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when the Earth was thought to be flat
This is false. Greeks knew that the Earth was a sphere and they even misured the circumference. 
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White has many good points in his "work" but his analysis is full of assumptions and is riddled with manipulative inaccuracies and conveniently referenced vagueness in it's own right. I'm not going to watch the whole thing because I feel many details within the broader subject matter are unexplainable by both parties/sides of the argument bottom line.
I find it funny and contradictory to a degree however that a fundamentalist "Christian" (and the belief system/ideology that goes with it) is allegedly debunking historical theory and ancient physical evidence that goes back thousands of years with critical acclaim. Essentially a professional "debunker" and with what credentials? I'm actually a bit shocked that Corbett had him on and was doting all over his personal theories and "facts" though there is validity in his interpretation of information and some of his points to one degree or another. I certainly like Corbett's investigative reporting of current events but I feel he discredited himself a bit with that one.
Does White explain, for instance, how the Sumerians knew the correct configuration of our solar system and Earth's orientation within it, the location and configuration of Sirius thousands of years ago when the Earth was thought to be flat and the center of the universe until recently in terms of timeline? I could be mistaken but I've never heard of 4000 year old precision optics or telescopes. How did the Mayans create a calendar based on a 25,000 year celestial cycle, strategically and precisely align massive monuments to celestial bodies at significant moments in time and why? Egyptians orienting pyramids in such a way to physically represent complex phyisical and mathematical relationships as well? When and how were the massive, now submerged structures similar to the Mayans/Aztecs/Incans off the coast of Japan, India and Chile built? Archeologists can only hazard a guess of "tens of thousands of years ago" and with what, bones and clubs? What are his interpretations of the Bhagavad Gita and Mahabharata given that it's still not known for sure when either was written?
I'm not saying I believe a lot of what the ancient alien guys are saying as truth necessarily either but I feel it's important to remain open-minded to all information and remotely rational interpretation of essentially unknown history and physical historical evidence.
I think that there is a lot of evidence (and total lack thereof) lending credence to the notion of creationism for instance yet certainly not in the biblical sense. I'm not at all religious yet find some very striking correlations in some religions (Christianity being one) and what I think could be valid explanations of our history as a world and as a species. I'm open to all the information and opinion I can get on this subject matter as it's one of my interests but think one should be careful to jump on this guy's bandwagon and proclaim it as "the truth". Personally, the more I think I know, the less I really know for sure in the end. The search for truth is a tremendous thing though.
If we're ever going to find the truth everyone must collaborate, cooperate, share information and ideas. It's like trying to fight for freedom and liberty against the plantation owners in The States while being distracted and divided by an illusionary concept of Red-vs-Blue political "choice" while being ruled and manipulated by a web of supra-sovereign entities and their common agenda without even knowing it. United we may be able to learn the truth and evolve, divided (as "the system" would prefer us to be) we certainly will fall or at least fail better. Sorry if that is a bad analogy but hopefully it makes some sense.
We have very little knowledge with regards to a veritable sliver in time (~5K years) from which to glean any real truth about ancient history.
With White's opinions being publicized there have been a number of very good articles published in retort that objectively and scientifically tear this guy's "facts" apart. However, it would seem that some people choose to default to the comfort of their own belief systems and perceptions of reality to an extent and credit White with being a harbinger of some brand of "truth".
This is not a criticism of what anyone thinks or chooses to believe necessarily but a comment on our entire concept of truth which has been continually revised through time and how many current perceptions of what is true today could very likely be proven to be false looking back some day and/or may simply be false in the present without realizing it or accepting the fact. Like Einstein's Theories of Relativity, both General and Special, having now been proven false. Get the average physicist in a white coat living on fat annual grants to entertain that one though.
I'm very careful not to be the intellectual descendant of those who laughed at the Wright brothers and am careful what I choose to believe as truth (which is very little actually), that's all I'm saying. Do not ridicule, lest thou be ridiculed.
Wow, that's a bit of a missive there but my interest in this subject matter compelled me to put it down.
I'll leave you all now to criticize it and me if you like.
I find it funny and contradictory to a degree however that a fundamentalist "Christian" (and the belief system/ideology that goes with it) is allegedly debunking historical theory and ancient physical evidence that goes back thousands of years with critical acclaim. Essentially a professional "debunker" and with what credentials? I'm actually a bit shocked that Corbett had him on and was doting all over his personal theories and "facts" though there is validity in his interpretation of information and some of his points to one degree or another. I certainly like Corbett's investigative reporting of current events but I feel he discredited himself a bit with that one.
Does White explain, for instance, how the Sumerians knew the correct configuration of our solar system and Earth's orientation within it, the location and configuration of Sirius thousands of years ago when the Earth was thought to be flat and the center of the universe until recently in terms of timeline? I could be mistaken but I've never heard of 4000 year old precision optics or telescopes. How did the Mayans create a calendar based on a 25,000 year celestial cycle, strategically and precisely align massive monuments to celestial bodies at significant moments in time and why? Egyptians orienting pyramids in such a way to physically represent complex phyisical and mathematical relationships as well? When and how were the massive, now submerged structures similar to the Mayans/Aztecs/Incans off the coast of Japan, India and Chile built? Archeologists can only hazard a guess of "tens of thousands of years ago" and with what, bones and clubs? What are his interpretations of the Bhagavad Gita and Mahabharata given that it's still not known for sure when either was written?
I'm not saying I believe a lot of what the ancient alien guys are saying as truth necessarily either but I feel it's important to remain open-minded to all information and remotely rational interpretation of essentially unknown history and physical historical evidence.
I think that there is a lot of evidence (and total lack thereof) lending credence to the notion of creationism for instance yet certainly not in the biblical sense. I'm not at all religious yet find some very striking correlations in some religions (Christianity being one) and what I think could be valid explanations of our history as a world and as a species. I'm open to all the information and opinion I can get on this subject matter as it's one of my interests but think one should be careful to jump on this guy's bandwagon and proclaim it as "the truth". Personally, the more I think I know, the less I really know for sure in the end. The search for truth is a tremendous thing though.
If we're ever going to find the truth everyone must collaborate, cooperate, share information and ideas. It's like trying to fight for freedom and liberty against the plantation owners in The States while being distracted and divided by an illusionary concept of Red-vs-Blue political "choice" while being ruled and manipulated by a web of supra-sovereign entities and their common agenda without even knowing it. United we may be able to learn the truth and evolve, divided (as "the system" would prefer us to be) we certainly will fall or at least fail better. Sorry if that is a bad analogy but hopefully it makes some sense.
We have very little knowledge with regards to a veritable sliver in time (~5K years) from which to glean any real truth about ancient history.
With White's opinions being publicized there have been a number of very good articles published in retort that objectively and scientifically tear this guy's "facts" apart. However, it would seem that some people choose to default to the comfort of their own belief systems and perceptions of reality to an extent and credit White with being a harbinger of some brand of "truth".
This is not a criticism of what anyone thinks or chooses to believe necessarily but a comment on our entire concept of truth which has been continually revised through time and how many current perceptions of what is true today could very likely be proven to be false looking back some day and/or may simply be false in the present without realizing it or accepting the fact. Like Einstein's Theories of Relativity, both General and Special, having now been proven false. Get the average physicist in a white coat living on fat annual grants to entertain that one though.
I'm very careful not to be the intellectual descendant of those who laughed at the Wright brothers and am careful what I choose to believe as truth (which is very little actually), that's all I'm saying. Do not ridicule, lest thou be ridiculed.
Wow, that's a bit of a missive there but my interest in this subject matter compelled me to put it down.
I'll leave you all now to criticize it and me if you like.
Must be close relatives.
Thank you. Thank you for possessing logic or at least being able to recognized it.
`OP you need to wake up. Every thing on the History channel is a joke.
By the way, does anyone else think this guy:
is starting to look a lot like this guy?
Thank you. Thank you for possessing logic or at least being able to recognized it.
`OP you need to wake up. Every thing on the History channel is a joke.
It's completely possible to create a perfectly square corner with nothing more than a plumbob, a bubble level (or a pebble in a trough), and plenty of time. Nobody's going to argue the ancients didn't have a lot of time on their hands.
As for "power tools" Yep, the Romans had those.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierapolis_sawmill
I just don't know, and it's way above my pay grade, but I find stuff like this fascinating.
Here's another one : The.Doomsday.Prophecies
It's completely possible to create a perfectly square corner with nothing more than a plumbob, a bubble level (or a pebble in a trough), and plenty of time. Nobody's going to argue the ancients didn't have a lot of time on their hands.
As for "power tools" Yep, the Romans had those.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierapolis_sawmill
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