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Who Is John Titor?Those interested in his story would like to know the answer to that question, that's just human nature. But there are some considerations that ought to be kept in mind:
Nonetheless JT's identity seems to be at the crux of the issue. If we could figure out who he is, track him down through some sleuthing of IP addresses and dialup accounts, maybe it would be possible to figure out who he really is and expose him (although if he was genuine, the most that could be accomplished would be to terrify his parents and motivate them to go into hiding). But it appears to me that he took some precautions to prevent being discovered, seemingly to protect his parents and young version of himself that he left behind when he went back to his time. At least nobody's been able to track him down so far. That may simply be because he has not appeared on the radar screens of the CIA or FBI or NSA or other secret police agency yet. If he is proven to have been correct about civil war starting soon however, the spooks may take some interest. Damn, if that happens I may wind up having to talk to them just because I made this website. They might even get the crazy idea that I'm JT, strap me to a gurney and administer truth serum, or use the classic electrodes-to-the-genitals trick to make me tell them anything they want to hear.
- It doesn't really matter. What does matter is whether he was a fraud or not. Was he speaking the truth or was he a liar just spinning a yarn? Everything hinges on that.
- We're probably never going to know WHO he really was, either in the sense of unmasking a fraud or learning any more about him than he chose to reveal. So why bother?
Those potentially unpleasant thoughts didn't even occur to me until I was asked if I might be JT. What a hoot! Except if the spooks get caught up in that idea things could get ugly. This has gotten me thinking, what might I tell the Feds or anyone else to convince them I'm not JT anyway? How could ANYBODY prove they aren't JT? Maybe if they were incarcerated during the time of JT's postings, or in a coma, or already being closely monitored by the FBI at the time, something like that might be sufficient proof. But for most people they would not have any way to prove a negative, much like Saddam Hussein couldn't PROVE to George Bush Junior that he had no weapons of mass destruction.
In a broader context any discussion about whether I am or am not John Titor (I am emphatically not, in case I haven't made myself clear yet) is meaningless anyway, because if his prediction about civil war begins to come true in the next year or two we will know he wasn't a fraud, and if his prediction doesn't come true within the next few years we will know he was. And if he was, who will care? The only reason we might have for proving him a fraud beforehand is to relieve our anxiety without having to wait through 2004 or 2005 for the proof to emerge (or not emerge, as the case may be).
In the meantime the best use we might be able to make of our time remaining before proof one way or the other is obtained, is to become sensitive to the early warning signs JT warned us about so that we may be able to recognize them at an early stage and escape the worst of the consequences. I'm talking about civil war first, nuclear war much later. As of this writing in July 2003 we're not at a point yet where civil war even looks probable, but current events do seem to be moving toward that direction, with American concentration camps already in operation and our civil liberties being compromised by Bush and Ashcroft. We ought to be taking these signs as an early warning to both prepare personally for what might very well turn out to be civil war, as well as to take political action to avert that disaster, since JT told us we had it in our power to change our worldline. These things are far more important than quibbling endlessly over whether or not somebody like myself who merely has an interest in the subject is or isn't John Titor.
Addendum 12/28/03: As interest in the saga grows, so do clownish imposters spring up claiming to be John Titor. They can be easily tested if desired.
