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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_conspiracy_theory
The Holy Roman Emperor Otto III conspired with Pope Sylvester II (and quite possibly the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII as well) to doctor the dating system. The trio cooked the books to place their reigns at A.D. 1000, which they did because it is an auspicious number.
The three men added 297 years of bogus history to the early medieval period to facilitate this deception.
I have my own that is similar to this one, due to calendar switcheroo stuff. the idea is that biblical scholars at some point in history made up the stuff about Noah and others in Genesis living to 900 years and whatnot, or it was really just a simple mistranslation of 'years' with 'months' or 'seasons' and living that long sounded way cooler and made their religion superior because of it so they went with it.
i'm sure i'm not the only one who has thought of this but if one were to do the math and divide the supposed years lived by 12, it would put Noah at 77.5 years old instead 900, which is still a really long time for that era. each descendant lives less long but still reasonable ages after dividing by 12, all the way to Abraham when the division stops sounding logical, with him supposedly living to 175 which would put him at 14 and likely isn't true (but still possible).
at this point the time error/lie switches to seasons, so ages get divided by 4 instead, putting Abraham almost at age 44, much more likely. the last one with an abnormally high age (that i am aware of) is Moses, at 120. By that point, it's actually his real age and no more division is necessary, plus, records from other places would start to show noticable conflicts in ages.
in my mind, if Otto and Sylvester actually did the 297 year thing, what's to stop them from doing this too?
No celebrity or famous person has commited suicide by hanging. Their death is actually from one of these two scenarios:
A hitman who is known by government officials hangs the victim and makes it appear to be a suicide. The victim is either an enemy to some nefarious government agency or legislation plan (Aaron Swartz), it might be done as a way to make the victim appear dead while actually giving them a way out of their situation, so that they can create a new identity (Epstein), it could include famous celebrities who simply do not wish to perform anymore (Robin Williams) or perhaps were cancelled or fired for having knowledge they were threatening to reveal (Anthony Bourdain). Either way, this assassin is capable of infiltrating prisons and hospitals and knows how to manipulate the media and government death systems.
Auto-erotic asphyxiation. Not intended to be a suicide but things going horribly wrong as they skirt death's reach while chasing an orgasm. (David Carradine, Thomas Midgely Jr.) However, the more it appears to be a death by AEA, the more likely it actually is the first type (Trevor Moore).
Pretty much everything "New World Order": One of the oldest and most common labels for conspiracy theories that claim a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world under a totalitarian one-world government.
Edit: Although there are certainly some signs of such conspiracies today, the absurd thing about many of these theories is that they are often used by right-wing extremists to gain support for ideas that are very close to the goals of the conspirators described in such theories.
The best example is probably MAGA with its "cabal" of child molesters. Now that their leader is president, it is telling that MAGA has gone quiet on this conspiracy theory - and no one there is talking anymore about the fact that influential billionaires are becoming richer and more influential under the MAGA regime.
I have always found such things interesting, as they themselves give rise to conspiracy theories.
It's absurd to think a bunch of pro wrestlers could organize all that.
The British Library sponsored the colonization of Africa in order to destroy all evidence of a continent-spanning empire ruled exclusively by women. I mostly like it because the empire had war giraffes.
Bielefeld conspiracy. The city of Bielefeld in Germany does not exist. Everyone claiming to live there is a paid actor. Anyone who says they've visited is either in on it or has been decieved.
If we just focused on maximizing profits, it would efficiently allocate all the resources among the people. And if this system does cause inequalities, then it must be coming externally from outside the system.
Not really, because "efficiently" here would include disenfranchisement, euthanasia and murder. Which must be disadvantageous if on the lower levels, in DNA, evolution has went past such in favor of a more complex system than preserves information, even if in specific iterations that information being activated makes the organism weaker.
I love Hollow Earth theories. There's some truly insane worldbuilding that's gone into describing what's inside there. Sometimes it becomes this bizarre multidimensional thing with layers of magical effects the deeper you go, and some sort of a primordial chaos forest or something at the bottom. edit: The primordial chaos forest is also infinite, which is important
I tried to find my favorite long-winded text on the topic which goes really deep into the weeds with histories of various alien civilizations and shit, but this is the best I could quickly find.
Well there's the Mortal Error theory for the JFK assassination. Basically says that yes, he was shot by Oswald, but the "second gunman" who shot him in the head was actually an accidental shot coming from the secret service in car ahead of his.
Talk about a rough day at work
The Earth was created in 2020 by aliens. They gave use fake memories to think we existed before that year
Would make sense why I haven't had a good memory since 2020.
the nsa funds each and every open source projects for example signal
The moon is flat - flat moon theory
I genuinely believe that all the design and music choices that caused major online outrage for that one Sonic movie that came out during COVID was all faked for press.
You mean to tell me that they redesigned and reanimated the entire movie and added multiple new scenes to the movie in six months during peak COVID?
OG trailer if you don't know what movie I'm talking about: https://youtu.be/4mW9FE5ILJs
Here's a clips from the when the "improved" version was released: https://youtu.be/6cIhrkE2txA
They later said the only finished animations were the ones in the trailer. Live action filming was done, but they had barely gotten started on the CG animation when the awful trailer dropped, so it was easy to change course and redesign Sonic for the rest of the film. Also, the film was delayed while they made changes, so it did cause a setback.
Although I would believe that somebody dropped that trailer to prove a point that no one would watch a Sonic movie with that abomination. After the outrage and public backlash, the point was proven and whomever greenlighted the original design backtracked and let the animators fix it.
I love the idea of aliens building the pyramids. But I know it was probably just slaves or tradespeople or whatever.
The reason the Dems aren't generally putting up a real fight against the GOP is because Israel is threatening to cut off their AIPAC funding if they fight Trump.
Trunp and Putin have an affair.
