Just dropped by to see how things are and well... the RLC stuff just will not go away will it?
Using my rusty French comprehension, the gist of this site is that the publisher of it has discovered two paintings that he believes were painted by Poussin which have not previously been attributed to the man:
Having spent more than my fair share of hours studying Poussin's work, I reall
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I also remember reading that the Cocaine test they did can give false-positives for substances the AEs did have access to, It's unfortunate that this tale has gained a life of its own: I've met people who think it is convincing evidence that the AEs either had trade with or werr regular visitors to Central America.
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Thanks! I hope the stay will be a little longer this time
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He doesn't name the person or lab that did the DNA testing. Also, why just use one un-named tester? It makes a lot more sense to use at least 3 to eliminate the possibility of contamination, I think this whole thing is a hoax.
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(back after a Hiatus)
From what I gather the test they used or Nicotine could show positive for other related substances. One theory that I find quite convincing is speculation that Egyptian Royalty and Nobles used to drink a mildly Narcotic Tea (or from some reports a wine-infusion) made using the Blue Lotus/Water Lilly of the Nile: Nymphaea Caerulea, The plant was found in Tut's tomb an
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>There's no reason I know of that DNA could not exist in other places in the universe, but the >link you posted really has nothing to say pro or con on the issue. In the experiment in >question, the experimenting team recreated from scratch a close analogue to a sequenced genome >-- in effect, built it nucleotide by nucleotide according to a known pattern without using DNA >fr
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>>Would aliens actually have DNA?
You've hit on one fascinating question of Genetics: did RNA and DNA originate on the Earth? As far as anyone can tell, the answer is yes, but the recent creation of Artificial DNA in a laboratory (see link) would suggest that the Earth might not be the only place in the universe that DNA could have originated.
I think we could recognize &quo
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Hi Pete,
points well made and taken. As I wrote: I was not familiar with Gildas until now and it's always useful to get another point of view. Any chronicles from that period are useful because so little exists, but I feel the reliability of such sources should always be questioned and the clear bias of Gildas when writing about his own time should be taken into account. Alterno-historian
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> Why so precise a date? The Gizamids, I
> suppose--the Alpha and Omega.
It's a convenient way to explain the discrepancy between the positions of the Gizamids and the Stars in Orion's belt when they were built.
"The first time" may refer to the time when the ancestors of the AEs lived i
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Hi Anthony, I was just passing by and saw this.
There are a lot of problems with this article and the so-called research it depends on: the Round Table is a Medieval elaboration added to the tale. It was included as an illustration of Medieval Chivalry and, as such, quite an alien concept to the Britons of the estimated time range when the real "King Arthur" would have lived (around
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There were 4 different labs involved in the testing, not just one person. A repair should have been visible to the naked eye and reported in the published findings, it wasn't.
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It was because material was valuable that they didn't waste any, it wasn't uncommon for new dresses to be made from material that was decades old, so it's entirely possible for older methods of dying to be used in the Turin shroud, you're also ignoring the time-range of the C14 readings. Special Pleading indeed.
Joe.
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Atlantis: it's anywhere you want it to be!
I think the inhabitants of Mu should feel chagrined: it seems nobody these days wants to speculate on the whereabouts of Mu.
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QuoteThe Turin shroud already underwent carbon-14 dating in 1988. At that time, three reputable laboratories in Oxford, Zurich and Tucson, Ariz., concluded that the cloth on which the smudged outline of the body of a man is indelibly impressed was a medieval fake dating from 1260 to 1390, and not the burial cloth wrapped around the body of Christ.
The dates fit the known time-line of the shroud
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It's a sad fact of life that pretty much any archaeological discovery in South West Spain and Portugal or North West Africa is going to be linked to Atlantis. If you are going to look for Atlantis anywhere, then off the coasts of Iberia and North West Africa are the places to look because that's the only Geographical clue given by Plato. Looking a the ocean-scape on Google Maps makes me
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The Assyrians would have taken large numbers of slaves back with them to Northern Iraq, so it is quite possible that some of the "lost tribes" ended up there.
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You need water and to ensure fertility and re-birth of the crops for the next harvest. C'mon it's blatantly obvious (or should be) where these ideas originated. The Ancient Sumerians also saw the night sky as a cosmic sea, this isn't anything Anthony invented.
Joe.
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The fact that the image on the shroud bears a strong resemblance to popular images of Jesus is even more reason to doubt its authenticity, IMO. I don't think anyone can sensibly suggest that even images from Byzantine times could possibly bear any resemblance to reality.
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These are 900-1000 years after he lived and they are different to the more standardized medieval depictions. Nobody back then had the faintest idea what Jesus looked like.
Joe
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Happy New Year, Kat and everyone here at Ma'at, including absent friends (I can talk, lol).
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The theory of the existence of Q is based on lexicographic analysis of the text of Mark and Luke, which appear to contain a common core of sayings that is not in Mark. The Gnostic gospel of Thomas, which is nothing more than a list of sayings and is from around the same time as Mathew is quite possibly the Q gospel (or a form of it) as half the sayings in it can be found (in slightly altered form
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How does anyone know what Jesus looked like? Of course nobody does, so it is ridiculous to claim the shroud image is Jesus without having anything to compare it to. The face on the shroud does however look like popular depictions of Jesus from around the time given by the C14 dating.
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The Gospels: Fiction or Faction? That is what is debatable, I err on the Faction side of the argument.
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Doh! I thought Marvel owned everything these days. I'm not a comic fan, but there are interesting similarities between Superman and JC and Superheroes in general and the Greek Pantheon.
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One of the biggest holes in the New Testament is the lack of background on where and how Jesus got his Ministry and religious training. What we know from the Bible is he was a follower and likely a cousin of John the Baptist, so John may well have ordained him and Jesus' core disciples were most likely originally disciples of John. John the Baptist was a long way from being a conventional Ra
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The apocryphal texts you refer to were quite late and complete fiction, similar to the genesis of Superman in the Marvel comics and may have served a similar purpose (entertaining and indoctrinating the young).
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I think a more accurate translation would be "Handy Man", there is nothing in the Gospels to suggest Jesus was a Mason, although as the local Handy Man he may well have helped out in building houses for his fellow villagers.
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Indeed, I hate to be a Grinch, but there isn't much hope that the Nativity has any factual background. Jesus trade may still have been carpenter/handy man, in which case he is unlikely to have been well off.
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You can see near the end that it is taken at an odd angle though the windshield of a car and moves along with it, so it is a reflection of something inside the car. A fake, but I'm sure everyone already figured that.
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I am in agreeance with this, the site is a pretty poor one to use as a repository for a local sect, much better as a hiding place that will never be found by an enemy (and it wasn't for over 2,000 years).
Joe.
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