tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824802900660124636.post2975287706777981218..comments2024-01-20T12:06:29.979-06:00Comments on Fencing Bear at Prayer: Alt History of the World FairsFencing Bearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16825525662123382529noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824802900660124636.post-12310369390576913812021-02-04T06:32:40.141-06:002021-02-04T06:32:40.141-06:00Indeed!
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2018/09/d...Indeed!<br />https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2018/09/decoding-king-arthur-grail/ChrisPerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16241847378278260137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824802900660124636.post-3457434485731768022020-12-21T15:38:03.304-06:002020-12-21T15:38:03.304-06:00Just a couple questions about how the Rockefeller’...Just a couple questions about how the Rockefeller’s investment to establish UChicago coincided with the Worlds Fair in 1893. As Rockefeller would have had a business interest in securing an energy monopoly based on oil production, could the establishment of the University in conjunction with the Worlds Fair to destroy a history and promote a reset be a way to hide evidence of alternative methods of energy? As such, why would it be in his interest to keep some of the remaining old buildings gothic buildings located to the north of the Midway (imo used to hide one history to promote a new one with WWII). On another note, your analysis about William’s critique of Geoffrey’s King Arthur narrative is something I was unaware about as how Historians of the time fought against one another to promote different narratives. It has made me reconsider whether King Arthur could actually have Historical legitimacy, or merely a story about how to integrate the old pagan beliefs of the Anglo-Saxons with Christianity. J.P.Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01988299790397181503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824802900660124636.post-13656632321289455372020-12-16T11:22:25.907-06:002020-12-16T11:22:25.907-06:00Shame on me! If you have read my first book, you k...Shame on me! If you have read my first book, you know how hard it is to understand William's perspective. Do you agree that he is the father of historical criticism? What do you think of my reading of his commentary on the Song of Songs? For that matter, what do you think of my reading of the psalms of the Office of the Virgin Mary? Is Mary the Lady of the Temple that Margaret Barker has described? Was I wrong to describe Milo as a holy fool? If you are disillusioned with me now, consider what that says about the nerve I have hit, when nothing I said previously made you mad (or made you think I was mad). <br /><br />Also, please point in the post to the place that I made a definite historical claim other than that Bede most likely exaggerated the importance of Augustine's mission. Have you read Walter Goffart on Bede's reliability? I gave you visual proof of how I think the Fair Buildings were built, showed you the imagery used to promote the Crystal Palace, showed you the building on my own campus and provided links to the model at Magdalen. And gave you a full passage from William's critique of Geoffrey to show you where the Arthurian legend came from. Which bit didn't you think I proved? That Arthur was never in Avallon? Have you read Michael Wood's account of Glastonbury? Please, let me know what proofs I did not provide for you. I seem to have missed something.Fencing Bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16825525662123382529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824802900660124636.post-15201868882397534952020-12-16T11:12:40.143-06:002020-12-16T11:12:40.143-06:00As someone who has admired your previous work - no...As someone who has admired your previous work - not only your two scholarly monographs, From Judgement to Passion and Mary and the Art of Prayer, but also your Mediaeveal History Lectures on Unauthorized TV, and your Milo book, I say this with all due respect: You need to get out of this crackpot rabbit hole of Benjamin and his ilk. From flat earth, to Columbus didn't exist and the Word's Fairs were really a cover-up of a great ancient empire in the Americas, etc...the mind reels.<br /><br />I'm far more open to certain alternative readings of things than what we're told by the mainstream (whether it has to do with current or historical events), but this Owen Benjamin guy (and his buddies like Mickoski) are utter lunatics selling imaginary history and crackpot theories to gullible internet fanboys and girls. Right. Exit this mind-destroying sinkhole populated by clowns like Benjamin, regain your balance and perspective, and get back to the serious scholarly work you're so good at.DLWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13094222923907649822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824802900660124636.post-60914878087146501172020-12-16T09:50:53.013-06:002020-12-16T09:50:53.013-06:00Ah, but King Arthur had thirty kingdoms’ worth of ...Ah, but King Arthur had thirty kingdoms’ worth of forests! Could it be?! Fencing Bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16825525662123382529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824802900660124636.post-70876205350003095532020-12-16T05:39:59.489-06:002020-12-16T05:39:59.489-06:00I listened to Owens stream about this, and also he...I listened to Owens stream about this, and also heard the crow777 stream with the guest making these claims. All rubbish. Do the basic maths on resources to build 1000 ships: The Spanish Armada was only 130 ships to the English 200 ships, some of the largest fleets ever sailed, no? I thought the forests of Spain had been consumed to make their fleet, and once lost they no longer had the resources to rebuild a world conquering navy...<br />A thousand ships eh? Just use logic to disprove the fantasy.<br />I do love Owen but he can get carried away.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824802900660124636.post-502729726130951542020-12-15T22:05:22.058-06:002020-12-15T22:05:22.058-06:00If I had read "1066 and All That" just b...If I had read "1066 and All That" just before college, it would have saved me months and even semesters of study and reading!whitewallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03469746790747742992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824802900660124636.post-56550294227038089092020-12-15T19:50:43.614-06:002020-12-15T19:50:43.614-06:00Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
A sophi...Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!<br /><br />A sophisticated civilization in the American Midwest. Ah, such fun! And it kept it's business to itself, as well; no meddling in other nations. So shy was it, that it did not cry out to it's neighbors for aid while it's cities inexplicably all caught fire at once...and apparently it's citizens died to the last trying to save them. tragic. Lucky stroke for the new Americans, though.<br /><br />And kudos to those early Americans for so thoroughly scrubbing the historical record! Why, I stubbed my toe on a rock the other day and now, with this new insight, my old confidence in the natural origin of said stone, and others I see scattered about, is utterly shaken. I tip my hat to the intrepid investigators that uncovered this magnificent plot!<br /><br />Still, was it such a loss? Any civilization with so little understanding of flammability was destined to meet a bad end. And just how was it that their stone buildings burned so efficiently? My head is aswirl with questions. Egilmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10699998535662527295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824802900660124636.post-55530534868977077442020-12-15T16:27:00.814-06:002020-12-15T16:27:00.814-06:00I think it is the skills that have been lost more ...I think it is the skills that have been lost more so than the history, but there is so much about the past we don’t know, it is foolish to claim that we know much for sure!Fencing Bearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16825525662123382529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-824802900660124636.post-46854321400412610142020-12-15T16:16:03.806-06:002020-12-15T16:16:03.806-06:00Rachel, thanks for addressing my latest question. ...Rachel, thanks for addressing my latest question. Owen went there. I am too skeptical of Owen and other's statements although I do not have your expertise in historical records or your life experiences. It is a whirlwind of information and assertions. You said something to the effect in telegram that those World Fair buildings and structures were built by people who possessed skills that were lost. I think if there is a need or demand for such buildings, the skills will be rediscovered and workers will make them happen. J.H.L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02897227695017354606noreply@blogger.com