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creature-wizard · 3 months

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Is the spiritual person a conspiracy theorist? A list of red flags

They talk about a shadowy group of people supposedly manipulating everything behind the scenes. They might refer to them by terms such as globalists, bankers, international bankers, secret rulers of the world, the elite, the cabal, Kabbalists, Talmudists, satanists, satanic pedophiles, pedophiles, generational satanists, satanic bloodlines, the Illuminati, the Babylonian Brotherhood, lizard people, Reptilians, Orions, regressives, regressive entities, Khazarians, Marxists, cultural Marxists, or leftists. Sometimes, very rarely, they'll just come right out and say "Jews."

They claim that the conspiracy has been working to conceal historical and spiritual truths from humanity.

They claim that the conspiracy uses stuff like food, entertainment, and medicine to control the masses. For example, "additives in food suppress our psychic abilities" or "Hollywood films contain subliminal messages" or "COVID vaccines were actually created to alter your DNA to make you more docile."

Also, claims that the conspiracy controls people via spiritual or technological implants, 5G, or alter programming, with or without explicit mention of Project Monarch (a conspiracy theory promoted by far right cranks such as Mark Philips and Fritz Springmeier, who used hypnosis to respectively convince Cathy O'Brien and Cisco Wheeler that they'd been put under mind control by a global satanic conspiracy).

They claim that this conspiracy is controlling the media, has fingers in every institution they disagree with, and is generally behind everything they disagree with. (EG, the conspiracy created the Catholic Church; that other New Ager they disagree with is actually controlled opposition, etc.)

They claim that the conspiracy is trying to keep people in fear.

They claim that the conspiracy harvests something from people. Blood and adrenochrome are common ones. Loosh is somewhat less common. Expect to see something else pop up eventually.

They claim that the conspiracy practices genetic engineering; EG, creating animal/human hybrids, using vaccines to genetically sever people's connection to God, etc.

They claim that true spiritual wisdom can be traced back to places like Atlantis, Lemuria, or Mu.

They claim that world governments have secretly been in contact with extraterrestrials for years.

They appeal to known frauds and cranks, including but not limited to Erich Von Daniken, Zechariah Sitchin, David Icke, David Wilcock, Graham Hancock, Jaime Maussan, Bob Lazar, Steven Greer, Richard C. Hoagland, Fritz Springmeier, and Drunvalo Melchizedek.

Appeals to forged documents, including but not limited to the alleged diary of Admiral Richard Byrd, The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean, and The Urantia Book.

Appeals to channeled information, such as that provided by Edgar Cayce, Carla Rueckert, or George Van Tassel.

"But all of this has to come from somewhere, doesn't it?"

Oh, it all comes from somewhere, all right, but the where isn't what most people imagine.

A lot of the stuff above is just a modern spin on the content of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, a Russian hoax created to justify violence against Russian Jews. The Protocols itself was plagiarized from a political satire and incorporated a lot of the post-French Revolution conspiracy theories about Freemasons and Jews being behind the French Revolution. I wrote a summary of the conspiracy tropes found in The Protocols over here.

The stuff about Satanic sacrifices and the consumption of blood, adrenochrome, loosh, or whatever are simply just variations on blood libel, an antisemitic conspiracy theory that claims Jews practice ritual cannibalism. Blood libel can be traced back to ancient Greece. (With the Greek version, I really can't help but notice the similarity to modern urban legends of gangsters kidnapping random people for initiation rituals.)

Many of these tropes can also be linked back to the early modern witch hunts. It was believed that witches sacrificed babies to Satan, practiced cannibalism, and put people under mind control by way of diabolical magic. It was also believed that some witches didn't even know they were witches; they'd go off to attend the Devil's Sabbath at night and come back in the morning without remembering a thing. In the late 20th century, this witch hunter's canard would be reinvented as the alter programming conspiracy theory when media such as the 1973 book Sibyl and its 1976 television adaptation put DID (note: the woman who inspired Sibyl did not have DID) into the public consciousness. For a more complete list of witch panic and blood libel tropes, I wrote a list over here.

Lemuria was a hypothetical landmass proposed to explain the presence of lemur fossils in Madagascar and India while being absent in continental Africa and the rest of Asia, because if lemurs evolved naturally, they wouldn't be in two separate places with no connection to each other. The discovery that India and Madagascar were once connected not only made the hypothesis obsolete, it precludes the existence of Lemuria.

The whole notion of Mu began with a horrendous mistranslation of the Troano manuscript. A man named Augustus Le Plongeon would link the mistranslation with the story of Atlantis, and use it to claim that Atlantis actually existed in the Americas. (For Plongeon, Mu and Atlantis were one and the same.) And then other people (like James Churchward) got their hands on the whole Mu thing, and put their own spins on it, and the rest is history.

Le Plongeon's ideas influence modern Atlantis mythology today; EG, the idea that it was in the Americas. Another guy who helped shape the modern Atlantis myth was Ignatius L. Donnelly, an American politician. Dude claimed that Atlanteans spread their oh-so-superior culture far and wide. He also claimed that Atlantis was the home of the Aryan people, because of course he did.

The idea that all of the world's wisdom can be traced back to Thoth/Hermes goes back to Hermeticism, a product of Greco-Egyptian syncretism. Hermeticism produced a fascinating body of mythology and an interesting way to consider the divine and its role in shaping human history, but that doesn't mean it was right. And the Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean is a modern text that has fuck-all to do with ancient Hermeticism and more to do with HP Lovecraft.

This idea that the conspiracy uses pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines for evil also has roots in Nazi Germany. The Nazi government, wanting to reserve real medicine for their soldiers, told the general populace that said medicine was the product of evil Jewish science and prescribed alternative healing modalities instead. (Said alternative healing modalities did not particularly work.) It also echoes the old conspiracy theories about Jews spreading the Black Death by poisoning wells.

The idea that the conspiracy uses genetic manipulation to create subhuman beings or sever humanity from the divine is a permutation of the Nazi conspiracy theory that Jews are trying to destroy the white race through race mixing. The idea of evil reptilian DNA goes back to the ancient serpent seed doctrine, which is indeed old, but no less pure hateful nonsense for it.

"But there's got to be somebody up to something rotten out there!"

Oh sure. But these people aren't skulking around in the shadows. They're acting pretty openly.

The Heritage Foundation has been working to push this country into Christofascism since the early 1970's. They're the ones responsible for the rise of the Moral Majority and the election of Ronald Reagan. They're also the ones behind Project 2025, which intends to bring us deeper into Christofascism. (Among many other horrible things, they intend to outlaw trans people as "pornographic.")

The Seven Mountains Mandate is another movement pushing for Christofascism. They intend to seize the "seven spheres" of society, which include education, religion, family, business, government/military, arts/entertainment, and media.

There's also the ghoulish American Evangelicals who support Israel because they think that current events are going to bring about the Second Coming of Jesus and cement the formation of a global Christofascist empire. Don't let their apparent support of Jews fool you - they believe that the good Jews will become Christians and the bad ones will go to hell.

All of these people are working toward monstrously horrific goals, but none of them are part of an ancient megaconspiracy. In fact, these are the kinds of people pushing the myth of the ancient megaconspiracy. From the witch hunts to Nazi Germany to the American Evangelical movement, if history has taught us anything, the people pushing the conspiracy theories are always the bad guys.

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crazycatsiren · 9 months

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Why the fuck would aliens want to abduct humans if they really are so very technologically advanced and light years developed ahead of us. We fucking suck.

#shitpost #mother witch ramblings #aliens #pseudoscience #conspiracy theories #pseudohistory #i mean

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dougielombax · 1 month

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OH DEAR!

I knew this was gonna happen! (No I’m not a prophet! People are just predictable)

Just when I thought that ghastly old trout couldn’t get any WORSE!!!!!

I knew this would’ve happened eventually what with her going down a far right rabbit hole but I didn’t think it would be so quick!

It’s that ghastly TERF to fascist pipeline in action. Succumbing to and embracing brainrot.

To say nothing of her sickening neurotypical ableism too!

(She is explicitly and OPENLY DENYING that the Nazis targeted trans people despite evidence to the fact that they did!)

I have seen it before and it’s sickening. And yes it is real. (Much like the Ba’athist to Islamist pipeline. Shut up!)

Sickening shit!

She really has become a NASTY piece of work!

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blueiight · 9 months

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Hegel’s [belief that] Africans supposedly exist at the lowest level of consciousness – immediate sensuousness – which is why he claims that Africa lies outside history. According to Hegel, it’s only by encountering the West and enduring slavery that Africa enters into the dialectical process of consciousness and thus world history. Hegel therefore surmises that it is both necessary and just that Africa be subjected to slavery and colonization.[19] Hegel selected and deployed details from Bowditch’s account to fit with his theoretical apriorism of Africa as a place without history. This is representative of Hegel’s academic practice, in that he looked into books written about African societies and found what he was looking for, even when this meant willful misinterpretation to construct an absurdly fictional account of African society that is steeped in popular beliefs of his time about the continent’s supposed backwardness. Hegel’s ludicrous theorizing barred him from ever admitting Africa and its people to ‘history’ as he construed it. For a continent which supposedly has no “historical interest of its own”, Hegel devoted a great deal of attention to it, primarily because Hegel’s glorification of Europe was predicated on his denigration of Africa.[20]

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#yn.#georg hegel #isaac samuel #africa #asante kingdom #ghana #west-central africa #hegelian dialectics #criticism #history #pseudohistory #(in hegel’s case)

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jurakan · 9 months

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Hey! Got a fun fact for me?

So I actually received this last Saturday morning, as I wasn’t available to Fun Fact last Friday, and I didn’t have time over the weekend (I apologize), so I decided I’d get to it here. So Today, Em, You Learned about Lemuria!

Atlantis is the famous Lost Continent, but there are a butt ton of places in mythology and folklore which supposedly sank into the ocean. Lemuria has the interesting distinction of being a legend from the ancient times of…[checks notes] …1864.

Yeah, Lemuria, isn’t a legend, or it’s not meant to be. It was made up, not by a geologist or archaeologist or geographer or anything that makes sense, but by a zoologist named Philip Sclater because he thought it was super weird that they’d found lemur fossils in both Madagascar and India, but nowhere on the landmasses in between. His answer: there must have been a massive landbridge that isn’t there anymore!

[Spoiler alert: no. This isn’t A Thing, though with the knowledge of prehistoric supercontinents he was actually onto something.]

To be fair to Phil, it’s not his field, he’s just coming up with an idea. Once plate tectonics were better understood, this theory slipped under the radar and scientists all moved on with their lives. It happens, Phil, don’t worry. Sadly, like many things in the 1800’s, this was hijacked by whacky occultists (who also sometimes moved it into the Pacific). Helena Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, decided that Lemuria MUST be the source of humanity, an ancient advanced civilization that sank beneath the waves because Reasons, I guess. She suggested the indigenous people of Australia were actually direct descendants/survivors of Lemuria.

Then this weirdo Frederick Spencer Oliver declared that actually, the surviving Lemurians must be living under Mount Shasta in California, in a secret kingdom of magic enlightenment. Or something.

New Age occultists are weird.

So no, Lemuria doesn’t really exist, but it started as a zoological hypothesis that got grabbed by weirdos who made it into Atlantis.

Also the British Indian Ocean Territory has “Limuria in Our Charge” on their coat of arms:

#Today You Learned #Fun Fact Friday #Lemuria #Atlantis #pseudohistory #sorry it took me so long to get to this!

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krindor · 6 months

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So re your tags on the pope post...

Where's the menorah krindor?

So, starting at the very beginning.

70 CE: Titus sacks Jerusalem and loots the Second Temple. In his triumph (fancy war parade) he has the Menorah, as is recorded by Josephus Flavius in 71 CE and by the Arch of Titus' reliefs in 81 CE

The Menorah is displayed in the Tempulum Pacis in Rome, and 2nd century CE Rabbis claim to have seen it in Rome, as well as various other artifacts from the desroyed temple including the parochet and the choshen.

Now here's the thing. This is the last time historical texts mention the Menorah by name so everything below here needs to be taken with an increasing pile of salt

410 CE: The Visigoths sack Rome. Procipius of Ceasarea (500-560), a Byzantine Historian, writes that the Visigoths take "treasures of Solomon the King of the Hebrews." If this includes the Menorah, the trail goes cold. So that's it right? The Menorah got taken to a secondary location and was lost forever, right?

Wrong, because that's not the only time Procipius mentions Jewish Temple loot.

425 CE: The Vandals sack Rome again, to the point where the word vandalize comes from it. Procipius notes that their leader, Geiseric, takes "a huge amount of imperial treasure" with him to Carthage, which was at that time the Vandal capital.

Trust me this is relevant

534 CE: The Byzantine Emperor Justinian sacks Carthage, and they hold a triumph in Constantinople. Among the paraded items are "treasures of the Jews, which Titus, the son of Vespasian, together with certain others, had brought to Rome after the capture of Jerusalem”

That these "treasures of the Jews" include the Menorah is not a new theory, as is indicated in the 19th century painting Geiseric sacking Rome by Karl Bryullov

(Note the Menorah)

So it's in Istanbul right?

Wrong, because our boy Procipius isn't done yet: according to him, Justinian sent the "treasures of the Jews" to Christian sanctuaries in Jerusalem, since he heard that they were cursed that any city save Jerusalem that held them was doomed to be sacked.

This is the last time the "treasures of the Jews" are mentioned in historical texts.

So for our next step, lets look at major churches in Jerusalem in the 6th century, and officially enter the cork-board and string section of this rant post.

As well as the extant Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the Hagia Sion Basilica, and the Church of the Holy Apostles, Justinian built a church himself in the city, called the Nea, in 534 CE, just nine years after sacking Carthage. It would not be unreasonable that he'd send the Menorah to his own church, so we can theorize that it's in the Nea for the remainder of the 6th century (there are, of course, problems with relying on one historian's account of these things, but this is for fun, not a published article)

So that's it? It's in one of the churches of Jerusalem?

...

So in 614 CE Jerusalem gets sacked by the Sasanian/Persian Empire, who according to historical records destroy all the churches.

Now here's the thing. Recent archaeological evidence gives rise to the possibility that our Byzantine historical sources are trying to stir up outrage against the Sasanians: While mass graves dating to around 614 CE were found, the churches and Christian residential neighborhoods were barely, if at all, damaged, and the Nea itself was very possibly completely undamaged. This is, however, a recent theory, and the academics are still hashing it out.

So it may be in one of the churches of Jerusalem?

Tragically, even if the 614 siege didn't get the churches, in 1009 the Fatimid Caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah destroyed all churches, synagogues, and many religious artifacts of both Christians and Jews in Jerusalem. So if by some miracle the Menorah had survived until this point, if it was in Jerusalem it was most likely destroyed.

But that's disappointing, and what's a good conspiracy theory without going a step or two beyond what is reasonable?

Apparently, while the churches, synagogues and most of the artifacts were destroyed, at least in the case of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, objects that could be carried away were looted, rather than destroyed. And if we know anything about the Menorah at this point, that thing is certainly able to be carried away by people.

If the Menorah was looted rather than destroyed, it's not unreasonable that it would have made it's way to the Fatimid capital of Cairo. However, as the historical record dried up some 500 years beforehand, beyond this point it's unreasonable to attempt to track the Menorah.

So that's it. If the Menorah wasn't destroyed it most likely made its way to Egypt and was lost or destroyed there.

Is what I'd say if I wasn't so far down this rabbit hole I was beyond reason. Because as we all know there's one place that has all the significant treasures of Cairo and a penchant for looting:

The British Museum

#i cant in good conscience call this either archaeology or history #anyway this is very unhinged but was fun to research #pseudoarchaeology #pseudohistory #jewish stuff

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transfem-octopus · 4 months

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If I see one more person talk about the supposed Pagan origins of various Christmas Holidays I’m going to fucking lose it. It’s honestly depressing as someone who is fascinated by history and world religions to see just how pervasive this particular brand of pseudohistory is because its so freaking easy to debunk.

9 times out of 10 the Christmas Tradition in question isn’t even old enough to have Pagan Origins. Christmas Trees, Yule Logs, Wassailing, even freaking Krampus all seem to emerged in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.

The Yule Goat is the only example of a Christmas tradition that I’ve been able to find with actual Christmas Origins, and Yule genuinely was syncretized with Christmas although not in the way most think. As Christmas was not so much laid over Yule as Yule was laid over Christmas to make Christianity more palatable by Scandinavian Kings who converted to form economic and political inroads with Christian monarchs and Kingdoms.

It’s so freaking easy to do this kind of research and people just don’t. Preferring to rely on suppositions based on pseudohistory that expects you to believe that Krampus is totally a Pagan God worshiped in the 6th century CE and the fact he doesn’t appear in written records before the 1500s just goes to show how super secret his cult was that it avoided documentation and denunciation for nigh on 1,000 years!

It just annoys me, because there are very real examples of Pagan religious practices being Christianized as a result of conversion or conquest but they get overshadowed by people moronically claiming 18th century Protestants decided to put Candles on Trees at Christmas because they were imitating Roman Pagans from the 2nd century BCE.

#Christmas #pseudohistory

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yamayuandadu · 2 years

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A reminder: never use anything from this shoddy site. Every single entry here is wrong! Here are some examples:

Aya was popular in the Old Babylonian period, Sherida is obscure, not the other way around

Amurru was not a "storm god of the Amorite people," he was not an Amorite god at all (see Beaulieu's study for details)

Ashnan is Akkadian, the Sumerian grain goddess was called Ezina

Ashur was not called Anshar in Akkadian, the name Anshar was used as a logogram to designate Ashur as superior to Marduk in neo-Assyrian state propaganda (discussed in virtually every recent study of Ashur)

Bel was Marduk's title, not his brother

I do not think the Gugalanna = Bull of Heaven equation is in the vogue today, A. R. George doesn't even bother to bring it up in his extensive commentary on all known versions of Gilgamesh

the god of Umma, portrayed in Inanna's Descent as her servant and occasionally as the son of Inanna of Zabalam (who is not the same deity as Inanna of Uruk) is named Shara, not "Cara"

Dagan was not a weather god

Enkidu was rarely, if ever regarded as a god (restoration of An = Anum placing him alongside Gilgamesh has been questioned, see discussion in George's Gilgamesh commentary from 2003; accepted by most Reallexikon contributors though iirc), and he definitely was not a "god of the forests and the wild"

Enlil was not "absorbed into Marduk" and especially not during the reign of Hammurabi, Marduk's rise didn't happen before the late second or early first millennium BCE and even then, Enlil continued to be worshiped, especially in "conservative" Nippur and to a smaller degree Uruk

"Ereshkigal was an important and much feared goddess whose consort was the Bull of Heaven until he was killed by Enkidu" is basically crossover fanfiction, also Ereshkigal's cult had a very limited scope according to Frans Wiggermann and other authors

Gibil was a fire god and not... whatever mr. Joshua J. Mark made him into

Bau was a separate goddess from Gula and was not conflated with her, also Ninisina and Ninkarrak are attested as medicine goddesses before Gula, while Bau only acquired such character through secondary developments

saying "Inanna was known to Assyrians as Ishtar" is technically not incorrect but seems to indicate mr. Mark isn't exactly aware how labels like "Akkadian," "Assyrian," "Babylonian" work;

asserting that Inanna's character was not sexualized before the Babylonians did it would indicate complete unfamiliarity with Sumerian poetry

Kabta was a star deity, not a builder deity

Kulitta was not a "Babylonian" goddess but one half of the inseparable Hurrian pair Ninatta and Kulitta, who obviously have nothing to do with Dumuzi

the term "kulullu" specifically designates a "merman" type hybrid creature, and not all mythical beings living in rivers, and it is not exclusively Assyrian

as far as I am aware, Mammitum did not "simply made up the fates of humans on a whim" (the mention of her role as a wife of Nergal is oddly absent, too), and it is not universally agreed that her name has anything to do with fate, a connection with frost has also been proposed

"Mylitta" is a garbled spelling of Mullissu (a name of Ninlil conventionally employed in scholarship to discuss Ninlil as spouse of Ashur in 1st millennium BCE), who was not a "fertility goddess" (a basically meaningless term)

Nanaya is the correct form, not Nana, and she was not a "virgin mother goddess," she was a goddess associated with a term which roughly corresponds to sex-appeal and her relation to Inanna is much more complex than Mark claims

"Nedu" and "Neti" are both outdated readings of the name of the same god, Bitu

the spelling "Nidaba" is no longer accepted

Ningal was not a "fertility goddess" or a solar goddess

Ningishzida was invariably a son of Ninazu and Ningirida, not of Anu or Ereshkigal.

Nnhursag's cult center Kesh did not decline during the reign of Hammurabi and it's laughable to blame a single guy for a complex multi-century process in which many southern deities, both male (Shara, Ningirsu) and female (Nanshe, Ninhursag), declined as their cities were abandoned

Ninshubur's name refers to Subartu, which was in the north, not in the east (she's not named Ningutium or Ninelam), also mr. Mark seems to have trouble with the š

it's spelled "Papsukkal," not "Papsukkel"

Nisaba was never described as Nabu's wife

Sherida was, as far as I am aware, never a big deal and especially not one of the primary deitites (the oldest attested goddesses are Inanna of Uruk, Inanna of Zabalam, Ezina and Nisaba; Sherida does not show up in the Early Dynastic zami hymns to city deities, only in god lists

Tiamat is a one off antagonist from a single relatively late myth, not a "primordial mother goddess of Mesopotamia"

Uttu was usually not associated with spiders

Z/Sarpanit has no role other than being the wife of Marduk and she is hardly "early"

"Zaltu" (it's actually Saltu) is an antagonist in a single myth, not a goddess of anything specific.

There is more but I just picked what seemed glaring to me, and what shows best that mr. Mark does not know what he writes about. His Shaushka article is even worse, somehow!

#mesopotamian mythology #sumerian mythology #mythology #world history encyclopedia #pseudohistory

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pluralzalpha · 7 months

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Worlds in Collision - Wikipedia

The Phantom Time Conspiracy led me to this, and frankly this is screaming to be turned into a Doctor Who story

#phantom history #pseudohistory #pseudoscience #venus #doctor who #faction paradox

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reimsdom · 1 year

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Don't mess with time!

Yesterday I happened to be sharing my fictional story with a couple of tinder matches, so I want to try and share it on tumblr.

"Somewhere in the middle reaches of the Volga is a small town. Despite its size, a significant part of the city is occupied by the river port. There is no access to it from the other three directions, and the last train arrived fifty years ago. But one day everything starts to change, and a small city office is directly involved in the changes."

This story is about the Ministry of Time, an organization dedicated to maintaining the integrity of reality in a city that is in a "thin place". A city called Mezhgrad ("Between-town"), despite the fact that the action takes place in the seventies of the twentieth century, in the "beautiful" Soviet Union, is a little out of time. Moscow does not pay attention to it, and if you wander through the old streets, you can find houses with unusual architecture. Perhaps Mezhgrad was not built by the natives of the Earth, and even more so, the Soviet Union.

You can read this here (in Russian): ao3

#Ministry of Time #time travel #70s #soviet union #ussr #pseudohistory #magical realism #surreal #time loop #original fiction #original work #rusreal #Spotify

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creature-wizard · 10 months

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A heads-up for any ex-Christian witches or any ex-Christians in general: this stuff about Jesus being "copied" from Horus or Christianity generally being "stolen" from paganism is pretty much all conspiracy theory and/or a gross oversimplification of actual history. If you want to learn more about Christianity's origins, I recommend Bart D. Ehrman's How Jesus Became God.

#baby witch #witchblr #history #pseudohistory #christianity

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crazycatsiren · 1 year

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Every pseudohistorical "pagans were one big happy family before Christianity descended upon them" narrative also conveniently implies the world has only consisted of the European continent for thousands of years.

#religious ramblings #paganblr #witchblr #paganism #history #misinformation #religions #pseudohistory #white supremacy

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dougielombax · 7 months

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I just heard some IDIOT in my own country say that they “don’t believe” in the Armenian Genocide!

“Don’t believe”. What, like it’s the fucking boogeyman? Or Santa Claus?

My GOD!

What a shittake!

Absolute brainrot!

Fucking hell!

It is not up to you to BELIEVE in it!

It happened!

It is real!

The evidence (1.5 million people DEAD! All those renamed towns, cities and villages in western armenia under Turkish control, and many more what were razed to the ground, the bones in the Syrian desert from the forced death marches and deportations, Armenian refugees in places like Lebanon, the emergence of subsequent Armenian diaspora communities from said refugees, Operation Nemesis, countless eyewitness testimony from bystanders, perpetrators, victims and survivors!) is IRREFUTABLE!!!

It’s not something you can handwave or push aside!

It’s not a matter of belief!

Fucking MORONS!!!!

Curiously they didn’t resort to the usual denialist talking points. Which genuinely surprised me.

They just simply said it didn’t happen. Which isn’t any better.

Like a stupid child.

They almost sounded proud of their ignorance.

Absolutely sickening to behold!

Some people in my country do NO favours for our image and these DENSE motherfuckers are among them!

I feel SICK!!!

Fucking morons!!!

Sometimes I genuinely hate sharing a country with these dumb beasts!

Shit like this is one of the reasons I study history! To call out shittakes, lies, mistruths and bullshit when I see them!

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ancientorigins · 2 years

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The Enchanted Valley in Chile contains a curious collection of rock art depicting figures which have puzzled experts for decades. Are they part of a lithic library recording visits by ancient aliens to Earth?

#rock art #petroglyphs #pictographs #Chile #aliens #extraterrestrials #cup marks #ancient aliens #pseudohistory #pseudoarchaeology #pseudoscience

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blueiight · 10 months

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I love the brunt of zora neale hurston’s work but she so wrong for lying about the dahomey & lying on cudjoe lewis like dat .

and idk how much of it is hurston& moreso the presumption ppl have made about barracoon being some sort of history… bc it was published at the time in new ebony mag as fictional. and theres this remark on her work (which definitely maps onto barracoon’s prose.. passages about heathens and all)

#‘Yoruba’ HES SPEAKING EFIK. AN ETHNICITY WHO AT THE TIME LIVED THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY FROM THE DAHOMEY?#she derived much of her conjectures on dahomey str8 from a pro slavery white author & claimed it was cudjoe’s words #yn.#history #africa #blackness #pseudohistory

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jurakan · 11 months

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Book I'm reading: "So according to Murray's Witch Cult Hypothesis... [nonsense pseudo-history]" Me: Welp! [about to put book back on shelf] Book I'm reading's very next paragraph: "Well, that's not exactly true, but anyway..." Me: [lifting book back up] Okay, but you're on thin ice.

#books #pseudohistory

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