I’m confused. What the bleep is going on at Amazon? I was just browsing through their history section and was shocked at some of the dreck that showed up in the first couple of pages. By way of example -
- Forbidden History: Extraterrestrial Intervention, Prehistoric Technologies, and the Suppressed Origins of Civilization by J. Douglas Kenyon
- The End of Days: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return (The Earth Chronicles) by Zecharia Sitchin
- The Element Encyclopaedia of 5000 Spells: The Ultimate Reference Book for the Magical Arts by Judika Illes
All complete pseudo-science and nonsense and they aren’t the only examples. I realise that Amazon is a business and will sell whatever people want to buy but this is just beyond a joke. Have we really reached the point where this bunkum passes for history?
OK, rant over. I just had to vent.
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Jason
dj357
Sully
larry1506
stilldoubting
JohnM
cru5ad3r
At least you can bypass a lot of this in Amazon with a well phrased search. A trip down to Easons and the shelves upon shelves of New Age dross and books about angels is enough to make you seriously worry about the state of mankind…
indeed, but you have to realise that angel-people seem to flourish devoid of severe criticism in ireland, and I’d love to know why. That daft-as-a-brush Lorna Byrne had a book-signing for “Angels In My Hair” in O’Mahony’s a few weeks ago, and unfortunately I found out about a week too late to arrive and lay a mountain of scorn and derision upon her.
and yes, Sully, it appears in fact that we have reached a point where bunkum passes for history…at least on the internet…
My wife knew the deluded Lorna Byrne was around but hid the details from until the day after! I saw her on the late-late previously and vented here.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055414932