Friday, 4 November 2011

Anatole Fomenko - History: Fiction or Science Chronology 2



This is the second book (in a series of seven) by Anatole T. Fomenko. Listening to the Clif High interview yesterday that alerted me to his books it seems there's a lot of controversy over this author but very briefly his work came about from the former Soviet Union when teachers realised they'd been teaching a sanitised and meaningless education to Russian students and so in order to prevent this happening again they turned to their scientists and asked 'What is true and factual'.

This snowballed into a Russian education movement which involved science as the arbiter of curriculum and so everything was challenged including it seems the Vatican's chronology of events. I believe it's called critical thinking or analysis (I need to check again) education and he makes incredible claims based on cosmology as the final word in chronology such that eclipses and comets in history prove unequivocally that the character known as Jesus (but also possibly named as Yeshuah or Emmanuel) likely lived around 1000 AD which could only have come about if the Vatican has rewired history deliberately. I'm looking forward to reading both these books and incorporating the bits that make sense into a rapidly changing picture of history I've yet to make full sense of.

It seems we really have very little understanding of who we really are. Like the most consistent piece of evidence across many disciplines and power structures throughout history is that again and again, at all costs, we mustn't know who we really are. 

This thought ties in with a lot of thinking I've uncovered elsewhere but there's no evidence to back it up so I wont repeat it until there is. If ever. Though privately I don't mind sharing what I know.


Here's the blurb:



Learn how and why Ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt were crafted during Renaissance. What if the Old Testament was a rendition of events of Middle Ages written after the New Testament? Did the crusaders really wait for 1000 years to punish the tormentors of the Messiah? What if Jesus Christ was born in 1053 and crucified in 1086 AD?


Sounds unbelievable? Not after you've read "History: Fiction or Science?" by Anatoly Fomenko, leading mathematician of our time. He follows in steps of Sir Isaac Newton and finds clear evidence of falsification of History. Armed with logic, astronomy and computers he proves the history of humankind to be both dramatically different and drastically shorter than generally presumed.


Archaeological, dendrochronological, paleographical and carbon methods of dating of ancient sources and artifacts are both non-exact and contradictory, therefore there is not a single piece of firm written evidence or artifact that could be reliably and independently dated earlier than the XI century.


The consensual chronology we live with was essentially crafted in the XVI century from the contradictory mix of innumerable copies of ancient Latin and Greek manuscripts (all originals have mysteriously disappeared) and the "proofs" delivered by the late mediaeval astronomers, cemented by the authority of writings of the Church Fathers.


In fact, for the last 300 years, the whole class of historians created, researched, perfected and polished a world of phantom universal history and classical civilization artfully constructed by their predecessors in the course of XVI-XVIII centuries at the command of powers of that time. They have polished the real world history into oblivion!


"History: Fiction or Science?", leads You step by step to the inevitable conclusion that the classical chronology is false and therefore, that the history of ancient and medieval world, is also FALSE. After reading this book you will certainly have a fresh and very suspicious outlook on "ancient" and "enigmatic" Roman, Greek and Egyptian, mediaeval as well as all other "lost and found" civilizations.

Thursday, 3 November 2011

Nevermind - Twenty Years Later



Two decades ago I'd been listening to Nirvana's Nevermind for a couple of weeks while I was living in the town of Giessen in Germany at the age of 23 selling Harley Davidsons, Chryslers and GM vehicles to US military troops. Three of us headed to Amsterdam one weekend and I put the Nevermind cassette in the car stereo. It wasn't long before Russell, the former punk exclaimed 'what is this shit', Geoff agreed immediately and so it didn't get a full play. 

I can't remember if it was on the way there, or on the return journey back to Giessen but we'd run out of music so it got another play and by the time we arrived back home the other two had becoming raving lunatics about how good this incredible album was. Nevermind became our anthem for much more frequent runs down to Frankfurt in the Corvette or the Jeep show vehicles. It was here we scored cannabis resin and explored the downtown area of brothels, pimps, pushers, junkies and transsexuals around the Hauptbahnhoff till early in the morning before heading back to Giessen to the soundtrack of Nirvana's Nevermind.


I wont burden you with my album review as there are other top twenty emotions I'd much rather write about and I think Stuart Maconie of The New Statesman has done a good job. Here's the bits I liked.



To understand the seismic impact of Nevermind and of that incendiary first single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit", in particular, one has to hear it - metaphorically at least - through the cheap, fizzing foam headphones of late-1980s pop. Nirvana emerged, to paraphrase Auden, at "the fag end of a low, dishonest decade", at least as far as mass-market pop went. MTV had nullified and sedated white rock. Madonna and Michael Jackson were at creative lows. Hip-hop, after the firestorms of Public Enemy and NWA, had fizzled out in the vaudeville of MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice. Alternative rock largely meant REM, who were huge but spoke now to the constituency that also bought Annie Lennox and Bruce Springsteen records, rather than to disaffected teens.


"I've been confronted by people wanting to beat me up, by people heckling me and being so drunk and obnoxious because they think I'm this pissy rock-star bastard who can't come to grips with his fame . . . I was in a rock club the other night . . . and one guy comes up, pats me on the back and says, 'You've got a really good thing going, you know? Your band members are cool, you write great songs, you affected a lot of people, but, man, you've really got to get your personal shit together!' Then another person comes up and says, 'I hope you overcome your drug problems.' All this happens within an hour while I'm trying to watch the Melvins, minding my own business."

Terence McKenna - What's So Great About Mushrooms?





Terence McKenna's shtick about the stoned ape theory which is pretty much disproven now (and actually he knew it was a good story designed to reframe the entheogen Psilocybin discussion) but it's still a good narrative that displays his linguistic talents and polymath ability.