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Guess the viper

beautifullywild77 said:
Bra's are an evil contraption invented by a man. Just my honest opinion LOL Those things should be burned. :flames:
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I have never once asked a woman to wear a bra. But I certainly appreciate the effect they have. :)

Considering the people jumped to being convinced that Paul was a murderer when the snake bit him and then that he was a god when there was no effect, I'm going to go with the people being very uneducated and ignorant. Which suggests that the snake, assuming the story has any veracity whatsoever, was misidentified and simply struck at Paul in fright or as a warning and was a harmless bite.

I'm with Rich in that people aren't any different, really, these days. Education is a lot more common and the last 200 years has seen a complete overhaul of how we see the universe because of scientific exploration and advance and the invention of the internet, a worldwide source of nearly limitless amounts of information has drastically changed the way we live, though.

A couple thousand years in evolutionary terms is a blink of an eye, and mankind has long changed the environment to suit us instead of the other way around.
 
elrojo said:
It's also possible they were quite dumb, and were afraid of tomatoes, wiped with their hand, and thought when it thundered God was moving furniture.
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That remark just amazes me.

And now, with all the advantages of education, and access to internet and all the wealth of knowledge available in public libraries, people mostly STILL believe whatever guff a TV chat show or crappy daily newspaper says

but people in the PAST were dumb?????
 
Yes. A failing student of the worst public school today knows more about the world around him than the most educated, brilliant thinkers on the planet two thousand years ago. It was just in the mid 1600's that "modern" man became convinced that maggots came from flies and didn't just spontaneously appear in rotting meat. That's only 500 years. When people had a fever, bloodletting was a go-to medical procedure. I mean no disrespect to people who lived in a time of less understanding of the world around them, but by the very definition of the word, they were "dumb." Didn't think that was controversial enough to upset anyone or make them feel the need to quote it twice. And I am certainly not saying that brilliant people weren't born back then. But it's silly to romanticize the past and think that mankind was somehow better off -or certainly more knowledgeable in the early parts of recorded history than today.
 
What about the leviathon. Some suggest that was a dinosaur. Boy that throws a wrench in the billion jillion year evolotion theory.
 
elrojo said:
Yes. A failing student of the worst public school today knows more about the world around him than the most educated, brilliant thinkers on the planet two thousand years ago. It was just in the mid 1600's that "modern" man became convinced that maggots came from flies and didn't just spontaneously appear in rotting meat. That's only 500 years. When people had a fever, bloodletting was a go-to medical procedure. I mean no disrespect to people who lived in a time of less understanding of the world around them, but by the very definition of the word, they were "dumb." Didn't think that was controversial enough to upset anyone or make them feel the need to quote it twice. And I am certainly not saying that brilliant people weren't born back then. But it's silly to romanticize the past and think that mankind was somehow better off -or certainly more knowledgeable in the early parts of recorded history than today.
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And yet, with all of our wonderful advances and technology, we still haven't got a clue how the pyramids of Egypt were made using the technology of the time.
 
The leviathan would have certainly been something to see. What if there are still some hidden in the depths of the sea?


The Leviathan is mentioned six times in the Hebrew Bible, with Job 41:1-41:34 being dedicated to describing him in detail:[1]
1 Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
2 Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3 Will he keep begging you for mercy? Will he speak to you with gentle words?
4 Will he make an agreement with you for you to take him as your slave for life?
5 Can you make a pet of him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?
6 Will traders barter for him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?
7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
8 If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
9 Any hope of subduing him is false; the mere sight of him is overpowering.
10 No-one is fierce enough to rouse him. Who then is able to stand against me?
11 Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
12 I will not fail to speak of his limbs, his strength and his graceful form.
13 Who can strip off his outer coat? Who would approach him with a bridle?
14 Who dares open the doors of his mouth, ringed about with his fearsome teeth?
15 His back has rows of shields tightly sealed together;
16 each is so close to the next that no air can pass between.
17 They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted.
18 His snorting throws out flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
19 Firebrands stream from his mouth; sparks of fire shoot out.
20 Smoke pours from his nostrils as from a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.
21 His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from his mouth.
22 Strength resides in his neck; dismay goes before him.
23 The folds of his flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable.
24 His chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
25 When he rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before his thrashing.
26 The sword that reaches him has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
27 Iron he treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.
28 Arrows do not make him flee, sling stones are like chaff to him.
29 A club seems to him but a piece of straw, he laughs at the rattling of the lance.
30 His undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing-sledge.
31 He makes the depths churn like a boiling cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 Behind him he leaves a glistening wake; one would think the deep had white hair.
33 Nothing on earth is his equal— a creature without fear.
34 He looks down on all that are haughty; he is king over all that are proud.
 
Susan said:
And yet, with all of our wonderful advances and technology, we still haven't got a clue how the pyramids of Egypt were made using the technology of the time.
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Because they were not built using human technology.

Hell, we can't build one using TODAY'S technology!

The precision involved is STILL beyond modern mans teçhnological ability. Even with lasers and surveyors equip. We can't hold the tolorances seen the the pyramids.

Couple that with fact that each Block is in excess of 10 tons a piece.

We, the human race, did not build the pyramids.... Not alone anyway!
 
I will say that just because something exists that isn't a product of nature does not *necessarily* make it a product of man.
 
rich333 said:
Because they were not built using human technology.

Hell, we can't build one using TODAY'S technology!

The precision involved is STILL beyond modern mans teçhnological ability. Even with lasers and surveyors equip. We can't hold the tolorances seen the the pyramids.

Couple that with fact that each Block is in excess of 10 tons a piece.

We, the human race, did not build the pyramids.... Not alone anyway!
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Well, another answer could be that mankind has been around a heck of a lot longer than we now believe. And that earlier humankind may have discovered technologies that have been lost to us, and just not rediscovered.
 
elrojo said:
I will say that just because something exists that isn't a product of nature does not *necessarily* make it a product of man.
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Is not man a product of nature? The things that we build and do are no less "natural" than a bee hive. Who were are and what we do is all apart of our evolution and is as natural as the ocean waves.
 
Nanci said:
Is there any written history about the pyramids being built?
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Not really. There's no actual record of how they were built. Thing is, there's some popular theories that are quite plausible that don't involve alien intervention and the idea that we lack the technology today to build the pyramids is pretty ridiculous. We build structures that dwarf the pyramids and stand up to hurricanes and earthquakes.

There's just no point to building a pyramid out of stone.
 
I have read many books on the theories of building of the pyramids. There has been many studies and researchers who have used primitive methods to move the huge blocks. They have proved it is plausible they were built with primitive technology or even lost technology.

A little sense of humor goes a long way. geeze louise guys!
 
Not for lack of a sense of humor, but I would never dismiss even something as "out there" as aliens as impossible. I have been to the pyramids in Tikal, Guatemala -it's literally breathtaking. While I don't see the evidence to support aliens, I don't understand how they "know" Giza was constructed in 2500 BC or whatever when there was no recorded history of it, either. My tendency is to lean toward the most likely scientific explanation, but I try to also keep an open mind. :)
 
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