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RE: This Is Cool.
October 13, 2015 at 2:30 pm
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I'm a geek for this kind of stuff. I love ancient pre-Abrahamic-religion history. Can't understand any of it obviously but it's so cool to hear it.
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RE: This Is Cool.
October 13, 2015 at 2:31 pm
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RE: This Is Cool.
October 13, 2015 at 2:34 pm
That's amazing. Makes me want to rush out into the back garden and build a ziggurat.
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RE: This Is Cool.
October 13, 2015 at 2:55 pm
I really liked the part where he talked about the goat on the hill.
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RE: This Is Cool.
October 13, 2015 at 2:56 pm
(October 13, 2015 at 2:55 pm)Napoléon Wrote: I really liked the part where he talked about the goat on the hill.
If only the Akkadians had copyrighted the story of the flood. The Christians would owe them billions.
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RE: This Is Cool.
October 13, 2015 at 3:45 pm
(October 13, 2015 at 3:35 pm)Minimalist Wrote: (October 13, 2015 at 2:34 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: That's amazing. Makes me want to rush out into the back garden and build a ziggurat.
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Just don't build a fucking ark.
Oddly enough, I was recently reading about a group of maritime archaeologists who, based on some cuneiform accounts of the Mesopotamian flood myth, attempted to construct a round ark, sort of like a giant currach. Turns out, they could only construct one about 1/3 the size of the one in the myth without it falling to bits under its own weight.
So, when it comes to flood stories, the Mesopotamians are as fucked as the Judeo-Christians. That's the kind of religious equality I like.
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RE: This Is Cool.
October 13, 2015 at 3:55 pm
I saw that special the other day. I think it was on NOVA.
It didn't fall apart. It sank. They tried to build it on a lake in India because there is a little bit of trouble in Iraq right now...as you may know. The bitumen which was available in India was not as good as that which is found in Iraq. It was also round, a common type of boat called a coracle.