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John Titor - Man from the future?

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I caught a few minutes on a radio programme here in the UK about this man who supposedly came back in a `time machine?' from the year 2036, and was born just a few years ago (so he'd be about 6 years old by now!). He warned of a World war (of course) and a civil war in the USA. But now he's apparently gone back `home'.

Has anyone done any research on him? Has anayone owned up to starting the hoax?

Sounds like the script of `The Terminator' to me. I suppose kids with the surname `Titor' in the US will be looking over their shoulders for a robot!
 
He claimed Y2K was going to be a disaster, then, when it wasn't, he said that he intervened and saved the world.

Yep.

He Saved. The World.

And he said that he visited his infant self, which as Doc Brown will tell you, is a recipe for disaster. Didn't anyone teach him how to use his Flux Capacitor?

Just another ignorant jackass. Move along folks, nothing to see here.
 
I love this picture

What is it? A fishing rod or dowsing rod? It's too dark or blured to see anything. You didn't explain it.
 
teacher said:
What is it? A fishing rod or dowsing rod? It's too dark or blured to see anything. You didn't explain it.
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It's a picture from inside his time machine showing a laser beam eing bent by the super heavy gravity outside the window.


Anyone want to buy a bridge?
 
teacher said:
What is it? A fishing rod or dowsing rod?
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A fake, I'd say.
1.) There seems to be a cable running over the back of his left hand
2.) If it was a red laser in fog/mist/smoke, there wouldn't be grey (non-red) parts of the beam. Where you can see the beam it would be red, where you can't, you can't. This "beam" is partly grey.
3.) Less interesting, but still: Who took this picture? Where there two of them travelling?
It's either one of these:
http://www.pomerin.de/images/medium/licht-lichtschlange.jpg
Or a very dodgy photoshop work...

FR
 
I spent many hours talking to people about this, I find it amazing how many otherwise skeptical people are willing to believe in that outrageous hoax, but I suppose parts of it are written in a compelling (if inaccurate) manner that drives the narratives and makes you curious for more. At some point while reading people forget it's fiction, perhaps?

Anyway, a fun distraction for a while was to revisit old threads on boards where I used to post to check up on the Titor believers. No matter what the latest major event that hadn't materialized (such as the election dispute and subsequent civil war business) - they always had excuses.

By far my favorite prediction is the "Waco-type events" that will happen approximately once a month after the post-election fecal matter hit the fan. Whenever something strange happens and I spot a Titor fan in the thread I can't help but going: "Yet another Waco-type event!"

--- G.

p.s. suffice to say the Waco-style event was originally interpreted as a series of religious cult siege situations, but has since become a catch-all term for any major media event, hence the mockery.

p.p.s. oh, and thanks for not mentioning anything about 9-11, John, while going into great detail about future shotgun militias battling liberal commies in the Midwest
 
I actually first heard about Titor from this site. I've been doing a little reading on him (this sort of thing fascinates me) in the last couple of days and came up with this site:

http://www.revelation13.net/KingJames14a.html

which supposedly uses the "Bible code" to tell if John's really from the future. They go through the Old Testament, and there's some nice areas where they seem to say that he is in fact from the future. Then they get this:

The next Old Testament matrix, with Row Splitting off, is at 2 Kings 5:10 - 1 Chronicles 16:40, and it contains:
-- JTITOR (ELS = 12737)
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Ready for this? The result is:

CONMAN
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Oh yeah. I'm convinced.

Marc
 
Didn't someone track down the folks that wrote all that crap through the money trail from the books and find out that they were connected to a forum where a lot of the stuff was posted and then as a clincher that Titor's supposed mother was an associate of theirs?

I remember seeing a site with such a claim and lots of evidence but I can't for the life of me re-google it :(

--- G.
 
Good lord. All those predictions about wars, riots, etc. If he was really trying to prove his authenticity, all he had to do was simply tell us any one of a hundred different specific things. For example, what will the Dow Jones close at on, say, January 1, 2003?
 
Libertarian said:
Good lord. All those predictions about wars, riots, etc. If he was really trying to prove his authenticity, all he had to do was simply tell us any one of a hundred different specific things. For example, what will the Dow Jones close at on, say, January 1, 2003?
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He couldn't do that, because, you see, this reality isn't 100% like his reality, for instance, from the timeline he came y2k happened.

*gah*

Well, that is his excuse anyways.
 
They built a time machine from a Corvette?

Um, yeah, if the force of gravity was enough to bend light, then wouldn't anyone nearby be subject to enough force that they would be squished flat? Or at the very least, not be able to hold their arm up like that?
 
FramerDave said:
They built a time machine from a Corvette?

Um, yeah, if the force of gravity was enough to bend light, then wouldn't anyone nearby be subject to enough force that they would be squished flat? Or at the very least, not be able to hold their arm up like that?
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Obviously you don't know much about time machines. They replace the glass with special stuff that negates any excessive gravity.
 
I have a comment after reading all this...So you have the technology to build a time machine, you can traverse time itself, you can meet Jesus or see the pyramids being built, but you can't emulate some code from an old computer and then of all the wonderous things you can do the thing you chose to do is go back to retrieve an old computer? If computers are so out of whack in the future that you have to go back in time to fix it, how did you build the time machine? None of these computers survived in someone's attic?

Apart from the rediculesness of the whole story, the whole reason for the trip back in time is loony to start with.
 
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