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  • Reply to: The Allure of Blackened Teeth: A Traditional Japanese Sign of Beauty   8 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Unkown

    because some cultures are just freaking wacko...

    or all of them are at some point in time. just look at our current tattoo craze. Totally freaking nutz and the sooner this fad dies the better people look freaking ridiculous.

  • Reply to: The Parthenon: An Epic Monument Or a Mystery in Measurements?   8 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Joe S

    Yes yes i do recall hearing about the pyramids with that ratio.

  • Reply to: The Parthenon: An Epic Monument Or a Mystery in Measurements?   8 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Phite Onn

    Temple of Amun, Egypt. Here's a 'jump to' link to a youtube video :
    https://youtu.be/z6S2dgJzz40?t=10m2s

  • Reply to: Ancient teeth reveal evidence of 400,000 year-old manmade pollution in Israel   8 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: karin

    The article states these are early humans, “Modern” humans left Africa more recently. I think I remember reading that these early humans died out before more modern humans left Africa.

  • Reply to: Iron Age Burial Ground in Yorkshire Yields 150 Skeletons and Valuable Grave Goods   8 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: karin

    I wonder how the developer feels about work being halted for several years, while archaeologists excavate?

  • Reply to: More Evidence Supports Claim Hidden Chamber in Tutankhamun Tomb Contains Another Burial   8 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: karin

    Wow this will be amazing to see what is in these chambers, and it seems unlikely that they have been looted, so might contain many treasures and informative artefacts

  • Reply to: Saint Patrick: When the True Story is More Exciting than the Legend   8 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: karin

    Yes, I am the same regarding the holidays being so commercialised! As a child, this was just another day, although we did receive cards from relatives in Ireland. Now, it is a totally over-the-top binge excuse!

  • Reply to: The tragedy of Queen Ankhesenamun, sister and wife of Tutankhamun   8 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: frederick scholtz
    Ay

    If he was the grandfather of Ankhesenamun does not mean he would have been Pharoh. He was the Vicere for Tutankhamun and upon his death he was the most senior and highest official left from Tutankhamun's reign.This being said means he had knowledge of the State and coffers of the Empire. After he died Horenheb the General of Tutankhamun's reign took control of the throne.

  • Reply to: How Ancient Hominid Interbreeding has Shaped Humans Today   8 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Colin Berry

    So how do you explain six-sided crystals of water, H2O, formed without any outside assistance when water vapour cools?

    Yes, snowflakes are just one example of the spontaneous creation of order from disorder. It does NOT defy the second law of thermodynamics which applies only to closed systems that come to equilibrium. In open systems, as in the natural world, there's a trade-off - the decrease in entropy that comes with increased order being compensated by a larger INCREASE in entropy elsewhere, like matter and/or energy being dissipated into the surrounding atmosphere. All that matters is that the overall entropy change is positive. That does not preclude new pockets of order, including chemical and biochemical complexity, and thus does NOT preclude either abiogenesis or evolution.

  • Reply to: The Allure of Blackened Teeth: A Traditional Japanese Sign of Beauty   8 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Moonsong

    So very interesting! The articles mentioned other countries where black teeth was the fashion – what are these countries?

  • Reply to: Why are humans unique? It’s the small things that count   8 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: fly in the ointment

    But, but... Koko was a gorilla that was taught sign language, and she INVENTED a sign language symbol for food. Her keepers referred to the run-of-the-mill salad mix she was given daily as browse, (as in the plant materials she would typically browse in the wild.) And, as any farmer will understand, captive animals are continually demanding food by any means they can communicate. Well, she developed a sign that consisted of tapping her eyebrows as a way of asking for the rather difficult, and somewhat intangible idea of "food browse" which may require entire paragraphs (or run-on sentences) to convey.

    Turns out, with primates, all they need is a need or desire and they are capable of invention. Of course, perceptions of what is actually a worthwhile pursuit (desirable) may be a legendary stumbling block for Homo Sapiens.

  • Reply to: Legendary Locks: Can Hair Act as a Sixth Sense, Protecting us from Danger?   8 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: John Dennis Roberts

    The word is BELIEF (singular) or BELIEFS (plural) and NOT 'believe'.

  • Reply to: How Ancient Hominid Interbreeding has Shaped Humans Today   8 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Creations

    Mutations are never beneficial (no order out of chaos) and do no result in higher, more developed organisms (2nd law of thermodynamics). The theory of evolution is wrong.

  • Reply to: Legendary Locks: Can Hair Act as a Sixth Sense, Protecting us from Danger?   8 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Piper Michael

    Einstein rejected your notion of a quantum universe. I agree with him, God does not play dice with the Universe.
    Your 'particles' are the surface illusion of the energies that power the universe. When physics chases the energy behind special relativity, they come to the doorstep of God, and then, did a uturn.
    They hide behind math, but, I have delivered the Unified Field of God, and naturally, it is rejected.
    Where does the energy come from, to power an 'atomic' bomb, eh sport?

  • Reply to: Elizabeth Bathory: Was the ‘Blood Countess’ Serial Killer Misjudged?   8 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Anna Mous

    Even in this day in age women are viewed with suspicion if they are successful, own a business, have wealth etc. The minion hoards will come out and say anything they want, write it up, claim its the official story, forge signatures, write incomplete accident reports, ask witnesses to omit favorable parts of what they saw happen, file false accusations, etc. For those who have had this happen, they know what a twilight zone of a nightmare this can be; intimidation, harassment, false complaints, attempts to frame, use of children against the parent etc etc We should trust our instincts about these things and all shadowy things leading up to these incidents. Also be aware that these groups participate in stalking and mobbing rings. Short of killing which they will do if they have to, their aim is to steal a business/wealth, what ever the physcopath wants to take. They will go as far as tell their buddies not to hire- "its political" was all one would say. From there its easy to piece it all together to see it for what it really is/was. And that is basically why and how income inequality exists, and advancement is prevented. All fraternal orders by their very nature exist for that reason alone, but one by one they do fall, and do so disgracefully; when their corruption becomes all too obvious. Time and internet can be very cathartic.

  • Reply to: Elaborate Funeral Rituals and Exhumation of the Dead in Toraja Culture   8 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: ancient-origins

    Thank you Sadek.

  • Reply to: Elaborate Funeral Rituals and Exhumation of the Dead in Toraja Culture   8 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: sadek

    What an informative article it is! Toraja is really a mountainous region. Most of the people of the region are very much industrious. They work hard to accumulate wealth.

  • Reply to: Giant Human Skeleton unearthed in Varna, Bulgaria   8 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Kurt Eskildsen

    I agree. Much of history is absolute nonsense. I also believe a lot of advanced science is nonsense. For some reason, people began to accept theory as fact.

  • Reply to: The Guilt of the Gnostic Knights Templar: The Chinon Parchment   8 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Philalethes

    The Roman Church has a sordid history of making false documents to hide the lies of its origin.
    https://sites.google.com/site/originsofchristianity/ They've distorted the rites surrounding the deified Julius Caesar into the Stations of the Cross, created fake Church "fathers" they then all quote; all to keep the Old Empire going under a new disguise.What DID exist was a syncretized neo-pagan mystery religion of the Roman elite, a mix of Egptian-Roman-Mystery school, called ChrEstianity. The name ChrIstianity did not even appear for centuries, and was, this very populace mind-control newly minted "religion" for the elites to continue their rule.

    These "Satan haters" who inevitably show up are their victims in this Cult of the Fake Jesus; too bad they are so implanted and manipulated that they would gladly burn others at the stake. The decent emotions of innocents are overlaid with guilt, fear, and tales of Judgment Day to control their little lives.

    The Church is doing damage control. Like one other reader notes: if they had this document all the time, then why did they hide it? Because the truth about what the Templars found is coming out and the Church needs to spin the story. Palming it off as "gnostic" errancy now forgiven is bullshit spin by this Babylonian House of Pervs. The real story would topple their House of Cards.

    I recommend Ralph Ellis and his series on King Jesus. In the last volume just out, we find that the Templars discovered that Jesus was King of Antioch (Ur) and was the one who started the Jewish war with the Romans AD 60. The entire underpinnings of Roman authority depends on the twisted perversion and rewriting of this period. The Templars would have undone Roman Church authority.

    Interesting point in the last book: as soon as the Templars returned to northern France, Grail stories and tales of a "King Arthur" (never heard of before) started appearing. It turns out the characters and tales are disguised recounting of events and players in the King Jesus drama, and the map to this hidden history was being craftily laid out by the Templars whose eyes were now open to centuries of manipulations and lies.

    Of course, such possibilities will be knee-jerk dismissed by the True Believers who will slog in astral chains from False Heavens in the afterlife, back into incarnation as donkeys serving the Beast, time and time again, until they wake up.

  • Reply to: The Sumerian King List Reveals the Origin of Mesopotamian Kingship   8 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Balakrishna Cha...

    One possibility is that this data is compiled from collective memory – there is no references available whatsoever regarding the earlier kings. Every dynasty starts from gods and transmorphs into humans. The older one goes, the murkier the story becomes and a generic reign is assigned only based on the general characteristics of that person.

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