Kanigo,
many conflicts- Assuming he meant conflicts Other than just "waco style events" official Olympics- Open to interpretation.
I agree with you to the extent that local US Waco events would not result in the Olympics being cancelled worldwide. According to his story the Waco incidents are the precursors to open civil war in the US, followed by a
collapse of Western stability in 2005 and a world war in 2015.
To avoid the necessity of over interpreting his statements let's just look directly at them.
In responding to a question by
Lola Montez ("I am from 2036", Post to Post) her replied:
Posted by John Titor on 02-27-2001 05:25 PM
((You say the civil war lasts from 2004 to 2008 and then the short big one in 2015. What do the years from 2008 to 2015 look like? How long does WWIII last.))
I’m not sure I said that exactly. By 2008, I would say the civil conflict is pretty much at everyone’s doorstep. Western instability during the conflict leads to the attack in 2015.
So, the Olympics would be cancelled because there's a civil war in the US that by 2008, i.e. right now, is "pretty much at everyone's doorstep" followed by Western instability that results in 3 billion crispy critter humans.
Of course his reply "I'm not sure that I said that exactly" is correct. On one site he said it was 2004. On the other site he said it was 2005. Neither the civil war, as he defined war, nor the Weekly Wacky Waco Incidents have occured.
As referenced above, he had a problem with keeping the dates of the civil war straight. When he started posting here on Time Travel Institute he said not once, but three times that the civil war starts in 2005. The first such response was to Pamela herself.
However when he started posting on Post-2-Post in late January 2001 he said that the date was 2004. Mike Kolesnik called him on the inconsistency. Titor said that when he said 2005 it was a "missed key" (typo). So Titor settled on 2004 in Post-2-Post. The "typo" (2005) was the most consistent reference to the year, not 2004.
One other item that has been the subject of debate and interpretation is the term "civil war" as used in the saga. People have said that maybe Titor meant what's going on now (and in the 2002, 2004, 2006 election years), heated political debate, to mean civil war.
In the same post to Mike Kolesnik he further stated:
Perhaps our definition of war is different. I would define it as a conflict where organized groups engage in maneuver and armed conflict.
Thus "civil war" is armed conflict not a debating society. There's not much room for interpretation there because Titor himself supplied the definition of the meaning within the context of his saga.
Therefore, the Olympics would have been cancelled after 2004 because there was an armed conflict going on inside the USA - a civil war and not just some Waco Incidents.
No Wacos, no civil war, not much to interpret and no joy for the veracity of the story.
References:
07 November 2000 21:23 "Time Travel Paradoxes", Time Travel Institute
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pamela: 6.what started the war? and who fought in it? who won?what countries were destroyed and what survived?
timetravel_0: Wow...that's a big question. There is a civil war in the United States that starts in 2005. That conflict flares up and down for 10 years. In 2015, Russia launches a nuclear strike against the major cities in the United States (which is the "other side" of the civil war from my perspective), China and Europe. The United States counter attacks. The US cities are destroyed along with the AFE (American Federal Empire)...thus we (in the country) won. The European Union and China were also destroyed. Russia is now our largest trading partner and the Capitol of the US was moved to Omaha Nebraska.
12 November 2000 16:41 "Time Travel Paradoxes", Time Travel Institute
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I am here for personal reasons. For a few months now, I have bee trying to alert anyone that would listen to the possibility of a civil war in the United States in 2005.
13 December 2000 12:44"Time Travel Paradoxes", Time Travel Institute
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(How and why do the Arabs Jews become entangled in the civil war of the U.S.A?)
They are not directly involved but political situations are dependant on Western stability, which collapses in 2005.
02/01/01 08:36 "I am From 2036", Post-2-Post
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The year 2008 was a general date by which time everyone will realize the world they thought they were living in was over. The civil war in the United States will start in 2004. I would describe it as having a Waco type event every month that steadily gets worse. The conflict will consume everyone in the US by 2012 and end in 2015 with a very short WWIII.
02/12/01 23:51 "I am from 2036", Post-2-Post
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((8. John says the civil war which starts in 2004 or 2005 (depending on the post) leads to the world war which starts in 2015. ( So we have a TEN YEAR civil war???))
It’s 2004. I apologize for a missed key (very observant – we all need good critics). Perhaps our definition of war is different. I would define it as a conflict where organized groups engage in maneuver and armed conflict. The first U.S. civil war lasted 4 years and the English civil war lasted 6. How long is too long?
