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Ancient Apocalypse is the most dangerous show on Netflix
The Guardian ^ | 23 Nov 2022 | Stuart Heritage

Posted on 11/26/2022 3:11:24 AM PST by blueplum

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To: Telepathic Intruder

“Where does it end? Believing that a man can turn into a woman by an act of will?”


21 posted on 11/26/2022 3:59:19 AM PST by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: buwaya
There’s plenty of hard evidence that indeed, the last ice age ended after comet (or other objects) impacts in the northern hemisphere about 12,800 years ago.

Anyone that has read Hancock knows that he does not believe aliens were involved in building Earth’s impossibly complex ancient structures - and he cites the Giza pyramid as only one example. The blocks at Balbek and the complex at Golbeki Tepi are, to him, far more interesting

22 posted on 11/26/2022 4:02:39 AM PST by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: Tax-chick

Will, makeup, and a dress. That’s all a woman is, right? Just the most superficial appearances of one.


23 posted on 11/26/2022 4:03:05 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Trans- doesn’t require any change of appearance, even superficially. Just a statement.


24 posted on 11/26/2022 4:04:04 AM PST by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: RoosterRedux
”…. 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.“

You are exactly right and he is also questioning the accuracy of carbon dating with is alone enough to explode the heads of the atheists.

I heard that Graham Hancock originally set out to prove something more like “aliens visited”, but as he investigated more and more began to prove to himself the biblical story in the book of Genesis might be real after all.

25 posted on 11/26/2022 4:04:06 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: Cronos
I think it gives weak minded people the illusion of knowledge.

Which of Hancock’s books have you read?

26 posted on 11/26/2022 4:04:21 AM PST by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: Cronos

There are all kinds. Tolerance, man.

I used to have, decades ago, a co-worker who was convinced he didnt owe income tax because it was illegitimate (also medicare and SSS), and always had a beef with our employer because he wanted to stop them from withholding. He wasnt otherwise stupid, but he had a bee in the bonnet.


27 posted on 11/26/2022 4:06:59 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: blueplum

What is the Prometheus reference all about? Poor writing to assume someone has seen something else.


28 posted on 11/26/2022 4:15:44 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: marktwain
Graham Hancock believes simply that the world was a more advanced place than people realize before the end of the Ice Age flooded it out. He is not theorizing about aliens, super humans, or any esoteric moonbat crap.

Also it is a scientifically accepted fact that the end of the ice age sea levels rose over 400 feat flooding millions of acres of prime coastal lands drowning whatever civilizations were there.

29 posted on 11/26/2022 4:16:30 AM PST by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat.c)
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To: marktwain

Nah... IMHO it shows he has more interest in sucking Democrats a$$ than he does the topic. It’s a common ploy...


30 posted on 11/26/2022 4:20:15 AM PST by sit-rep ( )
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To: blueplum

The writer is an “expert” in things like… movies, music, tv. He clearly knows nothing about the enterprise of science. I don’t know anything about this fellow Hancock, but I do know something about how science progresses, It does not progress by trusting the experts and the “buttoned up” establishment.

One episode of this series focuses on the scablands of eastern Washington. It took many years for people much like Hancock to convince the uniformitarian “experts” that the scablands were shaped by at least one and probably several mega floods. The advocates had to fight tooth and nail against the kind of establishment this idiot media child would trust implicitly. By now they have essentially won the argument, and it is down to details like how many, and where did all the water come from, Montana or Canada or both.

I suspect the “experts” do not want to admit they were just prejudiced against discrepant ideas. They don’t know what Gobeckli Tepe is about either, or the Serpent mound in Ohio, but they have lots of highfalutin opinions, and don’t want to even hear new points of view.

In any case, it is an entraining series, and there is no harm in it. I think Stuart Heritage is the typical Guardian reporter, spewing his own conspiracy theories.


31 posted on 11/26/2022 4:20:45 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative )
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To: atc23

Yes, the Younger Dryas, when the Ice Age came back for a thousand years. Its way more recent, and came on faster, than we like to think.

Its pretty hard to prove a pre-existing advanced civilization though, as civilized remnants from even @10-11,000 years ago, well into the Holocene, are very thin on the ground (Gobekli Tepe is the most significant one). There are no known megastructures from even then.


32 posted on 11/26/2022 4:20:58 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: blueplum

It’s a hypothesis, by a non-scientist, that fits some of the facts.

Some parts of the hypothesis appears to be likely, there was a environmental event 10800 BC. The tine known as the Younger Dryas. Probably caused by multiple impacts. In the last 10 years there has been evidence of civilizations older than 10000 years.

The ‘oral traditions’ of multiple cultures tell a tale of environmental disaster, likely meteor impacts and people with wisdom restarting civilizations.

I found the history intriguing in the show, as well as the archeological evidence. Not sure about the hypothesis.


33 posted on 11/26/2022 4:23:17 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: blueplum

“Believing that ultra-intelligent creatures helped to build the pyramids is one thing, but where does it end? Believing that election fraud is real?”

An interesting statement given that election fraud is a proven fact. It may or may not have been responsible for Trumps loss, but that’s a different discussion. Election fraud exists.


34 posted on 11/26/2022 4:23:27 AM PST by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: blueplum
The flood described in the Bible was a physical event and physical events have physical causes. The flood was brought about by a dwarf star flare event which is not an uncommon thing in our galaxy.

The earlier catastrophe that brought about the megafauna extinctions around 12K years ago involved the final capture of the southern part of our system by our present sun.The southern part of the system prior to that amounted mainly to Saturn, Neptune, Mars, and Earth, that is, the four bodies with the roughly 26-degree axis tilts.

Claiming that the flood amounted to God punishing the world for sin amounts to accusing God of stupidity. IOW, it amouints to claiming that God wiped the whole system over sin, only to have sin back in business forty years later as if nothing had happened.

Guilt-tripping people over sin was the basic business model of the Levites.

35 posted on 11/26/2022 4:24:36 AM PST by ganeemead (Ukraine/Zelensky: Adding an element of chutzpah to ordinary Nazism...)
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To: RoosterRedux
That’s the point he makes in the first episode. Every ancient culture has a myth of a great flood. I never thought about the end of the ice age raising sea levels by 400 ft as “the great flood,” but that makes a lot of sense. Some of that rise occurred in a surprisingly short amount of time. Here in the Inland Northwest, the huge ice dams that backed up the Clark Fork formed and broke multiple times…
…J. Harlen Bretz's theory is that Washington State's “Channeled Scablands” were formed by repeated cataclysmic floods over only about 2,000 years, rather than through the millions of years of erosion that had been previously assumed.

The lake was the result of an ice dam on the Clark Fork caused by the southern encroachment of a finger of the Cordilleran ice sheet into the Idaho Panhandle (at the present day location of Clark Fork, Idaho, at the east end of Lake Pend Oreille). The height of the ice dam typically approached 2,000 ft., flooding the valleys of western Montana approximately 200 miles eastward. It was the largest ice-dammed lake known to have occurred. (Wikipedia)


36 posted on 11/26/2022 4:25:41 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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To: blueplum

Why has this been allowed?

The official corporate/government narrative must never be challenged.


37 posted on 11/26/2022 4:37:09 AM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Excellent comment, well done!


38 posted on 11/26/2022 4:39:15 AM PST by marktwain
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To: blueplum

The show is interesting, if you allow yourself to ignore the editorial comments.

It’s amusing that articles rail about the show without suggesting where they are wrong. The facts are facts. The conclusions are the variables. That’s true with any science.

I always found creation stories interesting. Stories about “the flood” and the aftermath are strangely consistent.

Hancock is not suggesting ancient aliens or supernatural beings. He isn’t suggesting we have to “act now” to avoid impending disaster. He is looking at puzzle pieces and asking questions.

It would have been better to hear some feedback from the establishment, but that never happens. It would have been better to not make the traditional archeologists sound like COVID docs; the whole “hate science” theme was a little much. But, the show was fun and asks some interesting questions.


39 posted on 11/26/2022 4:40:44 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: ganeemead
Our system several tens of thousands of years ago was a double system, consisting of a bright northern part involving our present sun and Jupiter along with its moons, and a very darkish southern system containing the four bodies with the roughly 26-degree axis tilts.

The book in pdf format is a free download

40 posted on 11/26/2022 4:42:39 AM PST by ganeemead (Ukraine/Zelensky: Adding an element of chutzpah to ordinary Nazism...)
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