{"id":61912,"date":"2022-02-16T09:07:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T14:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61912"},"modified":"2022-02-16T09:07:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T14:07:48","slug":"is-the-future-predetermined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61912","title":{"rendered":"Is the Future Predetermined?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pageTitle blogTitle\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/armstrongeconomics101\/understanding-cycles\/is-the-future-predetermined\/\">Is the Future Predetermined?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mainContent\">\n<div class=\"contentWrap\">\n<div class=\"theContent\">\n<p><a class=\"fancybox image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Destiny-Predetermined-Coincidence.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-142674 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Destiny-Predetermined-Coincidence.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Destiny-Predetermined-Coincidence.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Destiny-Predetermined-Coincidence-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Destiny-Predetermined-Coincidence-165x110.jpg 165w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>QUESTION<\/strong>: Mr. Armstrong; it is easy to see why the government wanted Socrates. You said Monday would be the low then a bounce and that is what unfolds. You forecast so many markets and you get it to the day. Others claim this is the guy who called 2008 so buy his latest forecast resting on a single forecast. Your track record is far beyond anyone ever. How can you do this? Is the future predetermined?<\/p>\n<p>HC<\/p>\n<p>Many people have written in to ask the same question, for example: \u201cI had begun settling on the position (with relative comfort) that while technicals provide insights into the market, its the market makers that manipulate conditions to the point of driving it in one direction or the other \u2013 unless of course, there\u2019s a significant fundamental reason for the market to be guided by the invisible hand.<br \/>\nHowever, after experiencing Socrates and learning more about your approach, I find it challenging (mentally) to accept that there isn\u2019t a pre-designed aspect guiding markets the way they roll.\u201d<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"_2Qk4AbDuWwkuLB005ds2jm QMubUjbS-BOly_BTHEZj7 allowTextSelection\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<p>Others have asked: \u201cDoes Socrates foresee the birth and emergence of great teachers to come who have the capacity of overcoming the Deep State and bringing the world back into an economic balance?\u201d Then there are questions such as: \u201cBecause Socrates was created by you, does it carry an inherent bias on economic theories about the world that it generates 1000 reports on a day for? Is it not impossible to truly be conscious and to accurately see the global economic landscape without having a fundamental empathy (being truly human to know what human nature is).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fancybox image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Galbraith-Great-Crash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-77967 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Galbraith-Great-Crash.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Galbraith-Great-Crash.jpg 912w, https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Galbraith-Great-Crash-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Galbraith-Great-Crash-768x383.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Galbraith-Great-Crash-600x299.jpg 600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the Future Predetermined? QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; it is easy to see why the government wanted Socrates. You said Monday would be the low then a bounce and that is what unfolds. You forecast so many markets and you get it to the day. Others claim this is the guy who called 2008 so buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5496,154,2742,341,5479,2725],"class_list":["post-61912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-complexity","tag-computer-models","tag-future","tag-martin-armstrong","tag-predictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61913,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61912\/revisions\/61913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}