Posted on 03/10/2022 7:16:38 AM PST by SunkenCiv
As of this writing, the year is 2020. But what if the year was ACTUALLY 1722? What if hundreds of years ago there was a conspiracy by a few European noblemen to change the modern calendar? This may sound crazy, (and, admittedly, it is a little crazy), but is it possible? Stranger things have happened. It all has to do with the Holy Roman Empire, the Pope, and (maybe) the Byzantine Empire circa AD 1000 (that’s important for later). There's this weird theory called Phantom Time Hypothesis suggests that Dark Ages (614-911 A.D.) never happened...
The Phantom Time Hypothesis was first postulated by the German historian and author Heribert Illig in 1991, where he states that this originated as a conspiracy between Holy Roman Emperor Otto III and Pope Sylvester II...
The strong roots of Christianity in Europe, combined with a vain desire to appear anointed by God himself, drove these two men (Otto III and Sylvester II) to fabricate the nearly three-hundred years from AD 614 – 911 in order to make it appear that they were actually ruling in the year 1000. Why, you ask? Because God would only let his chosen people rule in the thousandth year of his calendar, obviously. Makes sense to me...
Indeed, part of Illig's claim is that the entire existence of Emperor Charlemagne, one of Europe’s most significant rulers during the middle ages, never existed at all. He believes that Charlemagne's practically magical ability to rule and unify his empire was indeed possible only by virtue of the fact that it was fictional. Illig is saying that Charlemagne, like the English King Arthur, was a folk hero designed by Otto III and Sylvester II to help fill in the gaps in the phantom time they "created".
(Excerpt) Read more at globalbizarre.com ...
Tree rings tell ya nothin’, unless they correspond to, for example, a core taken from an old rafter in some structure that happens to have survived at least that long. There aren’t that many, as one would expect. Also, dendrochronology as used with RC dating (it was in use before RC dating was discovered) has taken a long time to get data for each given region, and this research takes time each place its done.
When there’s no wiggle-match with the existing data set (which is built on old living trees and older dead trees which overlap the living ones in age, and even older, deader ones which overlap those), my view is, there’s a bias at work, because the item being tested has already been dated based on a faulty chronology, so the dendrochronologists never bother to wiggle-match with (usually) younger data sets.
Coins:
https://www.pinterest.com/clchristinelee/dark-age-coins-300-1100/
tidbit from the Centuries of Darkness website:
https://www.centuries.co.uk/faq.htm#q3
LOL!
Robert Spencer
Everybody knows the Dark Ages were so dark because they hadn’t invented gaslighting yet.
And, the meme production and distribution was dominated by the Goths, who we know today as emo sissy boys.
I am buying 1000 so I can resell them in the height of their popularity.
Ahh...The Great Reset 1.
Maybe the Chinese emperor Chen-tsung, who was in power at the same time as Otto and Sylly, was in on the plot and saw to it that the annals for those years were faked.
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