Catherine Mary Stewart (and behind her what was at that time the headquarters of Security Pacific National Bank)
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 author’s 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 Phillips’s 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 comet’s 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 comet’s 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 comet’s 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.
I've shredded people for less...
Well done :-D
Cheers!
I wouldn’t...
That would be grounds for termination...
Did you ever read the book “The Fire Came By” about the incident in Siberia?
I’ve had it for years....guess it is time to re-read it.
The authors were John Baxter and Thomas Atkins....just went and pulled it off the shelf!
“The Fire Came By” is great!
I am going to start it again tomorrow. I haven’t read it since the late 70’s. Do you remember if they thought it was a comet in the book?
IIRC, that was a theory they favored, but like you, it’s been years, over a decade surely, since I listened to it.
>>>Pleeease tell me what movie that’s from.
By now you’ve seen the other replies saying it’s “Night of the Comet” and the picture of the cheerleader. She is holding one of the MAC-10s her older sister had obtained to defend against the Comet Zombies. In target practice the MAC-10 jams, and exasperated the cheerleader puts older sister in her place: “DAHdee would have got us Uzis !”
It’s the delivery of the line that makes it great.
...or was that an alien spacecraft, based on the way it maneuvered in the earth’s atmosphere...
Heck, what’s with the howitzer? My hub takes a moose at 1000+ yards with one shot to the shouler. The moose’s heart goes poof and the moose drops where he stands. Two families eat for a year....
Yea, I’ll brag about my mountainman...
Well yeah, but rifles are soooo every day use.
Now, blowing stuff up with a cannon, that’s holiday type special.
Also, zombies tend to come in large groups in multiple waves. All the best movies say so.
Got it! ; >)
:’) KRONOS published a review of a book (title escapes me, the subtitle was “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”) which had as its core claim that what we regard as consciousness began about 3500 years ago.
I liked how the power to the traffic signals was still on at the end of the movie.
(I beleive I used to work right next to where that scene was shot. Walked over that same crosswalk to get lunch many times)
Other than there having been just one ancient, historic eruption of Thera, around 200 BC... ;’)
Catherine Mary Stewart (and behind her what was at that time the headquarters of Security Pacific National Bank)
The Santorini/Thera volcano was about 1626 BC, so it was too early. However, Etna blew a big one at 1500 BC plus or minus 50 years. Personally, I think the pillar of fire by night and smoke by day was volcanic in nature. Note the recent eruption in the Red Sea. A lot more work has to be done on Middle East volcanism, dates, etc.
Wow, did I have a crush on CMS. I didn’t tell Kelli Maroney that. :-P
Although I’ve never been in L.A. (my trip there was rerouted because we were due to arrive there the day after the Rodney King riots 15 years ago), I know a lot of the landmarks. I always remember the Bonaventure from the opening credits of “It’s a Living” (where it was set in the upper-floor restaurant).
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