Posted on 03/10/2022 7:16:38 AM PST by SunkenCiv
This would have had to have been an enormous conspiracy, with participants in many countries. In England, for example, this was a very important time period with the formation of the English kingdom, Alfred the Great, the beginning of English literature. That would have all have to have been made up. Ditto for the other countries. And what about the rise of Islam? Sounds crazier to believe the conspiracy theory than the standard accepted theory. But, as with any such theory, it’s going to have its adherents. I mean, look at our political world and what people accept!
There’s a competing theory that a buncha time “disappeared” by a simple dating convention.
Before years were written as xxxx AD the custom was rather than an Anno Domini suffix, Christian years were prefixed with the first letter of Jesus’ name.
See the problem?
The letter J did not yet exist. Jesus was originally spelled with an I.
The cornerstone of a building built in, say, 372 would have I372 carved in it. A modern observer would think it read 1372 and was therefore a thousand years younger, that pretty much nothing of note was built before 1000 AD!
Hey, the whole conspiracy probably originated in China.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4045473/posts?page=26#26
Baldurdash!
Yes, and let’s not forget that the Muslims were plenty busy during that time as well, and there are no “missing centuries” in their records.
The correct sequence is: "A.D. ####."
Regards,
That’s why Otto needed Sylvester. ;^)
There is no single record with a continuous list of Popes that originated in 30 AD. The vast Vatican archive contains at least one document as old as the 5th century, but most of the archives are from the 11th and thereafter, and most of those originated since the 14th, inclusive.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Donation_of_Constantine/
A scene from the Ye Olde Mitre tavern, Holburn, London, Sept. 14, 1752:
“Checking out, sir?”
“Why, yes.”
“Very well. Here’s your bill.”
“Thank you. Wait, what? 5,724 shillings? I only got here yesterday!”
“That’s right sir, you checked in yesterday, Sept 2, and you’re checking out today, Sept 14.”
Hey, previously undetected conspiracies have consequences.
Notice that the time period for Crusades are still real under this model.
And right across the street, a CVS, and a Walgreen’s.
A few years ago, the podcast “Our Fake History,” which covers controversial history-related theories, did an episode on this “revised chronology.” I am tempted to ask the podcaster if he ever heard of Dr. Velikovsky’s chronology.
Ah yes, the AD suffix is reserved for After Dianetics...
When your show covers UFOs and ghosts, you’re given more leeway, because nobody takes you seriously. You’re not a threat to the establishment.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4045473/posts?page=20#20
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4045473/posts?page=30#32
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDy95_eNPzM
I assumed he was real. Pretty sure nearly all Muslims think so too.
See, if he’d have ordered a Dark Ages breakfast, he’d have gone hungry. /j
No, I think it’s the celery. They stalk everybody.
The validity of any conspiracy theory is directly proportional to the media outrage against it.
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