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Wayne beat me to it by about two minutes - yeah, definitely a water tower and its shadow. The opera house west of the pyramids looks quite different on the satellite photos. This one reminded of some magic-mushroom-shaped water towers in Kuwait, where we used to live. Still, a cool illusion.
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Interesting article, and not just because of the implications for Easter Island's history. It's also a really neat example of good archaeological practise,countering the pseudoarchaeologists' canard about academic archaeologists being close-minded, inflexible, and afraid to challenge the "orthodox" party line.
Of course, I'd be sad to lose my favourite cautiona
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Re: AE - 17 years ago
<..."I have dealt with this repeatedly. Start with nature. We are part of nature. Notice the feminine attraction to camouflage.
Reflect on the reasons for this."
You know, I walked away from this thread for a few days in utter boredom, but I have to ask: what on earth does the wiki article on camouflage have to do with your argument for feminine passivity? As a way of avoi
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Re: AE - 17 years ago
Ah, but Joe has carefully fireproofed himself. When a woman is aggressive, she's expressing the masculine side she got from her father - or perhaps the masculine side that she got from her mother, who got it from HER father. Or maybe it's the masculine side that her father got from his mother from her father, or....
Sigh.
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Here's another article, from the Cape Breton Post, with some interesting additional comments on the air photos and 20th century activity on the mountain:
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< "..I am certainly lacking in awareness regarding Chinese history, not being Chinese..."
What does that have to do with ignorance? I'm not Chinese either, but I try to inform myself before making claims of any sort, much less grand historical syntheses.
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Okay, what about the printing press? It was invented in China, earlier than in Europe, and the first books printed were in fact Buddhist documents. See:
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I had actually looked at that link, and was singularly unimpressed. You seem to be arguing proudly from a position of invincible ignorance. Better to learn a bit about history before starting to generate grand "explanatory" schema that have nothing to do with anything.
<"...Let me also point out that the accusation of a lack of creativity is frequently taken as offensive to
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Re: AE - 17 years ago
What point is being made? As far as I know, a rooster chases a chicken because it's after some nookie; but according to the sexuality "spectrum" on your website, the masculine is characterized by anti-sexuality, whereas the feminine is pro-sexual, even nymphomaniac at the extreme. So, the rooster chasing a hen is, by your logic, actually expressing his feminine side, and not his
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<"...If you want proof I'm afraid that's not possible..."
I wasn't asking for proof; just as assessment of the impact of some relevant evidence.
<"..One has to compare cultures, say England over the period in question..."
The period in question? Your original post seemed to be talking about the origins of differing types of religion, as defined b
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Why should you be shocked? You provided the link yourself.
Those are some mighty big assumptions, with bugger-all to back them up. And it makes your "intelligent DNA" look pretty stupid and wasteful: putting the plankton to all the trouble of removing the carbon dioxide, and us to all the trouble of putting it back again. Sheesh.
But that's a sidetrack. I'd really pre
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I dunno, Peski. I've seen worse. Not much worse, though.
I took a look at your website, Joe. If I understand you correctly, you posit that the human species was created by Gaia (aka "intelligent DNA") for the sole purpose of developing the technology to burn off all the buried oil and gas reserves, and thus restore the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere, for the good of
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Re: AE - 17 years ago
"...When evaluating the Chinese we should ignore what happened after contact with Europeans began...."
Er - the periods I mentioned are all very very much pre-contact. In fact, they're the important formative periods. Shang = Bronze Age. Zhou standard dates are 1027-221 BC. Qin=221-206 BC.
"...It is true that Ghengis Khan is a counter example. I attribute that aberat
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Re: AE - 17 years ago
I'm afraid your thesis fell apart for me in the second paragraph, where you define ancient China as a "feminine" (by your definition, non-aggressive) culture. That seems to take an unduly rosy view of the viciously hierarchical Shang phase, the "Warring States" of the Zhou period, and the horrors of the Qin conquest. Etc.
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"...I don't know what that means either. After the process???..."
Sort of. Processual archaeology was, roughly speaking, the "New Archaeology" of Binford and others, which concentrated on materialistic explanations for how societies operated. Very useful, but it tended to marginalize or totally ignore other reasons why people and societies do things, involving ideolo
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Er - I don't want to be pedantic or anything, but the term is "post-processual".
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"..My questions are still serious, is this the travesty it appears to be or not?..."
In a word - yup. Definitely in travesty territory. What the "give'em a chance" brigade don't realize is that there is nothing new about claims like this - we've seen 'em all before, we've seen 'em debunked time and time again, and seen also that the debunking
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Heh. Nice register shift. Do you do requests?
Yeah, maybe double-double think. But over all, I'm not entirely sure what your point is. Above, you say:
"...I reckons it's hidin' somefink down there; on'y thing is..., if it is hidin' somefink down there..., you can sure bet your last bippy that ol' Osmag ain't goin' to find it..."
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"...But that doggone hill it ain't saying nuffink..."
Well, not in so many words--but it's not exactly hiding, either. It's not as if it were a site in the middle of nowhere, discovered by the intrepid explorer Osmanagic; nor is it the case that no "accredited archaeologists" have ever visited it. The region's archaeological remains (Illyrian, Roman, m
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"...and like any apprehended and charged felon[ or a batsman appealed against LBW ], he must be assumed innocent [ or not out ] until proven guilty...."
This doesn't really hold. In both cases, the onus is on the one making the claim to provide the evidence. In law, the accuser must provide the evidence, until which time the accused is presumed innocent. In the case under disc
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For what it's worth, I also got the distinct impression that igster him/herself wrote the letter to Archaeology, and copied it to this board. Apart from anything else, the style and opinions were certainly consistent. It would be interesting to know, igster, where you got hold of it. Has it been posted elsewhere on the net? Disseminated privately?
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Hey, Jim. In answer to your question above, I googled and found a reference to the patriarchal seventeens mentioned in my previous post. From "Divine Symmetries", by Victor Wilson:
QuoteThe ages of the patriarchs all have numerological value, and these values form a sequence.
Abraham is 175, the product of 7 X 5 squared. When you add the factors (7 + 5 + 5), the sum is 17.
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...and the second prize is TWO copies of "Chariots of the Gods"...
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Er - this is either a spoof or contest, right? On the assumption it's a contest you've set up for the members of the forum, I'd guess that the "exquisite text" you keep mentioning is the Old Testament, and the "three beloved monotheists" are the Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I seem to remember some numerological thingy where their ages at death, if prop
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