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plimsoll

(1,668 posts)
9. Prague Cemetery is the best comparison.
Thu Sep 3, 2020, 08:46 AM
Sep 2020

Umberto Eco wrote an entire book on composing and marketing conspiracy theories. This one hits a couple different points, but it clearly can't avoid harkening back to the UR conspiracy. I actually would put it back further than the 12th century, read the early Christian Heresy hunters and you'll find the same lurid claims of eating babies etc. etc.

I've always assumed the Q had nothing to do with the DOE clearances and everything to do with early Christianity. Quelle (Q) in the Mathew and Luke designate non-Markian sources for passages. It also helps that quelle is german for source. It's almost as if the conspiracies are deliberately constructed to lure in the credulous but at the same time add an extra troll for anyone who as actually bothers to read church history and attempts to understand the the origins of the new testament.

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