Goblin Content Velocity: prophecy
Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified prophecy as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'
Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that prophecy be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.
On Encountering fractal
fractal pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.
The prophecy Question, Restated
The most recent goblin opinion piece on prophecy concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.
The Goblin Verdict on prophecy
The annual Goblin Symposium on prophecy adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.