Posted on 09/08/2008 5:31:56 AM PDT by SJackson
Freemasons were involved in many American monuments and buildings. I wonder if any Freemasons were involved in this one?
Anyone know?
(Disclosure: I am a Freemason)
***They can’t build their damned terrorist memorial mosque if they don’t own the property, and the Memorial Project has treated the owner of the crash site so despicably that the property remains unsecured. ***
Anyone notice that the bigger the disaster the bigger (and more politicized) the monument?
How about a simple obolisk or stone monument with the names of those heros on one side and a discription on the other.
Let’s not break out the tin-foil hats just yet.
If the North Arrow is correct on the drawing above, then NOTHING about this arc “points to Mecca” - unless the memorial is being comnstructed somewhere far away from Pennsylvania.
> about the giant Mecca-oriented crescent that the Park Service is planning to plant at the Flight 93 crash site in Pennsylvania .
If this is true, and if it is deliberate in its muslim design, then I believe it is in the worst possible taste and ought not to proceed. 40 brave men and women fought and died on United Flight 93, one of them a New Zealander.
Lord Knows I am not one to protest — I don’t believe in throwing hissy fits to make a point that is more effectively made in proper political forums. But if ever there was a bloody good reason to hoist the Jolly Roger and cry “Mutiny!” in outrage, then this is a pretty good one.
I had to read this article twice carefully, just to make sure it wasn’t a Satire. But it does appear to be in earnest. I am gobsmacked.
I thought this design had been dumped a long time ago. I remember writing and asking the committee how they thought airline passengers would feel flying over this area, nice September morning, trees blazing with their beautiful (red) fall colors, and remembering those who perished on Flight 93. This has to be stopped once and for all.
There are too many words in this article.
Therefore, the Sheep will never read it.
“If the North Arrow is correct on the drawing above, then NOTHING about this arc “points to Mecca””
Yup, looks like it points to London.
I used the “point to Mecca” tool, and it came up with a line 58 deg from vertical, just like the article says. Now I’ll go next door, they have a world map set up.
Mecca is east and SOUTH of Pennsylvania, not east and north.
I checked this out on Google Earth.
This crescent is indeed aligned to Mecca. It turns out the world is a globe :0)
“It turns out the world is a globe :0)”
But North is still North and South is still South.
To clarify my last post: get a globe of the world and imagine that you are setting off from Somerset PA - on a winged horse, naturally - and trying to get to Mecca.
Your shortest route is NE.
You are forgetting that over long distances, you need to use what sailors call a “rhumb line” instead of just drawing a line on a map between two points.
I don’t have a problem with this. It reminds us of who did this.
Why don’t we see this stuff on the “drive-by media” channels? This is far more interesting and informative than what some Hollywood pop-tart is doing.
Excellent article! I’m sending this out...
BCW
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***Mecca is east and SOUTH of Pennsylvania, not east and north.***
Our local Meccans face east and north in their prayers. It has something to do with the curve of the earth.
This was explained years ago as why Lindberg took his rout to Paris, something called “the arc of the circumfrence”.
Yes.
The great circle computation does indeed result in N58degE +/- as shortest route to Mecca from that part of Pennsylvania. For some reason I was thinking Mecca was in the Southern Hemisphere. My bad.
Perhaps they should just NOT buils the memorial. Or maybe just stop hiring Muslim sympathizers as architects in the U.S.
CORRECT
And the Rhumb Line is nothing more than a series of segments that comprise a Great Circle. When steering a boat or aircraft on a Great Circle it is almost impossible to follow a circle so the route is broken down into a series of shorter straight segments.
And a Great Circle is the shortest distance between two points on a sphere.
That is why we often hear of aircraft travelling from the USA to Asia passing through the far north Alasakan airspace and why aircraft to and from some parts of Europe travel over New Foundland, Iceland and other northern locations.
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