I read one of those loony conspiracy books once. Can't remember what it was called or who lent it to me.
It destroyed its own case on its own internal evidence.
It was waffling on about, of course, the Templars, and all the usual weird whatevers that they were supposed to be mixed up in. And it made the mistake of describing the background to the destruction of the Templars.
So on its own description the Templars were extremely wealthy with a lot of land and money, and had lent out that money to various rulers. So a lot of very powerful people were very heavily in debt to them. Then they suddenly lost their power base in the Holy Land.
And their leaders were arrested by the people who owed them vast amounts of money, and were tortured.
Of course they confessed to having Weapons of Magical Destruction. It would have been weird if they hadn't so confessed!
So the book itself made it quite clear that the whole thing was a complete load of blair.
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Date: 2005-12-16 08:32 pm (UTC)It destroyed its own case on its own internal evidence.
It was waffling on about, of course, the Templars, and all the usual weird whatevers that they were supposed to be mixed up in. And it made the mistake of describing the background to the destruction of the Templars.
So on its own description the Templars were extremely wealthy with a lot of land and money, and had lent out that money to various rulers. So a lot of very powerful people were very heavily in debt to them. Then they suddenly lost their power base in the Holy Land.
And their leaders were arrested by the people who owed them vast amounts of money, and were tortured.
Of course they confessed to having Weapons of Magical Destruction. It would have been weird if they hadn't so confessed!
So the book itself made it quite clear that the whole thing was a complete load of blair.