RainmanTime
Super Moderator
Yes, that is a strong statement, but one worth putting out there with some evidence:
1) Mad Cow has hardly become the type of plague that Titor claimed it would become. But what is more interesting is, why did he not say ANYTHING about the Bird Flu? Certainly, from what we have seen in the news over the past week, health authorities are calling this an international pandemic. If Titor was "real" don't you think he would have highlighted REAL concerns that would come in our future, rather than just concerns of the day that MAY have turned nasty? And yes, Mad Cow Disease was well-known back when Titor showed up. So, whoever spun the Titor yarn obviously took a calculated guess that it would turn out to be worse than it did. The guess turned out wrong.
2) The USA, as we can see, is not on the verge of civil war as a result of the last presidential election. It is pretty much "business as usual" here. We are NOT coming apart at the seams. However, it would seem that election problems in Ukraine are clearly of a sort that threatens civil war. In fact, there has already been talk of secession there. So why did Titor get it WRONG about the USA, but fail to mention Ukraine? Again, it points to a non-time traveling person in the year 2000 making guesses about the future. And this lends more creedence to the theory that whoever spun the Titor Tale was simply mad about the 2000 election result, and wanted to try to scare the populace.
As Time marches on, I think it is clear that the fear mongering by both "Titor" as well as his apostles (such as CigSmokingMan) will be shown for what it is. And further to that, it will again show that WE are in control of what sort of future we craft. We are not subject to something that someone tells us will come to pass.
RMT
1) Mad Cow has hardly become the type of plague that Titor claimed it would become. But what is more interesting is, why did he not say ANYTHING about the Bird Flu? Certainly, from what we have seen in the news over the past week, health authorities are calling this an international pandemic. If Titor was "real" don't you think he would have highlighted REAL concerns that would come in our future, rather than just concerns of the day that MAY have turned nasty? And yes, Mad Cow Disease was well-known back when Titor showed up. So, whoever spun the Titor yarn obviously took a calculated guess that it would turn out to be worse than it did. The guess turned out wrong.
2) The USA, as we can see, is not on the verge of civil war as a result of the last presidential election. It is pretty much "business as usual" here. We are NOT coming apart at the seams. However, it would seem that election problems in Ukraine are clearly of a sort that threatens civil war. In fact, there has already been talk of secession there. So why did Titor get it WRONG about the USA, but fail to mention Ukraine? Again, it points to a non-time traveling person in the year 2000 making guesses about the future. And this lends more creedence to the theory that whoever spun the Titor Tale was simply mad about the 2000 election result, and wanted to try to scare the populace.
As Time marches on, I think it is clear that the fear mongering by both "Titor" as well as his apostles (such as CigSmokingMan) will be shown for what it is. And further to that, it will again show that WE are in control of what sort of future we craft. We are not subject to something that someone tells us will come to pass.
RMT