prunesquallor: (misc)
2007-07-17 10:20 pm

Everything You Know Is A Lie; or, Crackpottery Ne Plus Ultra; or, Put Down That Crackpipe, Anatoly!

Well, tonight my head exploded. Yours can too, if you click on the links and "learn" about the New Chronology of Anatoly Fomenko.

You will discover some pretty interesting "facts" :

  • History only goes back to 800 CE!
  • Sumeria, ancient Egypt & Greece, and the Roman Empire were all medieval fabrications!
  • Jerusalem, Constantinople and Rome are the same city!
  • Solomon's temple is the Hagia Sophia!
  • Jesus and Gregory the Great were the same person! Plus he/they lived c.1000 CE!
  • The New Testament was written before the Old!

You'll have to excuse me now. I need to go lie down. I have a headache, what with my head exploding and all.

prunesquallor: (brueghel)
2006-07-26 11:08 am
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Frogs Don't Boil

I frequently consider posting something here, but then don't, because I think, "Oh, everyone already knows that/has seen that." Then later I talk to people and discover that no, they hadn't know that or hadn't seen that.

I noticed when I saw An Inconvenient Truth that in one scene an urban legend was being perpetuated, but decided not to post about it because "everybody already knows about that." Then this weekend in casual conversation I discovered lots of people didn't know.

So here as a public service: frogs don't boil. Well, not unless you put the lid on the pot so they can't jump out. Or unless they're, like, already dead when you put them in the pot; but that would be totally cheating.