Sollog

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Sollog (born 1960 as John Patrick Ennis) is an American numerologist, mystic, and self-proclaimed psychic. He is also a self-published author and a self-described artist, musician, poet, and filmmaker.

Contents 1 Meaning of the name 2 Background 3 Activities 4 Sollog's supporters 5 Predictions 5.1 Methods 5.2 The 911 prediction 5.3 The SUSA prediction 6 Sollog and his critics 7 Legal problems 8 Notes 9 References 10 External links

[edit] Meaning of the name

Sollog refers to himself by what he calls the "religious name" of Sollog Immanuel Adonai-Adoni (the first name is sometimes fully capitalized: SOLLOG). Howard Altman, a reporter for the alternative weekly newspaper Philadelphia City Paper, has written that Sollog stands for "son of light, light of God,"^[1] although Sollog has asserted that Altman is incorrect.

Sollog states that the name is derived from "Sol" and "Logos", literally "the word of the sun". ^[2] The last part of his name, Adonai-Adoni, is Hebrew for "God (Adonai)—My Master (Adoni)." Sollog also provides an alternative explanation on page 29 of his e-book Jesus is Not God: “L LOGOS or the word of God in Greek is a Greek PI or word jumble of the word Sollog! Sollog is a hidden name that means the word of God!” ^[3]

[edit] Background

According to the alternative news weekly, Philadelphia City Paper, Sollog once worked at a family-owned pornographic establishment in Arizona^[4].

Posters on the Usenet newsgroup alt.usenet.kooks named him "Kook of the Month" for June 1998, and gave him the Victor von Frankenstein "Weird Science" Award for January 2001.

Victoria Shannon of the Washington Post is one of only two examples of a reporter from a major media news source that has specifically mentioned the name of Sollog or Ennis in print. Shannon noted that the Internet can give Sollog the same exposure as Dan Rather, but concluded that in terms of resources, quality, and credibility the two are "at opposite ends of the spectrum" [1]. Also, Edward A. Mazza II, of The Daily Yomiuri, an English-language Japanese newspaper, wrote,

In the lunatic file, a self-styled seer claims to have predicted all the recent air disasters at a site called "What's Hot" [here]. Solog (sic) Immanuel Adonai-Adoni has even written a book about it. It seems that either "the government" or the number 113 is behind the spate of recent air disasters. Sollog has also predicted that Clinton will die in office, and the United States will come to an end by the year 2001.^[5]

[edit] Activities

Sollog operates a business known as Adoni Publishing, which sells e-books of his writing, CDs of music composed by him, and video material about him. His e-books explore a number of paranormal themes, including the Bible codes, UFOs, and Nostradamus, as well as creationism, religion, and numerology. Adoni Publishing also operates subscription sites such as 1underground.com that are only indirectly related to Sollog, containing such material as celebrity gossip, pornography, and pictures and videos of unnatural deaths (akin to the "Faces of Death" series of movies).^{[citation needed]}

Sollog is the founder of the "Temple of Hayah", which believes that "all life is part of God and therefore God". Since the mid-1990s he has been very prolific, publishing his beliefs and predictions in great quantities on the web and Usenet. ^[6]

[edit] Sollog's supporters

People acting as Sollog supporters have argued strenuously with his detractors on Usenet and other forums.

It is possible that all the Sollog-supporting Internet accounts are simply Sollog; however, the person or persons using these accounts always claim to be separate individuals, and specifically deny being Sollog. ([2], [3], [4]).

[edit] Predictions

Sollog claims to have predicted a large number of major events, including the crash of TWA flight 800, the Oklahoma City bombing, the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, the September 11 terrorist attacks, and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, as well as a wide range of natural disasters in the U.S. ^[6]

[edit] Methods

On a map Sollog draws lines between cities in the United States, claiming a successfully predicted disaster for any hurricane that passes over one of these lines. For example, in 2002, he predicted that 17 particular hurricanes would hit 17 particular cities. ^[7] However, over half of these hurricanes had already passed without destroying any city, and the names will not be reused until 2010 at the earliest. Hurricane Katrina was notably absent from the list.

Sollog has also issued repeated predictions of specific events, without tying them to specific dates. These are subsequently assigned various dates by other people. A notable instance of such a claim is the death of Pope John Paul II, for which Sollog's claims had been interpreted as predictions for March 18 (without a year) [5], September 11, 1997 [6], and October 15, 1997 [7]. The alleged prophecies referred to in the links do not mention any specific dates. The pope died on April 2, 2005.

[edit] The 911 prediction

In a more notable Usenet posting, dated 11 September 1998 at 2:00 a.m., someone with the pseudonym of "eLnIn" writes, "SOLLOG SAYS THAT ON 911 THERE WILL BE A GREAT EMERCENCY IN WASHINGTON DC ANOTHER GARAUNTEE FROM SOLLOG THE GOD OF ONE!!!!! READ IT AND WEEP MORONS!!!!!"^[8] Sollog states that this is a specific prediction of the 11 September 2001 attacks.^{[citation needed]} Xinoehpoel, either a follower or an alter ego of Sollog, also predicted the attacks in the same Usenet newsgroup.

[edit] The SUSA prediction

On January 24, 2004 a Usenet poster by the name of TruthSeeker submitted "THE SUSA PROPHECY by Sollog". The text refers to American cities that are to be destroyed, saying "A Great Hurricane shall destroy New Orleans." Given the geographic characteristics of New Orleans and the extensive history of hurricane activity in the Gulf of Mexico, the wake of Hurricane Katrina and devastation of New Orleans had been widely predicted by meteorologists and most civic leaders. [8]

[edit] Sollog and his critics

Sollog has complained about a few of his critics, including Howard Altman, an investigative reporter and former editor-in-chief of the alternative weekly Philadelphia City Paper; Robert Carroll, founder of the website The Skeptic's Dictionary; Los Angeles Times reporter Kenneth Reich; Washington Post reporter Victoria Shannon; and Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia.

According to Altman, Ennis responded to irreverent articles by sending faxes warning him to handle his mail carefully in case it included explosives, which Altman interpreted as mailbomb threats, while Sollog claimed they were merely predictions. Altman also claims that Ennis also reportedly threatened to sue him for $1 trillion in damages.

[edit] Legal problems

According to the alternative weekly Philadelphia City Paper (Altman 1996), Ennis has had various legal problems, including an incident on February 5, 1988, where Sollog was arrested in Philadelphia following a drunken high-speed vehicle chase which ended with police officer Sam D'Urso being seriously injured. Ennis was charged with two counts of aggravated assault (including one charge of intentionally causing serious bodily injury to a police officer), one count of recklessly endangering another person, and one of driving under the influence. After he failed to appear in court a second warrant for his arrest was issued, but the authorities did not follow up on this and it remained unacted upon for another seven years.

In September 1995, Sollog was questioned by the United States Secret Service on suspicion of making threats against the President of the United States. According to Sollog, this was related to a prediction that a plane crash would occur if President Bill Clinton flew to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Sollog was never charged for any crime relating to those alleged threats, which Sollog insisted were merely predictions. During his questioning by the Secret Service, it was discovered that he had two warrants outstanding against him. He was arrested and committed for trial on the February 1988 vehicle offenses. When the case came to court in May 1996, Sollog's defense invoked conspiracy theories involving the President, the Governor of Pennsylvania, and W. Wilson Goode, the Mayor of Philadelphia. He dismissed his own defense attorney, calling him "part of the conspiracy", and thereafter represented himself. Judge Anthony DeFino described the case (which Altman called the "God Trial") as being "the most unusual case I have ever seen in my courtroom". Ennis was convicted on all four charges and imprisoned.[9]

Ennis was arrested again on March 3, 2005 and held first in Broward County, Florida for a May 31 extradition hearing [10]. By late August he had been extradited to Philadelphia to await trial on charges arising from violation of work release for the earlier DUI incident [11]. The scheduled date for the trial was September 5, 2006. [12].

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

The following reports were consulted during the writing of this article.

• Altman, Howard (September 11 – 18 September 1997). "Stern Warning" by ; Philadelphia City Paper.
• Altman, Howard (September 25 – October 2, 1997). "Seer Vs. Scribes". Philadelphia City Paper.
• Altman, Howard (February 21 – 28 February 2002). "Oy McVeigh". Philadelphia City Paper.
• FBI looks for terror's tracks online (September 15, 2001). St Petersburg Times (sourced from The New York Times).
• Schwartz, John (September 17, 2001). Scouring the Internet in Search of the Tracks of Terrorists. The New York Times.
• Shannon, Victoria (September 8, 1997). "Diana's Death Brings Out the Good, Bad and Ugly on the Net". Washington Post.
• Sollog. Sollog on the meaning of Sollog. Retrieved January 13, 2005.
• A death foretold? - Sollog's Line of Death (April 1999). The Guardian. Retrieved January 16, 2005.

[edit] External links

• Sollog's website
• The Official Alt.Usenet.Kooks Funny Farm; Ennis has won three awards, including the "Kook of the Month" award.
• Broward County Case Summary for Extradition

Persondata
NAME	Ennis, John Patrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sollog Immanuel Adonai-Adoni; God Almighty
SHORT DESCRIPTION	American psychic, mystic, religious figure; self-proclaimed deity
DATE OF BIRTH	July 14, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH