Posted on 10/08/2007 11:47:23 PM PDT by doug from upland
Editorial Reviews
Review Allen West, coauthor of The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes : Graham Phillips argues persuasively that Earth encountered a massive comet 3,500 years ago around the time of the Exodus from Egypt. The object appeared twenty times larger than the full moon and was by far the largest comet sighting ever recorded by ancient historians. The worldwide consequences for mankind were devastating. Our own scientific research confirms that the authors theory is completely credible.
Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, authors of The Templar Revelation and The Sion Revelation : an extraordinary tour de force . . .
Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, authors of The Templar Revelation and The Sion Revelation : In an extraordinary tour de force, Graham Phillips pinpoints a major mystery with important implications for our understanding of the remote past and the origins of ancient religion. Painstakingly researched and soberly presented--but never less than eminently readable--this book provides an answer so explosive that it should instantly ensure itself a place among the great revelations of history.
Colin Wilson, author of The Outsider and Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals: 100,000 Years of Lost History : This is a very exciting and important book, which suggests a highly plausible reason why organized cruelty seems to have come into the world at a surprisingly late date. I believe Graham Phillipss ideas are going to cause widespread controversy.
Book Description Presents compelling evidence that civilizations worldwide became warlike and monotheistic after Earth passed through the tail of a comet in 1500 B.C.
Explores the violent effect of debris from comet 12P/Pons-Brooks on peaceful cultures such as the Olmec of Mexico and the Megalithic people who built Stonehenge
Shows how this comets appearance was taken as a significant religious event that still has repercussions today
In the year 2024, the comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is due to pass near Earth again for the first time in 3,500 years. In 1500 B.C., Earth passed through this comets tail, and in the decade following, cultures the world over began to exhibit significant aggressive tendencies. Civilizations in India, the Middle East, China, Japan, Europe, and Central America suddenly abandoned their peaceful ways and devoted themselves with uncharacteristic fervor to making war on their neighbors and fighting among themselves.
But this was not the only effect that is linked to this celestial event. Sudden outbreaks of monotheism--the worship of a single god, and a new idea at the time--occurred simultaneously in locales spread widely throughout the world. Most of these monotheistic religions represented their god symbolically as a circle with a series of lines extending below--resembling a simple drawing of a comet.
In The End of Eden, Graham Phillips chronicles the sudden shifts in social demeanor and religious philosophy that swept the world in the wake of 12P/Pons-Brooks. He argues that there is no other explanation for these changes other than the presence of this massive comet in the skies above Earth. He contends that debris in the comets tail contaminated the atmosphere with a chemical known to cause aggressive behavior, and that after little more than a decade, worldwide hostility abruptly abated. He also explores how the appearance of a celestial body that outshone the moon would have been interpreted as a significant religious event--the premier appearance of a powerful new god to supplant the deities previously worshipped around the world.
The author is on CoasttoCoastAM now.
Are we gonna hit the tail again?
You beat me typing it.
LOL
We need another piece of tail.
Just out of curiosity, who was it that’s decided that everyone was so totally peaceful prior to the date of this “fire in the sky” event?
The Earth passes through the tail of a comet, which dooms all human and animal life except for those who happened to be completely enclosed inside metal containers (for example, the three main protagonists spend the night in a metal shed, a steel-lined projection room, and an 18-wheeler's trailer). Unprotected people and animals quickly dehydrate and turn into piles of red calcium dust. Those only partially exposed first gradually degenerate into cannibalistic zombies for hours or days before succumbing.
Sheesh, what udder nonsense..
Its an interesting theory.
Hmmm. Yet it comes by every 71 years?
Discovery
12P/Pons-Brooks was discovered on July 12, 1812 by Jean-Louis Pons. Independently, it was later found by Vincent Wisniewski on August 1, and Alexis Bouvard on August 2 the same year. In 1883 it was accidentally “discovered” by William Robert Brooks and later identified as the same object. Shortly after its initial discovery it was found to have an orbital period of about 70 years with an error of about 5 years. Johann Franz Encke determined a definitive orbit with a period of 70.68 years. This orbit was used to generate an ephemeris for the 1883 return, but searches were unsuccessful, until it was rediscovered by Brooks.
cannibalistic zombies you say?
Dang, I need to make another run to the ammo store.
They’re zombies, man,..ammo won’t do any good,...need something that knocks them off their feet so they lose track of ya while you got a chance to get away to the next metallic enclosure....I really hate that red dust stuff all over the place...<;^0
DAHdee would have got us Uzis !
Well hech eee double toothpicks!
If you’ve got access to a machine shop, you can whip out a few of these puppies:
http://www.buckstix.com/howitzer.htm
If not, you might want to get the pre assembled model:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9s6_vufc1ns
Wait a minit. Are these the brain eating type zombies or the general, carnivorous, kill you and eat you all up type zombies?
If they’re just simple brain eaters, then a headshot will put them down for the count. All the documentaries back that up.
The “kill you and eat you all up” zombies... if its those ones, yeah, we need cannons.
Cannons and flame throwers.
And hand grenades.
***DAHdee would have got us Uzis !***
DADgummit! You stole my line!
>>>DADgummit! You stole my line!
Ya snooz ya looz!
“DAHdee would have got us Uzis !”, one of the best though under-appreciated lines of moviedom!
This basic story has been pieced together twice previously, Donelly and Velikovsky, and Velikovsky at least provided an answer as to where the comet went or ended up.
my favorite is: “Why does God need a starship?”
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