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 ...
What I fail to grasp is the attempted pairing of fantasical folklorist tales, and allegorical ancient texts. Stick to the science.
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It is perhaps because in folklore and mythology there is often a nugget of historical truth. Consider perhaps the most famous example of this is the story of Troy was thought by “experts” to be a myth. Until it was dug up.
Made sense to me the first time I heard the argument and saw some of the data showing that some observed rock damage required supersonic water flows.
“Why has this been allowed?”
Imagination. No telling where it might lead. Crush it! We already know everything.
That’s a polite way of putting it. I tend to think it’s basically lazy.
These ideas have been around a while. I was taking Egyptology many moons ago when a friend noticed and informed me that a more “advanced” group had given the Egyptians the knowledge of how to build pyramids. I asked him why the “advanced” people gave the Egyptians knowledge of faulty pyramids since some of their early structures had fallen over during construction.
He didn’t have an answer for that since the only pyramids he knew of were the famous ones.
This is grand coming from you Cronos.
Illusion of knowledge…
The beginning of Prometheus portrays a humanoid alien standing in the head of a large river and waterfall. He then drinks some sort of dark liquid that proceeds to disolve him from the inside...presumably seeding the waters with his constituent elements and DNA...which we call the Cambrian explosion of life on Earth approximately 500 to 600 million years ago.
His article was pretty good until he went political and lumped in those who questioned the fairness of electoral counts with other conspiracy nuts...then he lost me.
One could have just have argued back that because he sees those folks who questioned the elections as the same sort of folks who “question” “big archeology” that the writer is also one of those in on the
cover up as well...being a lib and all that.
Yep
“seems to exist soley for conspiracy theorists”.
The author needs to chill - it’s entertainment - and no further outre` than all the action shows where the hero woman beats the crap out of a lot of guys that a gorilla might have trouble with.
There is the theory that the Flood was not about destroying men for sin, but that the human genome and animal genome, had been corrupted or polluted with foreign DNA, and what God eradicated was the genetically corrupted humans and animals.
Tthanks. That clears it all up.
The left will do anything to take God out of the picture.
Cab you imagine if every employed American had to file and pay taxes quarterly?
Realizing that that would never work, the government decided to put the onus of tax collection on employers to ensure compliance and to hide culpability.
And a nation was destroyed by excess blood-letting.
Ignatius Donnelly's Atlantis: The Antediluvian World.
Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods.
Morning of the Magicians.
Hamlet's Mill...
Imaginary, hypothetical history, but all based on things about which inquiring minds want to know.
What's hard to believe is that anyone thinks it shouldn't be allowed.
There are far too many of current Apocalypses to contemplate.
To add even more is asking too much.
Only totalitarians want to ban these discussions but they have more in common with the ideas coming out of a group of friends passing around a joint and musing on the world.
Just out of curiosity, how many of the 330 million Americans ever watched this program?
“Here are the first photos from Karahantepe.
As Arkeolojihaber team, we participated in the promotion program organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism for #Karahantepe . A mindset has been broken. We need to reexamine everything we know. #Göbeklitepe is not alone.”
https://twitter.com/arkeolojihaber/status/1441426286614822914?s=20&t=Bh7XIHeI08luvkX9V4elAQ
“Believing that election fraud is real?”
This statement, as far as I’m concerned, flushed the author’s credibility right down the toilet.
Anything that contradicts the Euro-American Propaganda Machine can't be completely wrong.
Thank you for that link.
That is fascinating stuff. I just started reading but it contains a lot of information I had not heard of before. I am interested in reading the theories of the dual system.
I was in the School of Social Sciences back in the 1980’s and the anthropology students were whispering about stuff like this back then.
The time lines don’t add up. Artifacts are routinely found in periods that cannot be explained by accepted theory. My favorite was how they kept finding evidence that geological formations that were supposedly millions of years old showed signs of being only 10s of thousands years old. If they pointed these discoveries out to their professors, they were initially just chastised and shown how - according to so and so - this area was formed millions of years ago. If they persisted, they were sent home. The others quickly learned to not question the orthodoxy.
It is similar as in the time of Galileo. You cannot question the established narrative or you a kook and kooks don’t get published or tenure. At least they don’t burn them at the stake...yet...
Something happened at the end of the Younger Dryas. The earth was in an ice age, so it was only really habitable near the equator. Hancock’s theory that we went through the tail of a comet and got hit by a lot of smaller strikes world wide makes a lot sense. It melted a lot of the ice quickly, causing global flooding leading to the flood myths in many cultures. It explains the rapid extinction of mastodons, mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, etc., that happened at the time. It also explains why some ancient monuments seem to date back further than they should.
If you look at the conventional timeline, we have only had some sort of civilization for maybe 5000 years if you are generous. It appears, from the fossil record, that humanoids of one kind or another, have been around for at least 100,000 years. That is enough time for 20 of our civilizations to rise. Is it so hard to believe that there could have been one advanced civilization of humans before ours?
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