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John Titor: Real Time Traveler or a Hoaxer?
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<blockquote data-quote="Apogee" data-source="post: 29275" data-attributes="member: 600"><p><strong>Re: John Titor Debate!</strong></p><p></p><p>Hi Folks,</p><p> </p><p>Been following with interest this meandering debate and find myself increasingly frustrated with what I see as the leaps of logic many here seem to substitute for good old fashioned reason.</p><p> </p><p>In the midst of all these paranoid certainties of political catastrophe and spurious speculations on the world of physics, might I suggest a new tack? Instead of debating the (fantastic) possibilities of time travel, why not spend a bit more time on the much more mundane (but barely better understood) area of the human desire to perpetrate the 'hoax.' Not to mention the almost limitless capacity of people through the ages to believe just about anything as long as its sold to them with a degree of plausibility? </p><p> </p><p>As P.T. Barnum put it 'There's one born every minute.'</p><p> </p><p>Allow me to interject a parallel here with another famous case involving the extraordinary claims of one individual. </p><p> </p><p>This one, too, took many years before its most ardent proponents became disillusioned and agreed that it was all...</p><p> </p><p>(as the encyclopaedia entry puts it)</p><p> </p><p>...a load of old cobblers! </p><p> </p><p>Enjoy!</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adamski" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adamski</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>And for those who see no common threads between this hoax and the Titor one, may I point out that there are many more examples where this one came from.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In fact I would say that the line...</p><p> </p><p>"many of his supporters became disaffected and his reputation rapidly declined."</p><p> </p><p>tends to be repeated over and over again when it comes to the more outlandish claims of various 'paranormal' figures of the fifties. George and his Venusians must have been more than plausible back then in the same way that Titor's stuff may well seem relevant and hit all the right spots with us culturally at the moment - but I wonder just how the accuracy of his science and his political viewpoint will seem fifty years from now?</p><p> </p><p>Given that Adamski had very widespread support worldwide for his claims, but is now universally dismissed as a crackpot...I wonder if there are those here who would defend his claims in 2005, despite what we now know and despite Occam's razor (and common sense) suggesting that for whatever reason, George just made it all up?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Apogee, post: 29275, member: 600"] [b]Re: John Titor Debate![/b] Hi Folks, Been following with interest this meandering debate and find myself increasingly frustrated with what I see as the leaps of logic many here seem to substitute for good old fashioned reason. In the midst of all these paranoid certainties of political catastrophe and spurious speculations on the world of physics, might I suggest a new tack? Instead of debating the (fantastic) possibilities of time travel, why not spend a bit more time on the much more mundane (but barely better understood) area of the human desire to perpetrate the 'hoax.' Not to mention the almost limitless capacity of people through the ages to believe just about anything as long as its sold to them with a degree of plausibility? As P.T. Barnum put it 'There's one born every minute.' Allow me to interject a parallel here with another famous case involving the extraordinary claims of one individual. This one, too, took many years before its most ardent proponents became disillusioned and agreed that it was all... (as the encyclopaedia entry puts it) ...a load of old cobblers! Enjoy! [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adamski]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adamski[/url] And for those who see no common threads between this hoax and the Titor one, may I point out that there are many more examples where this one came from. In fact I would say that the line... "many of his supporters became disaffected and his reputation rapidly declined." tends to be repeated over and over again when it comes to the more outlandish claims of various 'paranormal' figures of the fifties. George and his Venusians must have been more than plausible back then in the same way that Titor's stuff may well seem relevant and hit all the right spots with us culturally at the moment - but I wonder just how the accuracy of his science and his political viewpoint will seem fifty years from now? Given that Adamski had very widespread support worldwide for his claims, but is now universally dismissed as a crackpot...I wonder if there are those here who would defend his claims in 2005, despite what we now know and despite Occam's razor (and common sense) suggesting that for whatever reason, George just made it all up? [/QUOTE]
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