Halcyon Days?

That's Findochty, the village where I lived until the age of 12. It's a lovely place, pity the locals weren't so nice. If your Grandparents weren't born there, then you were an outsider. Having no relatives in the village was also a distinct disadvantage, when whole tribes of local bampots tried to persecute you. But, haha, that's all changed now. The village of old has gone and white settlers have usurped the indigenous natives. Where once only Doric was spoken, now Clydseside and Humberside twangs resound. Oh, how I bet they hated that, the narrow-minded, insular, parochial ..... malcontents. Still, it must have done wonders for the gene pool!

Inherent Power In Stones?

Continuing from yesterday's theme of "Maybe ancient poeple were brighter than we give them credit for!", today I intend to postulate some intersting theories about stones, or more precisely, things that ancient peoples might have known about stones, that we don't!

Consider the standing stones in the image above. The image shows some stones located at Carnac in Brittany, and there are just so many of them, all in rows. The most extraordinary thing about the stones from my perspective is the fact that they march straight into the sea. At one point you can actually see the continuation on to an island not far off shore.

The obvious deduction is that the stones must be of such an antquity, that they must have been raised when the land-bridge (Dogger Land) between france and England was still intact, and quite possibly even, a long time before that.

Many scientists and archaeologists have postulated their theories about why the stones are there, but one bold researcher indicated that the stones have grooves at the base, which look decidedly like thy might have been receptive to cabling. Wild specualtion you might suspect, but bear in mind that the stones have a great deal of quartz in them, which is known to have the capacity to store energy, only modern man does not know how to get it in there. If pre-historic man knew how to harness power of some sort through chaining the stones together, then you're looking at history in a whole new way.

Aside: It has been suggested that "ghost sightings" are merely replays of events that have been captured in the quartzite crystals, found naturally in stone. The theory has been forwarded that events of extreme human emotion might leave a lasting imprint at a molecular level within the stone in the surrounding area. The concept might have some merit. As you can see, I'm not a sceptic at all, I'm open-minded to almost any theory!

Atlantis beneath the Ice!

The map you see above, is perhaps one of the most important cartographic legacies we have from our distant past. It is indeed, the Piri Reis Map. Piri Reis was a Turkish Admiral who drew this map in 1513. So, you ask yourself, what can be so important about an old map? Well, the map shows the Northern coast of Antartica, which wasn't even discovered until 300 years later. Not impressed by that eh? Then consider this, the map shows an ice-free Antartica, in a condition that could only have been seen as recently as 4000 BC.

What implications does this have? Well it does raise the following questions:

• Did an ancient mariner race map an ice-free Antartica?
• Did priceless fragments of ancient maps and copies of them exchange hands for thousands of years?
• If so, what were the originals likes?
• Were continents such as Antartica and the Americas frequently travelled to in ancient times?
• Could an ice-free Antartica have been the fabled Atlantis? (bearing the theories of Charles Hapgood in mind!)
  

These are questions that have never been addressed by people of note. Because, people of note are afraid to stick their noses out (in case they get them cut off). In future posts I'll get into some of the finer lies that historians continue to perpetrate. What do you think happens when an archaeologist presents evidence that threatens to overturn everything we believe about history. I'll tell you! It gets buried and they get discredited and vilified by the establishment. Career over effectively. I promise to give you some classic examples in the near future. These ones are just for fun however: Archeological Anomalies!

Darwinism V's Creationism

I've got my concrerns over Darwinism. At school we were taught that it was the only viable alternative to Creationism. So, why are Darwins theories falling apart, when clearly we've been around a bit longer than Arcbishop Ussher's suggested year of 4004 BC (I use BC (Before Christ) here quite lightly, since clearly Jesus was born around 7 BC, yep, that's 7 whole years before he was born, quite a feat)? Here are some obvious flaws I've spotted in Darwinism:

1. There is no missing link
2. If we're evolved from primates, why haven't primates evolved?
3. If man originated in the heart of Africa, how come they've found human remains equally as old in Asia?
4. How come the DNA of primates is more evolved than human DNA?
5. The only difference between us and primates is 1% of DNA ! Scientists claim that that 1% of DNA is alien to the human body, so how did it get there?

To counterbalance the flaws in Darwinism, here are some obvious Old Testament flaws:

1. When Adam (the first man) was expelled from the Garden of Eden, he found people already on the outside ! Do you think God lied to him? and what was he inside?
2. When Moses met God, the great Yahweh was living on a mountain-top. Moses had to build a box for him so he could travel with Moses to Canaan !
3. When God appears to the various Patriarchs of the Old testament, he always takes on the apperance of 2 or 3 men in shiny suits! That's not all, then he nukes some bad guys!
4. Where did God take Ezekiel in his spaceship? Some positive matches found in South or Central America !
5. In the Old Testament God was a vengeful, spiteful, wrathful and at times just petty omniscient. By the time Jesus was around however he'd changed into this really nice deity!

I must remember to poke holes in the crucifixion story sometime soon. Clearly if Jesus died on the cross, he couldn't have gone to India afterwards. Oh, and there's the family of Jesus stuff again, remind me to tell you what the Barrabas thing is all about if I forget. I know so much stuff I could re-write history with, I'm just really crap at getting it down on paper, well, a screen really!

The Sea Egg and the Family of Jesus

Dagobert was murdered! But even worse than that, he was betrayed by his father's chief minister Grimoald, who put his own son on the throne and sent Dagobert off to an Irish monastery at Slane. The ancestry of Dagobert seemed to be a very special one, descended from Merovee as he was. The name Merovee is in itself a curiosity, meaning "sea-egg" or "borne of the sea". The suggestion was that he had 2 fathers, the King and some sort of sea monster. However, deeper investigation indicates that Merovee was somehow closely associated with the sacred family of Jesus, by then firmly established in a Jewich enclave in the Languedoc. Many Jews had fled the Roman persecution to live in Southern France, where they even had their own royal family, which was widely accepted at the time to be descended from Jesus. Yes, even by the Cathoilc Church (however reluctantly). But, as time passed, Catholicism evolved into something which could not tolerate a religion founded on Jewish beliefs, subsiting within it's own domain. A series of punitive crusades would be required to get rid of these heretics who dared claim that Jesus was a man who had fathered children.

Vitruvian Pies !!!

Wasn't Da Vinci a genius? He had his fingers in every pie (in a metaphorical sense)! In forthcoming posts I intend to touch on topics as broad as: the Cathars, the Merovignians, Dagobert, Rennes Le Chateau, more about the Templars (obviously) and the relevance (if any) of all those to Da Vinci and the Da Vinci Code. You might suspect that the Da Vinci Code is a work of pure fiction, but underneath the plotline, there has been a great deal of background research. Obviously it wasn't researched by Dan Brown, because if it had been, he would have picked up on loads of evidence which lends far more credence to the suggestion of a Royal Bloodline descending from Jesus, than the book reveals. The book in itself is a work of fiction, but anyone who cares to look deeper, will find overwhelming evidence of repeated attempts over the past 2000 years, to discredit, subvert, and even to annihilate any claimants with ideas running contrary to the teachings of Catholicism. You might dispute that claim, but I will put my blog where my mouth is... wait and see !

Italy or bust !

Here's a photo I took last year on holiday at Lloret de Mar in Spain (the location reminded me of a scene from the game "Riven"). This year the whole family have their hearts set on Italia. I have been to Italy before, went their around age 10. I recall it quite well though, despite the passage of time (25 years ago). We went to Florence and Pisa (up the tower), the weather was fantastic and the food unlike anything I've known before or since. My last trip abroad, prior to Spain, was a working trip to Azerbaijian. That was a real eye-opener. As we travelled back and forth in the Capital Baku, we saw areas that were clearly Muslim, areas that were completely Westernised and others which were remnants of Communist Russian occupation. Of course there were other Scots working there already, there's no place we haven't infiltrated. When the first Mars mission lands, they'll find Scots guys already hard at work, probably drilling test-wells or something!

To Bee or Not to Bee?

That is the question! So, it looks like the biggest threat to human existence might not be a half-witted fella who lives in a white house, after all, but something far more unassuming, the humble mobile phone. Apparently the Honeybee has difficulties navigating when it gets bombarded with mobile phone signals. As much as 70% of the Honeybee poulation may already have been wiped out ! So you may think, "What's a few bees?" Well bear in mind that Honeybees pollinate our flowers, and that includes crops. No crops pollinated.... no crops! No crops.... hungry people! Hungry people.... anarchy! As someone from Invergordon pointed out to me today, every insect plays a crucial role on this planet. Should we continue to wipe out species at the rate we're going, it stands to reason that at some stage, even the loss of the smallest creature could have a massive impact on our lives. Here endeth todays lesson!

This is Udderly Unbelievable !

Regardless of whether you believe that aliens exist or not, you simply have to click on the image above and watch the Youtube video of (seemingly) a cow being abducted by a UFO. I guess, it's safer to do you're own butchery, after the palavers we've had with E-coli, Salmonella etc. Apparently, the video was from Japanese TV, and the cow's mutilated carcass was found returned the following day. If that happened in France, the EU would be only to happy to hand the farmer compensation for a 1000 cows, because that's what it means to be part of the European Community. Working on the same principle, Scottish fishermen (once part of a thriving industry) are virtually unable to fish in Sottish waters, and have to watch helplessly while foreign boats pull in huge catches. Oh, sorry, I didn't meant to get all political and moaning, as I'm sure you're only too well aware; politics is a moan culture. Back to business, I must send my condolences to the Moo family.

I am a Cider Drinker !

At the tender age of 35, I have finally been converted. I used to think that cider was a girls drink, and remained a firm lager man. But recently I have succumbed, first to Bulmers cider, and more recently Magners, both of which wet my whistle superbly. Just look at that glass above, don't you want it? I'm not trying to market the drink or anything, no need, they alredy have an extensive marketing campaign underway. They also produce it in handy litre bottles, so thoughtful...

Anyway, where was I, oh yes, spent all day yesterday doing a Router configuration task as part of my Network Systems assessment, what a chore! However, in 4 weeks time, my degree studies shall be over, and I'll be a free man, unless I have to sign on, or work, or God forbid.... become a... house-husband!

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