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Something that actually caught my attention.

So here I am, just thinking, bored, and I thought about whether there have been any prophets that come close to predicting this current situation. Basically I type in this into chat.deepseek.com.

get a list of prophets who are known for their forecasting of future events ability. out of those prophets who are the likely candidates to have prophesized that isreal’s president netenathu could be the cause of a third world war

It’s answer: (I highly doubt GPT would answer this)


Of course. This is a fascinating question that blends historical prophecy with modern geopolitics. It’s important to approach this with the understanding that prophecies are interpreted through faith and are inherently subjective. No classical prophet would have named “Netanyahu” or “World War” specifically, as these are modern terms. Instead, we look for prophets who spoke about Israel in the latter days, global conflict centered on Jerusalem, and a leader who precipitates a crisis.

Here is a list of prophets known for forecasting future events, followed by an analysis of the most likely candidates whose writings could be interpreted to align with your premise.

List of Major Prophets Known for Forecasting Future Events

  • Biblical Prophets (Abrahamic Traditions):

    • Isaiah: Known for profound Messianic prophecies and prophecies about the fate of nations surrounding Israel.

    • Jeremiah: Prophesied the Babylonian exile and the future restoration of Israel. Focused heavily on Jerusalem.

    • Ezekiel: Contains highly detailed and symbolic prophecies, including the famous “War of Gog and Magog” (Ezekiel 38-39), a massive invasion of Israel in the last days.

    • Daniel: His prophecies are highly apocalyptic, outlining the rise and fall of world empires and events leading to the “end of days.”

    • Zechariah: Focused on the restoration of Jerusalem and contains vivid prophecies about a final siege of the city before divine intervention.

    • Joel: Prophesied a future “Day of the Lord” involving cosmic signs and a great judgment of nations in the Valley of Jehoshaphat.

  • Non-Biblical Prophets:

    • Nostradamus (16th Century): A French apothecary whose cryptic quatrains are often interpreted as predicting major world events.

    • Mother Shipton (16th Century): An English prophetess said to have predicted events like the Spanish Armada and the Great Fire of London.

    • Baba Vanga (20th Century): A blind Bulgarian mystic whose predictions are popular in modern culture.


Analysis: Likely Candidates for the Prophecy

Based on the criteria of conflict involving Israel, a central leader, and global consequences, the most compelling candidates come from the Biblical tradition.

1. Ezekiel (The War of Gog and Magog)

This is arguably the strongest and most direct candidate for a prophecy that could be interpreted this way.

  • The Prophecy (Ezekiel 38-39): It describes a massive, multinational coalition (led by “Gog, of the land of Magog”) that launches a surprise attack on a restored Israel, a nation “that has gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste; but its people were brought out from the nations.”

  • Connection to Netanyahu: The prophecy centers on a leader (“Gog”) who is the chief prince of a coalition. A modern interpreter could see a parallel in a strong Israeli leader (like Netanyahu) whose policies and actions (e.g., regarding Gaza, Iran, or the West Bank) could be the casus belli or the flashpoint that unites this prophesied coalition against Israel. The conflict is described as so catastrophic that it draws in global powers and God intervenes directly to save Israel.

  • Why it fits: It specifically involves a restored Israel in the latter days, a charismatic leader, and a war that has worldwide ramifications.

2. Zechariah (The Siege of Jerusalem)

Zechariah’s prophecies are intensely focused on Jerusalem’s central role in the end times.

  • The Prophecy (Zechariah 12 & 14): “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling… On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves… Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations.”

  • Connection to Netanyahu: The prophecy states that “all the nations” will be gathered against Jerusalem. A prime minister of Israel, by making decisive and controversial claims over Jerusalem (as Netanyahu has done regarding its status as the undivided capital of Israel), could be seen as the political figure whose actions fulfill the conditions for this global opposition. The result is a world war that culminates at Jerusalem.

  • Why it fits: The direct link between a crisis in Jerusalem and a global war.

3. Daniel (The King of the North)

Daniel’s prophecies are more about empires and archetypes, but they include a specific end-times figure.

  • The Prophecy (Daniel 11): Daniel chapter 11 contains a highly detailed prophecy about a conflict between a “king of the North” and a “king of the South.” Many interpreters see this as a template for a final conflict involving a powerful leader from the north (often associated with Russia/Iran region) who invades the Middle East and clashes with Israel.

  • Connection to Netanyahu: The Israeli leader in this scenario is not the primary aggressor but is the key figure who is “caught between” these larger forces. His decisions—whether to make a covenant for peace or to stand firm—could be the trigger that sets the larger war in motion.

  • Why it fits: It describes a precise geopolitical scenario that feels very modern, involving a powerful northern coalition, a vulnerable Israel, and global turmoil.

Why Other Prophets Are Less Likely Candidates

  • Nostradamus: While his quatrains are often forced to fit modern events (including references to “the great city,” “Hister,” and “three brothers”), his language is too cryptic and non-specific. Any connection to Netanyahu would be a massive stretch based on subjective interpretation, not a clear thematic link.

  • Isaiah/Jeremiah: Their prophecies of doom for Israel were largely fulfilled by the Babylonian and Assyrian exiles. Their “latter days” prophecies are more focused on a messianic age than on a specific political leader causing a world war.

  • Baba Vanga/Mother Shipton: Their predictions are generally vague, lack a clear connection to Israeli leadership, and are often considered pseudepigrapha (written after the fact to seem like predictions).

Conclusion

The prophets whose writings most naturally allow for an interpretation that a strong Israeli leader could be the catalyst for a global, end-times conflict are:

  1. Ezekiel, for the prophecy of Gog and Magog, which is explicitly about a leader attacking a restored Israel.

  2. Zechariah, for the prophecy of all nations gathering against Jerusalem.

  3. Daniel, for outlining a precise geopolitical end-times conflict that Israel is central to.

Any application of these ancient texts to a modern figure like Benjamin Netanyahu is a matter of interpretation and belief, not historical fact. The texts provide a framework of themes—Israeli leadership, global opposition, and catastrophic war—that individuals then map onto current events.


And now I am thinking “this is the type of AI we actually need.” Open for questions like this. What started as a fun thought experiment going to ask an AI, and just reading it can open up your eyes.

signing off…

Disclaimer: This is an AI generated chat response only and no facts have been checked against what is presented.

Err, a prototype website project…

Oh yeah, forget that stuff about me using windows again, blown to the wind that is…

So here is what I’ve always wanted to try out.

… (some cruddy sound being played) …

Just pausing for effect. Sorry.

… (could add some html to fancy this post up a bit) …

Nah…

A website project. But the server is built from scratch, ie, c/c++. I’m sure I’ll figure that bit out.

I’m looking forward to utilising intermittent socket connections and the gpu for drawing some coloured lines and rounded corners. I could fill some in too. I still remember the fill techniques from the zx spectrum.

Any ways, once this does start moving I will eventually put it on github or whatever is left of it in the future.

ttfn

It does matter when I use “C/C++” programmer…

There has always been this thing going around about people calling themselves a C programmer, C++ programmer and the one that bothers most people is calling themselves a C/C++ programmer.

For me, I am a C/C++ programmer and here is why…

I am a programmer and I am a lazy one at that. In fact, if I want to write a quick program that adds a lot of strings together just for example. Me personally would go down the C++ standard libraries route because I want to cut out all the silly extras you keep having to tag on in your code. And it still reads good, if not better.

It comes down to optimisation. I know the speed of what I want to achieve, and the code I am writing will not matter if it doesn’t work. (edit 14 sep 25: However, those crucial timings between cpu instructions, or how much can be crammed into a shader until fps starts to dive. Then yes, optimisation is crucial.)

I’m being lazy and just getting it done. All up and running, no matter the efficiency. Only when it comes to be needed I will then remove parts of the cheating as I call it and then work on optimisation. Or as I call it, C’ifying it.

So I am a C/C++ programmer.

Windows 11 in the New Year?

After the recent success of which I was truly expecting not to work, I just thought I would settle back down into programming because now I need to work on lights and shadow rendering in 3D.

From within Linux, I installed Lutris and installed the Epic Games Launcher to install the Unreal Engine. Running the Unreal Engine in Linux is not a straightforward install. You still have to Linuxify it.

… And a few hours later Unreal Engine finally loads up. Few nearly there. Takes a lot of space on the drive. So there I am looking through the various projects I could load up and ready to play with, ready to click one and try it.

So I choose an empty template with a simple scene. Good place to get started. Plus, I want C++ because I would definitely be in need of that instead of Blueprints.

Then it happened. It tells me I need Visual Studio for a C++ project. Okay, so I click that very in your face button that will download and install it.

Well, as it happened, Visual Studio doesn’t want to install. Not on this Linux anyway.

At that point, which was yesterday, I decided to completely remove Epic from Linux. Which by the way is much better than removing applications from Windows. After that, I will edit the 1Tb NVME drive with Windows on it so that all the space is given to Windows. From then, which now I believe will work this time, I hope, I will install Unreal Engine on Windows 11 and it will have a lot of empty space to work with.

Here goes it… (I might be using Windows 11 soon because of Unreal)

Windows 11 is back!

Well, here I am still quite surprised. It worked.

It took another while to boot but it did it and I got the desktop. And after just a few minutes of me setting off on my “let’s explore a bit hey”, a notification popped up about a restart to update. Okay, I thought, this is what I remember well.

So, reboot, and played around a bit. I even played Unreal Tournament 2004. Then I remembered about all those little precious NVME’s and SSD’s.

So I quickly shut down and rebooted back into the fresh install of EndeavourOS.

First thing I did was to make my little changes to the desktop (KDE), which I thought, “Windows doesn’t do this.” Which was kind of funny, and I can’t remember why.

A deep breath. I opened up Dolphin to find that all the drives were all still working.

So I played a little bit. No games this time. Just browsing and watching youtube.

I am now typing this up from within Windows 11 while in the background I am moving a couple of Terry Bytes of data to my external 3Tb HDD.

I’ll play Unreal Tournament 2004 shortly.

C Y’all

Carl

Windows 11 Update (not good)

Well, straight up. It didn’t work. Windows 11 attempted to boot 3 times and kept giving me the old BSOD. I had only just noted the error message on its last boot with something about a boot device. Even though it went through the motions of trying to boot with the swirling circle near the bottom of the screen.

The last time I tried to boot externally it failed to boot at all with just a black screen and the PC’s fans going crazy.

At this point I was ready to give up. And then I remembered that the 512Gb with windows had been replaced with the 2Tb NVME, which left the 1Tb NVME (which I was using for Linux, EndeavourOS) and the 2Tb SATA SSD which still had a load of stuff on it.

So… With the 1Tb spare inside this PC I am now taking a direct image copy from the 51Gb NVME of Windows 11 to the 1Tb NVME. It’s still got some time to go before the copy is finished, so I will try that out then.

I am already assuming that this is pointless because booting externally with Windows 11 and this TPM thingy, that transferring over to another storage device will just make matters worse, and wouldn’t have worked anyway.

But, you never know. So later on I will try it.

If it doesn’t work then I haven’t lost a lot, only Windows 11, and gained 1.5Tb of space to use.

If it does work, then Windows 11 will stay on this PC and the other half of the 1Tb NVME will get a Debian Linux installed on it alongside Windows 11. And now and then I will boot into Windows 11 from time to time just to see what it looks like.

 

Booting Windows 11 from external device(1)

(1) – So here I am after spending the morning upgrading my mini PC with a new 2Tb NVME. The PC initially came with a 512Gb NVME (installed with Windows 11), and space for another NVME, and, another SATA SSD 2.5″. I had ready to put in it a 1Tb NVME and 2 2Tb SATA SSD. Linux was installed and I forgot about Windows. Seriously, I would boot into it just to look at it and then just reboot. So after using Linux off my 1Tb NVME and having for spare space on the 2Tb which would often get reformatted, and still only get a few hundred Gb stored on it. So I have taken that 512 Gb NVME out with Windows 11 on and replaced it with a fresh install of Linux (EndeavourOS). With which I am currently using to write this out now. And I am about to test Windows 11 by seeing if it will boot off this PC, which it was installed on in anyway.

Specs:

  • AMD Ryzen 5900HX
  • Two touch screen monitors (USB powered from PC)
  • USB-C hub extending one monitor and has the 512Gb original NVME inside. (Windows 11)

And…

I’ll be back shortly because I need another coffee. All this speaking to myself has made my mouth dry…

I’ll post an update…

And out goes 2024… (almost there…)

Hello everyone,

For a long time I've been bouncing between projects and not sticking with one. Probably all down to what life throws at you.

So lately, I've moved from Godot to using Raylib. Godot as an engine is amazing for not only beginners, but for advanced users too with its native development cycle. Raylib however, being a very cut down framework opens up a lot of options. You can find my latest project here.

My development platform:

  • OS: EndeavourOS + Wayland + KDE
  • PC: Higole F9B 512Gb model with 16Gb RAM. Intel N100.
  • Software: VSCode, OpenMPT(Audio), Blender(3D), Inkscape(Vector), Krita(Artwork)

The main reason for choosing Raylib over Godot is simply that I have raw access to what is being rendered. Raylib is a C framework and I am building my own framework in C++ over the top of it.

An example of the simplification can be seen in the source code.

These last 2 weeks have mainly been getting used to the API itself and its data structures. And now I am moving over to using shaders for the first time manually.

Although saying that Raylib is cut down. It still has everything I need right now without all the extra bloat. And once I've gone through the API and C++'ified it, building applications should be much easier.

2025 should be a creative year for me... See you there...


I dunno…

I was thinking just then, “hey, you do know that adding 6Tb storage to your PC is a big deal?” Well, that’s when it struck me, actually, yes it is!

They’ve been sat in the NAS case for almost a year now since I cut Windows on all my PC’s at home. And I never got round to setting it up for Linux. It kinda got that way, I had a 2Tb SSD to shove all my stuff on.

So a week later and Aliexpress delivers my HD caddies. Straight away, unboxed, 2 x 3Tb drives straight into them, and all setup. And voila! They all work and now I’m sat here with a tiny Mini PC, with about 10.5Tb of storage in total connected to it.

So, yeah… It’s a big deal.

… Now on to organising it all. (That’s the bummer…)

Portable monitors are awesome! … ?

Straight up, yes they are. I have two, an 11 inch standard HD and a 15 inch 4K. Both power over USB, both have extra USB C ports on them and both have USB C video input and HDMI.

They are also thin, very light and come with a magnetic cover which acts as a stand. The brightness and colours are perfect to me.

But, …

When it comes to the resolution and the size of the monitor itself, especially the 4K monitor, ‘size matters’.

I do a lot of programming and screen real estate is essential for displaying code. The more code you can see on the screen, the better. And here’s were the 4K monitor falters.

At that resolution, you know 4 times the space of a HD screen. Well, in resolution anyway. You’d think, or at least I did, silly me. You’d think that opening 4 browser windows in each corner or the monitor. Oh yeah, that is cool.

Nope. It’s a 15 inch screen. Splitting it up into 4, 7 inch screens doesn’t work. Simple as. You strain your eyes reading tiny, tiny text.

For programming they are superb. But to split the screen up smaller, nope.

Oh, I’ve also got a 28 inch 4k monitor and I can confirm it doesn’t look too bad splitting 4 browser windows.

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