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#If the prophecy was written down, why did it change significantly over time? | #If the prophecy was written down, why did it change significantly over time? | ||
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The '''May 14, 1958 episode''' of the '''Disneyland TV series''' titled "'''''Magic Highway USA'''''" examined the future of transportation, including '''the future of driverless vehicles''', complete with a game of '''checkers'''. This was over 3 months prior to the September 27, 1958 sermon in which William Branham first mentions his "prophecy" of the driverless car. | |||
<mediaplayer> | Please watch carefully from 3:11 to 4:37 of the following video and decided for yourself. Was this simply a coincidence or is this another clear example of [[Plagiarism|plagiarism]]? | ||
[[Image:1958 episode of Disneyland TV series.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The driverless car imagined by Disney in 1958]] | |||
<mediaplayer>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwA7c_rNbJE</mediaplayer> | |||
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= | ='''BIG problems with the prophecy'''= | ||
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In the Laodicean Church Age book, William Branham says, “Now let me say this. Can anyone prove any of those visions wrong? Were they not all fulfilled?” Almost 70 years after 1933, we now have the benefit of hindsight in our ability to confirm the accuracy of these prophecies. | |||
==Just like you dial your phone?== | |||
Of his "vision" of driverless cars, William Branham said that in his vision, in the future, you would: | |||
:''Just set your dial like this—like you dial your phone—your car takes you right on to it, can't wreck nor nothing.<ref>61-0806</ref> | |||
If this was a vision of the future, why would anyone be DIALING on a phone? | |||
==Changes in the prophecy over time== | |||
William Branham stated that the 1933 prophecies were all written down. However, this book mysteriously disappeared after his death. Why was this allowed to happen? Was it intentionally lost? Did it ever exist? | William Branham stated that the 1933 prophecies were all written down. However, this book mysteriously disappeared after his death. Why was this allowed to happen? Was it intentionally lost? Did it ever exist? | ||
[[Image:1957 driverless cars paleo-future big.jpg|thumb|250px|Newsweek Magazine – December 17, 1956]] | |||
Because the prophecies were written down, each retelling should have been consistent through the years. However, this is not the case as initially this prophecy is only about egg-shaped cars (1953 - 1957). After this, the cars are remote-controlled (1958) with a glass roof and no steering wheel, with a family inside (1960) playing cards or checkers. The bumpers had sensors and the car was controlled by radar and magnets (1961). Finally, in the Church Age Book (CAB), the car has a plastic bubble-top. | Because the prophecies were written down, each retelling should have been consistent through the years. However, this is not the case as initially this prophecy is only about egg-shaped cars (1953 - 1957). After this, the cars are remote-controlled (1958) with a glass roof and no steering wheel, with a family inside (1960) playing cards or checkers. The bumpers had sensors and the car was controlled by radar and magnets (1961). Finally, in the Church Age Book (CAB), the car has a plastic bubble-top. | ||
==Newspaper ads and TV shows of a driverless car pre-date the first time the vision was told== | ==Newspaper ads and TV shows of a driverless car pre-date the first time the vision was told== | ||
Why did William Branham first mention the driverless car only after the appearance of the 1956 advertisement in Newsweek (which also appeared in many other newspapers and magazines) and the Disney TV show featuring driverless cars in 1958? If the prophecy really foresaw the future, why weren't the people watching DVD's, sending email on their iphones or playing games on their handheld gaming device? In reality, William Branham appears to have simply copied this "prophecy" from the popular press.[[Image:1958 book on driverless cars.jpg|thumb|right|250px|1958 book on driverless cars]] | |||
Why did William Branham first mention the driverless car only after the appearance of the 1956 advertisement in Newsweek (which also appeared in many other newspapers and magazines) and the Disney TV show featuring driverless cars in 1958? If the prophecy really foresaw the future, why weren't the people watching DVD's, sending email on their iphones or playing games on their handheld gaming device? In reality, William Branham appears to have simply copied this "prophecy" from the popular press. | |||
When the Central Power and Light Company ran an advertisement entitled "Power Companies Build For Your New Electric Living,” Branham's telling of this vision now included details of the people sitting inside of the car. His description closely matched the scene from the article, from the rounded glass dome of the vehicle to the family playing a board game in the cab while leaving the steering wheel unattended. | |||
Again, Branham claimed that his vision had been fulfilled. This time, however, it was fulfilled by the driverless car. That same car was on exhibit in the 1962 World's Fair Century 21 Exposition, in Seattle, Washington. Branham toured the exhibits, and described the car as fulfillment of prophecy. | |||
But like the egg-shaped Zephyr, this technology has not become mainstream. Followers of William Branham gather great excitement when they read of any advancement in the automotive industry, hoping that these vehicles will someday become common. Printed in newspapers, it was already common discussion by an excited nation. | |||
"Republished in magazines and newspapers, these designs of Bel Geddes's "prophetic imagination," one historian noted, "struck a responsive chord in a public anxiously looking toward the better environment that was promised by an enlightened technology" | |||
Page 158, Stage Designers in Early Twentieth-Century America | |||
With the progression of science, one can raise many questions surrounding this prophesy describing an egg-shaped car. Why are cars no longer in the shape of the Lincoln Zephyr? Why would God show a vision of a family playing a board game, when modern families are more likely to be entertained by a DVD, Blu-Ray, Xbox 360 or Playstation? Why did Branham claim prophetic insight regarding something that he saw at a World's Fair and in a magazine, as well as newspaper ads? | |||
*1953: Egg shaped automobiles <ref> I said, "Just before that time comes, that automobiles...They'll look like an egg. They'll be shaped. That's a vision. Be something on the shape of something like that." And that's the way they'll be just before the rapture. (March 26, 1953, Jeffersonville, Indiana) </ref> | *1953: Egg shaped automobiles <ref> I said, "Just before that time comes, that automobiles...They'll look like an egg. They'll be shaped. That's a vision. Be something on the shape of something like that." And that's the way they'll be just before the rapture. (March 26, 1953, Jeffersonville, Indiana) </ref> | ||
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==Checkers, anyone?== | ==Checkers, anyone?== | ||
If this was a legitimate prophecy, why were | [[Image:Driverless cars low res.jpg|thumb|right|250px|February 22, 1959 edition of Arthur Radebaugh's Sunday comic strip "Closer Than We Think"]] | ||
If this was a legitimate prophecy, a vision of the future, why were the people in the driverless car playing checkers? Shouldn't they have been playing a game on a screen? Angry Birds, perhaps? In another couple of years, everyone will be wearing virtual reality headsets. | |||
==Wherefore art thou, steering wheel?== | ==Wherefore art thou, steering wheel?== | ||
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'''William Branham's statements are not true.''' They did not have the car, and they did not have trucking companies ordering them in 1964. | '''William Branham's statements are not true.''' They did not have the car, and they did not have trucking companies ordering them in 1964. | ||
[[File:1918 16arieff-retrocar-blog427.jpg|right|250px|The 1918 concept car]] | [[File:1918 16arieff-retrocar-blog427.jpg|right|250px|The 1918 concept car]] | ||
=Industry Commentary= | |||
*''We could deliver a car to your office [near Tower Bridge] that could drive to Bristol. The technology exists, the problem is liability if there is an accident.'' [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/news/article6792747.ece '''Times Online, Aug. 12, 2009'''] | *''We could deliver a car to your office [near Tower Bridge] that could drive to Bristol. The technology exists, the problem is liability if there is an accident.'' [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/news/article6792747.ece '''Times Online, Aug. 12, 2009'''] | ||
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=Driverless vehicles in the media= | =Driverless vehicles in the media= | ||
With driver assist technologies being integrated into vehicles today, the promise of a fully autonomous individual vehicle on all or designated roadways is possible. The main problem is responsibility for liability. | With driver assist technologies being integrated into vehicles today, the promise of a fully autonomous individual vehicle on all or designated roadways is possible. The main problem is responsibility for liability. | ||
[[Image:Driverless car from early 60s.jpg|thumb|right|250px]] | |||
Driverless technology for automobiles has been a technological dream since cars were first invented (see drawing from 1918). | Driverless technology for automobiles has been a technological dream since cars were first invented (see drawing from 1918). | ||
A driverless car (controlled by radio) was first mentioned in Popular Science magazine in its November 1925 issue. Driverless vehicles were revisited in the magazine on a repeated basis since then. (http://www.popsci.com/) | A driverless car (controlled by radio) was first mentioned in Popular Science magazine in its November 1925 issue. Driverless vehicles were revisited in the magazine on a repeated basis since then. (http://www.popsci.com/) | ||
The Milwaukee Sentinel described tests being made with driverless car technology in an article titled "'Phantom Auto' will tour city" in their December 8, 1926 edition. | |||
Driverless cars were described by David H. Keller in the “The Living Machine” published in Wonder Stories in 1935. | |||
At the New York World’s Fair in 1939, General Motors Futurama exhibit, “Highways & Horizons” pavilion contained audio-equipped chairs in which visitors rode for a third of a mile through the 35,738 square foot scale model of an imagined world of 1960, complete with automated highways with driverless vehicles. | |||
In the 1950's, autonomous cars represented the modern life of luxury that was just around the corner and were seen in popular media throughout the 50's and 60's. Disney also imagined a world of self-driving cars, with a heavy emphasis on leisure. The May 14, 1958 episode of the Disneyland TV series titled "Magic Highway USA" examined the future of transportation, including the future of driverless vehicles, complete with a game of checkers. | In the 1950's, autonomous cars represented the modern life of luxury that was just around the corner and were seen in popular media throughout the 50's and 60's. Disney also imagined a world of self-driving cars, with a heavy emphasis on leisure. The May 14, 1958 episode of the Disneyland TV series titled "Magic Highway USA" examined the future of transportation, including the future of driverless vehicles, complete with a game of checkers. | ||
Bill and Sue Severn published a book which detailed their vision of driverless car technology entitled "Highways to Tomorrow" in 1958.[[File:1200px-NISSAN cube Z12 rear.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Nissan Cube]] | |||
=Egg Shaped Cars= | =Egg Shaped Cars= | ||
The egg-shape design always seems sensational, but from its introduction in 1942 has never made its way into mass-production. The design is not aerodynamic (an egg is designed to exit a chicken's body, not to be thrown), has the potential to crack in the wrong places during a collusion, an does not support fast acceleration. | The egg-shape design always seems sensational, but from its introduction in 1942 has never made its way into mass-production. The design is not aerodynamic (an egg is designed to exit a chicken's body, not to be thrown), has the potential to crack in the wrong places during a collusion, an does not support fast acceleration. | ||
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