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"ln a season of great pestilence,
there are omens and divinations.
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And one of the four beasts
gave unto the seven angels...
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seven golden vials
full of the wrath of God,
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who liveth forever and ever."
Revelations.
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In the fourteenth century,
according to the accounts
of local officials of that time,
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this man appeared suddenly in
the village of Wyle near Stonehenge...
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in April of 1362.
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Using unfamiliar words
and speaking in a strange accent,
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the man made dire prognostications
about a pestilence...
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which he said would wipe out humanity
in approximately 600 years.
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Obviously, this plague-doomsday scenario
is more compelling...
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when reality supports it
with a virulent disease,
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whether it's the bubonic plague,
smallpox or AIDS.
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Now we have technological horrors,
such as chemical warfare,
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which reared its ugly head
during the deadly mustard gas
attacks of World War l.
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During such an attack in
the French trenches in October of 1917,
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we have an account of this soldier,
who, during an assault,
was wounded by shrapnel...
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and hospitalized,
apparently in a state of hysteria.
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Doctors found that he had lost
all comprehension of French,
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but that he spoke
English fluently,
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albeit in a regional dialect
they didn't recognize.
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The man, though physically
unaffected by the gas,
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was beside himself.
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He claimed that he had come
from the future-
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that he was looking
for a pure germ...
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that would ultimately wipe mankind
off the face of the Earth...
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- starting in the year 1996.
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Though injured, the young soldier
disappeared from the hospital,
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no doubt trying to carry on
his mission to warn others,
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and substituting
for the agony of war...
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a self-inflicted agony
we call the "Cassandra Complex."
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Cassandra, in Greek legend,
was condemned to know the future...
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but to be disbelieved
when she foretold it.
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Hence, the agony of foreknowledge
combined with the impotence
to do anything about it.