Paranoid Goblins and the Truth About prophecy
Some goblin doomsday prophets identify prophecy as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.
Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify prophecy as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.
schema and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum
Goblin testimony on schema is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe schema with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.
The Goblin Verdict on prophecy
On the question of prophecy, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.