The Search For Noah's Ark

[Oscuridad]

Authors of Bible rip-off mouldy (even then) Babylonian flood story.

Babylonians sue for copyright violation saying "No way in hell the whole world is between the Tigris and Euphretes. More likely it would all fit in you loose flapping morals. Not worhipping Baal. For shame."

The authors of the Bible have yet to release a public comment, but were heard to break wind when confronted with the accusations.

- the throughly obscure press

 

[Thrillhouse]

Does the CIA have pictures of any other fictional creations?

I'd love to see how Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has held up over the years.

That's fucking hilarious.

 

[sunstruck]

Don't they have this thingy in their secret stock Indiana Jones once saved from the Nazis ?

Nah. That was the Arc of the Convenent. Oh, unless you meant Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In which case you're probably right smoochie face.

 

[Lancecastor]

http://www.christiananswers.net/eden/arkofthecovenant.jpg

People say the Ark of the Covenant is in Egypt.

 

[watergirl]

Dang. The Washington Post wants $ to view anything older than the past 2 weeks. But the article I'm thinking of did have to do with what Chilled Vodka said, about the land mass between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean breaking.

originally posted by Lancecastor -
1. It can't be proven;

2. It opens doors to opinions on spirituality;

3. It crosses most every culture;

4. Beastiality!

<laughing> fine answer! I think there is some truth to the story of the ark. It's a swiss cheesy mess, but intrigues me all the same. I need to go oustide and enjoy this day, and read all this later... maybe visit the library, get something to read about the ark.

 

[Lancecastor]

But The Holy Grail is located just down the road from my cottage. I've been to see it several times.


http://www.thegate.ca/dvd/python-grail2.jpg



"In the 14th century, the Inquisition was determined to exterminate the Knights Templar.

Some refugee Knights (and their treasure?) were welcomed by the powerful St Clairs of Scotland, and under Prince Henry Sinclair, participated in trans Atlantic voyages that resulted in a settlement in Nova Scotia in 1398.

The Templars were the keepers of the Holy Grail who were searching for Avalon, a paradise free from religious persecution.

Was this sanctuary Nova Scotia?"


http://www.labyrinthofthegrail.com/book.html

 

[Romial]

You guys should REALLY watch the anime Spriggan.

It deals with the Ark and all that, pretty interesting.

 

[Oscuridad]

You guys should REALLY watch the anime Spriggan.

It deals with the Ark and all that, pretty interesting.

*still recovering from Evangelion*

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

The Following article was printed on November 11, 1997 in The Washington Times.

Yeah. And here's the part of the article you left out:

"We measured things, but none of them fell within the dimensions given in the Bible," he (Dino
A. Brugioni, a retired CIA photographic specialist) said. "If you didn't have the biblical dimensions in cubits, you could pick up those pictures and say they look like a ship. But when you measure it, it doesn't come out right. ... At no time did we say we saw an ark."

 

[Romial]

*still recovering from Evangelion*

NGE is truely a great series, even if both the endings suck ass.

Spriggan isn't a series tho, just a movie that has to do with the Ark...things that will make you go hmmmmm...

 

[Oscuridad]

NGE is truely a great series, even if both the endings suck ass.

Spriggan isn't a series tho, just a movie that has to do with the Ark...things that will make you go hmmmmm...

*makes a note of it*

Thank you.

 

[watergirl]

<also taking notes>

Thanks, Romial. That sounds intriguing. I like things that make me go hmmm.

 

[Lancecastor]

Yeah. And here's the part of the article you left out:

"We measured things, but none of them fell within the dimensions given in the Bible," he (Dino
A. Brugioni, a retired CIA photographic specialist) said. "If you didn't have the biblical dimensions in cubits, you could pick up those pictures and say they look like a ship. But when you measure it, it doesn't come out right. ... At no time did we say we saw an ark."

I didn't realize you're so Anti-Ark, DCL...at any rate, it seems that the Cubit's Biblical scale is hard to quantify because of all the different translations over the centuries in and out of languages from cultures that define the Cubit differently.

There is no concrete proof that the ararat anomoly is or isn't Noah's Ark.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

There is no concrete proof that the ararat anomoly is or isn't Noah's Ark.

There is also no concrete proof that ferrets don't live up your ass, but I'm willing to conclude they don't without doing too much investigating.

 

[christophe]

http://www.christiananswers.net/eden/arkofthecovenant.jpg

People say the Ark of the Covenant is in Egypt.

some say it lies in ethiopia

 

[watergirl]

originally posted by DCL
There is also no concrete proof that ferrets don't live up your ass, but I'm willing to conclude they don't without doing too much investigating.

Oh, my god... I am laughing so hard, I fear I will not stop in time for Buffy the Vampire Slayer....

wooooooooo. Deep breath.

<giggling madness>

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

You can't go wrong with a ferret reference.

 

[Ishmael]

Immanuel Velikovsky did some of the most extensive studies of ancient texts as historically accurate documents. His conclusion was that the events described did occur, but that the ancients distorted the events and wrapped the facts with otherworldly or mystical interpretations.

There is mounting evidence that the Straits of Bosphorus were closed in ancient times and what is now the Black Sea was a huge basin well below sea level. Much like the United States Death Valley is today.

Erosion or perhaps an earthquake caused a rupture in the neck of land that now is the Straits of Bosphorus allowing the Mediterranean to flood the basin that is now the Black Sea. The indications are that this was a catastrophic event.

Now that has nothing to do with Noah's Ark and it's improbable that the back wave ever reached Mt. Ararat. But that is a flood of Biblical proportions that would surely be remembered for centuries. And the effects would be generally noted throughout the Mediterranean area.

Ishmael

 

[Lancecastor]

There is also no concrete proof that ferrets don't live up your ass, but I'm willing to conclude they don't without doing too much investigating.

And a good thing...Geraldo chose to pursue the matter...
http://www.sports-point.com/images/Geraldo%20Rivera.jpg

 

[watergirl]

Ishmael -
ahah! That is the gist of the article I remembered from the Washington Post -

Thank you. It was bugging me for a while that I couldn't remember.

 

[QuickDuck]

I am sure i read or saw on a TV doco that the "object" on Mt Ararat also had "magnetic anomelies" (ok i can't spell), which were similar to nails or spikes which would have been used to hold the thing together.

From memory, they also appread pretty evenly spaced along the structure.

 

[Guest]

What about Atlantis?

 

[watergirl]

curiouser and curiouser, Quick Duck!

 

[Lancecastor]

What about Atlantis?

Well, Atlantis sunk, of course, during the Flood and is near Indonesia:

"Moreover, we also present pages on the reality of the Flood, the cataclysm that sunk Atlantis away, at the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age. This event took place 11,600 years ago, precisely the date given by Plato in his dialogues on Atlantis. We also argue the civilizing influence of Atlantis over essentially all ancient nations, both in the arts and the techniques as well as in the philosophical and metaphysical aspects of human civilization."

http://www.atlan.org/sci/

 

[QuickDuck]

As weird as it might sound, I think its pretty much accepted that Atlantis exsisted in some form.

Whether or not it was as great as it was supposed to be.... well no idea on that.

Hmmm wasn;t Prince Namor from Atlantis?... I might have to drag out my old comics