Warning! We Are All Being Played Like Pawns!

Dialog:

• Port:
  • Maybe predictions of the future are so often cryptic because soothsayers only want them to be understood by certain people.
• Starboard:
  • Oh I see, so that the predictions actually effect the future in a certain way.
  • But if that were true they are not predictions of the future at all, just cryptic instructions so soothsayers can make us do what they want.
• Port:
  • OH NO! We are being played like pawns!
• Starboard:
  • ...and we misnamed cryptic “predictions”