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Exact number of casualties in major catastrophes


It is indicated that the girl predicted major catastrophes like the 2004 Tsunami. The list gives exact death tolls - however, in such devastating catastrophes nobody knows the actual number of casualties. Im not saying that the angel-iens couldn't predict it, I'm rather saying that the list would have the exact, true numbers - and those would not neccessarily match with what Cage looks up on the internet.

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It was everybody else...


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Correct!

I had thought of this as well. The total deaths listed would be the total "official" death toll not necessarily the actual death toll.

We can't really be sure that the official death toll for 9/11 is completely accurate. We can't be sure that the death toll for the great San Francisco earthquake is accurate.

What the numbers suggest is that this is/was/will be the "official" death toll for each event referenced. So, no matter where you check referenced material for the numbers of deaths, these are the numbers you will find irrespective of "complete accuracy."

It also suggests that the death tolls are pre-ordained and cannot be changed. So, when the plane crashes, he can't save one more (nor one less) passenger even though he is attempting to assist. The death toll will match the "official" death toll. The same goes for his trip to Boston...

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What I found silly was that there was some disaster with "only" 33 people dead written down. How would that disaster qualify to be on that paper? If you only have one piece of paper where you can write down all disasters 50 years ahead, surely such a "small" disaster would not appear.

Ed Powers = Woody Allen

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Maybe the threshold of loss of life was specifically set to fill the page, and 33 was the number that would do that.

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it wasn't 33.... watch the rest of the movie maybe

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It was not the number 33. It was the letters EE. Meaning? Watch the entire movie!

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Well not necessarily pre-ordained as such. It wasn't fated from the beginning of time that X people would die. It just happened that when the whisperers read the numbers in the future news, that was how many it was. So how ever many people he did or didn't help were already covered by whatever the number was going to eventually prove to have been.

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maybe the predictions weren't the exact number of deaths, but the exact number that would be listed in reference materials 50 years in the future.

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