History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

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Judgment: Fear or Anticipation

Judgement Seat of Christ
Rick Howard
Manufacturer: Naioth Sound & Pub Co
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This Was Your Life!: Preparing to Meet God Face to Face

ASIN: 0962809101

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Judgment: Fear or Anticipation.......2000-07-16

Pastor Rick Howard spells out in clear, and no uncertain terms what Christians can face in the final judgement. No, not heaven or hell, that is decided by accepting or rejecting God's grace. But our actions DO make a difference and God has spelled out exactly what we can expect. This is strictly Bible based out of a challenge Pastor Howard received about what he knew (or didn't know) about the Judgement Seat of Christ. This lead him into an intense Biblical study of the subject. The results will either scare you or encourage you. But it is a MUST read for anyone wanting to be prepared for that final encounter with God before eternal life. The good news is that you CAN be prepared!

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Quality work: play it or keep it as a resource!
A fine conclusion
This is the end ?

Judgement Day (Mage)
Bruce Baugh
Manufacturer: World of Darkness
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Quality work: play it or keep it as a resource!.......2006-07-04

A longtime fan of Mage: The Ascension, I was worried that I wouldn't like the Judgment Day line of books. After all not only does it mark an end to a phenomenal World of Darkness, but had the potential of being rushed and not fully thought out. Thankfully this isn't the case with the Judgment Day: Mage.

If you've been playing in a Mage: The Ascension game for a while and you're thinking of playing a Judgment Day scenario for whatever reason, this book might have exactly what you're looking for. At the very least (since it doesn't touch upon material that would satisfy fans of each of the Traditions), it will help you construct your own End Times tale.

One of the most difficult things about making an End Times book (or playing in a World of Darkness game that encompasses many Traditions and or White Wolf game systems), is that there's a hell of a lot of depth that might elude the average player without all the source material. On that note, Judgment Day: Mage is an excellent resource, providing End Time tales that encompass a multitude of Tradition back-story.

For instance, say you didn't know anything about the Golden Chalice or the Realm of Entropy in relation to problems the Euthanatos have had in their history, you would figure understanding such material presented in an End Times book would be confusing... right? Nope. Swiftly the Judgment Day: Mage book covers it all.

Again though, one big downside to the book is that it wasn't able to encompass all the histories for all the Traditions in it (or at least provide End Time scenarios for each one). Sure that would have suited die-hard Mage: The Ascension fans but in truth it makes sense: damn shy of releasing a book that's over a thousand pages, this is the next best thing.

Taken for what it is Judgment Day: Mage is an excellent addition to your White Wolf library. The production value is to be as expected (if not a little less than one would expect from a book that brings with it an end to their favorite game system), and the writing it top notch.

Now if you ever play a Judgment Day campaign is something entirely different (as I've found playing pre-Judgment Day to be much more fun, something I think most Mage fans have in common), and yet Judgment Day: Mage provides the reader with an interesting bunch of interpretations on the End Times and fun story ideas to experiment with.

A fine conclusion.......2005-03-08

First, a minor clarification: this is the *third* book of a trilogy. The series goes:

Gehenna, the Final Night (Vampire the Masquerade): by Ari Marmell.
The Last Battle (Werewolf: Time of Judgement): by Bill Bridges.
Judgement Day (Mage): by Bruce Baugh.

The book cover says "book three of three", but does not list the other two, which is annoying. Even though the books are only loosely connected, I like to read a series in order, and bought the third without realizing I was missing two others. The previous are not required to understand this one, but there are occasional references to events in the other books.

Judgement Day is a story of the End of the Universe, from the point of view of three different mages (and one occasional narrator character). They cover the major types from Mage: the Ascension:

One from the Technocracy, an organization devoted to reason, logic, science, and the total subjugation of any type of disorderly behavior. They use magic, but generally treat it using a scientific framework (for instance, they refer to vampires as hematovores, who have a viral disease that gives them apparently supernation powers).

One was a shaman, a member of the Nine Traditions, a more counter-cultural group who opposes the Technocracy, when they're not too busy squabbling among themselves.

The last was an Independent, basically consisting of 'none of the above', people who have Awakened to the spirit world, but don't choose to belong (or even know about) the two major groups.

I thought the story was excellent. I would have rated it four and a half stars (but just discovered that's not an option), only because the Independent mage spent a lot of her time in the world of Shades (not sure of White Wolf's exact name for it), the afterlife where human souls battle for power. I never cared for that part of the World of Darkness, generally preferring the Mage or Vampire stories. But otherwise there is nothing I would have wanted to see changed.

The stories are somewhat disjointed, as the previous reviewer said, simply because it's told from three different people's viewpoints, which is fundamental to the story. I didn't find it tough reading, as each section had the person's name, telling you whose viewpoint it was. And I thought the finale was outstanding, and read it more than once.

The ending did not specifically refer to Christian beliefs (which may be why the previous reviewer refers to 'chickening out'), but I think the whole point of the story is: there are three protagonists, all of whom have wildly different concepts of the power and structure behind the Universe, yet discover that the underlying Reality is far outside their limited framework. The implication is that none of the current major world religions are "correct", but simply a crude attempt at describing the indescribable, making sense of something that's just too big for mortals to comprehend.

It's a major challenge, describing both how and why the Universe ends, given that it's all being described from the viewpoint of a finite, limited mortal being, but in my opinion, the author succeeded nicely. This is one of the better books I've read in the World of Darkness universe, and I would recomment it to anyone who already likes the Mage material.

This is the end ?.......2004-03-18

I've read about 75% of all the books in the World of Darkness universe and was suprised when I found out weeks ago it was all coming to an end. Or an end as we know it. This is the last book of the World of Darkness Universe as it has been since it exception. The book seems to be a bit disjointed and is a tough read because of it. The author uses three main characters to view the end of the universe through. As you move through the story the three characters become connected and by the end litterally merge. Each section of the book moves from character to character to get input on their experince as the universe grinds to a halt. The book succeeded in explaining the World of Darkness in very metaphysical terms. They even dared to touch on religion a bit, but in the end chickened out like most authors. The author does do a reasonable good job of explaining some of the mysteries of the World Of Darkness. But also left many others remain mysterious. I will be interested in seeing how the World of Darkness Universe will be reborn this summer. Maybe.. just maybe when I read the first books of the new universe, it will raise my thoughts on this book. But as it stands.. it feel short of my expectations.

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Masterpiece, no other word
Masterpiece
The other austrian insurance novelist
Best author of German tongue in the 20th century
A gem of a thriller, sorrily underrated

Master of the Day of Judgement
Leo Perutz
Manufacturer: Arcade Publishing
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ASIN: 1559703342

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1930. The Master of the Day of Judgment is about a drug, created in Florence in the 16th century, that makes people see the Master (God). The downside is that they also see the Day of Judgment and all the demons of Hell, which leads them to believe that they are being attacked by the demons of Hell and then they commit suicide. The novel, set in Vienna in 1909, is structured like a murder mystery, with the identity of the victim only being revealed near the end. A Kirkus review said, The identity of the Master provides a solution that, like that of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, is more disturbing than the mystery itself.

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Masterpiece, no other word.......2002-12-24

1909. Strange suicide plague in Vienna. Why do all these people kill themselves, while they have no reason at all to do so? Wouldn't be something - or somebody - else? Warning to impossible crime fans: one of the so-called "suicides" is a locked room.
While he - remarkably - uses Golden Age school's apparatus, Perutz gives here a book that is wholly sui generis. It could be a mystery. It could be weird. It could be both. Mystery fans will be delighted by intricate plotting, virtuoso use of multiple solutions and a totally unexpected ending. They'll also be delighted, along with others, by magistral recreation of a vanished world, quirky atmosphere and characters, and a reflection on time, art and reality. Yet in the end, the book's real nature remains a mystery. There's only one thing to know: it's a masterpiece.

Masterpiece.......2002-12-16

The other austrian insurance novelist.......2000-12-19

This novel is an entertaining mystery (suicide or murder?), a haunting meditation on history and fate, and a playful self-referential narrative a la Borges or Calvino.

In fact, Borges liked Perutz's work well enough to promote its publication in Argentina while Perutz was living in Tel Aviv and was banned from publishing in Germany.

Like his coeval Kafka, Perutz also wrote fiction while working in insurance (though LP was an actuary in Vienna and Trieste, unlike FK, who worked in Prague, LP's birthplace).

Best author of German tongue in the 20th century.......1999-10-18

Leo Perutz is a true master of the German tongue, very powerful and strong. But he is also a great storyteller, something very rare in German literature. All of his novels are highly recommended. It is a shame they're mostly out of print. Read them, and start with this one.

A gem of a thriller, sorrily underrated.......1999-09-27

Literature is full of great authors that do not receive the praise they deserve, for all kinds of reasons. Leo Perutz is one of them. I can only urge you to try one of his works once, and "The Master of the Day of Judgment" is a good place to start. Its central idea is shocking and original, the writing is crisp and tantalizing, and the book, while short - certainly compared to today's massive thrillers, is surprisingly "finished". Valid excuse to, for once, shout in a review: READ THIS BOOK!!!

Judgement Day: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic

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Judgement Day: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic
Chris Stephen
Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press
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ASIN: 0871138824

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The war crimes prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic is one of the most controversial and extraordinary trials ever held. For the first time, a former president is in the dock of a United Nations court, charged with genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes including murder, rape, and torture. Milosevic is being tried for orchestrating three separate wars spread over nine years that tore Yugoslavia apart, killed two hundred thousand, left four million homeless, and ended with NATO being dragged into the first conflict in its history. But this huge trial, featuring more than three hundred witnesses, has produced huge problems. With key witnesses refusing to testify, Milosevic falling ill, and the death of the leading judge, the case has ballooned into a multimillion-dollar trial lasting more than three years. Author Chris Stephen reported on the wars of former Yugoslavia, witnessing some of the crimes of which Milosevic is accused. In Judgement Day he produces a blow-by-blow account of this courtroom drama, centered on the daily battle between Milosevic and his prosecutors. And he tells, for the first time, the remarkable story of the war crimes court itself, created in reaction to the horror of the Bosnian war in 1992. Stephen moves from the brightly lit courtroom to the muddy battlefields to meet victims reliving their sufferings and investigators forced to wade knee-deep in corpses hunting for vital evidence. Finally, he traces the remarkable turnaround of the United States, the nation that did more than any other to create the UN war crimes court, but post-9/11 is now the most vocal critic of plans to make the International Criminal Court its permanent successor. Judgement Day is the first authoritative account of the most important international trial since Nuremberg.

A Town Called Fury: Judgement Day (Town Called Fury)

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A Town Called Fury: Judgement Day (Town Called Fury)
William W. Johnstone
Manufacturer: Pinnacle
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Binding: Paperback

ASIN: 0786018410
Release Date: 2007-11-06

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Sophie von Hellermann: Judgement Day
Anne Pontegnie , Clemens Krummel , Emily Mears , Andrew Renton , and Sophie von Hellermann
Manufacturer: Walther Konig
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ASIN: 3865600573
Release Date: 2007-02-01

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It looks like a thick, juicy romance novel, but it's actually a collection of brushy, ephemeral, fin-de-siecle-esque paintings by the young German artist Sophie von Hellermann. Currently based in London, she recently exhibited at Greene Naftali Gallery in New York and Mark Foxx gallery, Los Angeles.

Inner Simplicity (100 Ways to Regain Peace and Nourish Your Soul)

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Inner Simplicity (100 Ways to Regain Peace and Nourish Your Soul)
ST. James Elaine
Manufacturer: MJF Books
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ASIN: 156731709X

Silver Surfer: Judgement Day (Marvel graphic novel)

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Bathe in the light of a supernova!
All hail the Silver Surfer!

Silver Surfer: Judgement Day (Marvel graphic novel)
Stan Lee
Manufacturer: Marvel Enterprises
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0871354276

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Bathe in the light of a supernova!.......2000-05-17

I have been a fan of the Silver Surfer ever since I was a kid, and this collection of stories did not dissapoint. Collected in this edition are ten "golden-age" stories which truly capture the surfer at his freshest and best. Buy this if you appreciate the true art of comics. Peace.

All hail the Silver Surfer!.......2000-05-17

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Judgement Day (Warbots #12)
G. H. Stine
Manufacturer: Pinnacle
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