Sorry… you think believing the Ancient Egyptians had electricity because those things look kind of like electrical insulators isn’t nuts? Because I have news for you- two things can look alike and be totally different things.
This, for example, is not a petrified screw. It’s a crinoid. A once-living sea creature.
The thing about any crackpot argument for “ancient electricity” that just dawned on me, is that they call it The Bronze Age for a reason, the ancients insisted on the versatility of their metal (bronze = copper + tin) over its’ conductivity (pure copper).
There was a more ancient Copper Age, but it was brief, bronze was the definition of a technological leap forward.
What the hell is the deal with the Book of Enoch? I get the alien thing because AM radio and the history channel went all in with that. But a noncanonical (except in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church I guess), apocalyptic, heretical book? Why?!?
I keep seeing even crazier offshoots of already crazy evangelicals referring to it (without mentioning whether they’re talking about 1, 2, or 3) and the Testament of Solomon.
Full disclosure, I’m not religious but I grew up in a bugnuts evangelical tradition and remember a bunch of it.
Fun fact: canonical scripture says that people do not become angels. The Book of Enoch said Enoch became a celestial being similar to an archangel.
More fun fact, even less related SPOILERS AHEAD: In Charles Stross’s Laundry Files book series, the Apocalypse of Enoch is included in the bible of a cult that thinks they’re worshipping Jesus but is accidentally trying to summon an otherworldly horror into the universe.
On a more serious note, I wasn’t aware that there are people calling the book of Enoch heretical. Makes sense I guess, looking at evangelicals, but still.
I read all three a few years ago. They’re interesting, but dense like most of the stuff of that time.
They are literally heretical though, except in the Ethiopian tradition, because they teach things that aren’t in line with canonical teachings. It’s like the infancy gospel of Thomas (also kind of a fun read to hear about Jesus being a little shit).
Uhhhh… you DO realize Republicans have been screeching about a new civil war for years, right?
There is a HUGE portion of this country that would ABSOLUTELY bomb their neighbors if they could get away with it. A civil war might not destroy everything, but that’s only happening to the Palestinians. The US is too big to repeat that travesty.
That’s exactly what they want you to think! Muahhahah
Seriously though… It’s not REALLY the US that’s doing these things… It’s the global oligarchy… They just use American soldiers because we were the only ones left with any after WW2 and it stuck. The oligarchy has no allegiance to any country or people and would absolutely bomb the shit out of America if it profited them.
Engineers also discovered, as they plowed past the first 14,800 feet (4,511 meters), that the rock had much more porosity and permeability. That, paired with the extremely high temperatures, made the rock behave more like a plastic than a solid, rendering drilling virtually impossible.
I know a guy that dug a 28 foot hole. The feds got involved but couldn’t find anything actually to charge him for since it was only 28ft deep. That hole is still there.
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