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Plausibility of ancient extraterrestrials
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RE: Plausibility of ancient extraterrestrials
July 12, 2023 at 11:55 pm
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2023 at 12:00 am by Sicnoo0.)
There is one specific document called Agastya Samhita that seems to have detailed instructions on how to build an electric battery, as well as how to use an electric battery to split water into its two constituent gasses, pranavaya and udanavaya. Would it have been difficult to correctly guess that there are 2 distinct elements that comprise water? I really can't get over the building a battery part. That seems like a clear sign of scientific knowledge
Then again, like Anomalocaris said, there were brilliant people in ancient times here and there.
There are a lot of pseudoscientific Hindu advocates who, after the revered ancient “wisdom” failed utterly to produce scientific enlightenment and became seen correctly as stuff consisting largely of ignorantly primitive mumbo jumbo, try to seize back the initiative by faking it and pretending somehow there was great wisdom that was just no understood.
This is not a particular dig against Hinduism. It is the same even in cultures that did produce the scientific enlightenment. Hence young earth creationists and various biblical apologists, to say nothing of our own resident advocate of the Koran knowing what it is like inside a black hole. (July 12, 2023 at 10:56 pm)Astreja Wrote: I have an alternate explanation: In the last 4500 years or so, humanity has been able to figure out a lot of things. Perhaps the recent past isn't the first time around for humans - it's possible (although not yet demonstrated archaeologically) that an earlier iteration of Homo sapiens had accumulated a similar body of knowledge, and some of it made it into scriptures. That sounds like mutant talk... ![]() ![]() (July 12, 2023 at 10:11 pm)AkiraTheViking Wrote: Hindu Atheism is literally Scientology with a different name because of copyright. I'm surprised by this. I thought that Hindu atheism was pretty old. What I've heard of it is different from Scientology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_atheism Is there a new branch which is like Scientology? Maybe there's a sect I haven't heard of. RE: Plausibility of ancient extraterrestrials
July 13, 2023 at 4:29 am
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2023 at 4:31 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(July 12, 2023 at 9:58 pm)Sicnoo0 Wrote: The very same "gods" were described across multiple cultures all over the planet. You can find endless examples of gods that went by one name in one culture and by another name (in some cases an extremely similar name) in another culture. Don't let your mind be so open that your brain falls out. A much more plausible explanation is that our ancestors weren't the dummies you think they were. Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
RE: Plausibility of ancient extraterrestrials
July 13, 2023 at 4:35 am
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2023 at 4:36 am by Fake Messiah.)
Ancient aliens are opium for the masses (all lies and hoaxes). There is a three-hour-long video on youtube debunking them, made by a former believer in ancient aliens, so I would advise you to look into it.
Btw couldn't this be moved into "Skepticism & Pseudoscience"?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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Took Fake Messiah's very sound advice and moved this thread here from 'Atheism'. Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
(July 12, 2023 at 10:46 pm)Sicnoo0 Wrote:(July 12, 2023 at 10:40 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: You find it more plausible that some mystic force provided a random jot of information to an ancient people who had not one fucking thing to use that information on? Why the fuck did they need that measurement? Most useless god gift ever.
I often wonder why people include the Egyptian pyramids in this ‘ancient aliens’ rubbish. Pyramids are the easiest structures to build, they’re inherently stable, and they were built long before Issac Newton invented gravity so the stones would have been easy to move about. No aliens needed.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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