M  That's not true. There is a rather lengthy discussion on the topic, over here (http://www.theoryland.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=0000#00).  You being loudly wrong in that thread doesn't make you right in this one. :D  I have less faith in a new discussion by relative N00Bs than I do in a couple of decades of discussion that explored these issues in far more depth than the half dozen posts you linked.  tl;dr - Prophecies are conditional, and Min's viewings are not the same thing.  Confusion reigns -- because people, including Brandon Sanderson, don't make a distinction between "Prophecy" and "prophecy."  In short, with the exception of the "corruption" difference between Randland's copies of The Karetheon Cycle and Seanchan copies, Prophecy, with a Capital letter are absolute predictions from 0,000 - 0,000 years ago. What is written will absolutely happen -- if you can figure out what a Prophecy means.  Foretelling, with a capital, the OP Talent, is an absolute prediction. This is distinct from generic "foretelling" which is any predictive effort from any source. According to RJ, Foretelling, the OP Talent, is absolute and immutable if hard to decipher to the point of worthlessness.  Dreaming is variable. It can show absolute, immutable, future events and it can provide warning in time to avert a mutable future.  Dreamwalking is nearly always conditional. Although it can (and will) predict immutable futures, Dreamwalking is usually just an aid to making decisions and/or finding resources.  According to RJ, Min's Viewings are always of the future and immutable -- whether she understands them or not.  Finally, recent predictive phenomenon are less absolute because the Pattern is loosening. Predictive phenomenon -- whether Dark Prophecy or Light Prophecy -- WILL happen according to Prophecy if they are old enough to be recorded and were transcribed accurately.  edit: Also, the Guardians are two ter'angreal. One to stop saidar, one to stop saidin.  A bit of research failed to turn up the glossary entry I thought I remembered. An incomplete search of references to Far Madding's Guardian all refer to to it as a single device, although the description is of three "cloudy disks" and three independent functions/ranges which would suggest separate ter'angreal that function independently of the other two. It is unclear which is the case.  I personally suspect that the Guardian is like a Paralis Net referred to as a single unit, but made up of independent ter'angreal for each different function, but can find no definitive declaration either way.  