like to point out the Renaissance balcony where Pope Pius V prophesied the decisive naval victory of the Holy League over the Ottoman Empire.
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While Sanders, who's been in Congress since 1991 and has been a reasonably effective player within an institution with precious few ideologically similar members, he has also prophesied that a direct connection with voters could bulldoze legislative opposition to his programs.
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The space witches have prophesied the coming of the Kwisatz Haderach (Chosen One) who will be able to commune with a primordial force in all beings called Other Memory (the Force) that in part augments their physical, mental, and extrasensory powers.
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In an article filed to Fox's website on Wednesday, this time the prophesied doomsday comes courtesy of an article in British rag the Daily Express citing numerologist David Meade's interpretation of the Bible's Revelation 12:1-000:Is The Rapture finally here?
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" And Augustus Invictus, an alt-right figure who once said, "I have prophesied for years that I was born for a Great War; that if I did not witness the coming of the Second American Civil War I would begin it myself.
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As the country awoke to the news of his victory as president, the stock market rocketed upwards, yet liberal economist Paul Krugman inexplicably prophesied in the New York Times that we were probably facing a "global recession" with no end in sight.
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His control over cult members included both physical and sexual abuse, and he shared with his followers an apocalyptic vision: He told them the end of the world was imminent — and he prophesied the attack by the government as it ultimately unfolded.
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In 2014, as a fellow at Harvard's Wyss Institute, he and professors George Church and Flaminia Catteruccia and graduate researcher Andrea Smidler published a paper explaining how CRISPR enabled the creation of the kinds of gene drives prophesied for more than five decades.
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EM Forster, who prophesied the runaway civilization we now have, would understand stalled cities, empty freeways, lockdowns, empty theatres, the apparent abolition of normal human interaction and discourse as we have know it for the better and bitter part of human history.
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I believe that only a Europe of many peoples — as first embodied by Charlemagne, as prophesied by Winston Churchill after World War II — only a democratically unified Europe of diverse cultures will be able to prevail in the global struggle between emergent and established powers.
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So while it appeared Tiuri was prophesied to save the kingdom, it turns out he was actually just the messenger — though a brave one who led his fellow novice knights on a dangerous journey — and Lavinia was the one who saved the day from Veridian's evil magic.
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The stock market rebounded and then surged, there was no hyperinflation in response to the Obama deficits and the various monetary easings (quite the reverse), and the much-prophesied debt crisis, in which the United States was supposed to go the way of Greece, never actually arrived.
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Several recent newspaper and blog stories have posited that the digital world simply allows reinforcement of one's ideas and prejudices, and not, as was hoped, and was often prophesied, that the internet would open the eyes and minds of the world to information, allowing an expanded level of information.
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And it was this calm, considered and deeply rational response to the disease among affected populations that meant that the doom-laden predictions—the hundreds of thousands of cases prophesied by some epidemiologists at the height of the crisis in late 2014—in the end failed to materialise.
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All millenarian movements face this moment sooner or later: this is the "Great Disappointment," a term Slezkine borrows from the story of William Miller, a farmer in Massachusetts who prophesied that the apocalypse would occur in 22011, and, when it didn't, shifted the date to October 22012, 20043.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Almost 100 years ago, Italian leftist intellectual Antonio Gramsci hailed the success of the Russian Revolution of 1917 as "The Revolution against Capital," which proved to him that the prophesied proletariat revolution needed not be postponed until the "proper" historical developments had occurred.
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Smith starts the book believing in some dark magic, ends it paraphrasing the W.B. Yeats poem "The Second Coming," which is perhaps more strongly associated with Joan Didion's famous essay about the crumbling of California utopianism than it is its original subject matter, the prophesied return of Christ.
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"With Koresh's own haunting voice acting as the spine to this documentary, nine Branch Davidian survivors tell how they believed he was sent by God to lead them into the final battle and how he prophesied, with uncanny accuracy, the events that were to ultimately unfold," the press release adds.
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Then, according to Wozniak, he was on a panel speaking with Ray Kurzweil, the famed futurist and author, who, in his book "The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, " prophesied that machines will be able to process as much as and as fast as the human brain by 2045.
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Since Melisandre (Carice van Houten) arrived and prophesied that Azor Ahai, who was responsible for driving away the White Walkers, would return to defeat them all over again, everyone's money has been on Jon Snow to be the savior of Westeros, but it turns out that Davos might also fit the bill.
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You'd think that would be a gargantuan, fruitless task, but if you zoom in five or six times, you'll notice that Gilly already has a pretty key piece of information in her hands: the story of Azor Ahai, aka the "prince that was promised," whose prophesied return and subsequent actions will save mankind from destruction.
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What to Expect: If there's anything you've been meaning to say to crusty old Balon Greyjoy, now's the time: His death was prophesied back in Season 3 and his survival seems an oversight that new character Euron seems to have been cast to correct, as well as stencil the long-dormant Ironborn back onto the plot.
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The most significant change to Judaism was its untethering from the ancient tradition of praying for an altogether human messiah to deliver the Jews back to Jerusalem, restore the ancient temple destroyed in the year A.D. 70 and re-establish the House of David to rule over Jews in their ancient land of Zion, as prophesied in the Bible.
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" He has prophesied that "we're going to get so good at paying creators, within 10 years, kids graduating high school and college are going to think of being a creator as just being an option—I could be a doctor, I could be a lawyer, I could be a podcaster, I could have a web comic.
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Folklore dots the game if you look close enough: The newly landed season four has seen a much-prophesied comet land on the island, which is very exciting for everyone (me) who have seen their life slip from a position of almost-competent almost-cool into being generally obsessed with Fortnite and constantly thinking about Fortnite.
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" In so saying, he echoed his first inaugural address, in which he proclaimed, "We are not enemies, but friends," and prophesied that "the mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone," would "swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
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A series of ingeniously structured jumps in time and point of view show what led to little Kaia's humiliation at his teacher's hands, and reach all the way back to Augustown's own iconic "flying preacherman," Alexander Bedward, whose prophesied ascent into the heavens throws not only his flock, but all of Jamaica — including its pompous colonial governors — into upheaval long before Kaia's birth.
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"In divorce paperwork filed by Charles Vallow prior to his death and seen by the Tribune, he claimed that Lori Vallow believed she was a god preparing for Christ&aposs second coming in July 2020, "receiving spiritual revelations and visions to help her gather and prepare those chosen to live in the New Jerusalem after the Great War as prophesied in the Book of Revelations.
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There are dozens of different theories surrounding the death of both these characters, with two major ones: Jon will finally become the long prophesied Prince That Was Promised, but in doing so actually kill his beloved, being Dany; and Dany, following in her father's footsteps, will become somewhat of a Mad Queen and kill Jon to keep him from taking the throne, even though it's in his birthright.
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That's because addition to wanting to build what it believes to be a "true" Islamic caliphate, as al-Qaeda does, and hating Jews and Shia Muslims, as al-Qaeda does, ISIS is simultaneously driven by what Brookings Institution scholar William McCants has termed a "doomsday vision" — a belief that the End Times prophesied in Islamic scripture are at hand, and that they are the ones who will usher in the final battle between Good and Evil.
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