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Originally posted by AURaptor:
... as an ancient astronomical calendar.

Beyond that, why did people bother w/ such a effort to construct it ?

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The great Pyramids, beyond serving as fancy tombs for an elite individuals, as declared by themselves , don't actually DO anything, do they ?

Point is, just because something looks impressive or a group has a lot of followers ( eg: religion ) doesn't make it inherently 'right', or valid.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

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... as an ancient astronomical calendar.

Beyond that, why did people bother w/ such a effort to construct it ?

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The great Pyramids, beyond serving as fancy tombs for an elite individuals, as declared by themselves , don't actually DO anything, do they ?

Point is, just because something looks impressive or a group has a lot of followers ( eg: religion ) doesn't make it inherently 'right', or valid.

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You should spend more time listening to Art Bell and Coast To Coast, Laura Lee, Robin Falkov. You wouldn't be asking these questions, other than rhetorically.

You mentioned the astronomical/astrological noteworthiness of Stonehenge, did you neglect to mention the same for the worldwide Pyramids, or were you not aware?

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Beyond that, why did people bother w/ such a effort to construct it ?

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Is it really worth it to put so many folks to work for a pointless gesture of a monument or house to ' god / zeus / ra ', etc...

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Originally posted by VeraSamuels:

God[s] may not be non-existant! Billions of people worldwide have daily experiences of the numinous.

Devout Keeper of Jayne's Lunchbox

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I guess the same could be said for most of the great civilizations, which seem to occupy the one side of the equator, and not so much the other. What's up w/ that ?

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I guess the same could be said for most of the great civilizations, which seem to occupy the one side of the equator, and not so much the other. What's up w/ that ?

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Because of the land. The biggest continent is Antarctica in the Southern Hemisphere. There is no civilization there, small or great. Next biggest continent is Australia. Not so many people there, either, because of the wide open spaces in the land of Mad Max. Land areas are distributed predominantly in the Northern Hemisphere (68%) relative to the Southern Hemisphere (32%) as divided by the equator. Check with M I Stupid, AURaptor, at http://mistupid.com/geography/continents.htm

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Even so, I do find it curious that most, if not " all " large pyramid structures were built in the N. hemisphere, and virually none are found on the southern half of the planet.

I guess the same could be said for most of the great civilizations, which seem to occupy the one side of the equator, and not so much the other. What's up w/ that ?

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Ya almost lost me w/ the mythical flood thing, but then I stuck around, and you actually made sense.

Well done.

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Ya almost lost me w/ the mythical flood thing, but then I stuck around, and you actually made sense.

Well done.

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If all major religions share the same account (amounting to all written history of that time), is it really "mythical" in the end?

Also, the lush gardens of Babylon, Gaza, and Alexandria turned to desert sand, thus thrusting those civilizations away, and isolating development of sub-Saharan lands from the Med region.

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Ya almost lost me w/ the mythical flood thing, but then I stuck around, and you actually made sense.

Well done.

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If all major religions share the same account (amounting to all written history of that time), is it really "mythical" in the end?

Also, the lush gardens of Babylon, Gaza, and Alexandria turned to desert sand, thus thrusting those civilizations away, and isolating development of sub-Saharan lands from the Med region.

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I agree about the prevalence of flood myths in all cultures indicating it was an event (or events) that actually happened. More than likely they refer to floods caused by the melting of glaciers at the end of an ice age.

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That would be a slow "flood" indeed.

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Any perception about the worldwide evidence of "moving" magnetic poles? The thickness of the Earth's crust? Compared to the diameter of Earth?

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That would be a slow "flood" indeed.

Any perception about the worldwide evidence of "moving" magnetic poles? The thickness of the Earth's crust? Compared to the diameter of Earth?

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That would be a slow "flood" indeed.

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It is not unusual to have flooding in areas with more than average snowfall, so not hard to believe melting glaciers would cause the same.

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Any perception about the worldwide evidence of "moving" magnetic poles? The thickness of the Earth's crust? Compared to the diameter of Earth?

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You haven't been reading Velikovsky, have you?

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That would be a slow "flood" indeed.

Any perception about the worldwide evidence of "moving" magnetic poles? The thickness of the Earth's crust? Compared to the diameter of Earth?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_Floods

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THE pyramids, as in the great pyramids of Giza? I'd have to guess they're younger than 13,000 years old.

* However - whether as part of or completely unrelated, I've had a idea in my head, a general thought that there's been ,so far, large sections of man's history that have been lost or are yet un-discovered. Or re-discovered. It really is more of a fictional , almost romantic view that what we know of humans on this planet , whats's been taught, is VASTLY different than what has actually taken place. No, not some grand conspiracy, involving secret orders, ancient aliens or any such thing, but even so, I have to think that there are mini ' Atlantis ' type societies, that have cropped up and then faded away, erased from our knowledge of today.

We rewrite history even as it happens, for various reasons, so the idea that mankind has lost or deleted parts of our past, with intent or by sheer indifference, makes perfect sense to me.


Also, did you know of this ?

http://www.wired.com/2009/12/mediterranean-flood/

Now, this even clearly predates any humans walking around taking notes or scribbling on stones, but certainly early hominids were wandering about, and likely in the area of the Med.

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* However - whether as part of or completely unrelated, I've had a idea in my head, a general thought that there's been ,so far, large sections of man's history that have been lost or are yet un-discovered.

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We rewrite history even as it happens, for various reasons, so the idea that mankind has lost or deleted parts of our past, with intent or by sheer indifference, makes perfect sense to me.

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Or calamity, followed by power grabs, then "protecting the masses from the truth" as it were.

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Or calamity, followed by power grabs, then "protecting the masses from the truth" as it were.

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Media of today will white wash a story, almost as it happens, to promote and agenda. And it doesn't have to go through some central bureaucracy or minister of propaganda. Reporters are censoring themselves, so as too appease a cult of conformity. ( see recent events in Paris , and the story of one of the woman hostages who was told to convert to Islam )

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