{"quotes":[{"text":"Do you follow the wrestling? Most people think it's illegal, but you can watch it there. Ruby and Python are on display this evening.","author":"Samuel R. Delany","tags":["context","humorous","prophecies"],"id":9377,"author_id":"Samuel+R.+Delany"},{"text":"Tolkien did admit that, 'As a guide, I had only my own feelings for what is appealing or moving.' In other words ~ he wrote about what interested him ~ and despite his protestation of including anything allegorical into his tale, Catholic history and mystic prophecy obviously received its fair share of attention ...","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["catholic","catholic-","catholic-prophecies","catholicism","catholics","fantasy","fantasy-books","history","inspiration","jrr-tolkien","lord-of-the-rings","mysticism","prophecies","prophecy","prophecy-in-fiction","tolkien","writing","writing-books"],"id":14601,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"... The reader is probably wondering that if Tolkien did indeed fashion two of his heroic characters from Catholic prophecies, what about the evil protagonists? Were any of them inspired by these little-known revelations concerning future times? The answer is yes, but to discover the links between the myth and the prophecies, we must venture not only into the realm of unnerving revelations, but also into the murky world of secret sects, dark plots, occult signs, bloody revolutions and conspiracy theories ~ we must probe deep into the burning Eye of Sauron.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["-on-","catholic","catholic-","catholic-prophecies","conspiracy-theories","conspiracy-theory","evil-characters","eye-of-sauron","fantasy","fantasy-fiction","future-times","history","jrr-tolkien","lord-of-the-rings","prophecies","sauron","sects","sources-of-inspiration","tolkien","writing-books"],"id":64000,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"},{"text":"To know one's future is the single most destructive way of ending your life before you've lived it.' - Altheon (Betrayal- Fey Court Trilogy).","author":"Cyndi Goodgame","tags":["future","prophecies"],"id":64535,"author_id":"Cyndi+Goodgame"},{"text":"A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?","author":"China Miéville","tags":["anticlimax","promises","prophecies","salvation"],"id":93820,"author_id":"China+Mi%C3%A9ville"},{"text":"If Under fell, if Over leaped,If death was life and Death life reaped,Something rises from the gloom,To make the Underland a tombHear it scratching down below,Rat of long forgotten snow,Evil cloaked in coat of White,Will the Warrior drain your light?What could turn the Warrior week?What do burning Gnawers seek?Just a barely speaking pup That holds the Land of Under upDie the baby, die his heartDie his most essential partDie the peace that rules the hour,Gnawers have their key to power.","author":"Suzanne Collins","tags":["death","prophecies","warning"],"id":156776,"author_id":"Suzanne+Collins"},{"text":"Ah, but prophecies have a way of fulfilling themselves,' Khayman said. 'That's the magic of it. We all understood it in ancient times. The power of charms is the power of the will; you might say that we were all geniuses of psychology in those dark days, that we could be slain by the power of another's designs. And the dreams, Marius, the dreams are but a part of the great design.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["ancient-times","anne-rice","design","khayman","marius","prophecies","prophecy","psychology","the-great-design","the-queen-of-the-damned"],"id":167293,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"Warmblood now a bloodborne death,Will rob your body of it's breathMark your skin and seal your fate The Underland becomes a plate.","author":"Suzanne Collins","tags":["death","prophecies"],"id":171040,"author_id":"Suzanne+Collins"},{"text":"But we have no [Marian] apparitions cautioning the Church against, say, accepting the delusion of an Earth-centered Universe, or warning it of complicity with Nazi Germany — two matters of considerable moral as well as historical import....Not a single saint criticized the practice of torturing and burning “witches” and heretics. Why not? Were they unaware of what was going on? Could they not grasp its evil? And why is [the Virgin] Mary always admonishing the poor peasant to inform the authorities? Why doesn’t she admonish the authorities herself? Or the King? Or the Pope?","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["apparitions","catholic-church","catholicism","church","marian-apparitions","mary","prophecies","roman-catholic-church","saints","science","science-and-religion","science-vs-religion","virgin-mary","visions","witch","witch-burnings"],"id":202983,"author_id":"Carl+Sagan"},{"text":"What a life we live. Full of questions, adventures, stories, mistakes, good, quests, bad, miracles, lessons, people, blessings, journeys, inventions, music, animals, history, cultures, religions, prophecies, planets, stars, careers, movies, plants, hate, love, and so much more.","author":"Jonathan Anthony Burkett","tags":["adventures","animals","bad","blessings","careers","cultures","good","hate","history","inventions","jonathan-anthony-burkett","journeys","lessons","love","miracles","mistakes","movies","music","people","planets","plants","prophecies","quests","religions","s","stars","stories","thankful"],"id":267799,"author_id":"Jonathan+Anthony+Burkett"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}