<HTML>Hi Francis,
It sounds like we hold similiar views.
>I agree. I believe we have a similar view on this, except I do not consider that bad.
No it isn't bad, until a person tries to force their belief system upon others. I fully acknowledge my religious belief is a belief system and I believe it's true, but then that's what I've chosen to believe and whilst I expect those around me to have respect for that I would never try and impose my religious belief upon them. I'm deviating from our original subject I know, but I'm sure you guys understand my point.
>I have no problem with Hancock and the stories in his books as I don't
>hold them to be scientific, nor do I feel that it is their goal to be. My
>feeling is that his shows on TV and his books are an entertaining way to
>discover the world and introduce yourself in the world of History.
If that's the manner the books and tv programs had been put forth in I seriously doubt any of us would have a problem with it - certainly not me also.
>I for one love to read about hollow earth theories,
It must make for fascinating reading, once you forget there are people who still believe it:-)
>GH's book "Heaven's Mirror" contains beautiful pictures, when I open it
>now, it's more for the pictures than for the text,
The photos are really stunning. His wife has a lot of talent (well she would, having come from Africa! - says me who was born there;-) ). I nearly brought HM for her photos alone.
>After all, all this got me here; It got me into reading mainstream history
>books for the first time since school.
This will surprise a lot of people, but it was FOG which got me interested originally in Egypt. I still remember the day I was told about it and resolved to buy the book (I did, a month and a half later in December 1995). The guy who told me about the book to this day is not aware of the influence of those 45 minutes.
Mike.</HTML>
