consequence of living out here in the sticks, i guess -
        got an e-mail invitation this morning from some group which caused some
acrimony on the german-language newsgroup either in the spring or summer - never
paid attention because half this stuff never makes sense anyway - lunatic
fringe, etc. -
        but i decided to look at this guy's website
        http://geschichte.eu.cx
there is a short english summary and some english links -
        and just realising i'm just like way out of it - i'd heard of the
crop-markers, ley liners, kennewick-hangers-on, scientific creationists, barry
fell, von daniken & co, the egyptian nuclear reactors and pre-columbian
supersonic fighters, etc., but these catastrophists were something new -
        QUESTION: are there any other radically weird groups out there i should
learn about? things do get a bit boring out here sometimes, and i do so need
some laughs...

some of the claims on the german version of this page:
        The time ideas of the first Chronologen were very wrong
        centuries and even millennia can be invented easily
        antiquity was invented during  the Renaissance (wrongly interpreted and
dated)
        The "Romans" the antiquity were in reality medieval customs officers and
warriors
        We are in the first Millenium AD
        The old-Chinese emperors lived in Germany
        Tschingis Chan and Batu-Chan were Russian princes
        There were no Mongolians in the Middle Ages, and Russia was not
conquered by any Tataro-Mongols
        The Egyptian pyramids were built by Turkish-tatarisch-Russian conquerors
from Konstantinopel
        Ivan the great, Charlemagne, Caesar, Hannibal and Alexander did not
exist
        The biggest forgery in the history of mankind is the history of mankind
        (Old) history is dead ! literary science lives on! archeology lives on!

i find the fascination/preoccupation with russia interesting - no light from the
east there - someone else here always going on about some blonde race having
built the pyramids - and the group also plans another lecture in november with
the question "was jesus caesar?" which - depending on how you look at it - might
contradict the other claim about the non-existence of other individuals -
        rather alarming, in a way, we're arguing certain finer points of
theoretical discussion while folks like these are roaming loose in the streets -
fiddling while rome burns, as it were?


geoff carver
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