Posted on 11/26/2022 3:11:24 AM PST by blueplum
A show with a truly preposterous theory is one of the streaming giant’s biggest hits – and it seems to exist solely for conspiracy theorists. Why has this been allowed?
At the time of writing, Ancient Apocalypse has been comfortably sitting in Netflix’s Top 10 list for several days. This presents something of a mystery....
... if he’s right, and the history of humanity really is just the first five minutes of Prometheus, it would change everything we know about ourselves. But we certainly shouldn’t treat his hodgepodge of mysteries and coincidences as fact.
That’s the danger of a show like this. It whispers to the conspiracy theorist in all of us.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Nephilim! Apkallu!
He is a prude. This stuff is silly, maybe, but fun. It’s like the History Channel Aliens guy and the Von Daniken “Chariots of the God’s” stuff.
Why not?
This general theory of ancient civilization teaching mankind math and science and being wiped out by the flood (for the most part) is consistent with Mesopotamian/Sumerian and ancient Hebrew literature...and probably with the mythologies of plenty of other ancient cultures.
Believing that ultra-intelligent creatures helped to build the pyramids is one thing, but where does it end? Believing that election fraud is real?
When the author makes comparisons such as the above, it shows he is a nut job himself.
How about this fairy tale...
...the proposed 10B Micron plant in Syracuse will employ 9k workers.
Graham Hancock is behind this and has built a huge base of fans and customers through the years. I am not surprised at this success of Ancient Apocalypse.
Indeed. I doubt the author has the wit to understand the irony of what he is writing. An author of an opinion piece in a newspaper questioning why opinions he doesn't like should be allowed.
“where does it end? Believing that election fraud is real?”
Everyone knows that democrats cheat. What’s he trying to do, tell us not to believe the obvious?
Indeed. I doubt the author has the wit to understand the irony of what he is writing. An author of an opinion piece in a newspaper questioning why opinions he doesn't like should be allowed.
He would not see it as irony.
The Left is of the philosophy everything should be controlled by the government.
You, know, obviously, because governments are so completely beneficent and wise.
Governments never do anything wrong, because government is god on earth.
Except, of course governments run by the wrong people.
That is not the government's fault, it is the fault of the evil people who took over the good government... /S
That's like telling your wife that she must never look at your credit card receipts or consider whether or not you are having an affair.
Never heard of this show. I’ll have to check it out.
Probably the only way he could get netflix to stream his show.
Believing that ultra-intelligent creatures
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Nowhere in the mini-series does Hancock make that claim. His claim is only that there was a previous unknown civilization, destroyed along with all of the mega-fauna by comet fragment bombardment, whose survivors (humans) journeyed around the world, teaching the surviving primitives the arts of civilization.
That is much like survivors from some nuclear war by our civilization teaching primitives in South America or Africa the same.
There is nothing farfetched or made up in the series - its is all based on real world science and observable fact (much of which there was no time to include). Because all of that disagrees with our ‘learned betters’ and ‘expert scientists’, is no call to dismiss it out of hand.
I think it gives weak minded people the illusion of knowledge.
20 years ago on a trip to Athens, I went on a day guided tour and there was a retired gent from, I think Vermont who was asking the guide continuously about Dan Brown’s book. I pointed out to him the flaws in it but he went on believing those stoas facts.
Around 7 episodes. Each concentrates on an odd structure.
Would say that they all have a problem with the way that archeologists describe them. Worth a review.
I think Cyprus episode is the most interesting one.
The Guardian author created an excellent example of why we should not trust the Guardian.
There are a number of things covered which are intriguing. LIDAR grid detection in the Amazon, the soil composition of the amazon, the monoliths that were buried in and the organic matter around those monoliths that was radio carbon dated and found to be 14k years old.
It’s plausible. Except to closed minds stuck in science of guesstimates over that last 400 years. Best guestimates granted, but the sciences have matured.
What I fail to grasp is the attempted pairing of fantasical folklorist tales, and allegorical ancient texts. Stick to the science. The folklore is mere filigree at this juncture.
That said, the “alternate conclusions” of extraterrestrial intervention for the “unexplainable” is falling away (finally) as the abilities of emerging detection and forensics continue to advance.
Nothing less, nothing more. Forensic archeology might become similarly robust technologically as witnessed with the work in genetics and DNA, or cosmology.
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