Posted on 03/10/2022 7:16:38 AM PST by SunkenCiv
As of this writing, the year is 2020. But what if the year was ACTUALLY 1722? What if hundreds of years ago there was a conspiracy by a few European noblemen to change the modern calendar? This may sound crazy, (and, admittedly, it is a little crazy), but is it possible? Stranger things have happened. It all has to do with the Holy Roman Empire, the Pope, and (maybe) the Byzantine Empire circa AD 1000 (that’s important for later). There's this weird theory called Phantom Time Hypothesis suggests that Dark Ages (614-911 A.D.) never happened...
The Phantom Time Hypothesis was first postulated by the German historian and author Heribert Illig in 1991, where he states that this originated as a conspiracy between Holy Roman Emperor Otto III and Pope Sylvester II...
The strong roots of Christianity in Europe, combined with a vain desire to appear anointed by God himself, drove these two men (Otto III and Sylvester II) to fabricate the nearly three-hundred years from AD 614 – 911 in order to make it appear that they were actually ruling in the year 1000. Why, you ask? Because God would only let his chosen people rule in the thousandth year of his calendar, obviously. Makes sense to me...
Indeed, part of Illig's claim is that the entire existence of Emperor Charlemagne, one of Europe’s most significant rulers during the middle ages, never existed at all. He believes that Charlemagne's practically magical ability to rule and unify his empire was indeed possible only by virtue of the fact that it was fictional. Illig is saying that Charlemagne, like the English King Arthur, was a folk hero designed by Otto III and Sylvester II to help fill in the gaps in the phantom time they "created".
(Excerpt) Read more at globalbizarre.com ...
Pontificates have been recorded since St. Peter in about 30 AD. There is no gap in the 600’s or any other time.
As a matter of fact, Brit's father used her millions to finance time travel research, and he's the one who forced Otto and Sylvester to invent these phantom centuries!!!
Kit Kat would have been spelled Kit-Kat if not for this ruse. So yes, I believe it.
On the time scale we’re looking at here, C-14 dating would not miss by 300 years...
Must be the CCP isn’t aware of the Charlie Chan movies, or they’d have been cancel-cultured ages ago. The archival prints would have just been hauled out and incinerated while some unidentified turds with megaphones told the paid crowd what to chant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWBBMCbwEmk
And it’s hard to explain why the Chinese annals don’t show the break.
If this story is true, then China’s entire T’ang Dynasty (618-906) didn’t exist, and the An Lushan Rebellion (755-763), which some say was the bloodiest war after WWII, never took place. How could Otto and Sylvester cook up a fake history of China at a time when there was virtually no contact between that country and Europe?
I think the drug addict dropout running the slushie machine ought to be able to, too.
the dark ages corresponds to the period in which the moslems ravaged much of southern europe.
Well, yeah. ;^)
Regular viewers should be able to tell us — maybe he has been on the show.
Odd, isn’t it, that Joe Rogan but not George Noory has been so persistently and relentlessly attacked?
Possible, but the Hitchhiker’s Guide makes a good point. If time travel was available at some point in the future. It would be no time until McDonalds existed in the Pleistocene.
And the earth is flat.
“I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time’. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.” - Steven Wright
I think the drug addict dropout running the slushie machine ought to be able to, too.
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Also in Colonial America, and throughout the British Empire worldwide, and is why our Framers had two different birthdates. The adoption of the Gregorian calendar happened at different times in different places. In one of the Scandinavian countries (can’t remember which one) it was adopted once, then rescinded, then adopted with alterations, then the alterations got ironed out. It makes genealogy a bit challenging at times.
https://www.familytreemagazine.com/history/gregorian-calendar-adoption-map/
LOL!!
Yes, that probably stems from the fact that the whole thing is nuts. :^)
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