haha do you know what BS means? it means bullshit!!! he's asking so hes not telling us!!! a easy code of johns, at least i thought that was one everyone could understand, he clearly asks, or is that BULLSHIT TO WHIP US INTO ANOTHER WAR, and what war were we in at the time? war in kosovo/serbia? see how asking a question works? haha
back then we didn't have youtube for me to prove it, john believed me though! maybe they have youtube in 2036?
SerbRyder,
The wars in Serbia-Croatia obviously have had and still have great significance for you. The average American has absolutely
no clue what-so-ever as to just how significant Serbian and Croatian history has impacted the 20th and now the 21st Centuries. Their history was the Ground Zero Event for not one, but two world wars. World War II in Europe was not a seperate war from World War I. It was a continuation of that unresolved war. If we were somehow able to talk to them, there are over 100 million Europeans and 200,000 Americans who would explain it to everyone else had they not been fatal casualties of those wars. Croat or Serb, Hungarian, Greek, Englander, French, German, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Albanian, Italian, Czech, Slovakian, Austrian, Swede, Fin, Norwegian, Pole, Russian, you name it - over one hundred million of them were slaughtered for king (Kaiser, Czar, Caesar) and country. From me to you, my friend, I understand and have not forgotten them.
That being said, however, "Boomer" (the author of the TTO/Titor posts) failed to even make a hint at Serbia or Croatia. His reference to BS has to be taken within the context of the series of posts that he was responding to (and because I was involved in those posts I'm fully aware of the context). He was responding to Doug's posts and challenging Doug on his (real or fained) incredulity at our having found nukes in Iraq. The question was whether that "fact" (finding nukes) would be used as propoganda to expand the war. The problem is that his post was made at a time when the news was incorrectly reporting that we had found nukes in Iraq (and the truth is that the news was reporting that we had found chemical WMD's). Boomer was working the current news where a real time traveler (if they actually exist) would know that the reports were inaccurate.
Serb, I would never deny your right to opine on any subject. But the Titor Meme is, on the whole, lame. The political message is trite, common left-of-center libertarian. Nothing new. The physics message is nothing less that laughable. It really is pretty awful 8th grade wannabe "science". It's not a matter of accepting the possibility that time travel is allowed by general relativity. It's a matter of hand-waving magic to accept his version of modern physics. It really is that bad. The war saga is Saturday afternoon at the cinema, John Wayne fantasy. I don't know if you were personally involved in the Serbian war. But if you were or know anyone who was, would you or they describe the period as a time that they wouldn't trade for anything - as Titor described his involvement as a soldier in the Everglades? That's an othwesie innocent 12 year old boy's view of war, not the view of a combat veteran no matter what his/her age. People who have seen just how starkly terrifying violent death is on a daily basis don't use words like "I wouldn't trade it for anything" to glorify and remember the experience. I certainly don't, my peers don't, and we have seen more than our fair share of what man can do to man to extinguish their existence on this mortal coil.
Here's the truth about such experiences. I've seen some ghastly events in my time. I know what they look like and how they occur. But there are a couple of such events that I've witnessed that were (apparently) so extraordinarily violent that my recollection of them is, in fact, a dummied down fallacy. I can recall the beginning and the end. The middle? Not so much. I know that people died suddenly and very violently. I can see them. But they are wholly intact - dead - but intact. I know that the memory is false. They most certainly were not "intact". There's no way in hell or Earth that my mind would allow me to say something as stupid as, "I wouldn't trade that time for anything." My mind said "forget". It has and I have no desire to probe the memory for the reality. I've been retired for six years and I still sleep "with one eye open". You don't want to walk up to my bed at night and give me a shake-and-wake unless you want to look down the wrong end of a 9mm.
That's what Titor's memory should have been.