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John Titor

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I never thought there could be such a thing as time travel because if there was we would have surely met someone from the past or future, wouldn't we?

But what about John Titor, time traveler from 2036? He says we will have a female president and she won't do anything...think Hillary will win? Maybe Sylvia could use this inside info. to help her make her prediction.
 
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According to Mr. Titor the US was supposed to erupt into civil war in 2004. And somehow he forgot to tip us off about 9/11. Gee thanks, John.
 
The problem with the John Titor phenomenon is that he didn't really say anything specific. He said something bad was going to happen-- that could have been anything from 9/11 to the tsunami to the Katrina disaster (or more). He said the government was going to be overbearing-- not too far from what certain political groups have been saying the government has been doing for decades (or longer). He said the beginning of the war he described would have started in 2005, and that everyone would become aware of it by 2008-- well, he wasn't too clear on what it would entail or who would be involved, so there's not much to look at to gauge whether there is any merit in that, which means we'll have to wait till next year to know whether he was right. :)

Best of all about the John Titor story is that he even supplied his own way for people who want to believe it to avoid accountability if there are incorrect predictions: he continually stated that he was technically from an alternate Earth and that this one didn't necessarily have to follow the same path. So, you get all the scary predictions and little to none of the predictive accountability. It was a little like Nostradomus as a Libertarian, mixed with a little Republican 'culture war' and a little Democratic 'nothing good from the Bush administration' politicizing.

The prediction about the flaw in Unix dating was interesting, though. That was a good obscure piece of factual trivia to lend some flesh to his story, to be sure.
 
Oh no, not Titor again.........
If I recall correctly, my research into this phenomenon revealed a post somewhere where he was outed as a joke gone out of hand.
I'll see if I can dig out the specific bookmark, but we are talking about a couple of years back, so it may take a while.....
 
Sounds like a schizophrenic with a severe case of delusions. Either that or he is just trying to mess with peoples heads.
 
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Trust me on this, I have some experience with the Titor hoax. We're all going to be a lot better off not dragging him into the mix as a good example of anything.
 
He was part of 9/11, prison-planet, ruby-ridge, mythology before we had 9/11 truthers. It's an old mythology that scares a few people every time government moves in a direction counter to their personal politics. The larger the disastrous event the greater the growth of the mythology, at least temporarily. Ufologist even taps that mythology for their own purposes to varying degrees. Interesting mythology, crappy truth.
 
1. Start a thread by pushing the little button.
2. Claim to be skeptical and difficult to convince.
3. Bring up a ridiculous and obvious fraud, couched in careful language claiming disbelief.
4. See that others really do think that your example is a ridiculous and obvious fraud.
5. Get angry, forget your cover story and defend your woo-woo beliefs.
6. Repeat as often as is fun for you.
 
Loss Leader said:
1. Start a thread by pushing the little button.
2. Claim to be skeptical and difficult to convince.
3. Bring up a ridiculous and obvious fraud, couched in careful language claiming disbelief.
4. See that others really do think that your example is a ridiculous and obvious fraud.
5. Get angry, forget your cover story and defend your woo-woo beliefs.
6. Repeat as often as is fun for you.
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It's so common, it needs a name. Or does it already have one....trolling?
Yeah, maybe.:cool:
 
kosai said:
Titor was kind of boring... I prefer the guy who sent out a hundred million spam messages trying to aquire parts for his time machine. Then actually buying the parts from an online time travel shop... Now that is dedication.

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2003/08/60141
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"A lot of people will say the stuff I talk about is crazy and out of this world. But I know for a fact that it is true and does exist. Untrained minds may disagree with me, but they don't have access to the sources that I do"
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Sounds a lot like the ET Corn Gods guy.
 
slingblade said:
It's so common, it needs a name. Or does it already have one....trolling?
Yeah, maybe.:cool:
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There you go, yep, there you go.

FYI, I was suspicious of that John Titer crapola when I first heard about it. I mean, there would have been so many obvious ways to prove he was the real thing and he did none of those.

It was a bad joke that went on too long, I say.
 
I somehow missed that. In fact, I thought that "Titor" was one of those Saturday-morning cartoons I used to watch when I was a kid.
 
hotpatootie said:
There you go, yep, there you go.

FYI, I was suspicious of that John Titer crapola when I first heard about it. I mean, there would have been so many obvious ways to prove he was the real thing and he did none of those.

It was a bad joke that went on too long, I say.
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The problem was that he acquired a gullible following on the net that lasted for at least five years after he "left." These were not gullible in the usual sense of the term: they suspended their disbelief, but did not actually believe him. They entertained the idea that he was a real time traveler-- and this was all he needed to gain a buzz.

Don't ask me how I know this.
 
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