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Bombshell discovery at 'site of Noah's Ark' which researchers say could prove Biblical story true
Daily Mail ^ | 5/13/25 | Stacey Liberatore

Posted on 05/13/2025 1:38:37 PM PDT by week 71

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To: week 71

That site has been discovered over and over and reported over and over. Logistically impossible.


41 posted on 05/13/2025 3:03:36 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: chajin

2,3,4...
He’s here’s all week folks, try the cheesecake!

CC


42 posted on 05/13/2025 3:06:07 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: week 71

Perhaps this will show that “global warming” is cyclical ...


43 posted on 05/13/2025 3:09:42 PM PDT by glennaro (2025: The year of America's rebirth as a Great (and Free) Republic)
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To: MacNaughton

Reminds me of a girl back in college....


44 posted on 05/13/2025 3:51:17 PM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (I sure am getting what I voted for!)
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To: Aut Pax Aut Bellum

Whoah!


45 posted on 05/13/2025 4:03:14 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: chajin

After the ark settled on Ararat, Noah lowered the ramp and told all the animals to go forth and multiply.
The last animal was landed, he sees they have all headed off in different directions, except two snakes at the bottom of the ramp, sunning themselves.
“Did you not hear me?” asks Noah
They replied, “We can’t multiply. We’re adders.”


46 posted on 05/13/2025 4:11:48 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: week 71

I would suspect they lived on the boat for some time.


47 posted on 05/13/2025 4:21:44 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

THE SMELL OF MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!


48 posted on 05/13/2025 4:23:11 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Zuriel

All I know is that my mule, chickens and steer help to make me some OUTSTANDING compost...and I have the tomatoes to prove it! ;)


49 posted on 05/13/2025 4:25:03 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Fledermaus

like the petrified forest in AZ


50 posted on 05/13/2025 4:32:06 PM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: b4me

Ever been there? I have a couple of times.


51 posted on 05/13/2025 4:48:03 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Who is John Galt?

Yes, they found munitions. That pecker was armed.


52 posted on 05/13/2025 5:19:28 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: tumblindice

adders

LOL


53 posted on 05/13/2025 5:37:32 PM PDT by SisterK (to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly)
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To: ridesthemiles

You know it, Baby! :)


54 posted on 05/13/2025 6:17:26 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: week 71; Phinneous; SunkenCiv; Red Badger; EBH; The Spirit Of Allegiance; monkeyshine; ...
The vibe from several of the comments is that people are tired of the same old song and dance.

I consider the topic inspirational.

Make thee an ark of gopher wood...

עֲשֵׂה לְךָ תֵּבַת עֲצֵי־גֹפֶר

chest, box, case; Noah's Ark; word (written or printed); bar, measure (music)

I always find the best stuff. Top [book]shelf. Here's a great article covering several ideas for the etymology of teiva, but just to focus on this one, because "metathesis":

...Rabbi Shlomo Zalman of Hanau writes that the word teivah means "box, chest" and refers to the written word because books that contain written words are stored in a teivah.

In Biblical Hebrew, teivah means “ark” or “closet.” For example, Noah’s Ark is called a teivah (Gen. 6–9), as was the basket wherein baby Moses was placed (Ex. 2:3). In Mishnaic Hebrew, teivah refers to the Holy Ark of a synagogue which houses the Torah Scrolls, or to the table (also known as bimah) upon which the Torah Scrolls are placed while being read.

In a previous article (“A Tale of Two Arks,” 2016), I cited Rabbi Aharon Marcus (1843-1916) who argues that the word teivah is related to the word bayit (“house”) by way of metathesis (both words contain the same letters). This implies that a teivah, in some ways, is like a person’s home. Based on this, I would say that teivah denotes a "word" as a sort of house for all the letters to come together in that house or box.

Words for Words

Make thee an ark of gopher [גפר] wood...

Klein's:

גֹּֽפֶר m.n. ‘gopher’ (a kind of wood of which Noah’s ark was made). [Of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Akka. giparu.]

Strong's:

גֹּפֶר gôpher, go'-fer; from an unused root, probably meaning to house in; a kind of tree or wood (as used for building), apparently the cypress:—gopher.

Of unknown origin and thus the debates roll on, yet by way of metathesis (pitched and tossed about by rough seas):

gopher [גפר] ---> peger [פגר]:

carcass, cadaver, carrion, roadkill

Make thee an ark of... carcass wood?

It's actually the simple meaning:

chest, box, case; Noah's Ark; word (written or printed); bar, measure (music)

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In the context of cabinet making, "carcass wood" refers to the structural framework of a cabinet, essentially the box that holds the doors, drawers, and shelves. It's the hidden, foundational part of a cabinet, supporting all the visible components. Carcass wood is usually made from materials like plywood, MDF, or particleboard, chosen for their durability and ability to withstand the stresses of everyday use.

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In the context of construction and furniture, "carcass" refers to the main structural framework or shell of a cabinet, cupboard, or other piece of furniture, excluding doors, drawers, and other visible components. It's the underlying box or structure that provides support and shape.

Here's a more detailed explanation:

Shell of a Structure:
The carcass is essentially the "skeleton" or "box" of a cabinet. It's made up of the sides, back, top, and bottom of the cabinet.

Excluding Doors and Drawers:
The carcass does not include the doors, drawers, or any other visible parts of the furniture. It's the foundation upon which these elements are later attached.

Common Materials:
Carcasses are typically made from materials like plywood, particleboard, or other engineered wood products, often with a plain finish.

In Construction:
The term "carcass" can also be used to describe the main structural framework of a building, excluding flooring, roofing, and other finishes.

In Furniture:
In furniture, a carcass is a box-like construction made from planks, as opposed to mortise and tenon construction.

Types of Carcasses:
There are different types of carcasses, such as base cabinets, wall cabinets, and other specialized types depending on their intended use.

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The Arzap drogue stones are a number of large standing stones found near the Durupınar site by amateur archaeologist Ron Wyatt with the aid of David Fasold and others. Fasold interpreted the artifacts as drogues, stone weights used to stabilize the Ark in rough seas, because they all have a chamfered hole cut at one end as if to fasten a rope to them, and his reading of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Babylonian mythical account of the flood, suggested to him that such stones were used.[8][24]
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A geological investigation of samples from the stones, published by geologist Lorence Collins in co-authorship with their original discoverer David Fasold, found that they are of local rock and thus could not have been brought from Mesopotamia, the Ark's supposed place of origin.[15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durup%C4%B1nar_site#Arzap_drogue_stones

Perhaps Noah and the Ark simply came around full circle.

The total time Noah spent in the ark was 365 days (one solar year; one year and 11 days on the lunar calendar).

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/246609/jewish/The-Story-of-Noah-and-the-Ark-in-the-Bible.htm

More from Words for Words, rough seas:

Interestingly, Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson proposes that the English word word is actually derived from the Hebrew word davar by way of metathesis and the interchangeability of the w-sound and the b/v-sound). If he is right, then the same could be said of the English word's Germanic siblings wort in German and vort in Yiddish (with the d- sound and the t-sound interchanging), as well as the English word's Latin cousin verb (via labialization, whereby the d-consonant after the r-consonant in Proto-Indo-European morphs into a b-consonant in Latin).

A well-known letter reversal is that Noah [נח] is grace [חֵן]

= 58, which reverses to 85. It never ends.

Sorry for any typos, general goof ups. I'm really tired, literally having spent several long days digging up.. sod.

55 posted on 05/13/2025 6:29:12 PM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Ezekiel

https://www.linkedin.com/company/gopher-wood-lumber#:~:text=About%20us,needs%20of%20dynamic%20fencing%20businesses.


56 posted on 05/13/2025 6:45:05 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Still just some millions of years old geology. Earlier on FR:

57 posted on 05/13/2025 7:23:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: week 71

How can you tell it isn’t Gilgamesh’s story that’s being proven true?


58 posted on 05/13/2025 8:17:59 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: week 71

Here is the only surviving photo of Noah's Ark.   (The giraffes had to stay on the upper deck, as they could not fit in the rooms or the stalls on the lower decks.)


     



Little kids used to have to sing this old song.
Noah was a wee little man,
a wee little man was he.
He climbed up in to the sycamore tree
to see what he could see.
(No.......wait a minute.......that was Zacchaeus.   Never mind.)

59 posted on 05/13/2025 8:50:13 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: MeanWestTexan
Contrary to prior belief, I was not the U.S. Marine guard on the ark nor stationed to the entrance of the garden of Eden.

But I did call Archibald Henderson sonny.

60 posted on 05/14/2025 5:46:57 AM PDT by SERE_DOC ( The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. TJ)
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