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  • Reply to: Catholic Teachers Banned ‘Evil’ Harry Potter Books   4 years 8 months ago
    Comment Author: N2ART

    Oh how silly.  I was born and raised in a conservative church in Tennessee and taught in Christian schools and the kids loved Harry Potter (So did the teachers for that matter).  It’s fantasy fiction with great themes of good against evil.  My son and his wife are 23 and spent their honeymoon at Harry Potter World.  They’re Christians too and haven’t decided to practice witchcraft so far…

    I wonder if they’ve banned Lord of the Rings. Wouldn’t want those kids becoming elves.  

  • Reply to: Like New: Locals and Experts Re-Chalk a ‘Rude’ Giant on a Hill   4 years 8 months ago
    Comment Author: TomS

    We need one of these in the US.

  • Reply to: Aboriginal Australians Lose Land Rights to Coal Mine   4 years 8 months ago
    Comment Author: Warwick Lewis

    So did your people go bankrupt with legal challenges to the "trail of tears" ??

    Was it proven in a court of law that they had no real claim ??

    Did the US spend $45 000 per head yearly on those people providing them with education medical care and first world housing ??

    Were they offered preferential job placement sponsored loans and business grants ??

    No they did not.....and you should be ashamed of yourself for comparing the genuine suffering of an oppressed people to yet another money grubbing attempt by a self entitled and privelidged minority.

    They had no interest in this land until it was found that a substantial profit was to be made.

    Now that the smell of money is in the air all of sudden they start to claim the land is sacred.

    The only thing sacred to these people is the white mans green paper...money.

  • Reply to: Catholic Teachers Banned ‘Evil’ Harry Potter Books   4 years 8 months ago
    Comment Author: Guillaumé

    In Puritanical America only.

  • Reply to: Catholic Teachers Banned ‘Evil’ Harry Potter Books   4 years 8 months ago
    Comment Author: Gary Moran

    Must be some more productive way to combat evil than censorship, like better testing and background checks on employees?

    But, I’m sure they must have tested those spells to make sure they really do work. Be a real shame to let children know about them, they’ll try anything, if my experience is any indication.

  • Reply to: Aboriginal Australians Lose Land Rights to Coal Mine   4 years 8 months ago
    Comment Author: Gary Moran

    And I (falsely) believed that Australia’s more recent treatment of the native peoples was much more humane and considerate than US history, but I guess the almighty dollar is more important than human rights no matter where in the world one lives. This is disgraceful and disgusting, just like the Trail of Tears my ancestors were forced to walk. SHAME 

  • Reply to: The Search for a Legendary Land: Does the Truth of Plato’s Atlantis Rest on a Shifting Sea Floor?   4 years 8 months ago
    Comment Author: Wizdym4aolcom

    Platos wrote that he was told about Atlantis by Solon, who, in turn had heard about it from Egyptian priests. Many now accept that when the Egyptian to Greek tranlation occurred, there was a mistake regarding numerical factors.  Thus Plato had been told of and re-told an Atlantis that was 3,000 miles long and existed 9,000 years ago. However, if the Egyptian word meaning "hundred” had been mistaken as “thousand” , then Atlantis cecomes a more believable island size of 300 miles, and more realistic time of 900 years before. a pair of high hills on the greek mainland have been called the pillar of Hercules since antiquity,. Gibralter is not the only “Pillars of Hercules”. That is why many have come to realize that the beautiful Minoan civilization was what the legends of Atlantis referred. Like Plato had said of Atlantis, Minoans revered bulls, black and red were the predominant colors and was destroyed by a huge cataclysm. The Santorini eruption, dated to about 1,600-1,500 BC., was the largest in human history. It wrecked great devastation on the great Minoan civilization. Excavations of Santorini and Crete, an island of 300 miles have revealed the magnificent birthplace of western civilization. Readers are encouraged to do online research via google searches. I feel inadaqate to describe the ongoing realizations about the Minoans, aka. Atlanteans.  

  • Reply to: Morgan le Fay: How Arthurian Legend Turned a Powerful Woman from Healer to Villain   4 years 8 months ago
    Comment Author: Starshp

    Smh, you sound ignorant and bias. First of all, Arthur was typically seen as chosen by god to protect Christianity and the Britons, so how he was conceived was justified. 

    Second of all, Mordred was NOT originally Arthur’s son that was  INVENTED  by the authors of prose Lancelot to further discredit Arthur since Arthur  was generally seen as the ideal king in the medieval ages. 

    Third of all, the May Day massacre was a BLUNDER on Malory’s part which is NON-CANON. In Arthurian legend, true canon doesn’t exist, only tradition which is considered to be the Arthurian “canon,” however, traditionaly there’s NO May Day massacre. Traditionaly Arthur is the ideal king. 

    Further, Arthur is the national hero of the English-welsh so that’s the reason why most authors depict Arthur as a hero, only nationalist and anti Arthurian propaganda authors like the authors of the French prose romances depict Arthur in a negative light. 

    And finally, why would anyone but feminst and neo-pagans depict Morgan le fay in a positive light? 

    Quit nitpicking. 

  • Reply to: Aboriginal Australians Lose Land Rights to Coal Mine   4 years 8 months ago
    Comment Author: Archaeologist

    Outrageous.

  • Reply to: First Americans Arrived by Sea Over 15,000 Years Ago, Surprise Finding Suggests   4 years 8 months ago
    Comment Author: jdembo

    It has always been likely that humans first arrived in the Americas by sea or, at least by water.   This is so because the shorelines of the Americas were several hundred feet below the present level the entire time between 16000 and 13000 years ago.  In other words the sites where these people established communities when they first arrived are now several hundred feet under water and possibly miles out to sea and have been buried by sediment, and disturbed by storms, currents and tsunamis.  The map in the article which pictures the first settlers arriving by sea actually shows them arriving by air several hundred feet above the ancient sea level.

  • Reply to: The Mars Rat and Other Unexplained Features on the Martian Planet   4 years 8 months ago
    Comment Author: Andrew LB

    I wouldn’t to as far as saying all mars anomalies  are pareidolia. One that sticks out is this cube..

    https://www.ancient-code.com/the-martian-cube-another-mystery-on-mars/

     

    Then there is the abundance of Xenon 129 in the martian atmosphere. That particular isotope doesn’t have any natural sources. It’s an isotope created specifically in the detonation of nuclear weapons.

  • Reply to: Elongated Skulls in utero: A Farewell to the Artificial Cranial Deformation Paradigm?   4 years 8 months ago
    Comment Author: Andrew LB

    If all those civilizations were black, where’d all the white people come from? The only great civilization created by blacks was Axum. The Ancient Greeks traded with them, respected them, and there are plenty written  by Greeks about them. My family comes from Greece and can be traced back at least 1500 years. None of us are black.

  • Reply to: Khajuraho: The Sexiest Temples in India   4 years 8 months ago
    Comment Author: DavidoDave

    That's one opinion... yours, of course. Me, I love sexuality and sensuality. My favorite experience is to see my female partner is extreme pleasure... whatever that might be. I love it. It might be her eating chocolate, but, her pleasure drives mine. Sex should not be hidden, nor should nudity be wrong. I won't even go into who may have started making humans feel ashamed of being themselves. The first step to control... think you are 'evil' and sinful from birth while, at the same time, being told to follow a manuscript which surely was written by man's hand. Anyway...

  • Reply to: New Discovery Suggests That Maya Elites Danced Wearing As Much As 25 Pounds of Jade Jewelry   4 years 8 months ago
    Comment Author: Santiago Matamoros

    The self-harm noted is Man's attempts to atone for sin. Monks and nuns should have known better.

    The Son of God has paid for the sins of the world. Anyone who refuses His payment has to pay himself.

  • Reply to: Understanding the Gods of Egypt: In Unison With Nature   4 years 8 months ago
    Comment Author: Amenemhatlll

    Thanks for the great read.

  • Reply to: Understanding the Gods of Egypt: In Unison With Nature   4 years 8 months ago
    Comment Author: Archaeologist

    Thank you for this.  As someone fascinated by Egyptology, it’s often confusing and difficult to keep the gods straight. 

  • Reply to: Artificial Intelligence Inching Closer to Deciphering Long Lost Languages   4 years 8 months ago
    Comment Author: DavidoDave

    That would be great, minus the fact that some human would have definitely had their input to 'guide' this AI, to be sure. I'm not a real fan of the Rosetta stone for many reasons regarding the subjectivity surrounding the interpretations. For example, If I'm a Christian, and I'm, in the past, translating a work in a land that speaks about "GODS" and Supreme Beings, etc... Do, I place that in the work, or do I believe it will offend my God, so, I make the ever so slightly change (which does major damage) in wording and not give a true representation of meaning? Absolutely, I find that to be the case in almost everything; especially in archaeology because they want nice timelines with nice stories.

  • Reply to: Lilith: Ancient Demon, Dark Deity or Sensual Goddess?   4 years 8 months ago
    Comment Author: DavidoDave

    I prefer sensual Goddess, myself. :). "We twist history into 'history' daily" should be the motto of the controllers. lol. At the same time, being a beacon for feminists, whatever the he11 that represents ;), is sick as well, when their goal is abortion for all. Mental dimwits are the only ones that can't figure out all humans started at conception... you'd think, therefore, all arguments about what is, and when is, a human would be settled. It's a separate being, not the woman's 'growth', or tumor. I'm not religious, but, I'm not ignorant.

  • Reply to: Lilith: Ancient Demon, Dark Deity or Sensual Goddess?   4 years 8 months ago
    Comment Author: DavidoDave

    I doubt "God" has anything to do with man's attempt to deceive and control. Perhaps, a 'higher' being existing in God, as I believe we all do... even quantum mechanics/physics needs a conscious observer to exist in some form, it seems. Truly, the contradictions in the Bible are endless because it is a compilation of myths, legends, history, 'truths' (changed to fit the story and leaving out the most important details) from many sources.

  • Reply to: Modern Humans Interbred With At Least Five Archaic Human Groups   4 years 8 months ago
    Comment Author: DavidoDave

    Closed-minded 'scientists', which there are many, state theories as facts far too often. How many times have their teachings been as facts, only to discover they were incorrect? That means admitting 'wrong'. I have no problem admitting wrong; I can then move along and hopefully learned something in the process. "HIstory" is what we have and "history" doesn't exist without subjectivity and agendas.

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