And here from the original manuscripts we find the pot stirrer with another "Ah Hah", having discovered how easy it is to get the masses riled up. And verily, they fall for it every time.
Posted on 01/06/2006 9:02:08 AM PST by Mikey_1962
does anyone know the putative age of the oldest known writing?
There must be sombody in the Mormon corridor that can translate this.
Okay, here goes....
Some people here aren't going to like this, but one of the earliest names mentioned in the Book of Mormon was "Aha", a leader of the "Jaredite" civilization which was discovered by the "Nephite" group in approximately 200 B.C. (coincidence with these mural's discovery?).
The "Jaredites" IMHO correspond with the Olmec culture, which existed in the Yucatan and Gulf area approximately from 2,500 B.C to 200 B.C. The name is pronounced in the Book of Mormon as "Ah-Haw", the same as Mayans pronounce it today. That Joe Smith was one lucky guesser.
There is a second possibility. Nephilim (plural for Nephi) are found listed in Genesis. It is the contention of most linguists that the root for this word is "fallen one." (Although LDS scholars presume that it is an Egyptian word meaning "enlightened one".)
In Genesis it is clearly an illusion to the fallen angels - maybe Joe Smith was getting his "inspiration" from the wrong side....Satan works in mysterious ways.
Now you got it. It was intended as such.
It said "Rigoberta Menchu is easy."
Good possibility - hadn't occurred to me :-).
Some inscriptions in what is now Pakistan are dated at 3,500 B.C. IIRC, the earliest deciphered writings, from Mesopotamia, are believed to be public-works accounting records, an excellent example of "People are always the same."
Isn't it amazing how many people comprehend the Ressurrection, but fail to grasp He is alive in body, soul and spirit today and evermore.
illusion=allusion
And here from the original manuscripts we find the pot stirrer with another "Ah Hah", having discovered how easy it is to get the masses riled up. And verily, they fall for it every time.
Beware of geeks bearing glyphs!
Or gleeks bearing gyps.
Reuters - Thu Jan 5, 5:14 PM ET -- A stone excavated from a Maya royal tomb in San Bartolo that shows the earliest example of Mayan writing ever found lies in a plastic tub in a laboratory in Antigua, Guatemala, January 5, 2006. The 2,300-year-old glyphs were excavated last April in San Bartolo, the same site in northern Guatemala where archaeologist William Saturno found the oldest murals in the Mayan world. REUTERS/Daniel LeClair
Very true, but that isn't what this scientist meant.
Beware, or you'll end up paying for two Santa Klaus visits. El dia de los Reyes Magos, Jan 6, is the day little kids in Latin America get their Christmas presents. It is traditionally the day the Three Kings arrive in Bethelehem to honor the Baby Jesus. Rosca de Los Reyes is the cake-like bread you make and eat that day.
B.S. So, how do they know how old this writing is? Did the Myans make the rocks they wrote on at the same time? Or did they use "used" rocks from a different geological age to make these pyramids, or rocks they wrote on? Did they (the writers) even make the pyramids? Or were they made by someone else? If they were made by someone use, did they make the rocks used, or did they use "used" rocks they found in the area? Were all the used rocks uniform in geological age? were they all from the same area? So many questions. Not one answer can be proven. But notice how fast they came up with the 2,300 years old number without one lick of proof.
"The glyphs, thin black paintings on off-white stucco,..."
Black paint--charcoal pigment. Charcoal has a high carbon content.
I found this interesting:
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