minuteman project and Waco type events thread
I think that this may be the right time to take this step. It occurs to me now that, if Titor is really a timetraveler, the trail is cold, and, in any event, we don?t need him any more. We could have imagined him just as well.
Possibly better. For the common good, we could have a rich, continuing dialog with a fictional character, and get far more from it than an increasingly vague figure who spoke once and vanished. We have such relationships with many fictional and semi-fictional characters, such as Santa Claus. Religion in large part is based on such interactions.
A religious person will say that all gods but his own are false, and all idolatrous attention outside his own temple is misguided. There are those, such as Bahais, who believe that all major revealed religions are manifestations of the same prophetic source; but, and sadly, for the most part, the devout around the world want to establish a single true path which each was lucky enough to have discovered?and send everyone else to hell.
It?s best perhaps to think of Titor as a prophet, false if he is not recognized by those who believe what you do, true only if his prophecies pan out. His story, despite its bad science and cliched plot a compelling one, strikes all the right chords and is a work of art. It is a gentle jeremiad and fine epistolary novel. But it still works out to one guy sitting at a keyboard, perhaps in a Disney town.
In detail, his predictions are badly mistaken. His grasp of physics now seems weak, the depth of his honesty superficial, his motives suspect, his rational integrity so thin that, if it were ice, it would hardly hold the weight of history?s caravan?which is his claim, after all.
There?s really only one reason now not to pronounce Titor a fake timetraveler?the outside chance that he, or they, or someone in possession of solid proof, should step forward with it. The very act of emergence from his mystical shroud would constitute evidence?slim and circumstantial however it would be. At this point, relevant evidence might be merely that which would justify further questions.
Now there is nothing, and the appropriate concomitant response is silence.
If Titor is still around, or the people who invented his voice are still with us, he or they could not have missed the efforts of those on these two boards and on Anomalies to bring him into focus. Anyone who might hold the answers has chosen to ignore us and let us flay about drowning in speculation. This is immature, mean-spirited, and obscene.
In deference to others on the board and to the rational process, I will now enter into an ascetic muteness.
