There's a whole world out there full of people making predictions about what's going to happen on both small and massive scales, but some have found more success than others.
You know you're at the more successful end of the scale when you're being compared to Nostadamus, perhaps the most famous predictor of all time, which is the honor that's been assigned to Kushal Kumar.
This astrologer relies on careful analysis of a Vedic astrology chart, looking at star alignments and movements to seemingly figure out what might happen in our world.
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It looks like this can often involve a heads-up on the risk of rising conflict, as he tells it, and he claims to have known ahead of time that there would be flare-ups between the likes of Israel and Palestine, North and South Korea, China and Taiwan, and Russia and Ukraine.
Some would say that each of these pairings has been subject to extreme tension for decades, making such predictions perhaps a little easy, but it's fair to say that Kumar has gone more ambitious in a recent prediction.
Kumar has apparently been talking up the likelihood of World War III breaking out really soon, and he's even gone so far as to pin things on a particular date - 18 June will apparently be the day that the tinder is lit.
The Daily Star reports the astrologer as saying that 18 June was giving off "the strongest planetary stimulus to trigger WWIII although 10 June and 29 may have a say as well".
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Whether you believe that'll happen or not, it'll be interesting to mark the dates (or just the rest of this month) in your calendar to see if it obliges with some dramatic world events - although a third World War isn't exactly much of a joking matter.
It's also arguably easier to accept predictions from those who are currently alive and making them than it is from figures who have been long dead - Nostradamus among them.
While in some cases there are indeed writings left behind by these futurists, their messages are often pretty vague, leaving it to "experts" to interpret them in ways that make them likely to fit a wide range of potential outcomes.
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In other cases, these apparent texts are never really open to public viewing, making it easy for people to apparently discover new sections that prove in retrospect that they were predicted with extreme accuracy, something that should generally be accepted with a healthy pinch of salt.
Again, though, with Kumar happy to put his name to this doom-laden prediction, we'll all have to sit tight for the rest of the month to see if global conflict does indeed break out.