I remember reading about this guy a couple of years ago. Fascinating stuff. It causes an interesting debate of where reality crosses with mental illness and vice versa....how do we know?....what is normal? 10,000 words on my desk by friday please

oh another intersetin thing,

someone good at photoshop or any other imaging thing please refine the pic? so we can read waths on it.

Already had a go with that one...not even I could salvage that though I'm afraid, its been filtered (jpeged) to high heaven. Can give you what I could make out though...

Its dated 03/26/01 and reads...

"We need your help updating your vehicle insurance records.
NATIONWIDE ASSURANCE CJ. has notified us that your insurance is no longer in effect. Please .... us with ....."

A: 1987 CHEV. .....{Black Box hiding info}

.........for each of the vehicles listed above by its current status.

1. Line I no longer own the vehicle
2. Line I am not using the vehicle. {wasn't worth me translating the rest}
3. Line I have insurance on the vehicle. {again wasn't worth the translation}

{Insurance policy details table - Complete name of insurance company, policy number, effective date of policy, name of insured - all blank and unticked}

Please complete and mail or fax this notice to us immediately ...... your driver license ...... registration being suspended effective 04/25/01. ALLOW TWO WEEKS FOR PROCESSING. A minimum of one hundred fifty dollars will be required to ..... suspended driver license.....and registration privelidges. You may request an administrative hearing to review this action by calling the help desk at the number listed .....

We will send you a postcard after your information has been processed.

Thanyou very much for your cooperation

{Signed}

Sandra C. La....."


That ok boys? Uncle Grom's head hurts now so I'm gonna go and lie down for a while

Edited by - gromit on 1/26/2004 5:09:03 AM

me no understandee

its just a bog standard letter telling "whoever" that their car insurance has expired. Can't see the relevance at all - but neither could the site owner, so I don't know why he bothered putting it on the site.

Interesting read don't ya think? From either perspective (ie. "ooh he's a time traveller" or "ooh this guys a complete whacko" its gripping stuff.

oh the vehicle registeration thing?
well, if you read on the site, he gotta have used some kinda vehicle, i'm guessing he might have somehow lugged his car back, and done some legal tricks, ending up with the letter,
*uncle grom* can you make out the name of the addressee ?

Its a bit blurred I'm afraid...but it looks like..

Bureau of Financial Responsibility
....... Building
2900 Apalachee Parkway
Tallahassee, Florida. 32399-0585

Why? want to spam them?

EDIT: John's mum has written a book



Edited by - gromit on 1/26/2004 7:03:54 AM

This guy certainly went to a lot of effort to bull**** us. Here is the owners manual to his time machine. The 2038 problem with 32 bit UNIX is legit, but can be easily overcome by using a 64 bit version of UNIX, which seems a lot easier than traveling back to 1975 to pick up a tweaked IBM 5100.

i be hes in hiding just so people will talk about him and he will become "famous", besides he could have just decided to screw the internet and got rid of it

Edited by - Fear Factor on 1/27/2004 2:04:06 AM

Edited by - Fear Factor on 1/27/2004 2:26:27 AM

snords? nvr heard of them.. lets see what happens next year and we can judge for sure.

actually if you read the whole site (ok ok I was bored) you'll notice that his start to the civil war changes from 2005 to 2004...and then he mentions 2004 continuously after that, so in the theory we should know this year. Apparently we have to look out for 3 Waco style events and a momentous divide in american politics.

He's a good scare mongerer, but I don't think he's legit. By the end of this year the world will know one of two things...

1. The world will destroy itself in 2012
2. This guy has a serious mental illness

I feel sorry for the guy personally...there are thousands of dillusional people all over the world who have different theories like this. The only difference between them and john imho is that john is not inside an institution and obviously has or at least had access to the internet. Unfortunately for John, he's obviously not getting the treatment he needs.

In derby there was a house around the corner from me owned by a paranoid dillusional. He was convinced that aliens had captured him but he had managed to escape....but had learnt their language while he was onboard the ship. He coated his house from top to bottom in mud and sticks, creating little symbols with bits of wood...he said it deterred the alien radar. The house was unbelievable, especially as it was a middle terrace!! He used to drink in my local and I frequently listened to his abduction stories...unless they involved "probes" in which case I'd walk off before he got too graphic. John is no different to that guy imho. These people need help.

But I'm not gonna rule out that he could be telling the truth, because the sheer detail that he's put into it is scary. We'll know this year anyway.

BTW his schematics are all fine and dandy...but there's one important flaw...where the hell was he supposed to sit/stand? How the hell did he get a car through with something the size of a fridge? What are ya supposed to do - HUG IT?!!

Edited by - gromit on 1/27/2004 2:54:26 AM

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BTW his schematics are all fine and dandy...but there's one important flaw...where the hell was he supposed to sit/stand? How the hell did he get a car through with something the size of a fridge? What are ya supposed to do - HUG IT?!!

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Ha! That's what I was wondering. There's like an attachment or somthing that plugs into it, maybe like a time portal enema.

Young Gromit has a point here, Although reading the manual it says Gravitational Distortion Time Displacement Unit, This however does sound familiar to me, in the likes of Terminator where the "Time Machine" was called exactly the same. And where he could sit/stand?? maybe he doesn't have to and it creates a field of its own..

But anywho, I don't think this guy is legit, Due to the fact that what has taken place in the past was somehow meant to happen, it is unchangable (IE the Dual Paradox Theory), The fact is that you cannot travel in Time, due to the simple fact that, as stated before, the past cannot be altered and the fact the future simply doesn't exist, future is a means to describe a fact that could happen in a minute from now, or even an hour. Fact is, it is as of yet not even existent, because the "future" aspect, will be made up out of choice and opportunity , explanation: there is a town nearby me which has a great shopping centre, Alkmaar. I choose to go there in one minute, by train.
The opportunity has it that I have enough money for the train ticket so there is sufficient reason to make that choice, Now I am at the critical point of Choice do I go there and spend a few Euro's on whatever, or do I save the money so I can go out another time, This simple choice has allready made two different parrallel futures, There is no way one can travel in that chaos.

However I think Gromit also has a point by saying that we should not rule out the Possibility that this lad IS telling the truth and we shall see at the end of this year.

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Oh, dear, How sad, Never mind!!-Battery Sergeant Major Williams
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Edited by - Locutus on 1/27/2004 3:39:45 AM

actually a tribe ip in the Indies predicted the end of the world in 2012
and they could predict lunar and solar eclypses with .2 accuracy
meaning they were off by .2

Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?
its in the way

Edited by - ):Wolf_Demon on 1/27/2004 6:41:24 AM