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Re:Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at ... by jiofih on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @08:46AM (#25198353)
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

[2] https://skeptichume.weebly.com/the-gospel-according-to-prum....

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Re:Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at ... by wruza on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @11:11AM (#25199725)
Oh god, I just watched a video about John Frum, and now this subthread, it briefly felt like a delusion.
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Re:Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at ... by jfk13 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @09:01AM (#25198449)
The 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-A... for a scan of the full article.)

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Re:Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at ... by vageli on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @09:02AM (#25198463)
> 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?

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Re:Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at ... by maneesh on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @10:24AM (#25199264)
This is a great documentary about the situation: https://johnfrummovie.com/
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