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 ...
There is also the change of which calendar day is the New Year's Day. Prior to 1752 it is March 25. Beginning in 1752 it is January 1. So be careful calculating age at death, for example, when the dates include first quarter dates before 1752.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%27s_Day#Great_Britain_and_the_British_Empire
Yet, the Venetians were contemporaries of the late-period Romans... the first settlements on the Venetian islands were built to escape the Huns during Attila’s invasion of Italy, which was still ruled by the Romans at the time. So Venice’s “origin story” makes no sense at all if the Romans didn’t exist.
Let’s not leave out U. of Bremen Prof. Emeritus Gunnar Heinsohn who says there are a missing 700 years in the archaeological record starting around the late 200’s AD. The guy is a respected academic who has NOT been removed from his post for crazy ideas. He backs up everything with a fresh look at archaeological strata, or rather, missing strata throughout the Mediterranean. Go here for more -
folks pushing this nonsense ignore the chinese, persian and eastern roman records.
There’s a bit more room for speculating about “missing time” in the archaeological record, or rather archaeologists’ synthetic timelines based on that record. But usually those type of theories are more plausible the further back you go, since there are fewer solid historical records to cross-reference to the archaeology. The 3rd century AD is a little late to try and mount those kind of arguments, I think, because there are just too many things we can cross-reference to each other by that time.
Conference talk by Heinsohn on asteroid impact in late 200’s AD and missing archaeological strata
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhh6GNhPknU
What about coins? Nobody stopped making coins. What about the tree rings? Isn’t there a comprehensive pattern of tree rings that can provide a date for preserved wood for at least the last 2000 years, calibrated for volcanic events, etc.?
and you hit on the REAL reason this BS is being pushed, it’s a cover up of Islams blood thirsty history.
Dendrochronology
I tried, but their websites claim my system clock doesn’t match the servers’..
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Oh! Too bad! Many be change you clock before you visit so there is a match up, then change back afterwards 😇
No, I think it’s the celery. They stalk everybody.
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But they collude with corn, because they have ears, and with potatoes, because they have the best eyes
Since the Romans didn’t exist, there was no period of contemporaneity. So there! ;^)
He’s, uh, not entirely reliable, particularly in the Indus region, I think he’s the one who claims the ruins of the Harappan civilization is actually thousands of years younger ruins of Alexander the Great’s successors in the east.
The ones that scare me are the sentient beans.
LOL. I just wonder how many times that happens in archeology.
/bingo
>> In many European languages, the word “king” is itself derived from Charlemagne’s name. <<
Roy Charlemagne? Seriously, what’s a single language where the word “king” has anything to do with Charlemagne? I can’t think of one, which is something since ‘magne’ = ‘the great’.
Or Charles = Carol = Król? (Polish). Seems a stretch, since Charles = Carol = Carl.
I think they small body of academics insisting on this **** have an agenda, but we mustn’t rule out stupidity.
Who pays individuals like these to make up crap like this? I assume they are “academics”...
ACADEMIC (ak-uh-DEM-ik): An individual educated beyond his intelligence who is unwilling or unable to create or provide anything of value to others, who while hiding out in a think-tank, college or university pontificates and expects to be paid for it, usually from public funds.
Which suggests that Hitchhikers may actually be a documentation of historical events.
We know that McDonalds changes it menu from one country to another. Would they not also change menus to meet customer demands in any given era?
We know that there were around 150 thermopolium in Pompeii before it was destroyed. Burgers were prominent on those menus and some of the structures had prominent arches.
This would mean that McDonalds is working its way back to the Pleistocene but in our time line is still bogged down in the franchise wars of the Roman Empire.
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