Not sure precisely which fora this belongs on - it's a toss up between here and Conspiracy Theories, at a guess.



This article is discussing a claim that:

Any thoughts?

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First thought is, how dim could people have been to not notice they skipped a few hundred years by accident when making the new calenders. For some reason I feel as though if a global mistake in which the next new year brought in 2101, I think I might start asking questions. (Sorry, literal interpretation of this.)

Indeed. The wikipedia entry for this subject lists many problems with it, quite apart from the common sense one you point out.

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Very amusing.

We have methods completely independent from documentation
to establish time-lines. Counting tree rings or C-14 analysis for instance.
No missing centuries.

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Yup, dendrochronological evidence is listed as a problem with this hypothesis at wiki.

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You mean aside from the ancient drawings of stars in the position of the skies, along with recorded phenomena of supernovas, the remnants of which we have measured and backwards extrapolated that have corroborated our calenders and disproved the "missing years" theory?

Uh, no.

It has come to my attention that many things we all take for granted as taking place didn't actually take place:

- the Moon landings
- the Holocaust
- the American Civil War
- and now, 614-911 AD.

I am therefore putting forth my hypothesis:
Nothing in history ever actually happened.

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you mean I'm NOT 47 years old?

Not in support of this suggestion (I won't even dignify it by calling it a hypothesis).. but keep in mind, until very recently, historically speaking, the average joe didn't know, nor care, what callendar year it was. If the *church* propagated this hoax, it would have been accepted by everybody, hands down.

I think these guys missed the bus. The events they mention as not happening did indeed happen - what DIDN'T happen was this freakish callendar adjustment.

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