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Haha, this was great. I arrived at an article about “John Frum” which did sound like a secret, and was quite the rabbit hole [1]. It got me worried about histo
by jiofih 6y ago
Haha, this was great. I arrived at an article about “John Frum” which did sound like a secret, and was quite the rabbit hole [1].
It got me worried about history. The whole story sounds like 90s zine fiction, which I think it is - there is no record I could find beyond the original story from 1995 on Harper’s Magazine [2], yet it is now in Wikipedia, stated as a fact.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frum
[2] https://skeptichume.weebly.com/the-gospel-according-to-prum.html https://skeptichume.weebly.com/the-gospel-according-to-prum....
- jfk13 6y agoThe wikipedia article includes references from a couple of decades earlier, at least; e.g. > Nat. Geographic: May 1974. "Tanna (Island, New Hebrides, South Pacific Ocean) Awaits the Coming of John Frum (cargo cults of Melanesia since about 1940)". (See https://georgehbalazs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/TANNA-AWAITS-THE-COMING-OF-JOHN-FRUM-1974-National-Geographic.pdf https://georgehbalazs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/TANNA-A... for a scan of the full article.)
- vageli 6y ago> It got me worried about history. The whole story sounds like 90s zine fiction, which I think it is - there is no record I could find beyond the original story from 1995 on Harper’s Magazine [2], yet it is now in Wikipedia, stated as a fact. Did you look at the references section in the article?
- maneesh 6y agoThis is a great documentary about the situation: https://johnfrummovie.com/ https://johnfrummovie.com/
- wruza 6y agoOh god, I just watched a video about John Frum, and now this subthread, it briefly felt like a delusion.