william comyns beaumont

[andymonk]

Was he mad or are his theories true?

[sophia8]

Andymonk - It would be helpful if you had told us something about this guy.
This is his Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Comyns_Beaumont).
I don't see anything about educational theories in there. Maybe you'd like to expand a little? What do you think? What made you post about him?

[fuelair]

Was he mad or are his theories true?

To research this requires prior knowledge or a desire to research this. I have neither. If you want my opinion, provide data sufficient for me to form one.

I will say, if his theories involved Elder Gods and the stars, casually start whistling a nice show tune and slowly move backwards away from the documents. If you reach the door and it opens, run away, really fast.

[ingoa]

Was he mad or are his theories true?

Yes.

[Kopji]

Well, three of his books are endorsed here:

The locality of the Garden of Eden and the place of original sin, temptation and serpentine evil have been collated by one of the most incredible scholastic analysis I have ever seen, in 3 books by William Comyns Beaumont. The first 'The Riddle of Prehistoric Britain' London 1946 Where Beaumont traces the origins of northern Atlantis and the Aryan peoples to a land that incorporated the United Kingdom, Scotland, Shetland and Orkney, and Scandinavia - where once there was an idyllic climate and a lot less ocean. His comprehensive reinterpretation of the ancient geographers and archivists eg. Herodotus, Plato, Josephus, and other ancient accounts, put the Center of Aryan activity firmly on the northwest European Atlantic and Celtic fringe. The true cradle of civilization was the North West of Europe - Thule not Mesopotomia.
http://www.lauralee.com/news/truehistory.htm

Life is short and that's a good enough 'crazy' recommendation for me. Beaumont seems to get an internet recommendation for postulating that Earth's development might have been influenced by meteors... But then goes on to develop ideas that it was in historic times where that happened. A stopped watch is right twice a day and the gushing about meteors seems unjustified.

So I'd say a definite 'yes' to the mad question, and 'no' to the theories being true question.

I'd also step out on a limb, and assert that if you are having trouble figuring this out, ya got other issues with reality.

[fuelair]

Well, three of his books are endorsed here:

Life is short and that's a good enough 'crazy' recommendation for me. Beaumont seems to get an internet recommendation for postulating that Earth's development might have been influenced by meteors... But then goes on to develop ideas that it was in historic times where that happened. A stopped watch is right twice a day and the gushing about meteors seems unjustified.

So I'd say a definite 'yes' to the mad question, and 'no' to the theories being true question.

I'd also step out on a limb, and assert that if you are having trouble figuring this out, ya got other issues with reality.

Did Hitler and his little philosophy studies group play with this perchance? Sounds like it would have been right up their (back) alley!:jaw-dropp

[Zep]

I guess if you keep one bonkers idiot following after another bonkers idiot and out of the running of mainstream life for the rest of us, it's a bonus.