Mid-morning. You are at Pine Hill waiting on Carol to finish her walk, you finished your shorter walk early, took your pills and had water and a banana to wash them down. When Carol got to the car it started to rain. Good timing on her part, or so you think.
Shortly after noon and you are still waiting for the toilets to be delivered from Ferguson’s. Then you will call Scott S. and set up a time for installation. You are happy they are state of the art water savers because eventually everyone will have to have them. At least that is your opinion.
Opinions. Everyone has opinions. What a way to run a government. It is The Peter Principle gone amuck. Here is a selection of commentary on Peter’s book from Wikipedia.
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The Peter Principle states that "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence", meaning that employees tend to be promoted until they reach a position at which they cannot work competently. It was formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1969 book The Peter Principle, a humorous treatise which also introduced the "salutary science of hierarchiology."
The principle holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Eventually they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"), and there they remain, being unable to earn further promotions. Peter's Corollary states that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out their duties" and adds that "work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence". "Managing upward" is the concept of a subordinate finding ways to subtly "manage" superiors in order to limit the damage that they end up doing.
From: Wikipedia
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While it may have been written as light satire I have witnessed it from time to time in my life to know it can be real enough. Some politicians make a whirlwind of it, quoting people who are not competent enough to have a legitimate and constructive opinion as far as I am concerned.
A bit of anger there, boy.
Probably more arrogance than anger, Amorella, but I catch your drift. I am no better than the rest. I do think though that reason and science have to be used to get things done. Getting reelected does not do the trick.
Why don’t we use this constructively.
Good idea.
The toilets have been delivered and it is time for lunch. Later, dude. Post. – Amorella.
While looking for an old red spiral notebook from first year of college last night you picked up the book Bob Pringle had given you as a ‘present to a good friend’. Merlin: Shaman, Prophet, Magician by John Matthews. You read it immediately at the time (several years ago) and now see connections you have unconsciously used in the first three books.
I see many aspects mentioned in Matthew’s book that I followed through with in the story – especially Merlyn as an otherworldly figure even from the beginning of the myths of him or one like him. Many are depicted in popular films and the concept of his return to Earth was captured in book three of the Merlyn series. And then there is Taliesin, one who would take over for Merlyn. I had forgotten about him.
Looking at the "Scottish Royal Genealogy" by Gardner I see a personal legendary connection with a possible early ancestor, King Duncan II, through my ‘legendary’ genealogy. Here is how it looks beginning with the French King Faramond and his Queen Arogotta to Prince Taliesman the Archdruid and Queen Viviane del Acqs of Avallon.
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[And, French so on back to Faramond and Argotta
who Grandma puts in one of her stories in the Merlyn series.]
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Prince Taliesin the Archdruid and Queen Viviane del Acqs of Avallon
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Aedan MacGabhran Pendragon * and Ygerna (Igraine) del Acqa *
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Eochaid Buide, The Yellow-Haired *
(The Brother of Scottish King Arthur)
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Domnall Brecc, The Speckled or Pock-Marked
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Domangart II
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Eochaid II, Crooked-Nose
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Eochaid III
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Aen Find, the Fair
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Eochaid IV, The Poisonous and Fergusa
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Alpin
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King Kenneth MacAlpin of Scotland
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Constantine I
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Donald I
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Malcolm I
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Kenneth II & Queen Unnamed
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Malcolm II MacKenneth and Queen Unnamed
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Princess Bethoc MacKenneth * and Crinan Mormaer *
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Duncan I MacCrinan and Sibyl Fitziward
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Malcolm III and Ingeborg Finn (First wife)
[Line from Elizabeth II through Malcolm’s second wife,
St. Margaret of Scotland]
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Duncan II and Ethelreda of Dunbar
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In one of the earlier posting this year I placed the genealogy from the Orndorff’s to the Hubbell’s; Hubbell’s to Lucy’s; Lucy’s to Duncan II. So, from Duncan II back through the royal line there is a direct connection with Prince Taliesin the Archdruid, who may or may not be Taliesin the Bard.
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As you were busily researching this you found another blogspot blog with this added delight. – Amorella
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Kate Middleton's Royal Line
Descent from Queen Viviane del Acqs, the family of King Arthur and the Bloodline of the Holy Grail
LOG ARCHIVE
From: http://royalmiddletons.blogspot.com/
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Back to Laurence Gardner
Back to Laurence Gardner
Below from: www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/laurence-gardner-alternative-historian-whose-work-helped-inspire-dan-brown-2056096.html
Obituary: Thursday, 19 August 2010
Laurence Gardner: Alternative historian whose work helped inspire Dan Brown
Laurence Gardner was a prominent author and speaker in the "alternative history" genre of research and writing, whose eight published works presented often controversial revisionist theories, challenging orthodox views of world history.
He was born Barry Laurence Gardner in Hackney, London, in 1943 and worked at first as a stockbroker in the City before turning towards the arts in general and to writing in particular. His first alternative history work, Bloodline of the Holy Grail (1996), developed ideas that had emerged in Holy Blood and Holy Grail (Baigent/ Leigh/Lincoln, 1982) and in turn provided some of the inspiration for the development of Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code (2003). Here, Gardner advanced the idea that Jesus had not died on the cross but had instead married Mary Magdalene, fathered children and created a bloodline of descendants which existed through to the present day.
Publishing News spoke of this "...controversial and uniquely comprehensive book of Messianic descent, compiled from the most intriguing histories ever written" and it soon became a top-10 bestseller, as well as being serialised in the Daily Mail. . . .
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The above obituary from the “Independent” is kinder than what Wikipedia has to say about Gardner below, Amorella.
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Career: Laurence Gardner's first book Bloodline of the Holy Grail was published in 1996. The book was serialized in the Daily Mail and a best seller. He used his books to propose several theories, including a belief that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had married and had children, whose descendants included King Arthur and the House of Stuart. In Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark he claimed that the Ark of the Covenant was a machine for manufacturing "monatomic gold" - a supposed elixir which could be used to extend life. His books also included theories about Freemasonry, the Knights Templar, The Holy Grail and proposed connections between Atenism and Judaism.
Gardner referred to himself as "Chevalier Labhran de Saint Germain", and "Presidential Attache to the self-styled European Council of Princes" also "Prior of the self-styled Celtic Churches Sacred Kindred of Saint Columbia". He also claimed to be Jacobite Historiographer Royal of the Royal House of Stewart. He was a supporter of Michael Lafosse, in particular his claims to be descended from the House of Stuart, which Gardner claimed was descended from Jesus Christ.
Historians and scholars regard him as a conspiracy theorist, and treat his work as pseudohistory. Michel Lafosse's claims have been dismissed.
Laurence Gardner was also known in the United States for his radio phone-ins.
It was announced on his personal website that he had died on 12 August 2010 after a prolonged illness.
His book, "The Origin of God", was published in November 2010 as a publish-on-demand book from the Dash House Publishing Company set up by his widow. It is described as "a biographical exploration of the deiform character variously known as Yahweh, Allah, or simply The Lord. It seeks to uncover and evaluate his original identity..."
Selected from Wikipedia
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So much for the author of Bloodline of the Holy Grail; which I have a copy. I read it back in the nineties but in the late seventies or early eighties I read Holy Blood, Holy Grail, which was a much better and seemingly to me, a more scholarly presentation though no actual proof was presented. In some ways today it reminds me of Erich Von Daniken’s Ancient Astronauts. Here is Wikipedia on Holy Blood, Holy Grail.
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Below from Wikipedia
Below from Wikipedia
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (retitled Holy Blood, Holy Grail in the United States) is a controversial book by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln.
The book was first published in 1982 by Jonathan Cape in London, as an unofficial follow-up to three BBC Two TV documentaries being part of the Chronicle series. A sequel to the book, called ˆThe Messianic Legacy, was published in 1987. The original work was reissued in an illustrated hardcover version in 2005. One of the books, according to the authors, which influenced the project was L’Or de Rennes (later re-published as Le Trésor Maudit), a 1967 book by Gearad de Sede, with the collaboration of Pierre Plantard.
In The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, the authors put forward a hypothesis, that the historical Jesus married Mary Magdalene, had one or more children, and that those children or their descendants emigrated to what is now southern France. Once there, they intermarried with the noble families that would eventually become the Merovingian dynasty, whose special claim to the throne of France is championed today by a secret society called the Priory of Sion. They concluded that the legendary Holy Grail is simultaneously the womb of saint Mary Magdalene and the sacred royal bloodline she gave birth to.
An international bestseller upon its release, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail spurred interest in a number of ideas related to its central thesis. Response from professional historians and scholars from related fields was universally negative. They argued that the bulk of the claims, ancient mysteries, and conspiracy theories presented as facts are pseudohistorical. Nevertheless, these ideas were considered blasphemous enough for the book to be banned in some Roman Catholic-dominated countries such as the Philippines.
In a 1982 review of the book for The Observer, literary critic Anthony Burgess wrote: "It is typical of my unregenerable soul that I can only see this as a marvellous theme for a novel." The theme was used by Dan Brown in his 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code.
Selected from Wikipedia
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What you gathered here shows that most probably these pseudohistories are just that – mostly, if not all fiction. – Amorella.
This the way I see it. However, I have used mixed examples from both Holy Blood, Holy Grail and Bloodline of the Holy Grail in the fictional Merlyn series. The real histories are also disputed from time to time and ‘cleansed’ of earlier errors. The dark humor here, as I see it, is that we all have more fiction in and around us than we would like to accept, yet, accept it we do in our myths and legends built on real human beings who are living and dead. I think no one knows the ‘truth of ourselves and this place of present existence’ but G---D, if G---D does indeed exist. Looking G---D or an Angel of G---D straight on (metaphorically of course) I would begin, if asked, by saying, “I feel I am mostly fiction.” It is an honest enough beginning when I would not know how else to be under such a hypothetical circumstance.
Good. You needed to clear this up blogwise in such a presentation. Title this: "Pseudo-histories". Post. All for today. – Amorella.
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