Response to Jan Ott & Mr. Stafford

Their Mostly Ad Hominem Review

I’m unable to post this in the comments of the YouTube video, so I’ll post it here for those interested. This is addressed to Jan Ott and his companion Mr. Stafford:

I'm only posting this because your video was more about me than providing evidence to support the historicity and authenticity of the OLB, and there is so much ad hominem fallacy that I have to answer it because I was trying to introduce you to Chance and make friends so you guys could go on his podcast and talk about these things. But I've unintentionally made a bad impression on both of you:

Jan, there was no agenda behind me reaching out to you. Though I don't know you and have only limited exposure of your work, I have spoken only good things about you and held you in high regard. I don't comment about your character or what I think your motives are. I was genuinely excited to speak with you and recommend your work and channel to my audience, and still would. I've shared this response video with them. I promise I did not set you up to paint you in a negative light or anything like that. Our time is way too valuable to spend on insincere tactics like that, and I swear to God I was looking forward to being friends with you and learning more about this subject through you. I meant no disrespect. You suggested we do a podcast in the chat of one of your livestreams after I commented regarding people asking me about the Oera Linda. Technically, you set it up by suggesting we should talk. There are things I wanted to address and converse with you about. That's the only reason I reached out to you (after you expressed interest). I was excited and had fun during our whole conversation. I never claimed to be experienced with Germanic or Scandinavian languages. I can't read Old Frisian, and outside of the OLB, where is their alphabetical system proving its antiquity? The only results that return are of Old Frisian runes, which descend from the Etruscan alphabet at Clusium. There is not one Germanic alphabet, unless I am mistaken, that doesn't descend from Old Italic (Etruscan).

You didn't talk to me in private to ask me about my motives before posting your commentary. That is disheartening, but it's also logically fallacious because it's ad hominem. My motives and character, if they were anything other than serving Truth or discovering it, ought not to matter. The only thing that matters is evidence. By the way, these are all subjects I would've loved to talk to you both about on a livestream, but the way you're going about this is more about me than my argument, so that's the only reason I'm commenting here because I suspect you've made up your minds.

Here are my responses:

1. Jol-Ferste/Juul-Feest/Yule-Feast: If feast, ferste, feest, etc. are the same word, why does it matter? The point I made is the reckoning of the year in winter. Focusing on what I address, whether it's Yule Feast, Juul Feest, Jol Ferste, etc. still makes my point.

2. Wralda - Those "tricks" are systems that the priests use. It's important to recognize that I'm not making claims about who wrote it or why they wrote it that way, but just demonstrating the ideas and philology laid up in the word. Then you proceed to do the same thing by observing its affinity to Allah. By the way, my work exposes the priests and the systems they use.

3. The script images - I think Chance might've clipped those from Asha Logos.

4. Phoenicians - I mispoke. It happens all the time on podcasts. We corrected it on the spot. The Etrurians, Tyhennians, Pelasgians, Telchines, etc. are not mentioned. Why are you guys focusing on Phoenicians and Italians but not the other word I mentioned: Etrurians? They were the maritime empire at the time Adela allegedly wrote these things down (circa 6th century BC, unless I am mistaken).

5. 26:45 - Stafford claimed I outright rejected the idea that you can find clues in the language wanting archaeological finds. This is nonsense. All of my books are about finding clues in the language. I even cite people like Archbishop Trench quoting Gerber, "Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck, and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion."

6. 27:25 - Stafford claims "All of the archaeology points to what this book is describing." Really? Claims like that require evidence. Would love for that evidence to be provided because I can use it in my work. The archaeological evidence and language of the ancient Italians demonstrates no affinity to Indo-European language. (for those interested, read The Etruscans by Michael Grant)

7. 27:37 - Stafford, "I don't know enough about the Etruscan language to know if that's true or not, but there's nothing to say that the Etruscans weren't a part of Frya's culture too." (This is the crux of my argument, as there are no inscriptions of Frya in Etruria that I'm aware of, which I was hoping our conversation would make people aware of should they come across, and you gentlemen chastise me for not knowing Old Frisian, but you're equally nescient of ancient Italian language. This matters because if Swinton, Gorius, and Astle can be depended on, then the early Etruscan alphabet may have been older than Phoenician on account of it only having 12-13 letters, but historians are trying to insert it into chronology as descending from Greek. But the Greeks got their alphabet from the Phoenicians, who may be the Etrurians to begin with (that's what I explore but don't claim yet), and the runes come from them, yet their language isn't Indo-European. My goal was for us to come together using these languages, the mythology, the archaeology, the religious customs, etc. If you're going to suggest that Etruscans were part of Frya's culture, then that requires evidence, which I will get on board with should it be provided.

8. 29:20 - I was just throwing out examples. I was not claiming Chaucer wrote Beowulf. And when I said 14th century, I was referring to Chaucer, not Beowulf. It was just to make a point. Thank you, Stafford, for recognizing that.

9. 30:00 - Using Iceland as an example of language not changing is not akin to the Frisians, who were not isolated. It's non sequitur. The majority of cultures referenced in the OLB were not isolated like Iceland. If there's a written tradition, where are the written examples of Old Frisian dated to around the time OLB referenced? If the evidence exists, then I can use it in my work, which is the primary reason I'm interested in this in the first place. If languages don't change that much, why would Hebrew have to be reintroduced in the common era with a vowel point system to teach people how to speak it? Why don't they follow their rules? Why would scholars have to create a conceptual framework like Proto-Indo-European? Because they change. I'm from New England, and so I have words in my vocabulary from Old England and Scotland that people in other parts of America have no idea what it means. Can you get used the dialects? Of course. But that is change. If languages didn't change, then the idea of Latin being a corruption of Frisian shouldn't be entertained. That's one of the claims Jan made in our interview that will publish soon, unless I am mistaken. So I agree, if languages aren't made common, they don't really change, like Sanskrit. But we don't see that in the languages of Europe, which was in constant flux regarding migration, conquest, etc.

10. Schoonland/Skenland - I conceded I was using the 1879 translation in the podcast. I also said I'm not trying to be contradictory. So Skendland and Schoonland are the same (I agree), yet you chastise me in the beginning for Juul-Feest, Yule-Feast, etc. Pliny is common era, a Roman historian existing in a time that Jan alluded to being chronologically misplaced in our interview. How could you then use that to prove the Oera Linda is authentic? What's the oldest inscription you can produce of the word Skendland in Old Frisian, in the standing rune system used by the OLB?

11. 37:58 - Menrva (Minerva) doesn't exist in any other langauge? Then why do Italians have it inscribed on plates in a language that has no affinity to Indo-European? (You will see it in our interview but don't need to wait. You can find great photos of it online at the British Museum.) Can you produce an inscription of Minerva in Old Frisian that predates the 3rd Century BC? This is a reasonable request. It would help me if you can.

12. By the way, the majority of the stuff we presented was just to show affinity to other cultures that I haven't heard you gentlemen speak about yet, i.e., Magy vs. Magi, etc. It's not to make claims about who wrote anything but to show you that there is a philological system embedded the words, which corresponds to a system of priestcraft.

13. 41:38 - I don't recall saying Scandinavia is a Latinization of anything. I used Britannja for that example, which it is, and it is a word that is totally out of place, so please correct the record and show an inscription of the word Britain in Old Frisian. I don't focus much on Scandinavia yet because, according to Polybius (if it's not forgery), that land was unknown during his time (2nd century BC) and "those who spoke or wrote of it were thought to lay down fables," and the focus of my work is trying to figure out the Chronological farrago that occurred leading up to those times.

14. 42:48 - You can play poker without ever bluffing. At the end of the tournament, you can only win with the evidence, the cards. Otherwise, whoever has the winning hand, can come back. That's why the expression "you only need a chip and a chair" exists. If you're going to claim I'm bluffing, call me on it and show me what I'm bluffing on. I promise I am not bluffing. If I'm wrong about something, I don't know it yet. I would never intentionally lie. And if I'm shown to be wrong, I'm eager to correct the record.

15. 44:20 - The OLB letter for A is written like a Greek Lambda (mirrored) more than a Greek A. I highly recommend you read Rev. Robert Taylor's "The Devil's Pulpit" to get another perspective on how the numerals and letters were created by priests. He was a clergyman. 48:00 - You haven't mentioned astronomy once or how it correlates to the priests and their systems, other than saying things like "sunwise."

16. 49:45 - You gentleman still have not provided one single artifact from antiquity to prove any of your claims. What's going on here? Are you projecting onto me? I was excited to listen to this, maybe get corrected and get some useful rebuttals, and there's literally nothing in this that proves the antiquity of Frisia or the historical accounts in the OLB that I can use to make the case for their part in empire prior to the common era.

17. 50:40 - You're 100% right. The wording of that instagram post was using a vulgar sense of humor. I was in an online spat at the time with someone who was an admitted junkie and was directing negative attention towards me and other people I know online for just pointing out the fact that the Runes descended from Old Italic (Etruscan). It was the wrong thing to write and I removed it after seeing this video because it isn't how I want my work to be presented.

18. 51:39 - If you're going to claim I'm emotionally attached, then prove it. I would love for there to be no lies regarding history so we could just know what occurred. I've stated over an over again if you can provide evidence I'll get on board with where that goes. Yet this entire video provides no evidence or artifacts that demonstrate the historicity or authenticity of the OLB and is more about your opinions of me.

19. 52:00 - I didn't claim I was a descendent of Julius Caesar. My path to citizenship to Italy comes from being descended from the De Cesare family. The family member I showed photos of was born Domenico de Cesare, son of Giovanni de Cesare. That is abject fact, and his phenotype is almost identical to the only bust remaining of Julius Caesar that was done while he was alive. It is what it is. Caesar's text is written in the third person (unless I'm mistaken), not necessarily by him, so I don't necessarily accept its authenticity. However, I am 100% against war, conquest, or causing harm to others. Not sure what kind of picture you're trying to paint about me, but it doesn't prove the authenticity or historicity of the OLB. It's ad hominem. You mock me, Jan, but I didn't mock you for having a nearly identical name with Jan Ottema, who is behind the Oera Linda. In fact, quite the opposite. I acknowledged the spiritual power that could be embedded in that synchronicity and gave you nothing but positive encouragement.

I wish you guys nothing but the best and I look forward to you talking about artifacts that may come to light to prove your case. Right now, I'll just leave this comment here. I hope you won't delete it or block me. I'm sorry if I offended you, Jan. I swear to God it was not my intention. I spent half of my day writing this while listening to it because I care. If I didn't value you gentlemen or your input, I wouldn't have responded. So, regardless of what you think, this was definitely not the outcome I envisioned.

Second name from the right, from the British Museum. MENRVA: c. 3rd Century BC.