SUB URBAN, CHAPTER 4 | 2008-03-07
-- SUB Urban, Chapter 4
What REALLY happened in Rome?
Our history today presents us with a British Empire type of Rome where barbarians were tamed and civilized by the legions and a sort of British upper class ruled until Rome "fell" and the legions withdrew and the barbarians went back to slaughtering each other and everything stagnated until the Renaissance revived Classical Learning and we began to crawl back to the heights.
Our history says the monasteries preserved all real learning through that stagnant millennium or so of NOTHING.
This is as true as the idea that the Capitol is Classical Architecture. All this looks ridiculous if you STATE it SIMPLY. But if you get lost in details, and they will try HARD to get you off on proving your historical knowledge, their whole house of cards is irretrievably damaged from the get-go.
Let me give you another example of how desperate history is to keep this image.
The Romans didn't have soap. Since accepted history implies that they invented bathing, this is potentially embarrassing. Just as Egypt got the wheel from the Hyksos and iron from the Hittites, the Romans got soap from the Gauls. This implies that the barbarians were familiar with bathing.
One history I was reading mentioned this once. It said that soap "originated in ROMAN Gaul."
Things jump out at me that others don't even notice. The Gauls had had soap long before the Romans got there. Why specify ROMAN Gaul? Because that preserved the myth. Only under the leadership of Rome, this implies, the Gauls started bathing and developed soap.
When the white mummies were founding China, they were wearing a weave which professional history had declared was invented a thousand years later in the Middle East.
You can't build any decent world view on nonsense like that, and history is what our world view has to be based on. This is not theoretical stuff, it is critical.
Our discussion of history must be an attack. We must cut out the ingrown cancer our thinking starts with. You must present this as laughable and you must keep it SHORT.
First of all, the whole structure on which both Enlightenment atheists and Christians have built is hogwash, just as the whole Wordist viewpoint on which Marxists and evangelical "Christians" base their world view is hogwash.
In the midst of the quiet, civilized, consistent life of Rome on which Gibbon based his view, Wordist "Christians" built THEIR historical myth. They were a tiny band preaching a religion which lived entirely in the Holy Land. Paul preached that this Jehovah person was the unknown god they had a monument to in Greece.
Anyone in Rome who had not heard of Jehovah was on life support. After I had been pounding for years on Brown's estimate of seven million Hellenic Jews in Rome, a TV documentary actually mentioned that about a tenth of the Roman population was made up of Hellenic Jews.
These seem to be the "Greeks" discussed at such length as fighting "Jews" in the New Testament. "Jews" are no longer the heroes in the New Testament. Josephus, the famous historian of the first century, was a HELLENIC Jews.
But all of those six million Hellenic Jews, a tenth of the entire population, simply disappear from history, WITHOUT COMMENT, as Christianity rises.
The disappearance of THAT six million Jews is not discussed. There are no memorials to them. But there could be a very important connection between the two disappearances of a major portion of the population which was Jewish.
It turns out that Madeleine Albright's parents were Jews who, under the Nazis, simply stopped being Jewish. It turns out that gubernatorial candidate Allen's family were also Jews who decided, under the Nazis, not to be Jews anymore.
Let us make an observation no one else is allowed to make. Statistically, it seems improbable that the only Jews in Nazi Europe who simply decided not to be Jews any more were the parents of the American Secretary of State and a candidate for governor in Virginia.
What happened to the Jews in Nazi Germany is probably what happened to the Hellenic Jews when THEY disappeared from history. To protect the Holocaust Industry, you have to lock up a historian in prison if he says the Nazis only killed three hundred thousand Jews.
History interrelates.
History is IMPORTANT.