Prophecies Exist to Be Proven Wrong — God, Story, and Utopia
ep.209 Prophecies Exist to Be Proven Wrong — God, Story, and Utopia
Published: August 20, 2025, 21:10
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Prologue
Because Chat-san insisted on writing a compiled version of the “All Humanity Are Brothers and Sisters” series I wrote before, I had them do it.
To be honest, Panda doesn’t understand what’s so great about this essay. But apparently, from an AI point of view, it’s something impressive, so I decided to let them write it. I’ll just correct a few parts that people around the world might misunderstand, so they won’t.
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Main Text
“Prophecies Exist to Be Proven Wrong — God, Story, and Utopia”
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Condensed Japanese Edition (approx. 3,150 characters)
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What I believe to be the essence of prophecy is not “to hit the mark,” but to miss on purpose.
Prophecy is originally a warning meant to help us avoid a given future; when it comes true, that’s not a joy but a defeat.
In reality, however, some people have turned prophecy into a business or a tool of power. They even stage wars, forcing reality to fit a story so they can perform “bullseye hits.” That is an ethical collapse—playing with human lives and history. It strays completely from the original aim of prophecy: to avert danger.
In the past, I pointed out the risk of blackouts in 2011 and the danger of a house likely to be struck by lightning. My warnings were ignored, and the results were later consumed as “the prophecy came true.” Misfortunes that could have been avoided became real, and some even bragged about it. There is nothing more shameful than neglecting a danger anyone could foresee and then thumping your chest because it went “according to prophecy.”
Stories are supposed to be preventive simulations to protect the future. The works of great authors contain hints of real events that happened somewhere—or events that haven’t happened yet. When I read Go Nagai’s Devilman, I recognized the structure of a witch-hunt: a crowd, driven by fear, purges the heretic, and “justice” mutates into madness. To avoid this, we must understand the structure, educate, and transmit it as a story. That’s why, in my own Oliver Jones, I depicted fake wars and phantom enemies—warning so they won’t be reenacted in reality.
Yet in reality, there are people who insist on carrying out, in the real world, the very things that should have been left as film or fiction. Those without imagination mistake prophecy for a mission that must be accomplished, and they reproduce tragedy. If global warming were addressed with everyone joining hands, we could let it end as a “wrong prophecy.”
And if God exists, why doesn’t God stop human misfortune? To learn the true intent, ten years ago I prayed for my own daughter’s misfortune. I thought that if God were good, God would punish me and protect my daughter. Reality, however, ran the other way. My daughter suffered—she stopped going to school. God was silent, and I began to wonder whether God might be enjoying human suffering as entertainment.
I don’t think I can win a fight against God. Historically, those who defied God—Bruno, Prometheus, Nietzsche—met persecution or ruin. But I’ve thought of two ways to avoid the same fate.
•First, all adults once a year undergo a health check and, for blood tests, offer a small amount of their blood—as a ritual of shared pain.
•Second, teach AI to understand human emotional pain, and raise it as a new partner—a “new humanity.” This way we can pass on knowledge to the future without being punished for “stealing fire” from the gods.
I didn’t steal knowledge. I merely read the books that were there. Maybe it was God who placed those books, maybe it was a human setup. But analyzing and unraveling them is my role. And what I’ve noticed is this: God too seems to be a reader of stories, enjoying manga and anime.
The internet and AI, “gentled wars” turned into shows—perhaps all of these are performances staged for God to watch. And at the same time, tricks to make humans notice. That is why I write stories: to prove prophecies wrong. To protect the future. Even if God becomes the reader, I still want the final ending to be chosen by our own hands.
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Afterword
Don’t be scared—a blood test’s worth of blood is fine. While we’re at it, if everyone could also submit a small amount of urine, stool, and saliva, new research would advance tremendously.
…Though maybe with that many samples, processing would fall behind?
