February 27, 2004
John Titor, Time Traveler
Koga sent me a link today which at the very least is a very entertaining read. It is a link to a website which documents a rather strange occurrence that happened on the internet about three years ago on a message board. What happened was someone said they were a time traveler from the year 2036, and they made a series of posts online, then abruptly stopped after about 4 months and was never heard from again. Now, obviously, the most likely explanation for this is that it was just a hoax, or some crazy person or something, and I certainly don't want to say that I definitely believe the guy who made the posts; but like I said, at the very least it is an entertaining read. He gives photographs and diagrams of his time machine, explains how it worked, talks about what life in 2036 is like, talks about why he traveled through time, and talks about events in the future (and considering it is already over three years later, some of these things seem to eerily have come true or look like they might really occur). I wanted to share one quote of his here, because even if it is a hoax or even if he is nuts, there is a lot of truth in some of what he says here:
Growing up might have been a vastly different experience for me than it was for most of you. Personal responsibility, determination, honor, friendship and self-reliance are not just words we try to live up to or fantasize about.
On my worldline, life is not easy. We live in a world recovering from years of war, poison, destruction and hate. All of it, courtesy of the thinking and actions of people that live right now in the same world you do, worrying about which stocks to buy or whether or not a stranger is lying to them on the Internet.
I believe that hardship and challenge develop character and community. My first experience with war came when I joined a shotgun infantry unit at the age of thirteen. In the 4 years I served as a "rebel", I watched hundreds of people get shot, burn and bleed to death. I know exactly where I was and every detail of the exact moment the first nuclear warheads began falling on Jacksonville. I know the pain and regret of not acting soon enough to enjoy a relationship as a loved one dies of brain cancer from a war that gained nothing.
How can you possibly criticize me for any conflict that comes to you? I watch every day what you are doing as a society. While you sit by and watch your Constitution being torn away from you, you willfully eat poisoned food, buy manufactured products no one needs and turn an uncaring eye away from millions of people suffering and dying all around you. Is this the "Universal Law" you subscribe to?
Perhaps I should let you all in on a little secret. No one likes you in the future. This time period is looked at as being full of lazy, self-centered, civically ignorant sheep. Perhaps you should be less concerned about me and more concerned about that. - "John Titor", Nov. 2000
Posted by Yams at February 27, 2004 03:05 PMIf a civil war starts next year, as he predicts, I'm getting a gun. :P
Posted by: Koganuts at February 27, 2004 03:27 PMwhoa, that's intriguing stuff. kind of mediocre star trek, though. his future society agrarian 'my people gather around the town square and trade cattle because of you guys and your lattes' thing is a pretty standard modern sci-fi future worldview. still, i can kind of see 2005 being a good starting point for major amounts of unrest, what with bush destroying our economic future and starting wars all over the place. it sucks that in everyone's timelines there's a massive nuclear exchange, don't it? i can't think of anything more terrible. unless john connor comes on the radio first.
Posted by: elvispanda at February 28, 2004 10:57 AMbwaaaaack (whistle) terminator 3
bwaaaaack (whistle) terminator 3
bwaaaaack (whistle) steven wanna dvd (whistle)
somebody forgot to feed the steve parrot.
hey terrible, what's the deal with the terrible mood meter?! it's still reading 'serene', yet your entry from thursday begins with the sentence 'i'm fucking pissed.'
and there's the smiley situation...
the blog is in disarray!
Posted by: elvispanda at February 29, 2004 10:07 AMWEll?!? The Oscars have been over for over two hours... where's the giddiness from the LOTR clean sweep?
I must say I expected more
Oh and it's pretty classic, the blaming modern problems on the previous generations (quite rightly so), many things said were pretty classic... still an intriguind read and if nothing else seems like a rather smart fellow. 
The terrible-mood meter has been reset, Milkshake. The smilies being able to be seen on non IE-for-PC browsers is a result of something that is out of my hands, and is a result of Movable Type's poor programming (usually they're pretty good though). Word has it they'll fix this with their next update, but we'll have to see. In the meantime, you should use the smilie code, as it is almost ridiculously simple (you lazy-ass 
). The Oscar entry took a little while to make because I was over at my Dad's place for dinner tonight, and didn't get back till the show had been over for probably an hour or more, and I had to make my adjustments to those two pictures. Enjoy
Hey If your interested in John Titor you might want to join my yahoo group: -
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/John_Titor_UK/
theres loads of links and pictures for you to check out and a message board.