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To: golfer72 who wrote (1569007)10/31/2025 4:06:09 AM
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koan and Rat occasionally have lucid moments, but when they’re deep in their cups, they begin prophesying and hallucinating like the Oracle at Delphi.

The Oracle at Delphi was rarely provably wrong, but also rarely clearly right. Her power came from ambiguity.

How the Oracle Worked The priestess (the Pythia) would inhale fumes from a chasm beneath the Temple of Apollo, enter a trance, and deliver cryptic utterances. Priests then translated those into verse or prose, often riddled with double meanings.

Why She Seemed Right Because the prophecies were phrased to fit multiple outcomes, people often interpreted them as correct after events occurred. For example:

When King Croesus asked if he should attack Persia, the Oracle replied, “If you cross the Halys River, you will destroy a great empire.”

He did and destroyed his own empire. The prophecy was true, just not in the way he expected.

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