Welp …. there goes my Sunday evening

Let’s just throw one single historic revision out there as an example and see if you can understand why people are beginning to question everything.

When I was growing up time- historically speaking- was divided into two distinct eras; B.C. and A.D. The B.C. designation meant- and there is no disputing this- Before Christ. Any event in human history from the first chipped stone implement in the Olduvai Gorge right up until the reign of Caesar Augustus happened in an era defined only as the time before the birth of Christ. From that moment forward we entered the next phase of human history defined by the abbreviated Latin term for the year of our Lord, Anno Domini, A.D.

For those of you in academia, media, or born after the mid 1980’s those terms no longer exist, being replaced with the newly defined yet oddly similar B.C.E. and C.E., or Before the Common Era and the Common Era.

There was no demand from the populations of the Earth to change the terms and by the mid 1980’s the acceptance of this accounting for the years of Man were perfectly acceptable by all but one small group of people who felt the Christian reference marginalized those who were non-believers. Perhaps that was true, but there exists no such record of those protests and if they were in fact extant, no one seemed to notice it, either in the media or in academia.

From Wikipedia-

The use of CE in Jewish scholarship was historically motivated by the desire to avoid the implicit “Our Lord” in the abbreviation AD.

Adena K. Berkowitz, in her application to argue before the United States Supreme Court, opted to use BCE and CE because “Given the multicultural society that we live in, the traditional Jewish designations – B.C.E. and C.E. – cast a wider net of inclusion”

You see what they did there? With zero calls from anyone anywhere, suddenly between 2004 and 2007 in virtual lockstep every style guide for writers, every academic source, every department in every institution throughout the Western world simultaneously discarded the terms B.C. and A.D., and adopted traditional Jewish designations in order to promote inclusion.

So the years stayed the same, nothing changed except the reason for the order of the years. The Common Era, we are expected to believe, began on the same year that Jesus Christ was born, was merely a coincidence. There was no connection to the birth of Christ- to promote inclusion, of course- even though it is undeniable that the years hinge precisely on the same historical pivot.

That, in a nutshell, is how people, in their own lifetimes, can erase the history that they knew and understood their entire lifetime, for over 100 generations, with something that is a complete fabrication and never even notice. You will not find a single young adult or child who has even heard of the term B.C. or A.D. at any point in their lives and they now possess a complete and total ignorance- despite knowing what year it is- of why it is referred to as the Common Era.

A small group of individuals agitating to erase history succeeded without anyone even taking notice and now- and certainly in the future- we are divorced from any understanding of why.

This is but a single example that came to me off the top of my head, I could name dozens more, all from within my own lifetime.

Imagine what a concerted effort of powerful and motivated people with an agenda could do over the course of centuries to make history appear any way they like. And by controlling the institutions and organizations from the very top, how would one ever be able to ascertain what was and wasn’t authentic history versus something contrived to satisfy some ends we might never be able to guess at?

This is a singularly important topic for anyone with even a shred of curiosity about mankind and our history. Believe it or not.

Ecclesiastes 1:9
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

“Up ahead they’s a thousan’ lives we might live, but when it comes it’ll on’y be one.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Worlds in Collision

Velikovsky explains that:

:”I came upon the idea that traditions and legends and memories of generic origin can be treated in the same way in which we treat in psychoanalysis the early memories of a single individual. I spent ten years on this work. I found that the collective memory of mankind spoke of a series of global catastrophes that occurred in historical times. I believed that I could even identify the exact times and the very agents of the great upheavals of the more recent past. The conclusions at which I arrived compelled me to cross the frontiers into various fields of science, archaeology, geology, and astronomy”.Immanuel Velikovsky, “Supplement: Worlds in Collision in the Light of Recent Finds in Archaeology, Geology, and Astronomy ” Earth in Upheaval, 1956

In the preface to Worlds in Collision, Velikovsky summarized his arguments:

:Worlds in Collision is a book of wars in the celestial sphere that took place in historical times. In these wars the planet earth participated too. … The historical-cosmological story of this book is based in the evidence of historical texts of many people around the globe, on classical literature, on epics of the northern races, on sacred books of the peoples of the Orient and Occident, on traditions and folklore of primitive peoples, on old astronomical inscriptions and charts, on archaeological finds, and also on geological and paleontological material.