Kensington Rune Authenticated

(Conspiracy Nation, 01/22/06) -- The conspiracy in what follows is, you were not informed of it. Stupid "news" items, so-called "junk news," crowd out other, relevant items. "History" such as "Columbus 'discovered' America in 1492" drones on unchanged. The January 2006 cover story from Fate Magazine alerted Conspiracy Nation to try a Google news search on "Kensington Rune." One local newspaper, The Isantic County News, corroborates "Evidence said to prove Rune Stone authentic." On December 28, 2005, an article by Rachel Kytonen summarized recent findings. In 1898, Olof Ohman unearthed a 202-pound stone on his farm in Minnesota. The strange symbols carved thereon were translated. A date was included: the year 1362. Christopher Columbus wasn't anywhere close to Minnesota in 1362. In fact, Columbus hadn't even been born!

Fate Magazine offers this translation of the Kensington Runestone:

We eight Goetalanders and twenty two Northmen are on this acquisition expedition far west from Vinland. We had properties near two shelters one day's march north from this stone. We went fishing one day. After we came home, I found ten men red with blood, dead. Ave Maria, save us from evil! I have ten men by the sea to look after our ships fourteen days' travel from this site. Year of the Lord 1362.

Typically, hidebound "science" has been like the proverbial ostrich with head buried in the sand. Without even examining the runestone, the "scientists" declared it to be a fake. After all, everyone "knows" it was Columbus who "discovered" America in 1492.

A rare breed of scientist, i.e., honest scientists, geologist Scott Wolter and engineer Dr. Richard Nielsen, have co-authored a new book: The Kensington Rune Stone: Compelling New Evidence. Rachel Kytonen describes the book as containing "two distinct aspects": (1) "a comprehensive presentation of factual evidence that supports the authenticity of the artifact," and (2) an "attempt to explain the origin and meaning of some of the mysterious aspects of the inscription."

Two new aspects uncovered by the team, according to Kytonen, are "an encoded prayer and a reference to Gral, the medieval spelling of Grail."

The Kensington Rune is part of a category called "damned science" by researcher Charles Fort. By "damned," Fort meant the tendency for "scientists" to ignore (damn) any evidence undermining their pre-conceived notions. Belonging in this category is, for example, evidence of Roman Jews, in Arizona, in 775 A.D.

If people consider history at all, their conception usually involves a linear model. History thereby is seen as a straight line, trending "onward and upward." A less well-known conception is the cyclical model of history, where civilizations rise and fall and there is, in a sense, "nothing new under the sun."

A thought-provoking book, not necessarily true in the religious sense yet worthy of consideration in the historical sense, is The Book Of Mormon. This book can be obtained "free of charge" except you will have to briefly endure two Mormon proselytizers wearing woolen underwear. (No wonder they are so grim!) North America once hosted an advanced civilization which had declined into more or less of a savage state by the time Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492.

Where will our own advanced civilization be 500 years from now? Will we say things like, "Things go better with Coke," without having any idea what it means? Will repeated finds of golf balls by future archaeologists cause them to conclude we used golf balls as money?

"And the wind shall say: "Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road and a thousand lost golf balls." (T.S. Eliot. "Choruses from 'The Rock'")

"The medieval identity of this long-disputed object [the Kensington Runestone] has been confirmed," writes Frank Joseph, editor of Ancient America magazine. His article in Fate Magazine examines Wolter's and Nielsen's new evidence such as weathering of grooves in the carving and an "e-dialect" used by the explorers from Goetaland (Gothenland, Goth Land).

• Geological evidence, previously ignored;
• Previously undeciphered runes discovered in Sweden in the 1930s, long after Olof Ohman's 1898 find;
• New information from Ohman family archives;
• A Cistercian connection, in turn linking the Kensington Runestone with the Knights Templar;
• Further decoding of Runestone elements.

It boils down to further "mysteries, wrapped in riddles, hidden inside of enigmas." How far dare the mathematical adventurer go? Will they call you a "kook?" Will they say, "He wears a tinfoil hat"? Pay no heed. Would you want to be like them, the squares?

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