The more I study this famous troll, the more it looks to me like it could have been Bill Cooper larping as John Titor. Bill Cooper wrote the early 90s conspiracy book "Behold a Pale Horse" and gained notoriety from it. Titor claimed to be from an alternate reality, and from the future. He said you can go back in time but it has to be to a parralel universe in the expansive multi-verse. Anyway, this video really summarizes the whole thing. A masterful troll, and the possible future he described was and still is the wet dream of many preppers.
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(Old Spike)
It says a civil war will start in USA in 2004 ... "The conflict will consume everyone in the US by 2012 and end in 2015 with a very short WWIII."
Pretty sure that didn't happen.
(Old Spike)
Tsk tsk - read my description or watch the vid through to the end. It's slightly less retarded than that.
(Old Spike)
Bill Cooper's far-fetched stuff was generally about aliens & secret societies & afaik he didn't say things that were provably wrong, or have access to IBM's trade secrets.
(Old Spike)
Cooper's predictions about the future, and what would happen to America (including and especially what would trigger a US civil war), were exactly the same as what John Titor described in his posts. Titor's final post was in May, 2001 and Cooper died in November 2001. Here's a rare interview with Cooper where he talks about the future American civil war and beneath that a long 2 hour TV interview he did in 1992 where he talks all about aliens:
(Old Spike)
Bill say that Americans could become enslaved in the worst possible way within a few years unless there's a civil war which kinda overlaps what Titor says. I reckon this was a little bit of his frustration at being backed into a corner re: taxes coming through.
I didn't see anything in the Titor video about aliens.
Fun fact: Stephen Hawking hosted a party for time travellers. He published the invitation after the invitation the day after the party. Nobody came.
Cooper's Mystery Babylon series is good sleepytime listening ;)
(Old Spike)
I've been through Titor's posts and the questions forum users asked him. He was asked about aliens, and his responses indicated he was interested in the subject, believed the phenomenon could be real, and talked about how their technology might work. Here are some excerpts:
No, I haven’t met any other time travelers here and although from my perspective that’s highly unlikely, it’s not impossible. No, I don’t have any additional information concerning crop circles, ETs or UFOs. I find those subjects rather interesting myself and it’s one of the reasons I was drawn to this web site.
I became aware of this bulletin board through my various archiving work through the web. We do enjoy “talk programs” but they are distributed over the web. I don’t have additional information about UFOs and I find the subject quite interesting myself. I have often wondered if they aren’t time travelers with very sophisticated machines. Based on what I know about the nature of time I find this difficult to believe but nothing is impossible.
My point is; seemingly very complicated problems often have very simple and ingenious solutions using technology that is already available. The distortion unit is not magic and no alien technology was required to make it work. If you could see it, the “smarts” that went into designing it will amaze you more than the technology. Heck, the really interesting technology is in the computer.
Based on my understanding of time, manipulation of your worldline by future time travelers would have no affect on their original or home worldline. If that is happening, it must be for a desired outcome or result on your worldline only. If UFOs are time travelers, they plan on reaping what they sew from you not their home.
AND HERE'S A LARK - JOHN TITOR TALKS ABOUT CANADIANS IN 2036 AFTER THE GREAT WAR:
Fiji? I’ve noticed that when most Americans think about Canada in this time, they think about pine trees, chooks and back-bacon. It may interest you to know that most Canadians in 2036 are some of the most efficient, ruthless and dangerous people I know. God help Quebec.