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the original whistleblower, reporting bad news from upper management nobody asked to hear.
means A person believed to speak for a god or to foresee the future, often delivering warnings or revelations on that authority.
from From Greek 'prophetes,' literally 'one who speaks before' or 'on behalf of' — 'pro-' (before, for) plus 'phanai' (to speak). In the Greek world a prophetes was the mouthpiece who voiced the oracle's pronouncements. It passed through Latin 'propheta' into Old French and reached English by the medieval period, where it settled into religious use. Worth noting: the soundalike 'profit' is unrelated — that one comes from Latin 'proficere,' to advance or gain.
- job hazard
- Most were ignored, exiled, or stoned by their own people
- sound-alike
- Profit and prophet sound identical, mean opposite things
- plausible deniability
- Predictions vague enough to fit centuries of events
- shared figures
- Judaism, Christianity, Islam all claim overlapping prophets
- cassandra clause
- Curse of being right and never believed
muhammad — founder of islam, ~570-632 ce, believed by 1.8 billion muslims to be the final prophet
isaiah — hebrew bible prophet, 8th century bce, wrote book of isaiah with messianic predictions
nostradamus — french astrologer, 1503-1566, wrote quatrains claimed to predict future events
jeanne dixon — american astrologer, 1918-1997, made famous 1954 prediction of soviet space achievement