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Summary: This Malarkey Almost Justifies the Secrecy
Review: Yes, there are aliens abducting people like me. But they aren't involved with the Masons. Sure there are lots of Mormon Masons in the intelligence community, and a very small minority of Mormons in Utah actually believe lizard men have a colony under Salt Lake City, but that doesn't make it true. The real aliens, who aren't lizards, are just involved in an artificial evolution project that is unethically put above the individual liberties of people like me.Yes, a conspiracy killed JFK, but it wasn't the CIA and some world conspiracy that did it. The people (Cuban exiles and militia nuts) the CIA was training to kill Castro got mad when JFK put an end to their programs, so they blew his brains out. This kind of whiplash effect is called "blowback" in intelligence circles. Besides, what did you expect when Kennedy called for detente with the Soviets so soon after the McCarthy hearings? FBI and CIA were just covering up their negligence, as any bureaucracy could be expected to do -- especially when they knew people like Marrs have a tendency to exaggerate things. Yes, Freemasonry is partly responsible for the cohesion that existed amongst the military officers during the American Revolution, and for the resulting U.S. Constitution. However, after a series of murder trials in the 1800's exposed their problems, the secret society largely turned into a benign men's club. Lastly, though many international organizations are quite uncompassionate, that's not the result of any of the above occurrences. People, whether it be the old CIA, the IMF, or the real alien visitors, tend to take advantage of the weak for their own high-minded priorities. This is only evidence of the universal lack of compassion and honesty amongst most intelligent beings, not of some single, absolute conspiracy. Just because there's some truth in Marrs' books doesn't mean the other claims and conclusions in them are correct. It's as good a reason as any to keep these secrets from the public. Even "acclaimed reporters" can't seem to keep their heads about these things.
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Summary: Aren't we past this yet?
Review: Marrs, a veteran conspiracy writer has dumped more baseless conspiracy tripe into the laps of the ignorant and toothless out there providing "proof" of a conspiracy. Virtually all of the tripe in this book was believed by Tim McVeigh--but then, according to some in the conspiracy camp, the feds themselves blew up that building in Oklahoma City. Page upon page of tripe, historically disproven theories, and scarely hidden anti-Semitism. Like virtually all conspiracy theory writers, Marrs simply quotes other conspiracy authors--you know, incestuous research any first year M.A. student in history would be called on. Nonetheless, this does not stop Marrs, who continues to pump ou the (stuff) disguished as history. And, as it is, it will probably sell millions to the slow, witless, anti-semitic, and historically ignorant--the latter of which describes Marrs himself. Like his namesake, Texe Marrs, Jim Marrs doesn't have a clue. Avoid this book: unless you are short of toilet paper; but then, since many of his readers stocked up on that commodity for Y2K, that is unlikely. Sickening...
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Summary: a book of conclusions..
Review: Jim Marrs turns a plethora of facts, suppositions, coincidence, and indeed skullduggery into a book of conclusions. Whether these conclusions, documenting a vast, impenetrable, centuries-old conspiracy, are 'true', is perhaps less important than what it takes to get the world to believe that they are true. In this case, a little 'caveat emptor' goes a long way toward keeping one's head clear of the drain circling maelstrom being given its indictment within these pages. There is no doubt a good deal of truth to the author's conclusions with respect to an interrelationship existing between so-called "secret societies", such a conclusion is, after all, acknowledged as being at least canonical, if not factual, even by mainstream historians; but the malaise which is appropriated to that nefarious concerted web is all Mr. Marrs' doing, however welcomed it may be by those wishing to explain the world's history by their own misfortune. As for the book's forays into extra-terrestrial territory, perhaps the less said the better. Here one finds explanations that do not beguile the modern thinker so much as confound him. What is the point of believing or disbelieving such extravagance? It is an axiom of human invention that warns us that when we discover the forces that have enslaved us, we have discovered ourselves. In other words, it is impossible to ascribe dark and malevolent powers to those who have enslaved us without naming ourselves. It is there that certain of the author's theories come to rest; dead, or at least dying, of their own extravagant desire to fill in the cracks of history with the putty of conspiracy. A book like this might have been a serious discussion of the nature of power, the desire that it engenders, the havoc that its devotees wreak. Instead, one finds a bit of comic strip approach, interesting in places, but falling into the trap of faulty logic, or no logic at all, revealing its weakness as human, to a fault. Still... one wonders how ELSE to explain the election of an idiot scion to the presidency of the United States in full view of the world, not to mention all those curious little sorrows that beset human life and remain astonishing and 'unexplainable' after millennia of recorded human history. Buy this book, just don't necessarily turn its scriptural pages with a literalist's predilection. There is much more to be said, and so very much more to be understood.
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Summary: Let's Party like its 3746 !
Review: Well...this book should be required text for all humans. Without going into a synopsis-type review all I can say to you is that you can tear up and throw out your Bible, Koran, Talmud or whatever religious system "User's Guide" you believe in. While you are at it toss in all you think you know about politics, economics and world history. Then take a copy of this book, remove its cover and replace it with one that simply says "The Truth". To even attempt to continue to blindly believe in the "status quo" of religion, politics, economic systems, history, origin and virtually all we think we "know" about human existence would be naive at best, rubber stamping our death warrants at worst. READ THIS BOOK AND GIVE IT TO A FRIEND. TELL THEM TO BUY A COPY AND GIVE IT TO ONE OF THEIR FRIENDS. SEND E-BOOK COPIES TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES, STATE & FEDERAL. Like Jim says, the one secret "THEY" can't hide from is that there are a lot more of "us" then there is of "them". Problem is, "they" know most all of us are sheep. Maybe it is time for the masses to become the wolves. To those who simply debunk on sight or wish not to "know" I suggest that you take another "blue pill" and let me know how your steak tastes.
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Summary: Great Eye Opener For The Working Poor
Review: This book is for those who have followed all the rules, done all the right things such as higher education, family, religion, community and still find themselves struggling to make ends meet because of downsizing and a shifting economy that they still have no clue, as to when it started shifting, or how they got stuck in the middle of it.
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Summary: Choose something less disturbing...
Review: Earthlings! Attention! Mr Jim Marrs asserts that "most of what has been presented in this book is true" (p.408), and since what he says is, with a single exception, undeniably true, I will waste no time in attempting to deny it. But think! Surely you don't want to learn that you are a genetically modified primate created for the single purpose of serving us! Surely you don't want to know that planet earth is, and always has been, a mere slave colony in an obscure region of space? Surely you don't want to be confronted by the indisputable truth that it has been controlled by us and our progeny since remotest times, and has always pursued a non-human agenda? It is true that, from your own limited earthling point-of-view, given earth's history of kingship, wars, massacres, famines, poverty, starvation, disease, and vast inequalities of wealth, we may not seem to have been doing such a good job. But think what a burden it would be to be in control of your own destiny! Think how dull your life would be without the excitement of an occasional war! Think how inferior you would feel if you didn't have the poor to look down on! Think how much more tasty your food becomes when you remember the many who have none! Think of the pleasure it gives you when your illnesses allow you to draw on the sympathy and concern of others! Think of how boring it must be to be rich! There are many nice books at Amazon, books which are tissues of lies (as are most books), and which will serve to confirm you in your current illusions, illusions which our agents have taken great pains to plant in you. Forget about 'Rule by Secrecy' and choose a nicer book. How can someone created as a slave be happy as other than a slave? Why wish to rise above the common stupidity? Earthlings! Believe me when I tell you that we really do have your best interests at heart. Remember that the truth has never been popular. Surely you don't want to become ... unpopular? 'Rule by Secrecy' is far too disturbing a book for the average run of folks. It is a book destined for oblivion. Forget it. Choose something less disturbing... And by the way, would someone please inform Mr Marrs that Akkadian is not, as he claims, "a later form of Sumerian" (p.379). Akkadian is a different and wholly unrelated Semitic language spoken by the later inhabitants of Sumer. Sumerian is unique and has, of course, no known earthly antecedents or descendants.
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Summary: Eye-Opening
Review: O.K., I admit, this was my first 'conspiracy theory' book, but I found it exciting, thought-provoking, and yes, at times, disturbing. I will never look at history or current events the same way again. I couldn't put the book down, and had a hard time getting to sleep if I read it at night. It sparked my curiosity on this subject and I went on to read Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The Hiram Key, both of which were good follow-ups. I'm hooked!
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Summary: At the very least, it makes you wonder...
Review: First off, let me say that one MUST have an open mind when reading this book, a trait obviously not possessed by some of its readers. I'm not saying you have to be an "X-Files" fan to read it...just be sure to go in with a completely objective perspective. Take everything in the book with a grain of salt, but remember to also take what you've learned in the past with a grain of salt. Personally, I believe the truth lies somewhere in between. Marrs' descriptions and analysis of the relationships between the modern secret societies such as the CFR and the Trilateral Commission are mostly based on accepted and unexotic facts...his conclusions are hardly revolutionary, in that the facts speak for themselves, in ways that are immediately disturbing. Thankfully, the book takes no political side: personalities from both ends of the political spectrum are placed under scrutiny. Towards the end of the book is where things get a little nuts. The possibility of humankind's origins being linked to extraterrestrials is discussed, but the argument is compelling, especially when one temporarily lets go of religious bias. The one weakness in this part of the book is the author's tendency to either wander from citing sources properly, or to present his own conclusions from undivulged research as fact...which one of these I do not know. It would probably be somewhat impractical in a book like this, but the use of footnotes as opposed to endnotes would have helped a lot, especially in my desire to look into some of these issues myself. In any event, Marrs makes an extremely strong case for the true origins of modern religion, government, and who's running the show...and he ties it all together in a surprisingly neat little ball of relationships that easily overlay the history we commonly are taught in school. Without a doubt, Marrs has with this book at the very least hit on some immensely strong possibilities which cannot be denied in their superior logic to commonly held beliefs, as well as a few things that one would have to do independent research on before deciding which side to take. If you still think it's all hogwash, at least you'll be entertained.
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Summary: This isn't the first
Review: There are many great conspiracy books out there and it seems anyone with reasonable intelligence could cobble one together. Probably the classic is "NONE DARE CALL IT CONSPIRICY", which was written during the Nixon administration. I read it while working at the annual Bohemian Grove encampment in Northern California in '92 and it really turned my head around! This was because about half the people on Nixon's cabinet mentioned in the appendix were present and I was actually serving them wine and cheese. Besides seeing these Masons getting wasted, peeing on trees, singing dirty limmericks and their quasi-homosexuality, I did observe/witness some pretty bizzare rituals. Books like these do take a stretch of belief initially, as people who broach these subjects tend to be treated as whackos (just ask my dad). I do believe the basic hypothesis of this book, however. Those interested in more annotated and possibly more accuratly researched books should check-out HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL by Bagnet, Leigh and Lincoln which reads like a detective novel but has such meticulous documentation that it begs believeability. The basic jist is that Jesus has a bloodline that lives to this day and is the basis for a sector of these powerful secret societies. It always amazes me that many of the followers of these so called conspiracy theories are also believers in "God", when reason and logical intuitive thinking dictate that this isn't so (but I'll be the first to admit that I could be completely wrong and hope they at least have booze, drugs, hot chicks, rock 'n roll and free-jazz in hell!). Another mind bender with actual footnotes is the classic THE SPEAR OF DESTINY by Trevor Ravenscroft which details Hitler and the Nazi party's immersion in Satanism and the belief in world historic destiny and the Nietzcian(?) belief in the "will to power". This book is based on a Christian concept of good vs evil, yet when you read this you just may want to start believing in the big "G" and wearing ugly slacks. Herein lies the basic fault with most of these theories in that many of their core belief systems seem to be diametrically opposed to each other like the afforementioned two books. Yet, in a rapidly expanding universe (or "omniverse" as Sun Ra would have called it), where the laws of physics are being corrected every day and multi-dimensions now seem a distinct possibility, could it not be so that what is true is false and vice versa. I don't know, I let that prole Dan Rather tell me what's going on and hum commercial jingles like most of the rest of America. Even if some gun nut in Montana's most paranoid wet-dreams do turn out to be true, how really will it effect your day-to-day life? Time still marches on, and there's really nothing you can do to change any of it, unless you want to put your money where your mouth is and head on over to George W. Bush's pad and use his coke-addled melon for target practice. Now there'a an idea: next time, vote with a bullet! Chris D
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Summary: Absurd
Review: I give the single star only because there is not an option to give no stars at all. This book is lying nonsense pulled from a hat, put into book form and sold to gullible people. No one with more than a fifth grade education should be taken in by it.
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