As things start up and we "go back to school", the choir that I joined will be getting together. I'll be finding out if we fall into the category of the "Whooperups" - those "inferior noisy singers." I haven't heard the choir sing, but that doesn't seem to bother me at all.
If it did concern me, is that a question I might ask the Oracle of Delphi?
That does seem too small to ask the Oracle such a question. I should be asking about conquering other lands and trouncing my enemies.
To find out more, I go look up the Oracle of Delphi, and the answer list includes "Your SEO journey starts here".
There's a throw-back. Perhaps I would have paid attention when we were using Oracle 2.0 in the early 1980s and invested in the stock. Actually, it is likely we were using the original version, but there wasn't one named 1.0 as Larry Ellison decided no one would want a first generation product. So 2.0 was the original.
Who would have guessed that the Oracle of Delphi would evolve into information storage systems today. It seems a perfect evolution - the answers that were mysterious can all be stored and accessed.
However, the name Oracle did not come from a reference to the Oracle of Delphi. It came from the code-name of a CIA-funded project Larry Ellison, one of the founders, had worked on while formerly employed by Ampex. I had imagined something more interesting.
Whaat else has the Oracle of Delphi evolved into? Video games - Oracle on Steam, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Season and Oracle of Ages. There's a Jewels of the Oracle -another adventure game. There is Battle Brothers - with a segment named The Oracle (the remains of a temple that once housed an oracle in an age long past...), and so on.
So back to the Oracle of Delphi and the prediction the future: what question could one ask today? Take our current day equivalent leaders who might want to know the future. Would Putin or Trump ask the Oracle such questions on war and conquest that were asked in the past? Not likely is my answer.
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Niagara-on-the-Lake makes a good stand-in for the Temple of Apollo where the Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi presided. Columns and columns - that's the critical feature of an ancient temple.
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