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  • Reply to: White Skin Developed in Europe Only As Recently as 8,000 Years Ago Say Anthropologists   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: tony odiadi

    This has merely vindicated the long known fact of human migration out of Africa northwards to Europe. Loss of dark pigmentation occurs the farther away you are from the equator. On arrival to Europe colder environment led to paler skin tone as gene mutation resulting in light skin began. There is a similarity in albinism but in Europe paler skin began to dominate 8,000 years ago rather than remain recessive as in Africa. No surprise wholly black men were found in Spain, Portugal, Italy and the rest of South Europe just 7,000 years ago. This study is helpful to destroy some myths about how skin colors descended from the heavens.

  • Reply to: White Skin Developed in Europe Only As Recently as 8,000 Years Ago Say Anthropologists   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: tony odiadi

    This has merely vindicated the long known fact of human migration out of Africa northwards to Europe. Loss of dark pigmentation occurs the farther away you are from the equator. On arrival to Europe colder environment led to paler skin tone as gene mutation resulting in light skin began. There is a similarity in albinism but in Europe paler skin began to dominate 8,000 years ago rather than remain recessive as in Africa. No surprise wholly black men were found in Spain, Portugal, Italy and the rest of South Europe just 7,000 years ago. This study is helpful to destroy some myths about how skin colors descended from the heavens.

  • Reply to: The Aghori and Their Unorthodox Path to Enlightenment   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Karen Holcomb

    I'd like to know why it looks like there's an arm coming out of his chest?

  • Reply to: Kuh-e Alvand: Searching for the True Mountain of Noah and his Ark   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Paul Gower

    In all the cultures of the world affected when the Laurentide let out its floodwaters some 8k yrs ago, there are two types of "repopulation myth".
    If the folks involved walked uphill to escape the waters rise, there is a flood myth and then the repop myth, which varies from culture to culture.
    In areas , such as the Sunda, where the occupants had to boat their way out of danger, they have a "Noah" character, then the repop myth.
    The ocean level rise 8k yrs ago occured rapidly, over some 70 some yrs according to pollen in ice cores.
    That is why Papua New Guinea has 1/4 of the known languages on earth, and East Timor has 27 separate cultures.
    Not many things actually occur on a global level, and all are emembered differently by the cultures and in the languages of thse who survived.That's why the Persians are totally different from all the Arab peoples, they were forced up out of the sea.

  • Reply to: Archeologists discover Mythical Tomb of Osiris, God of the Dead, in Egypt   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Vinny2sweet

    Can we see these photos or are they documented anywhere already or published through media

  • Reply to: 150,000 fled for their lives, but were slaughtered by Julius Caesar army, bones reveal   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: sleek

    idiot -- try using small arms to defend your home against fighter jets and see for yourself how it works out. easily said from the comfort of your armchair

  • Reply to: The Shroud of Turin: Jesus' Bloodstained Burial Cloth or a Fascinating Forgery?   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Thomas Houck

    I have little patience typing on my iPad but, the accuracy of the image on the Shroud of Turin being correct is the exact argument that a burst of radiation of some type at the split second of the Resurection is what dried out the surface ( on both sides of the cloth; front and back ) of the linen producing the image. Whatever type of radiation emitted the rays would only travel in a straight line up and down. That is also what caused the shading intensity. Do not forget that the information drawn from the image can actually be used to generate a 3D model something photographs and paintings cannot do. Perhaps our science is not at the level to prove what produced the image but it is advanced enough to prove for certain that the image was not made by the human hand.

  • Reply to: Legendary Black Knights: Mysterious Medieval Entities of Neutrality   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Toni Barber

    I use an app called adblock and no problem with popups. I love this site and being able to read it undisturbed is awesome.

  • Reply to: 150,000 fled for their lives, but were slaughtered by Julius Caesar army, bones reveal   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Daniel Krull

    Yes, Caesar is the Hitler of the last century before 0, and the crimes he commited were so similar to the ones against all tribesmen, beeing from north or south america, africa or asia.
    Divide et imperae may or may not be from him, but it was his politics all along, divide, imparae and slaughter into submission the survivors.

  • Reply to: 150,000 fled for their lives, but were slaughtered by Julius Caesar army, bones reveal   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Daniel

    Yes, Caesar is the Hitler of the last century before 0, and the crimes he commited were so similar to the ones against all tribesmen, beeing from north or south america, africa or asia.
    Divide et imperae may or may not be from him, but it was his politics all along, divide, imparae and slaughter into submission the survivors.

  • Reply to: 150,000 fled for their lives, but were slaughtered by Julius Caesar army, bones reveal   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: sws420

    Another fine example of a People not coming together to defend their homes.  The males fleeing Syria could learn from this, the overthrow of the Aztecs and what happened to the Native Americans.  

  • Reply to: Kuh-e Alvand: Searching for the True Mountain of Noah and his Ark   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Philip Mellon

    The demon-possessed commenters never fail to show up when the story concerns God and Jesus and all things related. They work diligently to try and destroy, and as they have since the beginning utterly fail. Once I considered them merely ignorant,now, clearly evil. Resist them and their words of death and they will flee.

  • Reply to: Kuh-e Alvand: Searching for the True Mountain of Noah and his Ark   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Larry

    Your comments are consistent with my observations and experience. Pride is what blinds the so-called (or self-identified) "smart" ones from learning. Anything they don't - or can't - understand is automatically labeled ridiculous or worse. They cannot bring themselves to admit - to themselves or those they consider beneath them) that they don't know and/or understand everything there is to know and/or understand. Humility is not something they know or experience.

  • Reply to: Kuh-e Alvand: Searching for the True Mountain of Noah and his Ark   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Larry

    I have observed so many phenomena in desert regions, far away from any water (sea or ocean), that can only be explained by a global flood.

    Those who scoff at the notion of a global flood also scoff at any mention of God and accountability to that ultimate authority, and anything associated with it.

    Many who appeal to "science" do not understand, or do not acknowledge, that it is only one process humans use to gather knowledge, and that humans are very prone to error, bias, and ulterior motives that can and do taint or completely falsify the results / conclusions.

  • Reply to: The Shroud of Turin: Jesus' Bloodstained Burial Cloth or a Fascinating Forgery?   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Allen121212

    You say I don't have this book. That seems defensive rather than constructive to me. I'll take another look for the draping problem this evening, if I think of it. I have many great ideas until I get home and forget! :-)

    Found this on a discussion board. Is this what's in the book that you're thinking of?
    One of the theories for the creation of the image on the Shroud was advanced by Dr. Alan Mills of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester, and ties into this theory of the Shroud. The theory is fully described in Dr. Mills' paper: "Image Formation of the Shroud of Turin", in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 1995, 20(4), pp. 319-326. Dr. Mills noted that the Shroud image is remarkably similar to the faint yellow-brown markings of very old botanical specimens that have been kept dry and pressed in paper. These "plant pictures" share many characteristics with the Shroud image, including revealing a remarkable amount of detail in negative photographic images. The process that creates these markings, known as Volkringer patterns, is not fully understood, but it is believed that a lactic acid reaction is involved in the process.

    Dr. Mills also recalled a phenomenon that had caused trouble for early makers of photographic plates, known as the Russel Effect. Spurious images on early photographic plates could have been produced by the proximity of materials like newsprint, resinous woods, aluminum, and vegetable oils. This image creation process is linked to the release of free radicals from those substances.

    The theory advanced by Dr. Mills is that the crucified man in the Shroud would have experienced tremendous physical trauma that would have resulted in an increased buildup of lactic acid in his system. This lactic acid being excreted by the victim's body would have reacted with ordinary molecular oxygen in the air, producing free radical singlet oxygen. These single oxygen atoms would have traveled to the linen shroud covering the victim, releasing their excess energy into the fibers of the cloth and turning back into ordinary molecular oxygen in the process.

    The singlet oxygen atoms would eventually cause a yellowing of the cloth, but this discoloration would not occur instantaneously. The initial energy release starts what is essentially a chain reaction that is like extremely slow scorching of the cloth. Over several years, if the cloth were kept in a dark place with plenty of oxygen, the darkening of the image would continue until all of the affected linen fibers were spent.

  • Reply to: The Ancient Pagan Origins of Easter   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Gman

    I tired of religious people quoting there book thinking that it just instantly ends any argument. Welp, guess what it doesn't. There are 3000+ religions out there and you one dessert dweller book doesn't change that. They all clam to be true, but there probably all wrong. The odds might have been stacked against us but it was mathematicly impossible for an earth-like plant not to have formed. Open your mind and thin outside the religious box.

  • Reply to: The Shroud of Turin: Jesus' Bloodstained Burial Cloth or a Fascinating Forgery?   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Stuart McLaren

    Allen, I’m sorry but everything I’ve stated is in ‘the book’.  I especially ordered another copy which arrived today as my original copy was lost.  I’ve confirmed my facts against this copy! I’m sorry I do appreciate your time responding to me but I can’t further mine to you when it feels like I’m running into a brick wall. You claim to have a copy of The Second Messiah by Robert Lomas and Christpher Knight but it’s clear and obvious that you do not. Please refer to Dr Allan Mills’ work on the creation of the image.

     
  • Reply to: The Shroud of Turin: Jesus' Bloodstained Burial Cloth or a Fascinating Forgery?   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Stuart McLaren

    I do find it lifelike.  And the painting you list doesn’t resemble the negative image on the shroud at all. You quote wikipedia but I think we all know that it is run by a cabal of skeptics who fight tooth and nail against anything out of the ordinary. I don’t trust it in matters of enquiry.  The wiki editors’ work in defaming Dr Rupert Sheldrake amongst others is enough for me to take it’s contents with a pinch of salt, especially around fringe science. But I digress – Pierre d’Arcis, the church lawyer who claimed the shroud a fake. I’m not going to go into it here but once again, that whole ‘story’ is investigated and explained in the book I refer to. His describing the shroud as fake had everything to do with politics and zero truth.

     
  • Reply to: The Shroud of Turin: Jesus' Bloodstained Burial Cloth or a Fascinating Forgery?   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Stuart McLaren

    “My opinion is that it was originally painted” Allen I’ve provided reason already which supports the claim it was not painted. And you will find this inthe work Lomas/Knight have collated from various sources, both professional and scholarly. If you don’t have the book, you can purchase it for two quid online – I promise it’s a good read.
     

     
  • Reply to: The Shroud of Turin: Jesus' Bloodstained Burial Cloth or a Fascinating Forgery?   8 years 5 months ago
    Comment Author: Allen121212

    "a book you state you have on your book shelf and which covers the matter of distortion quite extensively, and which for some reason you have failed to include in your arguments."
    I've 'failed' to include it because it is not in the book as you claim. It's your claim, not mine. Which you fail to cite... not being mean but--right? You say it's there. Up to you to say where.

    The other thing... cool! I'll look into: " lose vertical convection process known as auto-oxidation, on the flat cloth. You could research Dr Allan Mills’ work on the subject."

    There's a real problem with what's called the Volkringer pattern which was created in a book of pressed leaves. I think if you look at the resulting pictures from Volkringer's found images, you'll start to see why. Volkringer isn't trying to fool anyone but it really probably isn't what it seems. You have to ask why the image looks like 3D leaf 'as if' someone was shining a light from the top at a steep angle. Hmmm... :-)

    But still, it's a flat leaf in a flat book impressed upon a flat paper.

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