Need help choosing a topic for a paper!

[Shamrock]

So for me scripture class, we have to write about a person someone could categorize as a modern day prophet. They can either be forth telling (criticizes the present based on historical events) or foretelling (tells the future, etc.). Basically, they could have lived 50 years ago till now.

I'm honestly at a loss for who to choose as I've distanced meself from worldly news and TV over the past year or so. I would appreciate any help you peoples have to offer me!


Love you all, Shammy.

 

[Wanted Bob]

George Orwell and Aldous Huxely come to mind, is that modern enough for you?

 

[Sulkdodds]

Mystic Meg, or Slavoj Zizek.

 

[MJ12]

Orwell and Huxley would be easy. Especially Huxley in comparing present day.

 

[Dekstar]

Second Mystic Meg.
Or perhaps Shoghi Effendi? He was the 'guardian' of Baha'i scripture up until he died in '57, even though he's a couple of years out for your 50 years rule. Pah.

 

[Krynn72]

Sam Harris : The Atheist who foretold the coming of scientific morality.

 

[NeptuneUK]

Bob.

The Marley one.

 

[Eejit]

L Ron Hubbard

 

[Danimal]

David Icke!

No matter what I say here, it'll fail to describe what he talks about specifically. So find out for yourself! But he basically breaks down reality and then explains the mechanics of the supposed conspiracies I sometimes talk about. I'd really recommend a watch even if you don't end up writing about him.

But seriously like I would recommend you watch this presentation he does at Brixton Academy, it's in three big parts (That are like 12 smaller parts each)!
(Video 2 of Part 1 overlaps a lot from the first, but the rest is fine)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rLPcliaulc

 

[ríomhaire]

Jack Thompson and his vision of a world run by insane desensitized video game playing freaks.

 

[Mogi67]

Bob Dylan

 

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[StarBob]

Stephen Hawking. A prophet and a historian!

 

[Shakermaker]

Samuel Huntington because of The Clash of Civilizations. He basically predicted the War on Terror.

 

[99.vikram]

I third Bob Dylan. He truly inspires and comforts millions, preached peace and love, and "rituals" in his honor are conducted biweekly at universities the world over.

 

[NeptuneUK]

I hereby revoke my Marley. And replace my Bob with Dylan.

 

[Shamrock]

I'm not going to lie. I haven't heard of any of them except for Mr. Hawking, Dylan, Jackie Thompson, and Orwell. I'm not sure if I know of Huxley or not, but he does sound familiar.

Also, I'm not sure I would know what to write about them because the only person I really know anything about there would be Georgie Orwell, and I barely know anything about him. He was intelligent and essentially predicted how our world would be run in 1984. I've never read 1984 so I don't have anything to go off of on that either.

 

[Xevrex]

I'm not going to lie. I haven't heard of any of them except for Mr. Hawking, Dylan, Jackie Thompson, and Orwell. I'm not sure if I know of Huxley or not, but he does sound familiar.

Also, I'm not sure I would know what to write about them because the only person I really know anything about there would be Georgie Orwell, and I barely know anything about him. He was intelligent and essentially predicted how our world would be run in 1984. I've never read 1984 so I don't have anything to go off of on that either.

Huxley wrote basically what Orwell did except he hypothesised that the human population would be controlled through addicting pleasure and appeasing human instinct (like unrestricted sex), a strict and perfect social hierarchy maintained through industrial eugenics, and the abolishment of the need for democracy and knowledge that is unnecessary to exist in that kind of world. So it shares some similarities with 1984, except Brave New World is a bit lighter... and, in my opinion, makes it harder to justify not having a dystopian society, since its depiction just seems so perfect and contradiction-less.

 

[Wanted Bob]

I always thought that 1984 was a better book, but I think Brave New World (the novel that Huxley wrote, Shamrock) predicted modern society a little more accurately (really we seem to have aspects from both books).

 

[Warped]

dammit, if there was anyone from our period it would be this guy:

Michio Kaku
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ftF8sXzoWk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnkE2yQPw6s

 

[Wanted Bob]

Ooo, I like that guy too. Remember him from the alien worlds series on the discovery channel.

 

[Warped]

Ooo, I like that guy too. Remember him from the alien worlds series on the discovery channel.

this guy is a futurist though when it comes to science and science fiction. its kinda weird but he'll incorporate stuff from sci-fi tv shows thats easy to grasp and then show how we use the tech now and how we'll use it very shortly.