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The Fermi paradox is the dumbest thing I have ever read.
The idea that we are alone in the galaxy is absurd. Its beyond absurd.
"Gee there are an assload of of stars out there exactly like ours, and
almost every one we're looked at seems to have planets, but yeah,
we're probably really really super-magical-special and theres no one
else on those 100 gazillion planets."
Theres a ton of evidence of alien contact with early civizations,
theres a ton of evidence for UFOs with technology we just dont have,
there are unexplained radio signals (that we've only just started to
look at) , I could go on and on. There is also the possiblity of the
Star Trek Prime Directive, no contact with civilzations that have not
independedly developed star travel.
Just because we live on some remote godforsaken island doesnt mean
that there arent other people out there on other islands, mybe we're
just not that interesting.

http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/scripts/w atchers.html

Genesis 6:1-4
"1 When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters
were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men
were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. 3 Then the
LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with [a] man forever, for he is
mortal [b] ; his days will be a hundred and twenty years."
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when
the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them.
They were the heroes of old, men of renown. "

I'd actually love to see more documentaries about OTHER creation myths.


Just about every culture across the world has their own great flood myth. There is some scientific evidence that there was a sudden flood in the Mediterranean region

Also there are some assumptions on the decay of carbon-14--which are turning out to be false. Recent evidence has scientists baffled because they can't understand why some earth estimates on some things only come out to be a few 100,000 years old.

Some light reading to start:

http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-189.htm

http://www.answers2prayer.org/bible_questions/Answ ers/carbon_dating/carbon_dating.html

http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/science/f lood.html

Bogus- I don't mean mountain. He was associated with mountains and hills, but he was a sky god.

"Yahweh appears to have been originally a sky god - a god of thunder and lightning. He was associated with mountains and was called by the enemies of Israel 'a god of the hills'. His manifestation was often as fire, as at Mount Sinai and in the burning bush."
"A shorter form, 'Yah', was also used (Exodus 15:2) and some scholars believe that this is the older form, originating in an exclamation to God - 'Yah!' - which came to be accepted as the divine name. Others claim that it is from the root 'hayah', 'to be' or 'to become', and that it meant 'I am that I am' or I will be that I will be'. According to one tradition of the call of Moses, the divine name Yahweh was revealed to him in Egypt:"
- Great Events of Bible Times

Here's a clue dude.

Hmm, this sounds great - but as with all these things I would welcome a Vedic scholars perspective. With my massive researching skills I found this quote which sheds a little light.

"...There is one book entitled Vaimanika-sastra that was dictated in trance during this century (20th - I assume. RWG)and purports to be a transcription of an ancient work preserved in the Akashic record." "The medium in this case was Pandit Subbaraya Sastry, a 'walking lexicon gifted with occult perception', who began to dictate the Vaimanika-sastra to Mr. Venkatachala Sarma on August 1, 1918. The complete work was taken down in 23 exercise books up to August 23, 1923. In 1923, Subbaraya Sastry also had a draftsman prepare some drawings of the vimanas according to his instructions." quote ref

This sounds a little suspicious to me. A little like John Edward 'dictating' a new chapter of the Old Testament called "Moses had Laser Pistols"

http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/scripts/s ion.html This offers a solution of sorts. Slashdot is still butchering URL when used with plain text.

the scribes messed about with red ink, trying different things,

"The earliest type of text commonly used in private tombs was the 'offering given by the king' (hetep-di-nisut) formula. It was a short prayer ..."

"In the Fifty Dynasty [2465-2322 BC] autobiographical texts developed further to include episodes illustrating the tomb-owner's character and describe his memorable achievements"

" The Pyramid Texts were a collection of Egyptian mortuary prayers, hymns, and spells intended to protect a dead king or queen and ensure life and sustenance in the hereafter. The texts, inscribed on the walls of the inner chambers of the pyramids [from c. 2686-c. 2160 BC] ... The texts constitute the oldest surviving body of Egyptian religious and funerary writings available to modern scholars."

the scribes messed about with red ink, trying different things,

"The earliest type of text commonly used in private tombs was the 'offering given by the king' (hetep-di-nisut) formula. It was a short prayer ..."

"In the Fifty Dynasty [2465-2322 BC] autobiographical texts developed further to include episodes illustrating the tomb-owner's character and describe his memorable achievements"

" The Pyramid Texts were a collection of Egyptian mortuary prayers, hymns, and spells intended to protect a dead king or queen and ensure life and sustenance in the hereafter. The texts, inscribed on the walls of the inner chambers of the pyramids [from c. 2686-c. 2160 BC] ... The texts constitute the oldest surviving body of Egyptian religious and funerary writings available to modern scholars."

"In 1929, the English archaeologist Sir Charles Woolley reported finding water-deposited layers as much as ten feet thick in excavations near the Euphrates..."

- Isaac Asimov, In The Beginning, (1981) pp. 153-154

"...Evidence of a major flood just over 6,000 years ago has been found around Ur, where a layer of water-laid clay two and a half meters deep covers an area of more than 100,000 square kilometers. This amounts to a spread across the entire width of the Tigris-Euphrates valley from north of modern Baghdad to the coast of the Persian Gulf in what now includes parts of Iraq, Iran and Kuwait."

- Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas, The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus

Well, (s)He might have described it through the eyes of a prophet, like this: "I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north--an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures."

Von Daaniken I'm not, but that's pretty trippy testimony for something that's canon.