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<blockquote data-quote="Judge Bean" data-source="post: 10265" data-attributes="member: 42"><p><strong>Accumulated Doubt</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Visionary genius and savior proselytizing on the internet-- or-- composite character using information gained through secret technology to influence people in order to affect events.</p><p></p><p>The difficulty posed by the Titor enigma is that human nature makes us <em>want </em>him to be who and what he says he is, in spite of his apocalyptic "vision," which I prefer to call a "version." He is a "versionary." The most reliable solution, though, has nothing to do with faith beyond faith in reason.</p><p></p><p>I have faith in reason at <em>least</em>. That is, the least I can do to contribute to solving the problem is to weigh it rationally. It's the only perspective we can all share, and logic is like music and love-- another universal language.</p><p></p><p>Logic teaches us that we should examine the simplest and most familiar explanations first. Judging between an individual genius (a type not common in the world) and a composite character (whose skills might be the contributions of multiple individuals), I find the latter more probable. I find the conclusion bolstered by the fact that John Titor is an admittedly false name and that "he" has a wide range of interests and bases of information.</p><p></p><p>Judging whether it is a voice from the present or from the future, I find that the voice in question is informed by too many contemporary choices in diction, style, and subject matter not to be the former, that is, a present-day voice. And here is where the enigma begins to resist unraveling.</p><p></p><p>Judging between a voice or character informed by events which have yet to transpire and one which is strangely talented at prediction, reason tells me that the strange talent is less common. That is, it is contrary to reason that a person should be able to foretell events, and consistent with what is known of the world that the accuracy of predictions is founded on material foreknowledge. Yet, it is more reasonable that a person would know the future by having "seen" it or "read" it than by having transported himself "from" it.</p><p></p><p>My tentative conclusion is, therefore, that should Titor prove to have accurately predicted the future, he has secret knowledge of it gained not necessarily by having been there himself; and that, given the provably false nature of many of his detailed claims, and the unlikelihood of his being a single individual, that "he" has an ulterior agenda or material purpose in concealing his true character and the true story.</p><p></p><p>In fact, a story that slowly emerged as bogus would be an ideal cover for an actual time traveler or one who had gained unorthodox access to the future by some means; and it is our experience that such technology and such techniques would be almost exclusively in the hands of the government, due to the combination of expense, faculty, and clandestine research marking such government projects. </p><p></p><p>Government agents as their ordinary method of operation employ disinformation, disguise, cover stories, and "plausible deniability." They have also for decades made use of "scenario" technology, in which thousands of potential "futures" are rehashed to try to derive appropriate responses, many of which involve End of the World and Nuclear holocaust versions.</p><p></p><p>It was therefore my conclusion that, if Titor proves to be legitimate in any sense, he will turn out to be a composite or committee and a government project connected to expensive secret technology, and on a mission to affect or deflect social situations and political events. Undoubtedly the mission would be cast in terms of defense or security, giving a moral gloss to the project.</p><p></p><p>Nothing prevents Titor from gaining the stature of a messiah, especially over time as the original story gains the crust of obscurity and memory. Likewise, nothing prevents the interpretation of Jesus Christ as a time traveler or alien, or foreign agent or manipulated dupe, who, over centuries, gained the aura of the supernatural by means of literature and, more importantly, commentary on the original text which becomes incorporated as sacred scripture with the original.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Judge Bean, post: 10265, member: 42"] [b]Accumulated Doubt[/b] Visionary genius and savior proselytizing on the internet-- or-- composite character using information gained through secret technology to influence people in order to affect events. The difficulty posed by the Titor enigma is that human nature makes us [i]want [/i]him to be who and what he says he is, in spite of his apocalyptic "vision," which I prefer to call a "version." He is a "versionary." The most reliable solution, though, has nothing to do with faith beyond faith in reason. I have faith in reason at [i]least[/i]. That is, the least I can do to contribute to solving the problem is to weigh it rationally. It's the only perspective we can all share, and logic is like music and love-- another universal language. Logic teaches us that we should examine the simplest and most familiar explanations first. Judging between an individual genius (a type not common in the world) and a composite character (whose skills might be the contributions of multiple individuals), I find the latter more probable. I find the conclusion bolstered by the fact that John Titor is an admittedly false name and that "he" has a wide range of interests and bases of information. Judging whether it is a voice from the present or from the future, I find that the voice in question is informed by too many contemporary choices in diction, style, and subject matter not to be the former, that is, a present-day voice. And here is where the enigma begins to resist unraveling. Judging between a voice or character informed by events which have yet to transpire and one which is strangely talented at prediction, reason tells me that the strange talent is less common. That is, it is contrary to reason that a person should be able to foretell events, and consistent with what is known of the world that the accuracy of predictions is founded on material foreknowledge. Yet, it is more reasonable that a person would know the future by having "seen" it or "read" it than by having transported himself "from" it. My tentative conclusion is, therefore, that should Titor prove to have accurately predicted the future, he has secret knowledge of it gained not necessarily by having been there himself; and that, given the provably false nature of many of his detailed claims, and the unlikelihood of his being a single individual, that "he" has an ulterior agenda or material purpose in concealing his true character and the true story. In fact, a story that slowly emerged as bogus would be an ideal cover for an actual time traveler or one who had gained unorthodox access to the future by some means; and it is our experience that such technology and such techniques would be almost exclusively in the hands of the government, due to the combination of expense, faculty, and clandestine research marking such government projects. Government agents as their ordinary method of operation employ disinformation, disguise, cover stories, and "plausible deniability." They have also for decades made use of "scenario" technology, in which thousands of potential "futures" are rehashed to try to derive appropriate responses, many of which involve End of the World and Nuclear holocaust versions. It was therefore my conclusion that, if Titor proves to be legitimate in any sense, he will turn out to be a composite or committee and a government project connected to expensive secret technology, and on a mission to affect or deflect social situations and political events. Undoubtedly the mission would be cast in terms of defense or security, giving a moral gloss to the project. Nothing prevents Titor from gaining the stature of a messiah, especially over time as the original story gains the crust of obscurity and memory. Likewise, nothing prevents the interpretation of Jesus Christ as a time traveler or alien, or foreign agent or manipulated dupe, who, over centuries, gained the aura of the supernatural by means of literature and, more importantly, commentary on the original text which becomes incorporated as sacred scripture with the original. [/QUOTE]
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