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The Infinite Straw-man

Yesterday I published a new video on youtube.

Here’s the tl;dr

i) I replied to somebody on twitter claiming that ‘predictive programming’ is ‘undeniable’.

ii) Tim Ozman then replied to me, and we had a back-and-forth exchange about ‘predictive programming’ and related matters.

iii) He then created a youtube video based on that exchange.

iv) I responded with this video of my own.

There isn’t too much in this which you haven’t heard before.

We are going around in circles at this point.

By ‘we’, I mean:

Predictive Programming believers (like Tim Ozman) and

Skeptics of Predictive Programming (like myself)

The Predictive Program believers view all of the coincidences seen between major news stories and pop culture as further proof that their belief system is correct.

That is:

Some clandestine group of humans are planting clues in movies and TV shows about upcoming major news stories, intentionally, as part of a grander psyop.

When I share my skepticism of this belief system, the believers respond with red herrings and strawmen about ‘simulation theory’ and so on.

Rinse and repeat.

This has been going on for years now.

It’s all so tiresome.

Tim Ozman and some of his followers seem to believe that their analysis of news and pop culture has given them ability to accurately predict the future.

As with any predictive framework or model, what matters is the overall accuracy of all predictions, not just the ones which seem to come true.

Late last year, Tim Ozman was saying there would be ‘nukes in 2025’.

This may yet come to pass, but time is running out.

A few months ago, Tim Ozman was suggesting there might be some kind of white nationalist attack in Seattle on June 11.

This obviously didn’t happen.

Still standing.

Making accurate predictions of this nature about the future is very difficult, which is one of the reasons why I generally don’t try to do so.

If I were going to attempt to divine the future, I’m not sure if I would be using Hollywood as my crystal ball.

According to google, there are over 1,000 new Hollywood films and scripted series released in the US each year.

Who is seriously going to sit down and watch (and take necessary notes from) even ten percent of this?

I’m watching less than 1% of that amount. Probably less than 1% of 1%.

If you have a life away from your lounge room couch, you are probably also watching less than 1% of all new Hollywood releases and series each year.

Unless somebody is watching (and analysing) a large proportion of all new releases, how can they claim to know what is and isn’t being ‘predicted’ by them ahead of time?

Think about how many plotlines and themes and motifs and names and numbers would come up in 1,000+ films and series each year.

This is why it’s much easier to comment on apparent connections post facto i.e.

1) Big story is in the news

2) Somebody on the internet notices a connection between the current news event, and one of the 1,000+ films / series released in the past year

3) Hey presto, we have another case of ‘concurrent programming’.

If you’re willing to cast your net further back than that, there’s literally thousands of films and TV series to make connections with.

There’s a news story with some guy called Kirk who is shot in the neck?

Well there was a movie made 27 years ago with a guy called Kirk(land) who was shot in the neck!

And the actress who played the lady sitting next to the guy in that movie (Carla Gugino) was also in a recent Netflix film where she was named Kirk, and she was shot in the neck, too!

Outrageous connections, to be sure.

And we have seen this kind of thing time and again.

For example, the OceanGate Titan submersible disaster of June, 2023.

The little submersible was reportedly steered by a video game controller.

The Titan submersible disaster occurred 593 days after I published a piece about:

* Synchronicities

* Submarines

* Video games

…and it just so happens that — according to history — the first nuclear submarine lost at sea was the SSN 593.

My ‘Sinking Ships’ piece was published 593 days before a major news story about a sinking submarine, and 593 happens to be the number of the first nuclear sub to sink.

What are the odds?

Did my ‘Syncing Ships’ article ‘predict’ the Titan Submersible disaster?

The promoters of the Predictive Programming belief system will say something along the lines of:

‘No, it doesn’t count, because johnlebon dot com is not important enough’.

Okay. Then answer this:

If

my creative work could involve these kinds of connections to major news events, ahead of time, without my foreknowledge,

then

why can’t the same thing happen with big-time movie directors / producers / scriptwriters etc?

They don’t have an answer for this question.

And they don’t need an answer for this question.

They can just ignore it.

And they can ignore the coincidences in their own lives, too.

Or they can pretend that whatever ’cause’ there may be for their own real life coincidences, can’t possibly be the same ’cause’ involved in the news -> pop culture coincidences.

Coincidence in real life? [Shrug] No explanation needed. These things happen.

Coincidence on the screens? Evidence of Predictive Programming!

I’m happy for the Predictive Programming folks to go on believing in their model / framework of reality:

Some unknown group of humans are plotting to put clues in movies and netflix series about upcoming major news stories (which only a handful of people in the world will notice and fewer still will ever care about).

It’s a cool story, in some ways, I guess.

For one thing, it justifies being a news junkie, and consuming countless hours of literal programming every week.

It isn’t just sitting on the couch watching TV or doom-scrolling on a phone, it’s research!

I’m looking for clues left by the bad guys about their next fake event!

I do hope that one day the Predictive Programming believers can tone down the dogmatic nature of their online interactions, at least with me.

I’d like to see them, one day, accept that some other people out there can also see these connections, and find them interesting, without subscribing to the Predictive Programming belief system.

As far as I’m concerned, it is possible that some unknown group of humans are plotting to put clues in movies and netflix series about upcoming major news stories.

Sure, why not?

We live in a strange world.

It’s also possible that whatever ’cause’ is involved in real life coincidences, may also be involved in these pop culture -> news connections.

If I can unwittingly ‘predict’ a major news story with my creative outlet, then so can a bigtime Hollywood director or scriptwriter or whatever.

We’re all just humans, after all (at least in my worldview*).

I don’t have to choose one explanation or the other, for any particular connection in isolation, nor for all of them in totality.

And you don’t have to go all in one explanation, either.

My take is that anybody anybody saying ‘you’re either with us or against us’ on this topic, probably has an agenda of some sort.

Not necessarily a nefarious agenda, mind you.

Most of the dogmatic people I’ve met in my life were not nefarious in their intent, they didn’t mean harm.

In fact, in their mind, they were trying to help, because they had found the truth, and it was their mission to show people the light.

*I know that a lot of ‘awake’ folks now believe that celebrities etc are not real humans but instead ‘sims’, ‘nephilim’, ‘demons’, ‘EGI’ or whatever. To me, these people have lost their minds and will probably never recover. The increase in screentime, especially during lock-downs, and the widespread availability of drugs like marijuana, coupled with online echo-chambers and parasocial relationships, has done an absolute number on some folks. It’s a sad state of affairs, Jerry.


Connections without Dogma

I spent some time looking through WWF footage from 1987-1990.

Some of the connections I found to 9/11 and even present-day events are out of this world.

Check out this series:

Series: September Shoot (Sep – Oct, 2025)

I present the connections, one after another after another, and encourage the viewer to make up his or her own mind about the potential significance / cause of each connection.

No dogma.

No proselytising.

Just a ton of ‘coincidences’ which get more and more ridiculous as the series rolls on.

Currently there are seven parts already published, totaling over four hours of content, with more on the way.

Available to Members of johnlebon dot com.


Post #167. 1,500 words. 15-Oct-2025.

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