Year 2008 is the “Year of the Rat” and so the Chinese calendar says so. Traditionally for the Chinese, animals represent different meanings literally or symbolically. Often, animal symbols associated with disasters, good luck or bad luck, fortune or misfortune. And to put some entertaining features to it, soothsayers, naysayer or doomsayers always managed to share their individual and distinctive or is it unbelievable transcendental mind to predict future events.
In the Philippines alone, soothsayers are all over town. Their services are being sought by showbiz personalities, big business establishments, politicians who are afraid of their own shadows and people with psychomachia disorder. Yearend is the best time for soothsayers partly because their craft makes a killing and attracts more clients and certainly being featured in the tri media as if they are the re-incarnation of Buddha or Jesus Christ.
The ignoramus in us believes the unbelievable predictions of soothsayers because they are good in convincing the people. But of course some of them hit the target putting their credibility as good visionary or parapsychologist par excellence ala Nostradamus. Going the distance of believing them is really a sense of argument. Nostradamus might be the great visionary of all time, but today’s soothsayers are nothing but a crop of “mystic hearsay-ers.” Their crystal balls and tarot cards speaks volume of prevarications. As for the Chinese calendar, well it’s hard to fathom of what they really meant about the “Year of the Rat.” Maybe the Chinese would rather say “Me Yo Kuen Si, Sambo Hao La.”
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