In modern times, the role of the oracle is vastly different. Many people who have the ability don’t understand it and those that do are afraid to show it for fear of persecution. I have often wondered what I would do if faced with such knowledge.
Would I immediately go out and try to verify or change the outcome? Would I take advantage of it for my own gain? Would I do nothing and simply let nature takes its course? There are people that see murders, plane crashes and other events before the happen, but many times stay quiet. Most of the time they don’t understand that what they had was a vision until it’s too late.
I know of a person that once had a vision where they saw someone killed. She thought it was a nightmare and didn’t think much about it until the person ended up on the news as a missing person’s case. This is where she thought long and hard about helping or not. She had an idea where the body was because of the vision, but never told the police for fear they would think she did it.
The police ended up fighting the body and catching the killer, but my friend never said anything.