I Have A Question

[FAX]

Well, actually, I have a lot of questions, but this one here is the one that's bothering me right now and I thought I'd ask you guys about it and stuff.

I've been listening to a documentary about the book Dead Men's Secrets by Johnathan Grey. Now, it is my humble opinion that Johnathan Grey is a possibly insane, certainly dumbass, inveterate headline seeker of the first order, so let's get that part out of the way. However, as we all know, even a blind squirrel can run the football up the center's ass once in awhile.

Grey, along with dudes like Ivan Sanderson, Michael Cremo, and Richard Thompson have apparently gone full-on nuts with this idea of "out of place artifacts", or strange objects seemingly belonging to an advanced civilization found in geologic strata where it doesn't belong.

Many of these artifacts have been overstated or debunked right out the dig. But, what is beginning to bother me is this notion that most, if not all, of these artifacts are almost immediately discounted by traditional science without either discussion or investigation.

Items like the Dorchester Pot, or the Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca head, or the Goddard coin, and Antikythera mechanism are all examples of items that were initially discounted by "science" only to be ultimately listed as "partially validated" at best. Often, when all else fails, somebody will concoct a claim of "hoax" regardless of the truth. That's happened pretty often, in fact.

Still, writings like the Mahabharata, Sumerian texts and even some ancient Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs speak of some pretty amazing technologies that are written off as myth or fantasy or legend.

It seems to me that the field of traditional science and, more specifically, archaeology is too quick to discount the idea that prior civilizations might have been very different from the stone-age, nose-boned, knuckle-draggers we've been led to believe they were.

I'm curious. What do you guys think?

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[Saccopoo]

[Pioli Zombie]

Who gives a shit. I like cheese.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Saccopoo

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[Hydrae]

Originally Posted by Pioli Zombie

Who gives a shit. I like cheese.

But how the hell did the ancients even figure out how to make cheese? Inquiring minds would love to know.

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[Stewie]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

What had interested me, was talk of a lost Archimedes text that contained math more complex and refined than we've developed to date.

According to those who work specifically in the field of ancient technology, the burning of the Library of Alexandria set math/science back hundreds of years.

[Pioli Zombie]

Who was the first guy to say, hey, look what comes out of this cow when I squeeze this thing. Let's drink it.

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Some dumbass "advanced" culture identies their culture with a valuable substance, then uses that substance, under the guise of a belief within that culture, to wipe out the culture that has that substance. Gifts of famine and disease help the thieving culture.

Incas, Aztecs, Plains Indians, Canaanites, Philistines, Egyptians, Aleutians, Mesopotamians, Nepalis.

Gold, oil, healing substances, spices. Food, water.

Belief/non-belief in one or more dieties, in every way shape and imagined form, drives many conflicts.

From these conflicts, many cultures spring, then die, then bloom from these deaths. A lot of shit gets lost along the way.

[FAX]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Gray was on Coast to Coast am a couple of weeks ago, and while some of what he said was interesting, he didn't sound like a scientist, he sounded like a guy who was looking for evidence to support beliefs he already had. He spoke with a clear anti-evolution agenda and he went on and on in no uncertain terms about how he believes in the book of genesis as a valid source for determining the age of the planet. So essentially he appears to believe that all of science is a lie, whether it's cosmology or physics or archaelogy or any other discipline that deals in any way with the dating of the universe and/or the planet. It's a grand conspiracy apparently, in his mind.

I love 'alternative history' and 'forbidden archaeology'. I love the idea of history we're unaware of, and I even love the idea of tenured academics with a vested interest in censoring discoveries. But the guy came off like a complete crackpot.

Is it "Gray"? Okay.

Yeah, it looks to me as though he is little more than a headline-grabber type person as mentioned.

Any "finds" always seem to fit his predetermined worldview and I discount 99.9% or more of what he says. The concern is, though, that it seems like mainstream archaeology does the same thing.

I'm beginning to believe that people desirous of a career in archaeology are somewhat forced to conform to existing ideas else pursue jobs in food service.

Personally, I think it's pretty clear that "something" was going on many millenia ago of which we have no knowledge whatsoever. And that "something" involved some pretty crazy stuff like advanced metallurgy, ceramics, and extensive, worldwide travel. I mean, the verifiable evidence sure seems to support the concept.

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We must be the most advanced culture. We developed shit that takes thousands of years to decompose. You'd think that we would have found styrofoam cups, twinkies and hot dogs just above the precambrian layer.

[FAX]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

What had interested me, was talk of a lost Archimedes text that contained math more complex and refined than we've developed to date.

That's a very good example, actually, Mr. Baby Lee.

Archimedes was working on highly advanced mathematics including how to square a circle and the concept of actual infinity. These are ideas and problems that have literally driven later mathematicians insane.

The text is also an interesting metaphor for the entire issue. The original text was overwritten by some monk who used the paper or papyrus or whatever to create a prayer book. In other words, the ancient science was essentially covered over by a later religious figure or likely zealot of some sort.

PS: Many thanks to the morons who have chosen to participate in my thread.

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