Posted on 06/27/2025 12:41:41 PM PDT by Red Badger
Quick! Let’s set up a GoFundMe to raise funds to fix this! Or do Biden-era USAID grants already have it covered?
I was there in ‘97...
I envy you. It’s always been on my bucket list, but I’m not sure I’d be up for the local wildlife experience at this point.
7000 yrs Ago ...?
It’s gonna be tough finding
5 Rivers.
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There is a Burger King in the Mall.
Spent 10 days wandering around the Old City.
One midaged white guy with a Camera.
Three days at the Seven Arches hotel then 7 days at the Pilgrams Palace near the Garden Tomb.
Always felt safe and Energized to explore..
Fascinating place and still is.
My tangential example, over in the next silo, is the search for Homer’s Troy. Hisarlik had been regarded as a candidate site since antiquity, but skeptics and debunkers came into vogue and took to ankle biting the Iliad. Schliemann’s excavations, primitive (by our standards) as they were, was an important pushback, but many people still regarded Schliemann as a nut.
This provided the scholars and the non-specialist fandom something to argue about ....
And then modern cartography got to the point that we were able to reconstruct the Bronze Age shoreline. Yup ... there is was: the Bay of Troy was right there, the rivers fell into place, and the Homeric landscape matched up perfectly.
None of this meant, of course, that the Trojan War, or anything closely resembling it, actually took place or that any of Homer’s names echo historical figures. But the physical geography matches up. Homer was writing about a known place, and he got the geographical details right.
So did a Bronze Age army of Mycenaean Greeks besiege and destroy Troy? Well, which destruction level at Hisarlik do you want to discuss? The bay near the entrance to the Dardanelles would have been a strategic spot for the already important Black Sea trade. You don’t need Helen and a cuckolded Spartan king to make it worth fighting over.
No, its the answer the “Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything”.
I was not familiar with the rivers in Genesis, but The Book agrees with geology and modern tectonic theory: All of the land was gathered into one place, and all of the waters were gathered into one ocean.
Lawrence Welk’s drummer introduces his three daughters.
“This is Anna one, Anna two and Anna three.”
Into liquid hot magma?...…..
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Well, we’d wait for the Red Sea and Indian Ocean to back-fill, of course!
More evidence of man-made globull warmin
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