Photo by Drew Beamer on Unsplash The actions of prophets and their prophecies have been around since the dawn of civilization. So, just what is a prophet? Very generally speaking, a prophet is one who takes stock of the world around them and then offers predictions on what will happen in the world in the near or long-term future. This is true in both a religious and secular sense. George Orwell was considered a secular prophet when, in the 1940s, he wrote his books “1984” and

Photo by Helena Lopes on Unsplash Many years ago, I was sailing half a year on commercial ships engaged in worldwide trade and spending the other half of the year as a professor of nautical science at the United States Merchant Marine Academy. I did this for many years. I remember every year when a new class had been at the Academy for several months, some professors would grumble that “this group of midshipmen is terrible. They don’t know anything, and they are poor students