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Originally posted by infinite
reply to post by Sri Oracle
errr...yeah
Titor made no prediction on the capitals of Britan and France being involved being involved in an American civil war (unless you are attempting to rewrite his theories)
Originally posted by Glyph_D
yeah this is what i meant. you went ahead and made your own predictions(tho they may be sound, you are still assuming). the problem is not that you make YOUR claims, its that you favor your claims over titors.
really?? how/why does the civil war start? how/why does the west collapse?
titor never states how/why, he simple states DOES.
Real disruptions in world events begin with the destabilization of the West as a result of degrading US foreign policy and consistency. This becomes apparent around 2004 as civil unrest develops near the next presidential election.
The civil war in the United States will start in 2004. I would describe it as having a Waco type event every month that steadily gets worse.
When the civil "conflict" started and got worse, people generally decided to either stay in the cities and lose most of their civil rights under the guise of security or leave the cities for more isolated and rural areas. Our home was searched once and the neighbor across the street was arrested for some unknown reason. That convinced my father to leave the city.
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From the age of 8 to 12, we lived away from the cities and spent most of our time in a farm community with other families avoiding conflict with the federal police and National Guard. By that time, it was pretty clear that we were not going back to what we had and the division between the "cities" and the "country" was well defined.
(Does the civil war start in such a way that those willing will have time to remove themselves to safer locations?)
Yes. You will be forced to ask yourself how many civil rights you will give up to feel safe.
titor did very little hinting at all, when it came to details of an unfolding future. HOWEVER ask Legend- he seems to believe titor was a straight shooter and as blunt as can be.
Originally posted by LDragonFire
reply to post by Sri Oracle
reply to post by infinite
Paris or London have nothing to do with a American civil war, the story posted was about the Olympic torch and the problems with both of these cities.
Titor said the Olympics would be canceled, and it looks like he might be right about this.
Originally posted by infinite
Titor made no prediction on the capitals of Britan and France being involved being involved in an American civil war (unless you are attempting to rewrite his theories)
You must realize that why people are fighting is more important that what they are fighting with. The conflict was not about taking and holding ground it was about order and rights
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
The only claim I made is that starvation now is no where near the levels Titor claimed. That is a FACT.
02/08/01 18:59 (about the future) 311
The pattern of exchange in the war will not be a surprise. Many people will perish as a result of starvation and disease. I would also submit that you already know if you're safe or not. The trick is to not turn off your fear when you'll need it the most.
[How will people die?]
In this order: Starvation - Disease - Bullet Wounds - Radiation
How Nutritionally Starved Is The U.S.?
Believe it or not, in the U.S. 7 times more people lose their lives to a degenerative disease than to all other diseases combined.
There are an alarming number of kids in America that are not only hungry, but nutritionally starved.
Obesity is a Form of Hunger and Starvation
Many Overweight Adults and Children Suffer From Malnutrition
Even Though They are Overweight or Obese;
From a Nutritional Point of View,
Many are Nutritionally Starved and Hungry.
Type 2 Diabetes is Running Rampant and is Proof of this Fact.
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
Sri....my statement still stands. Your links didn't do anything to disprove my statement or prove Titors. It's not a matter of denying anything, simply stating facts.
Originally posted by Sri Oracle
US life expectancy is currently about 77. If you could speculate... what is the average life expectancy, of the average American, without the pharmaceutical industry?
Take ten people you know over age 55... How many would have made it to their current age if there were no pharms?
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
Sri, I await for you to join us in the real world....
People are healthier now than they've EVER been. WORLDWIDE.
Also, people are NOT starving to death as TITOR stated and was referring to.
The sooner you join reality the better.....
Originally posted by lordtyp0
Something thats always bugged me about this guy is he states 'infinite worldines exist' and at one point said he could 'never get back to the exact worldline he left'... Under the idea that time travel is possible: What is the point in time traveling if those are true?
Originally posted by Sri Oracle
Originally posted by lordtyp0
Something thats always bugged me about this guy is he states 'infinite worldines exist' and at one point said he could 'never get back to the exact worldline he left'... Under the idea that time travel is possible: What is the point in time traveling if those are true?
I take titor to be dystopian political fiction author. If you spend less time focusing on the impossibilities of his tale and consider the dystopia he presents, you stand to learn something.
Sri Oracle
Originally posted by daddyroo45
I beg to differ.According to the usda nearly one third of the poorest in the U.S. subsist on ceral grain as the mainstay of thier diet.Leading to diabetes,obesity and other diseases.Maybe your news sources are a little shy on substance.You have to look for the truth.
Originally posted by ThatsJustWeird
Again, (though this is COMPLETELY irrelevant to Titor) human beings (homo sapiens sapiens) NOW, in the 21st century, here on planet earth, are healthier than they have ever been except when humans first came into existence. This is as a whole. The population has never been this high before so, of course the amount of people who are sick will reflect that, nevertheless I wait for you to show the ratio of healthy to unhealthy being higher than it is today.
And yet again, the number of people dying of starvation is no where close to the levels of which TITOR (NOT you) stated. You have yet to show anything that disputes that.
Evidence from both ethnographic descriptions of contemporary hunters and the archaeological record suggests that the major trend in the quality and quantity of human diets has been downward.
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Even the poorest recorded hunter-gatherer group enjoys a caloric intake superior to that of impoverished contemporary urban populations. Prehistoric hunter-gatherers appear to have enjoyed richer environments and to have been better nourished than most subsequent populations (primitive and civilized alike).
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The diets of hunter-gatherers appear to be comparatively well balanced, even when they are lean.
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Protein deficiency is almost unknown in these groups, and vitamin and mineral deficiencies are rare and usually mild in comparison to rates reported from many Third World populations.
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Archaeological evidence suggests that specific deficiencies, including that of iron (anemia), vitamin D (rickets), and, more controversially, vitamin C (scurvy) as well as such general signs of protein calorie malnutrition as childhood growth retardation have generally become more common in history rather than declining.
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complex societies have had to devote an increasing amount of their productive energy to intergroup competition, the maintenance of intragroup order, the celebration of the community itself, and the privilege of the elite, rather than focusing on the biological maintenance of individuals.
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consumption of animal protein seems to have declined for all but privileged groups.
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There is no clear evidence that the evolution of civilization has reduced the risk of resource failure and starvation as successfully as we like to believe.
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As the data summarized in earlier chapters suggest, neither the record of ethnography and history nor that of archaeology provide any clear indication of progressive increase in the reliability (as opposed to the total size) of human food supplies with the evolution of civilization.
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Similar points can be made with reference to the natural history of infectious disease.
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Primitive populations (hunter-gatherers, subsistence farmers, and all groups who do not subsist on modern refined foods) appear to enjoy several nutritional advantages over more affluent modern societies that protect them from many of the diseases that now afflict us.
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The record of the skeletons suggests, through the scarcity of metastases in bone, that cancers were comparatively rare in prehistory.
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The history of human life expectancy is much harder to describe or summarize with any precision because the evidence is so fragmentary and so many controversies are involved in its interpretation. But once we look beyond the very high life expectancies of mid-twentieth century affluent nations, the existing data also appear to suggest a pattern that is both more complex and less progressive than we are accustomed to believe.
IT IS the new face of hunger.
A perfect storm of food scarcity, global warming, rocketing oil prices and the world population explosion is plunging humanity into the biggest crisis of the 21st century by pushing up food prices and spreading hunger and poverty from rural areas into cities.
Originally posted by Sri Oracle
Degenerative Disease is Nutritional Starvation.
You are 7 times as likely to die of degenerative disease as you are of any other disease in America.
AKA AMERICANS ARE DYING OF STARVATION
What don't you get?