Ridiculous... read it and laugh

[Teleklos Archelaou]

What worries me much more than this book is the popularity (#217 on Amazon) of the Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. Written by a junior college professor, it totally rewrites US history. And it's not supposed to be a joke book or anything. - "Suffice it to say that the book asserts that the American Revolution was no revolution at all; that the Civil War was not about slavery; that the so-called robber barons made America great; that the New Deal made the Depression worse; that the war on poverty made poverty worse; that Clinton's intervention in Bosnia was a waste of taxpayer money. Not only does Woods reduce complex events to these kinds of simplistic interpretations, he doesn't even acknowledge that rival interpretations exist."

[Ellesthyan]

Although the guy puts up an interesting question, his theory is near impossible. Now, if anyone would like to read a similar book, but a lot better and with proof (though debatable), I'd advice them Erich von Dänigen. He has created a theory, saying that god(s) were aliens, having come to earth 8000 or 7000 BC... It is a very interesting book, and it has a lot of questions were few historians will find a satisfying answer on.

For example: there is a pillar in Delphi (India) that has stood there according to research for thousands of years; still it is made in a way that we, in our time, don't even know how to make it ourselfs! Now many would say that there are perfect explanations for that, and I assume that they exist, but if you put all these little strange, unexpected things together like von Dänigen has done, it becomes pretty unbelievable.

[eadingas]

Darn, I thought this was going to be a surprise, but now we have to admit it: we're going to have Pyramid-building aliens wandering about in EB! ;)

[Ellesthyan]

Indeed!

[Big_John]

Darn, I thought this was going to be a surprise, but now we have to admit it: we're going to have Pyramid-building aliens wandering about in EB! ;)

i knew it!!
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/index...ic=19893&st=12
(middle of the third post)

[AntiochusIII]

Darn, I thought this was going to be a surprise, but now we have to admit it: we're going to have Pyramid-building aliens wandering about in EB! ;)

Oh! So THAT's why they'll remove wonders. It's just plain stupid to let those puny buildings be called wonders while the real architects are still around ready to build these "wonders" everywhere on Earth, in a minute!

However, I warn you people, and this is dead serious. The professor who wrote this book is evil. He is on his way to create an evil cult that, when the next millenia comes, will say that the Earth at that time, and the universe as a whole, is 900 years old!

According to Amazon's 5 star reviews...

How sad, and you, Eadingas, will be discredited because people will think you - a wandering historian - is a liar to say something as ridiculous as there is a Roman Empire!!!

[Valens]

that the Civil War was not about slavery

Well in truth the Civil War wasn't about slavery. But still, he's a quack.

[Reverend Joe]

He has created a theory, saying that god(s) were aliens, having come to earth 8000 or 7000 BC...

THIS is the kind of theory I take seroiusly. The gods are aliens thing is a little shaky, but I personally think that there is a strong possibility that Civilization is a lotolder than we think. I personally beieve that one day we will be able to prove that the first civilizations appeared in the last ice age, and that they ave been going through a cycle of buildup and destruction ever ince, the latest cycle having ended in the global dark age in the 400's. Perhaps the nly reason we have advanced farther is because Civiization survived in pockets, such as Consantine Rome and China... think about it.

I know, this sounds like a quack theory- but hey, it still sounds better than Jesus and El Cid being the same person.

[Reverend Joe]

Could someone please edit the spelling corrections in my post? This is what happens when I try to write when I'm excited.

[ShellShock]

I know, this sounds like a quack theory- but hey, it still sounds better than Jesus and El Cid being the same person.

What d'ya mean - they're not the same person!!!

[Valens]

I personally beieve that one day we will be able to prove that the first civilizations appeared in the last ice age, and that they ave been going through a cycle of buildup and destruction ever ince, the latest cycle having ended in the global dark age in the 400's.

I don't think it's a quack theory at all, even though there's no evidence to support it I believe it's entirely possible. Men are wretched creatures, we have a tendency to destroy ourselves for any number of reasons and there's no reason to think civilization didn't exist far before what we currently believe.

This theory has also been applied to the universe as a whole, alot of scientists believe that instead of just one big bang that created the universe out of nothing that there have been in fact an uncountable number of big bangs going back quite possibly to infinity, that there was no beginning it's always been there. From what we know of the universe, all the matter in it (galaxies, planets, stars) are all expanding outwardly away from the center due to the big bang. It's believed though that at the core of the universe there's some sort of supercondensed matter that everything kind of revolves around, and every few hundreds of billions of years the outward motion of the galaxies stops and everything goes right back in, condensing to the point where it all explodes again causing yet another big bang.

Heh, that was completely unrelated but still I think it's pretty cool :)

[Reverend Joe]

Shellshock- the Jesus- El Cid theory is actually in the book. That's part of what makes it so ridiculous.