Carantoc said...
Not for one moment doubting the CIA and other government agencies aren't involved in the drug trade, be it for gain or for attempted control of the industry and for obtaining information but
- come on -
'....Project Camelot is based on an idea generated when we first met and spent the weekend in Tintagel, England, overlooking the sea in the home of King Arthur ....'
King Arthur never existed. There was never a king of england or of wessex called Arthur. He was created by the english chivalry movement of the middle ages as a fashionable and popular hero.
It is exactly the same as people in 400 years time saying there was a great warrior called the Terminator, who turned from evil to good and eventually became the ruler of the great country of california. Arguably some grain of basis of the story, but not exactly true.
No doubt there was one or more leaders of tribes in pre-roman southern england who can be linked to the name Arthur in some strenuous way. But there was no Arthur of the legend, no round table and no camelot.
If you wish to look back on the glory times of chivarly and knights in shining armour then even King Alfred and his grandson King Athelstain (?) who were the first great 'english' kings (Alfred only of wessex, his grandson eventually conquering Danelaw and uniting england for the first time) and they really pre-date the knight in shining armour period by 200 years.
Canute was also a great english king of that tradition, although originally a Dane.
Cite the existance of your organisation on medieval fiction and expect what you say to be taken seriously ?
Maybe they need to employ a historian instead of graduates of sociology with dodgey MBAs in 'buisness' and spend time educating themselves rather than smoking pot at Tintagel. I expect they nipped down to Tresurfit or up to Spekes while they were there for quick surf, (like all the other tourists) and pissed off some locals.
Point taken.
Our lives our ruled by legends, take Christ, Mohammed et al..
The guys who run this site are asking questions. Have a look at that stuff posted by Klaus Donna.
I have a bit of geology training and a lot of bilogy.
How do you explain an artefact that obviously depicts todays knowledge of reproduction from arguably 30,00 years ago. Our "experts" agree we do not have the technology to reproduce this stuff today?
There's stacks of stuff from the Summerian Tablets to the Koran and the Bible that talk about when giants walked the earth and yet the skeletons that exist are ignored
Why was the Catholic Chrch so ruthless about destroying Mayan knowledge? Why are there world maps that exist from centuries before Columbus?
Remember, the winners write history
