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Ancient Aliens
ThailandTom
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So I have decided to watch a few episodes of this show and some 'facts' really do not seem correct to me, but at other times they make a good point. I don't know what to think, there is quite a lot of interesting things to think about. For those who have seen this series what are your thoughts?
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Also, the ancient aliens program says the stones are granite, I think, thus too hard to cut in this way, but in fact they're sandstone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumapunku
And I really am disappointed in myself for judging people on their appearance, but.....
I think I'd rather listen to a Dalek host the show.....
The talk page refutes a lot of the claims.
Even if its all made up or sensationalized, it's still a good thinking exercise, and always gets my creativity going for writing or other artistic activities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiwanaku
;The community grew to urban proportions between AD 600 and AD 800, becoming an important regional power in the southern Andes. According to early estimates, at its maximum extent, the city covered approximately 6.5 square kilometers, and had between 15,000–30,000 inhabitants.[1] However, satellite imaging was used recently to map the extent of fossilized suka kollus across the three primary valleys of Tiwanaku, arriving at population-carrying capacity estimates of anywhere between 285,000 and 1,482,000 people.[10]'
One thing that does perplex me is how they have very similar styles of art, architecture and pictures of gods literally half way around the world. That is a noodle scratcher.
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But yea, these people have studied for years, then worked in various fields for years and so have the knowledge. The only question is how much have they been paid to do this show? It could ruin their career and create MEMEs haha, oh man that still makes me laugh. Still interesting show for sure.
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Oh I do, anything I see on tv I watch with a grain of salt. I love Nat Geo but we don't get it here (go figure, some of their shows are filmed here, and we can't even watch them!). I took some anthropology classes in college and try to keep up with some of the peer reviewed journals and such, I find it fascinating the accomplishments they were able to make. It makes me wonder, when one day the human race is gone, if another race will find our planet and be able to figure out what we did and why and how with the things we leave behind. It also makes me wonder what kind of things we'll leave behind that'll lend them to postulate on what we "idolized" and "worshipped" based on prevalence and importance in the remains of our society. It's interesting to think about.
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Bees in pre-Indo-European culture were fertility symbols of the goddess, IIRC, according to anthro Marija Gimbutas.
Attributing spectacular cultural achievements to space aliens generally is regarded as a new spin on the old racist "diffusionist" theory, whereby anthropologists and archaeologists of the 1800's and early 1900's declared the Mayan ruins and ruins of ancient civilizations in South Africa and Zimbabwe to be the work of Egyptians, or "higher civilizations". When those sites were discovered, it was believed that the Native peoples in those regions were incapable of building monumental architecture and creating elaborate works of art in stone and other materials. So theories were concocted that proposed that Egyptians (who were considered more "White", and therefore naturally more advanced historically) built the Aztec and Mayan pyramids, or Europeans or others somehow reached southern Africa in early times and built civilizations there.
Those theories have long ago been debunked, but now we have the Space Alien theory to explain what uninformed sensationalists want us to believe is unexplainable, due, of course, to the assumed natural stupidity of the Native peoples in question.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
*sigh*
In the past, certain esoterics were protected by secrecy - in this day and age, there is a mixture of secrecy and distraction - the system of social sorcery does well to drive civilisation together.
There are however serious recurring inconsistencies in the accepted academic position and the facts on the ground found from exploring our planet and its guesstimated history.
Or two: We're a stop on the intergalctic sex tourism trade. That's why all those anal probes.
And this guy above me; looks like he stuck his finger in a light socket. :coffee:
By the way, this thread is getting pretty good viewing figures. Let's have some more threads on ancient aliens: we can cut a few of those boring Buddhist topics to make room.
Mayan hieroglyphics on plate excavated in Chichén Itzá (Peabody Museum) - don't know if this particular passage has been deciphered, but here's article on hieroglyphs from that region: http://www.mesoweb.com/bearc/cmr/RRAMW23-25intro.pdf
If you look at sattelites we use today, this object closely resembles the material used on part of the machine, only crumbled up and squashed. This leads me to believe that this is possible proof that ancient aliens had sattelites flying around our globe thousands of years ago, amazing.
The only thing that made me wonder if he was telling the truth was that he said that after it had gone, he and his brother tried to continue their game but were unable to co-ordinate their bodies well enough to play tennis, missing the ball every time, indicating that they were in shock.
I doubt he would have been aware enough of the symptoms of shock to weave this into a made up story... he thought it was something to do with the UFO itself that affected them physically, and so did I at the time; but now that I look back, it sounds exactly like the effect of shock, which I have experienced myself.
Their attempt to carry on playing tennis rings true as well, rather than 'we rushed after it' or, 'we alerted the authorities'. When strange things happen, we often don't know how to react except to blunder on with what we were doing before. Which is one reason why anatta takes time and effort to realise for most people.
It's easy to take objects and art out of context, and construct a theory around them. LIke supposedly the throne that a Mayan king is depicted sitting on at one site has been described as a launching pad, or something. Really, finding out the truth about these things, and getting involved in the archaeology of it, is just as exciting as fanciful theories, imo. But still, AFAIK, no one has explained how ancient peoples anywhere in the world managed to move the monumental stones that they did, have they? Egypt, Pumapunku? I suppose anything can be managed with enough man-power.
I'm not in favor of what warplanes do, but I confess to liking them as machines.