Atheist knowledge

[turboplanner]

I have to give in to your deeper knowledge Turbs, my thinking has been shaped by the stories about the search for the beginnings of the Nile right into colonial times.

You'd probably be able to find out the situation by studying the history of Khartoum, which was at the confluence of the White and Blue Niles.

 

 

[Marty_d]

I threw some stuff up in the air. It flew and I called it a ?

...policy.

 

 

[Marty_d]

I just got this in my mailbox, unsigned and unaddressed.....

President Obama will announce to the world in early October "Peace and Safety" then the Rapture happens, Word war erupts & the Biblical 7 year Apocolypse starts. 1st Thessoloians 5:3

 

MOCK NOW & REGRET LATER. YOU HAVE BEEN DULY WARNED.

Why do they assume people are going to mock??

 

 

[M61A1]

Why do they assume people are going to mock??

Experience???

 

...policy.

Couldn't be......he said it flew.

 

 

[dutchroll]

I just got this in my mailbox, unsigned and unaddressed.....

President Obama will announce to the world in early October "Peace and Safety" then the Rapture happens, Word war erupts & the Biblical 7 year Apocolypse starts. 1st Thessoloians 5:3

 

MOCK NOW & REGRET LATER. YOU HAVE BEEN DULY WARNED.

It would be fair to say whoever dropped it in your letterbox is probably overdue for a mental health assessment......

 

 

[M61A1]

It would be fair to say whoever dropped it in your letterbox is probably overdue for a mental health assessment......

Yes....and the entire group that they associate with.

 

 

[Bruce]

I wonder what that letter-boxing guy has done with his finances.

 

If you really believed the world was ending, shouldn't you have your bankcards maxed out etc? For good works of course.

 

 

[Marty_d]

Experience???

It WAS tongue-in-cheek M61... I'm one of those fokkers who's a mocker...

 

 

[M61A1]

It WAS tongue-in-cheek M61... I'm one of those fokkers who's a mocker...

As was my reply.. although I think there may be a lot of truth in it.

 

 

[bexrbetter]

1. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal.
    
   

Can you elaborate on this a bit, just so i know what i'm looking out for, you know, for those times I'm on the lookout for some Satan lust?

 

 

[Dwilly]

perhaps a surreptitious wink?

 

 

[M61A1]

Can you elaborate on this a bit, just so i know what i'm looking out for, you know, for those times I'm on the lookout for some Satan lust?

I can only guess that you might have to study the satanic scripture in some more depth.....I've only cut and pasted.

 

But in Australia these days, you could probably end up being charged with rape unless you have a signed ,witnessed document carefully detailing what is allowed, as well as video evidence in case there is a change of mind halfway through.

 

 

[turboplanner]

Try under arm deodorant.

 

 

[facthunter]

That's more deadly than bad sex. Nev

 

 

[PA.]

I can only guess that you might have to study the satanic scripture in some more depth.....I've only cut and pasted.But in Australia these days, you could probably end up being charged with rape unless you have the receipt.

Q. Is having sex with a prostitute and then not paying her Rape or Shoplifting? Just asking for a friend.

 

 

[Bikky]

I think it's called hit and run.

 

 

[Bikky]

Doing a koala. Eats, roots and leaves.

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

Doing a koala. Eats, roots and leaves.

Bikkies that's a Wombat; you've been OS too long.

 

 

[DonRamsay]

I visited Abu Simbel a few years ago. Wonderful. It was originally on the floor of the Nile Valley and due to be flooded by Lake Nasser (Aswan Dam). UNESCO organised for it to be cut up into blocks and moved to the higher ground where it sits today. If you look closely you can see where the bits fit together but all-in-all they did an amazingly god job. I did not see any evidence that it was other than a temple with the big statues of Ramses II and his missus. It is about 250 kms up the river from the Aswan Dam wall (near the cataracts) which is about 1,000 kms South of Cairo.

 

The Hatshepsut temple (Valley of the Kings near Luxor) is as magnificent as it looks in the photo. The paint on the ceiling is still in pretty good nick after thousands of years. Love Egypt.

 

 

[bexrbetter]

Love Egypt.

So you didn't go as a German Tourist then.

 

 

[Marty_d]

Can you elaborate on this a bit, just so i know what i'm looking out for, you know, for those times I'm on the lookout for some Satan lust?

A high court judge or Tory politician with a twinkle in his eye.

 

 

[Bruce]

When I saw the Sphinx for real, I was shocked at how small it was and also how there were houses starting just on the opposite side of the street. Yep the Sphinx is on a street.

 

All the pictures I had seen were from just the right low camera angle to make it look bigger, and of course the angle was away from the houses.

 

Some of us look for more wisdom in the ancients than they obviously possessed, I wonder why that is.

 

A con-man called Von Daniken used some jail time gainfully to write a nonsense but best selling book called "chariots of the gods" in which he said how the pyramids must have had alien help.

 

Gosh we could do with a bit of alien help right now.. they could negotiate with CASA on out behalf.

 

 

[turboplanner]

When I saw the Sphinx for real, I was shocked at how small it was and also how there were houses starting just on the opposite side of the street. Yep the Sphinx is on a street.All the pictures I had seen were from just the right low camera angle to make it look bigger, and of course the angle was away from the houses.

 

Some of us look for more wisdom in the ancients than they obviously possessed, I wonder why that is.

 

A con-man called Von Daniken used some jail time gainfully to write a nonsense but best selling book called "chariots of the gods" in which he said how the pyramids must have had alien help.

 

Gosh we could do with a bit of alien help right now.. they could negotiate with CASA on out behalf.

It's believed to have been recharged from a larger size, and the head may have been recarved politically because it's out of proportion for a sphinx. It is perfectly aligned to face due east, the beginning of life (vs due west, death). Robert Shocht studied the weathering on the Sphinx and pit which show vertical rain erosion, indicating it is the oldest structure in Egypt, dating it to the end of the last ice age, around 6,000 years ago. The Cairo museum had got to an appallingly bad state before the international community stepped in and started to protect the museum and monuments. Not sure what's going on in today's troubled times. Most of what Von Daniken said was debunked almost immediately in "crash go the chariots" but that set lot's of people searching for the truth. It's clear that the Egyptians obtained their skills "overnight" in terms of the world's time scale, and lost them just as fast. They worked to an accuracy we can't achieve today, e.g. The polished limestone which once covered the pyramids described as polished to an optician's accuracy on a scale of acres.

 

 

[Marty_d]

Ancient civilisations, especially Egypt, are impressive when viewed through a particular lens... pretty much their stonework and architecture.

 

The human brain hasn't changed much in 200,000 years. It makes sense that in every era there would be the full spectrum of intelligence from bogan to Einstein, and if the Einstein-equivalents were high enough caste or able to get their ideas to the ruling classes (or the moneyed ones, usually went together) then you get "paradigm shifts" for want of a better term, in the skills they had in that era. Architecture, art, writing, counting, medicine, whatever.

 

They worked to an accuracy we can't achieve today

Unless they developed nano-technology or the ability to print microscopic circuits, that comment is just plain wrong.

 

 

[turboplanner]

Ancient civilisations, especially Egypt, are impressive when viewed through a particular lens... pretty much their stonework and architecture.

The human brain hasn't changed much in 200,000 years. It makes sense that in every era there would be the full spectrum of intelligence from bogan to Einstein, and if the Einstein-equivalents were high enough caste or able to get their ideas to the ruling classes (or the moneyed ones, usually went together) then you get "paradigm shifts" for want of a better term, in the skills they had in that era. Architecture, art, writing, counting, medicine, whatever.

 

Unless they developed nano-technology or the ability to print microscopic circuits, that comment is just plain wrong.

We're using those to render our buildings?