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Michigan Man May Have Solved The Mystery Of Stonehenge And The Pyramids
Common Sense Evaluation ^

Posted on 09/06/2017 2:23:41 AM PDT by gaggs

Video: A man in Michigan decided he wanted to uncover some of the ancient secrets techniques used to lift heavy stone blocks. After a lot of trial and error, he finally came up with a system he could use to lift any size rock and move it practically anywhere.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: pyramids; stonehenge
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To: gaggs

“Retired construction worker”

-— not so retired


21 posted on 09/06/2017 3:56:04 AM PDT by Flick Lives (#CNNblackmail)
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To: HypatiaTaught

Please know your History. It was the Christians. Library of Alexandra was long gone before Islam came on the scene in the 7th century.
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It was Caesar’s troops in 48 B.C.


22 posted on 09/06/2017 4:01:57 AM PDT by mikeus_maximus (The Truth does not require your agreement.)
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To: iontheball

They were built by straight sapiens. ;-D


23 posted on 09/06/2017 4:02:39 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: HypatiaTaught

Actually it depends on your source and no one really knows. Plutarch blamed Julius Caesar. Edward Gibbons (anti-Christian atheist) blamed Christians as he was wont to do. Bishop Gregory Bar Hebræus (anti-Muslim) blamed the Muslims.


24 posted on 09/06/2017 4:03:26 AM PDT by perez24
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To: gaggs

Nice, Michigander.


25 posted on 09/06/2017 4:07:14 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: gaggs

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26 posted on 09/06/2017 4:08:40 AM PDT by Semper911 (When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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To: perez24; Mark17; HypatiaTaught
The link from Wikipedia gives good detail about the theories involving the library's destruction involving the Romans or Christians or Muslims. "The famous burning of the Library of Alexandria, including the incalculable loss of ancient works, has become a symbol of the irretrievable loss of public knowledge. Although there is a mythology of "the burning of the Library at Alexandria", the library may have suffered several fires or acts of destruction of varying degrees over many years. Ancient and modern sources identify several possible occasions for the partial or complete destruction of the Library of Alexandria.[24] During Caesar's Civil War, Julius Caesar was besieged at Alexandria in 48 BC. Many ancient sources describe Caesar setting fire to his own ships[25][26] and state that this fire spread to the library, destroying it.[26] [W]hen the enemy endeavored to cut off his communication by sea, he was forced to divert that danger by setting fire to his own ships, which, after burning the docks, thence spread on and destroyed the great library. — Plutarch, Life of Caesar[27] Bolstering this claim, in the 4th century both the pagan historian Ammianus Marcellinus[28] and the Christian historian Orosius[29] wrote that the Bibliotheca Alexandrina had been destroyed by Caesar's fire. However, Florus and Lucan claim that the flames Caesar set burned only the fleet and some "houses near the sea".[30] The library seems to have continued in existence to some degree until its contents were largely lost during the taking of the city by the Emperor Aurelian (AD 270–275), who was suppressing a revolt by Queen Zenobia of Palmyra.[31] During the course of the fighting, the areas of the city in which the main library was located were damaged.[15] Some sources claim that the smaller library located at the Serapeum survived,[32] though Ammianus Marcellinus wrote of the library in the Serapeum temple as a thing of the past, destroyed when Caesar sacked Alexandria.[33] 5th century scroll which illustrates the destruction of the Serapeum by Theophilus Paganism was made illegal by an edict of the Emperor Theodosius I in AD 391. The temples of Alexandria were closed by Patriarch Theophilus of Alexandria in AD 391.[32] The historian Socrates of Constantinople describes that all pagan temples in Alexandria were destroyed, including the Serapeum.[34] Since the Serapeum had at one time housed a part of the Great Library, some scholars believe that the remains of the Library of Alexandria were destroyed at this time.[32][35] However, it is not known how many, if any, books were contained in it at the time of destruction, and contemporary scholars do not mention the library directly.[36][37] In AD 642, Alexandria was captured by the Muslim army of 'Amr ibn al-'As. Several later Arabic sources describe the library's destruction by the order of Caliph Omar.[38][39] Bar-Hebraeus, writing in the 13th century, quotes Omar as saying to Yaḥyā al-Naḥwī: "If those books are in agreement with the Quran, we have no need of them; and if these are opposed to the Quran, destroy them."[40] Later scholars are skeptical of these stories, given the range of time that had passed before they were written down and the political motivations of the various writers.[41][42][43][44][45] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria
27 posted on 09/06/2017 4:12:38 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: Mark17

Well the ancient Egyptians had slaves and their his-story had to be destroyed. < /IsIsAntiFA>


28 posted on 09/06/2017 4:21:47 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: gaggs

Build that wall


29 posted on 09/06/2017 4:31:34 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: pepsionice

Watch the video


30 posted on 09/06/2017 4:32:11 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: Hostage

Yes, I read that, too.

Haven’t seen it mentioned again for some years.


31 posted on 09/06/2017 4:32:15 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: a fool in paradise

And we think it takes a long time to build NOW, try applying such technology in today’s world plus having to pay the labor bills for the ones who stand idol, watching/waiting.


32 posted on 09/06/2017 4:32:40 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: gaggs

Saving for later....gotta watch


33 posted on 09/06/2017 4:39:07 AM PDT by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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i only see him showing examples of moving some large rocks, not cutting them to perfection with ancient tools, nor creating an actual stonehenge, etc....this explains nothing but one mans ego making use of some shortcuts, etc....try applying this to supposed ‘stupid’ ancient folks who are always depicted as half-ass backwards....

and as elsewhere noted, these blocks they used were not at the corner quarry precut and ready for transport...they were hundreds of mules away...etc...

nice try though...


34 posted on 09/06/2017 4:40:44 AM PDT by raygunfan
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To: iontheball

“While man refuses to admit it, the ancient stone artifacts were not built by homo sapiens.”

Homo Sapiens emerged in what is now east Africa, Turkey and Europe between 100,000 and 400,000 years ago and Stonehenge isn’t quite so ancient. If the “ancient stone artifacts” you mentioned are to include Stonehenge then who, other than Homo Sapiens, could have built it...Neandertals?


35 posted on 09/06/2017 4:47:45 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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Hmmm...
36 posted on 09/06/2017 4:48:47 AM PDT by KavMan
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To: OttawaFreeper

Sounds a bit like prophecies placing the Messiah from Egypt, Nazareth, and Bethlehem. Being that muslims to this day are distructive — witness the Afghanistan stone buddhas, or the destruction of antiquities in Iraq — they must be included.


37 posted on 09/06/2017 4:54:23 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: Hostage

I been listening chuck missler about nephilims and days of noah


38 posted on 09/06/2017 4:56:01 AM PDT by mel (There are only 2 races decent and undecent people)
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To: Hostage

I been listening chuck missler about nephilims and days of noah


39 posted on 09/06/2017 4:56:20 AM PDT by mel (There are only 2 races decent and undecent people)
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To: MarMema

BTT


40 posted on 09/06/2017 4:57:04 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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