Hi Norman. You seem far too intelligent a chap to have pennies drop on you. It's a nice way to introduce a point of course.
My point on the other thread was in relation to the abuse of ideas that themselves may have merit. The attempt to preempt possible events by predicting them and if it turns out not to be so then the timeline changed. The election cylcle being a case in point. Of course even a quantum mathematician would have a hard time calculating the untold population of the universe times every single action in their lives times all the extenuating possiblities.
Infinity exists for that purpose.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity
The theory of timelines is exactly that a theory and there are many different schools of thought re parallel universes. The theory may be correct but many interpretations of it would still be incorrect.
See here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation
Timelines is like the 'Butterfly Effect'. Tha actual mathematics and origin of the idea bears scant resemblance to the simple notions that are thrown around as if they were concrete every day occurences.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
Much like the 'war on terror' which of course is a slogan designed to sell an idea. Replace timelines with 'Intelligence'. We predict an attack is coming and if it does we were right and if it doesnt it was down to 'Intelligence'.
There are times when these generic words are used truthfully and faithfully but the nature of them leaves them open to abuse.
See these lists of apocalyptic prophecy. The link is 2800BC-1700. Click the other date ranges to view the rest. If only they had known about timelines they could have explained it all.
http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm