Interesting Reading,

Interesting Reading,

DieselHorseLAW 10 Feb 2011 13:28

I was translating a dutch article talking about Geryl, and it seems he gets most of his claims linking the Mayans to some sort of sun-spot thing from the book "The Mayan Prophecies : Unlocking the Secrets of a Lost Civilization" by Adrian Gilbert and Maurice Cotterell. I was reading reviews on that book and it seems there is a lot of inaccurate info in the book as said by multiple reviews on it.

"The sloppiness about numbers is also annoying, especially since their entire case rests on numbers. The authors cite a "remarkable correlation" between the dates given for the great flood by Plato (9500 B.C), Cayce (10,500 B.C.), and the Maya (11,205 B.C.) These dates differ by over 1700 years, a variation of 15% relative to the present day. Considering that one of the authors claims to be an engineer and a scientist, this is inexcusable."

"The blurb on the back reads "The present world will end on 22 December 2012. So prophesied the Maya 5,000 years ago…" - yet on page 4 the authors indicate that the Maya appeared around 500AD, which by my reckoning is only 1,500 years ago.

Such internal inconsistencies riddle this book, and make it unreliable. On the face of it - and ignoring the 2012 prophecy, which uses some pretty tortuous mathematical manipulations - there is a lot of interesting information here about the Maya, but I'm afraid I just don't know how much I can believe or trust. "

Just found that interesting.

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“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.” - Oscar Wilde

Re: Interesting Reading,

DieselHorseLAW 10 Feb 2011 13:30

Another interesting thing translated from the article.

"Geryl adding to all this to the ideas of the French pseudo-Egyptologist Albert Slosman, author of Le grand cataclysm (1976), who also the disaster year of 9792 BC. devised for Atlantis. When asked how Slosman to that deadline came Geryl replied "I can not ask him, he's dead since 1981. " (3) apparently knows Geryl after years of studies and calculations are not the reasons for that date to take."

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“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.” - Oscar Wilde

Re: Interesting Reading,

DieselHorseLAW 10 Feb 2011 13:45

The more I read the more interesting it gets.

"Geryl is the kind of dilettante who thinks controversial theories may preach because he is not hampered by the established views of science. In history there are a few self-taught were that indeed sensational discoveries did against the usual conventions (Schliemann, the discoverer of Troy, is always cited as an example) but these figures possessed self-taught do have a fairly large knowledge domains of research and have a minimum of methodology. Both knowledge and methodology in Geryl very problematic."

"For his information about Mayan astronomy is no different. Felix Verbelen, the chairman of the Public Observatory Mira and an experienced caster who have long focused on the astronomical significance of the Mayan writings, studied at Geryl request his assumptions and pointed out that his supposed relationships are not correct, because he works with rounded and therefore incorrect values. Geryl pulled kept going and continued to use the same garbage."

So he has went to experts with it, and they told him he is wrong so he ignores them.

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“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.” - Oscar Wilde

Re: Interesting Reading,

CaneLaz 10 Feb 2011 14:32

Correct.

You also read in Geoff Strays review that Geryl went to the Observatory to see if the loops match. However, Geryl told Stray that the loops did indeed match…that's because Geryl more than likely lied. In the article by Tim Trachet that you posted, the archeo-astronomer did indeed show Geryl to be incorrect.

I'm telling you, this guy is trouble.

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Re: Interesting Reading,

DieselHorseLAW 11 Feb 2011 17:54

Interesting, there was what they call a "solar tsunami" yesterday, pretty cool, but still is kind of messing up the "quite sun til 2012" thing that was stated. Not to mention that I saw a few months ago in December that a whole hemisphere of the sun erupted/exploded, that also really messed up the quite sun claim and the "cycle" claim. Interesting stuff.

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“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.” - Oscar Wilde

Re: Interesting Reading,

JamesJJlm 11 Feb 2011 18:13

I really don't like the term "solar tsunami". Especially since it is nothing more than a shockwave on the surface of the sun from an eruption. Kind of like a shockwave when you let off a bomb from really far away. The scene from the first Ironman comes to mind. Solar tsunami is a really strange name for it.