Most of the time the wisdom of the ancients is to be preferred over the pedantic sarcasm of the moderns.
"Most of the time." "The ancients." "The moderns."
Your statement is impossibly broad.
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Most of the time the wisdom of the ancients is to be preferred over the pedantic sarcasm of the moderns.
This is a good reason to have kids read the source material in school instead of what modern scholars think about the source material.
I finished reading Charles Hapgood's "Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings" last night. I skipped over a great deal of the mathematical technicals.
Some ancient civilization mapped out the whole world before Babylon or Egypt or Sumeria, and back when Antarctica was not ice covered. They measured longitude in the unknown past, well before that calculation was rediscovered in the 1700s. Columbus had their old maps but due to the ignorance about longitude though[t] he'd hit Asia.
The author is typical old earth
If you want historical evidence, check out the maps.
I finished reading Charles Hapgood's "Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings" last night. I skipped over a great deal of the mathematical technicals.
Some ancient civilization mapped out the whole world before Babylon or Egypt or Sumeria, and back when Antarctica was not ice covered. They measured longitude in the unknown past, well before that calculation was rediscovered in the 1700s. Columbus had their old maps but due to the ignorance about longitude though he'd hit Asia.
The author is typical old earth, but that's OK, I just read it knowing that it is all from soon after the flood when those first generations mapped the world. If you want historical evidence, check out the maps.
Charles Hapgood might not be the most reliable author of history. I haven't read anything by him, but the book you mention, Ancient Sea Kings, is, to put it delicately (or civilly), not the most conventional history.
Columbus had their old maps? No, he didn't. No maps survive from the ancient world. We have Ptolemy's written account, though, in his Geography.
Hapgood is not that. He thought the Acambaro figures proved humans and dinosaurs lived side by side. (They were a hoax, in any case.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acámbaro_figures
Hapgood wasn't even Christian, so it's odd to call him a proponesnt of "typical old earth" views. He wrote an entire book about the messages he received, via a medium, form certain famous dead people, as well as, for good measure, the Hindu god Vishnu. Oh, and Jesus.
Hapgood's book is hypothesis, not evidence. The maps presented are from the 16th century A.D. Even if they are based on certain ancient maps, that is hardly conclusive, since, as I've said, there's no reason to assume ancient people were somehow right on every point of cartography, and still there should be allowance for errors in transmission.
You deny that humans and dinosaurs walked side by side?
The maps mentioned in the book are copies and intepretations of older maps. Your argument is like saying the bible isn't true because we don't have the originals.
Hapgood's Christian faith is not consequential.
The construction of many ancient megaliths and the pyramids were very precise. There was a sacred math involved and one that proves that the ancients knew the roundness of the earth, it's measurement, and even its rotation and the precession [sic] of the equinoxes. This math was later passed on to Pythagoras and basically became a math cult.
The ancients even used frequencies in their construction so that the sound would vibrate at a certain resonance. This has led to some New Age theories, but the basic fact seems true, that the ancients studied resonance, sound, harmonies, frequencies as well, and saw that some were harmful or hurtful to the health of the human body.
They sat and chanted and took drugs in these vaults as part of their religion.
Jerusalem Blade created a post about the relationship with drugs and demons. He focused on pot and weakened his argument (though they are cultivating stronger strains now), but hallucinogenic drugs have been used by ancients and to speak with spirits and modern day drug users speak of the "machine elves" who talk to them on a trip.
It would be nice to see a map of these purported ley lines that actually include all the rest of the cathedrals that could have been on a line. As it is, it looks like someone took a linear regression and threw out all the points outside a certain deviation.
The ancients had airplanes, rockets, nuclear power (or bombs), and some sort of lost knowledge ability to lift huge blocks of stone. Noah had electric lights on the ark.
[Chris Dunn] sure makes a good case on how the pyramid harnessed energy and used it. Burial tomb......LOL.
Hey Perg.
I've read about Ley lines a while ago and as I recall they were related to magnetic force lines. But I'll have to look it up.
Did you read "Secrets of the Lost Races"? Great book. The archaeology of ooparts- out of place tech in old strata layers, even in seams of coal. The ancients had airplanes, rockets, nuclear power (or bombs), and some sort of lost knowledge ability to lift huge blocks of stone. Noah had electric lights on the ark.
It is a great pity that evolutionary theory has deluded the masses into thinking we've been slowly evolving technology, as opposed to enormous progress before the flood and then up until at least Babel.
I also enjoyed Chris Dunn's book on Giza, Power Plant. He sure makes a good case on how the pyramid harnessed energy and used it. Burial tomb......LOL.
Hope you are feeling better!
Yes, there is a possibility of confirmation bias.Oh, I read up on ley lines, I understand how they can seem compelling, but as an engineer who works with data and particularly stochastic (random) systems, I could generate you a random scatterplot and start connecting lines and lo and behold, with a course enough resolution, you'd start seeing patterns appear in the lines.
It's just not compelling to me, particularly when they throw out the data that doesn't fit the line.
But the ancient druids maintained ley lines in their religion. Paths of the stars, sun, and moon were important to them and following these paths on key dates could have produced some of the very straight paths that migh have lined up with the sun, moon, or the star during annual religious pilgrimages of their faithful.
What is your source for this? I'm somewhat versed in the Celts and I have always understood that precious little is known about druidic religion.
Many cultures, though, even ones we might consider barbaric, have tracked the sun, moon and stars and aligned their buildings and practices to them.
In Post #77, you said,the ancient druids maintained ley lines in their religion.
Such lines were important to the druids and sacred sites were built along them.
Where have aliens been mentioned here?Well @JimmyH , I thought we might get more manuscript discussion, but it looks like have gotten a little of this:
View attachment 5999
I'm waiting for the haunted houses and ghosts to come into the conversation.Well @JimmyH , I thought we might get more manuscript discussion, but it looks like have gotten a little of this:
View attachment 5999
Right here:Where have aliens been mentioned here?