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  • Reply to: Saint Patrick: When the True Story is More Exciting than the Legend   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Cataibh

    "And, quite probably, 'not all of the locals' would be more correct'" is a corrective edit I tried to make to my comment about a dozen times without success.

  • Reply to: Saint Patrick: When the True Story is More Exciting than the Legend   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Cataibh

    "Patrick’s goal of seeing Pagan Ireland converted did not sit well with the locals at first..."

    This may have been an appropriate juncture at which to point out that he was not the first to seek such a conversion. And, quite probably, 'all of the locals' would be more correct, for there is some evidence that a small minority were already Christian. Equally, some of the other elements of the Patrick story are possibly conflations with Palladius, one who is said to have preceded Patrick as Bishop of Ireland.

    Myths can embellish real figures and the life of Patrick is certainly an example of this.

    Another comment has mentioned the climate of the period. Time has not embellished this, but rather left it largely forgotten.

  • Reply to: Saint Patrick: When the True Story is More Exciting than the Legend   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Jean-Luc Poisson

    The Snake was a widespread symbol of Druids and priests. Actually “saint” Patrick drove the pagan priests in to the sea. Or where do you think did they go to?

  • Reply to: Saint Patrick: When the True Story is More Exciting than the Legend   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Denis McGowan

    There is no actual basis for the myth that the ancient people of Ireland used snakes as a symbol. It's just make-believe fiction and part of the conflation of Christian motions that served to create a narrative for the new Roman religion. The notion that people would be so dumb as to suddenly switch from thousands of years of their native ways, by being told a fabrication about three plant leaves on a stem representing a religious trinity that is not even mentioned in the Bible, is an obvious invention. To be fooled, one must first believe.

  • Reply to: Ancient Indian Flying Machines –Truth in the Legends?   3 years 1 month ago
    Comment Author: Chandra

    I firmly  believe that the various references to flying machines in ancient Sanskrit literature  are NOT myth.  The most ancient of this literature  are the Vedas, then the Puranas and then the Itihasas. The last category includes the Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata.

    Apart  from the above there is a store of Sanskrit writings  on many topics  including the sciences,  These sources  span  a very long  time period covering many millennia. Many of these also contain historical information such as genealogies of royal dynasties of the times. Datings are often facilitated by the fact that there has been a practice of fixing the time of important events by identifying the position of various stars/ constellations in the sky at the time of the event.

    Many of these writings  have references to flying machines,

    Talking about  the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata they  are definitely believed to be historical events and not stories..  Indian scholars  date the  events of Ramayana to around 5000 BC and that of  Mahabharata to around 3200 BC.

    I believe that advanced civilizations flourished in the Indian subcontinent in ancient times. At least in some  periods the civilizations  were quite advanced both in science as well as spirituality. I would guess that disastrous natural calamities could have wiped out such societies and caused complete loss of  the existing knowledge base .This in turn caused major discontinuities in our histories.

    I will briefly narrate an interesting series of  events, intimately connected to our topic of discussion.

    Literature  has references to  an ancient  text  titled  “ Yantra Sarvaswa” ( roughly translated as ‘All about machines’.) The authorship is attributed to Maharishi Bharadwaja. The title Maharishi indicates a person of high spiritual capabilities. One of the forty topics  covered is said to be “Vymanika Shastra”  [translated as ‘the science of Aeronautics’]  The original text is not been found in full.
    In the first decade of 20th century ( around 1910 or so) a Sanskrit scholar (Pandit Subbaraya Sastry) had revelations  in a meditative state on this subject. Sanskrit transcripts of the revelations  were recorded in hand written form.
    Manuscript copies of this were sent to two Oriental Institutes in India. Derived from this ,a number publications came out over a period of time in English, Hindi etc.
    An official project study of the subject matter contained was undertaken by a committee of scientists associated with the Aeronautical Research  and Development Board of the Govt. of India in 2001
    Their report  clearly  brings out the depth of knowledge available in the text on a variety of scientific topics  closely associated with Aeronautics. For example, some of the topics covered are metals and heat-absorbing materials,, Aerial routes, Machinery, varieties of vimanas, Pilot, his clothing, food, Melting etc etc.
    Also  a  list 32 special features are mentioned  and are said to be based on principle-specific texts available separately.

    So we can definitely conclude that much scientific knowledge relating to aeronautics existed. Much more research on the available Sanskrit texts is called for .

  • Reply to: Welsh Nationalists Want Stonehenge Bluestones Returned to Wales   3 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: T1bbst3r

    The daily mail should have saved this one for April 1st.
    The argument is even founded on a premis of the same caliber, the broken and fragmented marbles 'the Greeks want back' are in the british museum and are staying put, their claim to them as sound as the Welsh one here.
    There is an underlying moral though which I think people generally miss: for us britts who won't be going to Greece or some obscure place in Wales to gaze upon some ancient relics of a deceased culture, there are perfectly good substitutes here, easier and cheaper to access. I wonder how many people visit these places after reading these articles and I wonder if that's their real design........... After people gratify themselves over the moral side of the story though of course, we wouldn't put the effort in visiting something without first establishing its rarity or significance now would we.

  • Reply to: Tokugawa Ieyasu: Most Powerful Shogun and Great Unifier of Japan   3 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Army of Nobunaga

    Well written Aleksa. The exact definition of the word “shrewd” is – Tokugawa.

  • Reply to: Landlocked Bermuda Triangle: The Mexican Zone of Silence   3 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Army of Nobunaga

    Double 

  • Reply to: Landlocked Bermuda Triangle: The Mexican Zone of Silence   3 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Army of Nobunaga

    I have a house not far from there in Mexico. There could be government activity with a secret base ….. but mostly it's a very poor region with very few people. Occoms razor would point to there just not needing to be cellular towers there.

  • Reply to: Landlocked Bermuda Triangle: The Mexican Zone of Silence   3 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Army of Nobunaga

    Imagine 2021 without a fee adblocker on your phone 

  • Reply to: 11,700-Year-Old ‘Loizu Man’ Skeleton Still Revealing Secrets   3 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Bruce Nowakowski

    hopefully they do a dna test on him if they can.  it’d be interesting to tell if he is PIE or Native Pre-European etc. 

  • Reply to: The Enigma of the Roman Dodecahedra   3 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Linda Armsky

    This device was used to make gloves. The different holes are finger sizes. See this young girl knit a glove with this device: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOLqOgkWerg

  • Reply to: The Enigma of the Roman Dodecahedra   3 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Linda Armsky

    This device was used to make gloves. The different holes are finger sizes. See this young girl knit a glove with this device: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOLqOgkWerg

  • Reply to: The Enigma of the Roman Dodecahedra   3 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Dlamb10171

    Also, could a leather pouch have been placed inside to allow the item to be weighted to hold items against wind. Tents perhaps. Maybe they could be used on cordage for depth measurements in rivers. Exciting!

  • Reply to: The Enigma of the Roman Dodecahedra   3 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Dlamb10171

    Just looking at them and thinking about the wax found in one or more, I was wondering if these could be warming devices for food. The devise would have 5 points down and up on opposite sides making it stable to hold a plate or bowl. It would allow for larger or smaller fires by sliding sticks of different sizes into the holes and could possibly keep the smoke from rising higher. Candle could be used as starter for wood. Just an idea

  • Reply to: Ancient Indian Flying Machines –Truth in the Legends?   3 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Helgi

    Yes, I too have seen these “Illusionists” in Market Street, and you know that it is a trick, just like the tricks done by magicians, illiusionists and various other names they prefer to use, eventhough you cannot always see how they do it, quite often due to misdirection.

    Mentalists do the same, and many “fake” psychics are in fact mentalists, and I was not the flavour of the month, when I pointed it out to a friend of mine that two people, whom he felt were “good” were in fact only good mentalists.  The first one, would always arrive about 5 minutes before the “meeting” (more of a show really) was to commence.  He would then folow the protocols of a “medium”, and start by giving a description of the spirit coming through.  Then bring the message, and in the end, (wait for it) bring the proof (which magicians call “the reveal”) and people fell for the BIG REVEAL, and swallowed it hook line and sinker.  It was e.g. that they arrived in a red car, a Volkswagen, with a broken tail light, and then give the registration number. – I pointed out to my friend that these were the people who arrived just before he did (i.e. into the hall, as he would always go to the bathroom to “freshen up” so no one would notice he arrived at the same time as they did).  We went to another meeting, and waited to go in, until HE had gone in, and took note of registration numbers, and lo and behold, I proved my point.

    There are however people, who do have the gift, and I do not wish to detract from them their true gift and abiity.

    My friend then fell for a man who was introducing a spiritual collective called MICHAEL.  He had paid a pretty penny to take part in his workshops.  He was then granted a “private” audience, and was permitted to bring someone with him.  He chose me. I listened to everything the man had to say, and the man had a “message” for me too.  After we left, my friend asked me if I was now convinced.  –  I replied “Quite the contrary”.  He was floored, and asked me why?  I told him, that I had received training from MUFON how to investigate sightings, and had implemented that knowledge.  I then asked him if he had seen the books in his hotel room.  He said he hadn’t paid any attention to them.  I told him that the few books he had there, dealt with the same topic he spoke of, and the descriptions were a quotation out of one of them, namely 2010 by Arthur C. Clarke, which I had read.  I told my friend that I could either lend him the book, or I could look up the chapter the man had quoted.  He was very disheartened.

    Just because there are many tricksters in this world (incl. sales men and women), does not mean that all things are lies.  We were given the freedom of choice in the Garden on Eden, and must excercise it wisely and must be mature enough to accept the responsibility that comes with it, i.e. be mature enough to accept the consequences of our choices.  We are told by God, to Read AND Study the scriptures, and ponder them in our hearts, and THEN take it to the LORD and ask if our understanding is right, if it is correct The Holy Spirit will make our hearts burn as confirmation, else we shall have a stupour of thought.  The more we study the writings with PURE INTENT, the more we will have The Holy Spirit to guide us, and as stated above, even the “hidden things” will be “revealed”.

    The early Hebrews were very eager to have everything “revealed” to them during their Exodus, and the apocalypse (greek for revelation) arrived in the form of the Tabernacle and all the ordinances related to it; But because they didn’t make the effort, it didn’t benefit them.  The same is happening in this world today, people are being played.  I don’t mind the street artists, whom I look at as entertainers and the act as amusement, but I do mind politicians and the nouveu rich who blindsight people so they can stay rich and keep the poor, poor.

    Please keep an open albeit critical mind, and don’t lose sight of the truth just because you’ve met nine liars, as the tenth person might just hold the key to your salvation.

  • Reply to: Ancient Indian Flying Machines –Truth in the Legends?   3 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Helgi

    I didn’t mean, that visualization can make a mat fly, but through it, you can connect with the almighty, and obtain wisdom of even that which is hidden (often in plain sight), through which you will gain a deeper understanding, thus enabling you to make such things, until such time as you yourself will be perfected to the point where you will be able to levitate, fly, or even exercise BILOCATION  (Remote Viewing).

  • Reply to: Ancient Indian Flying Machines –Truth in the Legends?   3 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: granbo

    Thank you for all that on visualizations. Well, in terms of western science Greg Braden is talking about mirror neurons, and new nuerons in the heart, that supposedly are what work in this field. I myself believe in all those brain/heart transporting energies, sometimes called telepathy, thus including animals.I  have great contact with a lynx family on my ground, birds who seem to understand everything. But I dont see how visualizing could make a mat fly, or? There certainly are many things to be learned from the ancients, that is also what we are doing right here...

  • Reply to: Ancient Indian Flying Machines –Truth in the Legends?   3 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: Helgi

    Yes, in OLD English, there are various spellings of different words, depending on where people lived and what influenced their adoption of the word, before spelling became ‘standardised’.  Many OLD English words, are similar to the OLD NORSE or even the SAME, e.g. in one of Shakespear’s plays (I cannot remember which) a lady says to her lover: “Will you become my ‘husbóndi’?” Which means “Will you become my husband?” – Not only is the word ‘husbóndi’, spelled the same as in Icelandic, but it is also pronounced the same.As you mentioned, there are so many ´simple´ solutions to these ´tricks´, but governments do not want people (i.e. the general public) to have access to it, as it means they lose their control and the rich lose their strangle hold off the general public.JP Morgan, who financed Nikolai Tesla´s work, went ballistic when Tesla wanted to GIVE AWAY electricity, and said: “I do not want to take part in a venture which I cannot profit from”.  –  Not much brotherly love coming from that quarter.I have also noticed, that when programs show a simple solution to what are considered BIG mysteries or problems, they are never aired again.  Here are a few examples:<ol type="a"><li>In Iceland, we had a program called “Nýjasta Tækni og Vísindi” (The latest in technical and science), which showed a family somewhere in Italy, that didn´t suffer from HIGH COLESTOROL, owing to a genetic condition.  This would´ve helped solve all the heart problems in the world.  –  It was kept quiet.</li><li>A program showed centuries old design for tents, that had “curved” truncated pyramids where the truncated portion was a square hole in the top of the tent, and there were many such “pyramids” next to each other.  –  This caused location under the tent to be ventilated that it was COOL under the tent during the day but WARM in the evening.</li><li>There was also a BBC program with GILLIAN ANDERSON from the X-Files, which covered many topics, one of which was suppose to cover “Teleportation”.  The introduction to that episode was that a man was experimenting with transformers and two plates, and suddenly transported a ball or some other object (possibly due to the Kasimir Effect).  THAT episode never got aired in Iceland for some reason, but all the other episodes did, but ONLY ONCE.  Getting a hold of this series is a nightmare.  Why?</li><li>I have seen a program, that covered doctors who were pioneers in Cancer operations, and had a higher success rate than other doctors, and didn´t use all this “chemotherapy” etc. – One doctor (a man in the USA) “scanned” his patients, and drew lines upon their bodies, BEFORE operating, as he said, that you CANNOT cut a cancer out with a straight line, as there is a higher risk of a relapse, hence he “traced” the tenticles (for the want of a better word) so he could cut along the dotted line and erradicate the cancer.  He was more successful than other doctors, and the program was never shown again.  Another doctor (a woman in New Zealand rather than Australia) in a remote area, FROZE the cancer before operating, to avoid it spreading during the operation.  She too was very successful, and more successful than her colleagues, but again the program was not shown again.  –  I guess the other doctors and pharmaceutical companies were scared of losing money by not being able to capitalize on peoples misfortunes.</li><li>The last item is a NON-MEDICINAL CLINIC in China, which prepares people with tumours BEFORE treatment, then when it is time for treatment, they take a scan and have it upon the screen and a LIVE scan on a monitor next to it so the patient can see the progress.  The healers, along with the patient, “visualize” the organ being whole and the patient well.  After an hour or however long the procedure takes, the tumour is gone.  –  Occidental scientists are stumped, and just said: “Hm Interesting.” – But they do not persue this method of healing?  Maybe because they cannot make a profit and cannot explain it. – I am a lay priest, and have witnessed similar things in the Church.  A member was diagnosed with a tumour, and we all fasted and prayed for him.  I told all the members not to pray that he would get better, as that was being negative, but to do as these doctors had done, “visualize” him being better.  The day after he went for his operation, and the doctors found nothing.  They were stumped.  Our brother in the Church knew why.  I did the same for a friend of mine, and nothing was found, it had disappeared, as he had the same faith as the centurion in the Bible.  My son had received a bump on the head, and asked me for a bessing.  I anointed him, and then sealed the anointing upon his head and gave him a blessing.  During the blessing, I had my hand over his “bump” and while I said the words that came through by the Holy Spirit, I could feel the bump recede.  After the blessing, the bump was gone.  I explained to my son, that it was due to OUR faith and fidelity to our covenants.</li></ol>There is an old Indian book which name I cannot recall, that is somewhere between 3 000 to 5 000 years old and has many medical procedures, which the Occident has since rediscovered.  If we would cease to be so prejudiced, and more open and put our petty differences aside, and stop trying to make a buck, but love our neighbour, we could be far more advanced. 

  • Reply to: 11-Year-Old Boy Finds Rare Ancient Fertility Goddess Amulet In Israel   3 years 2 months ago
    Comment Author: EternalSight

    Interesting article – Did want to comment on idols like this being in Canaan at that time during the kingdoms of Israel & Judah. Bibically speaking – if you read the entire history of these nations they had begun to practice the worship the pantheon of the gods that were all around them starting in the northern kingdom of Israel (which had split with the tribe of Judah after the death of King Solomon) in the hill country of the tribe of Dan. Throughout both of these kingdoms histories they consistenly left practicing the law of Moses and built temples, groves and pillars to worship these other nations gods until the destruction of Israel by King Sennacharib of Assryia in 700 BC and the destruction of the kingdom of Judah in 583 by the armies of Nebudchanezzar from Babylon. Idols like this have been found previously. There were a few good kings that followed the law of Moses but the majority did not in fact the bible says both of these kingdoms took all of the idol worshiping practices to a more extreme level of sacrifice (the bible calls it passing their new born infants through the fire) placing infants on the red hot arms of brazen idols. It was for this reason both of these nations were taken into captivity.

    Thank you for the article.

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