Cassandra syndrome ?

I may be wrong but I thought the essence of Cassandra was the predicting of disaster, rather than whether disaster happened or not. That sounds a bit like clairvoyance.

welbeck is right, Cassandra's prophecies were never to be believed.

I predicted on here that Boris Johnson would never become Prime Minister

#Cassandra2

Next week's lottery numbers anyone?

I'm bound to get them wrong!

7/16/18/19/20/28.

And if they’re not, they blooming well should be - I’ve been playing them for the past 8 years!

?? Maggiemaybe
Chewbacca you beat me to it.

Unhappily - I predicted that Johnson WOULD become PM. Saw how he so took in the people of London, and knew he was a shrewd another self-seeker to do the same with the electorate of UK. So, Yes, my Cassandra prophecy was totally ignored and not believed, and the outome has been 'disaster'.

Well if you only got 2 things right in 2 years so I wouldn’t worry about it.

Not quite.

Cassandra was a prophetess. She prophesied correctly but her prophesies were never believed. It is the disbelief in her correct prophesies that is the essential feature.

winterwhite

I may be wrong but I thought the essence of Cassandra was the predicting of disaster, rather than whether disaster happened or not. That sounds a bit like clairvoyance.

Oops, was replying to this post but somehow 'lost' the quote

Cassandra was a daughter of Priam, king of Troy. She agreed to sleep with the sungod Apollo if he granted her wish to always prophesy accurately. Once the wish was granted she changed her mind about her side of the bargain. He couldn't take back the gift, so added to it that she should never been believed.

Among other things she prophesied that Troy would be destroyed and set on fire and the inhabitants slaughtered or taken as slaves. When she saw the wooden horse which the Greeks had left when they pretended to depart, she begged the Trojans not to accept it, but they jeered at her and dragged it inside the gates and held a feast to celebrate the departure of their beseigers.

In the night, while the Trojans were all drunk and asleep, ten Greeks crept out of the hollow horse and unbolted the gate to let in the rest of their army, who had sailed just over the horizon, out of sight.

She was right, but not believed.

What does being a Cassandra mean?

It also means you are destined to marry Rodney and become Cassandra Trotter.

Callistemon ???

I agree with welbeck - listening to the news last week, I couldn't understand why all the pundits were talking about Kabul 'probably falling in 90 days' as it sounded as if it would be more like a week. Very sad, and I have never before heard Lise Doucet sound angry, as she did on the radio this morning.

You are very lucky to be able to foresee the probable outcome of any situation, use it to your advantage - plan for the worst and hope for the best but don’t gamble.