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Sphinx - How Old?

01/20/2017 12:11 PM

Who's correct. The Egyptology 'experts' or those who belive it's much older.

It certainly has a disproportionate head with less weathering when compared to the body.

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01/23/2017 5:40 PM

1. If your hypothesis is indeed correct of them, (sphinx), being around 10000 years old, then the water damage is from the great flood and the paws would have been protected by the sediment.

2. It accounts for the deforestation of the Sahara woodlands as Noah used the trees for an ark

So that leads to the question, what came first, the sphinx and pyramids or the great flood?

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01/23/2017 5:43 PM

My answer is, Best you ask this expert... Robert Shoch.

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01/24/2017 10:01 AM

You should look into Creationism, and the antediluvian theories of how the Earth was back then. Apparently, the flood resulted when God disturbed the chambers of the deep (to spray up), which destroyed the firmament in the heavens (the metallic hydrogen magenta layer that protected ancestors from harsh radiation and allowed them to live to ancient age), and this upset the flat lay of the land, and made all the topography we have now, if they are correct.

We were not there, so it at least makes interesting reading. I like reading alternative theories with an open mind, leaving off my pre-taught notions.

Apparently, you might wish to read more carefully about Noah's construction of the ark, but there is no way an ark of that size would use all the wood in Northern Africa then or now.

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01/24/2017 3:12 PM

How big does a boat have to be to carry two of every terrestrial species and supplies for thirty days?

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01/24/2017 3:27 PM

I don't know what your story of Noah says, but mine spells it out in cubits. A cubit is the length of a man's arm from the tip of his finger to the joint of his elbow. Kind of depends on the height of the man, does it not?

Noah is warned of the coming flood and told to construct the ark. God spells out to Noah the dimensions of the vessel: 300 cubits in length, 50 cubits in width and 30 cubits in height (450 × 75 × 45 ft).

This is the same in any version of the Holy Bible you find. The passage is book of Genesis, chapters 6 through 9.

The rest of it, I would not know, as I am not old enough to have been there and witnessed it.

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01/24/2017 7:35 PM

It was not really that huge on the outside, but on the inside, well! It was like Dr Who's Tardis. That is why the Sahara rain forest was destroyed. A complete fit out and so much wood used for scaffold and hull props, lifting devices, dowels and wooden rivets, and fire wood to melt pitch. And of course, all that bark was needed for caulking the planking.

Ark artists always depict the ark as a V shaped hull. It was more logical to construct a flat bottomed barge type boat. Far more usable space and easier to install decks. Not a great handler in a storm.

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01/25/2017 8:51 AM

Recent depictions have been more oil tankeresque. Good.

For all I know, the ark was a small boat, and there were DNA tubes male and female of each species, in a Godly refrigerator.

For all you know, we have been down this road before, passed this way again, and came back for another set of punishments.

Earth is a proving ground for punishing the human species for something really bad we did in intergalactic space a long time ago, and far, far away. Maybe we made a deeth star.

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01/25/2017 9:05 AM

Well the oddest thing is, Noah sent out a raven first and it never came back. Then he sent a dove that came back. So how did that single raven manage to multiply if its partner was missing. Yes, I know he had a good time before he went out.

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01/25/2017 9:10 AM

Maybe the raven was smart enough to fly on until morning, and found a good tree branch to light on. He simply waited for Noah, et.al. to catch up, along with the raven's mate.

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01/25/2017 9:40 AM

If memory serves me, birds and clean animals were actually directed to be taken in 7 pairs each. This makes the missing raven not such a problem, but does exascerbate the problem of housing all those pairs and provisions in such a limited space.

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01/25/2017 10:03 AM

Quick check and you are correct, and the raven, I was wrong! The raven went 'to a fro', and not 'went and didn't come back'. Genesis Chp 8-7.

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01/23/2017 10:13 AM

It is believed the Sphinx was much older, built before the time of the Egyptians that build the Pyramids, build during a time when that region as more rain forest, rather than desert because the majority of the erosion on the Sphinx was caused by rain water, whereas the majority of erosion caused on the pyramids is wind erosion.

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01/24/2017 9:32 PM

Those who know a lot about the Sphinx and share what they know often and in volume... are they known as prolific Sphinxters?

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01/25/2017 7:08 AM

2 shows a night, 3 nights a week. and the Flamingo Cocktail Lounge

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01/25/2017 8:52 AM

I dunno, but I cannot hold back a good one on that! Blaaaaaat!

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01/25/2017 8:57 AM

Well, it has just been reported on Sky news that holding in wind is bad for you. It makes its way up through the body and finally locates at the highest point, the brain, and causes a shitty outlook for the day.

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01/25/2017 2:43 PM

Not only this, it is highly important to warn your fellow employee of pending events, so that fugitive emissions do not take them by surface within the environmental impact zone. Also note that in Texas, the authorities are pretty fart smellers, and will respond to events with a plum, and a suddenness that is all of a sudden. They also respond with all prejudice to dispatch the suspected evil-doers at once.

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02/04/2017 2:39 PM

http://cr4.globalspec.com/edit/newcomment?objectid=110463&objecttype=THREAD&rnd=450

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMxKNul5EDI

Both links are quite interesting to watch. 34000 Years old being supported. Who knows for sure. But interesting.

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02/04/2017 6:44 PM

Hmmm, that first link is only as interesting as I (or whoever takes the link) make it.

That's a nice, even if convoluted was of saying you find the comments we make on CR4 interesting. The complement didn't go unnoticed and is appreciated.

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02/05/2017 11:26 AM

Occasionally one needs to rethink what one steadfastly believes, so the challenge is necessary to ones conventional thinking. After all, life is a theory and living is a belief.

Ideas and opinions are like belly buttons, ........everyone has one! . Well that said, my school friend didn't have one at all, not even a hint of one.

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02/05/2017 6:22 PM

It is pretty amazing how infants can heal without scars from certain proceedures.

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02/05/2017 7:01 PM

Including brain injuries... Doctors explain it's because the plasticity of their brains for rewiring.

its also easier for them to learn more the one language.

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02/06/2017 10:36 AM

One thing: I am certain none of the comments on CR4 are 34,000 years old.

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02/06/2017 11:42 AM

Collectively or individually?

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02/06/2017 12:21 PM

Individually. If you took all CR4 comments and added their ages, thus stringing them back to back along universal time line, it might stretch pretty far, but I am not sure how far. The distribution is somewhat skewed by the ages of the first comments ever uttered on CR4.

Japanese sugar battery exceeds lithium ion battery

That is the first discussion I subscribed to dating back to 10/01/2012, but I am pretty sure CR4 reaches way further back in time than that. I am showing 796 updated discussions. I certainly cannot keep track of that by myself.

I just added up threads and got 89651. This is not a total of all comments.

Suppose we take threads and allocate only one 24 hour day each (totally ridiculous assumption), this laid end to end would pave a time road 245.451 years in length.

If we allow an entire week for each thread, then we get 1724.06 years, so still not old enough. If threads were allocated a one month lifetime, then we have 7470.917 years worth of threads, laid out like road tiles. That is close to the order of magnitude of the age of the Sphinx.

Some of the answers put forth on CR4 are in fact timeless, and some are just priceless. Some of the priceless ones have been removed by the censors.

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02/06/2017 1:13 PM

Are you running a water cooled calculator or sharpening pencils as a hobby?

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I am a professional pencil sharpener and pencil caddie for the real pencil pushers here.

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02/06/2017 7:12 PM

As we say, there is no point to a broken pencil, and you can take a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.

Cheers for the banter. Craic, (crack) in Irish.

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02/08/2017 10:50 AM

I have been advocating for the full on invasion of Ireland for quite some time now.

I have at least one friend there, and want to visit him. The rest of you can just go drink beer.

Ireland is the pearl of the Atlantic, a prize worth far more than gold.

Once she is had, England could not be much of a step.

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02/08/2017 1:22 PM

Take wellington boots. It is green for a very good reason. Lived and worked there a few times. Dublin is nice. Plenty pubs and easy to travel around. Go in the summer, but keep on mind, summer, higher prices and loads of tourists.

So you speak Arabic? That will be very handy in England for you when you hop over to England. You are better off going north of the border, far nicer, and more open that you can imagine for a tiny country. Perhaps soon they will have their independence by the look of it all. A great day to celebrate is looming.

But England was unofficially declared the 51st state of the USA. That would be like going from New York City to Myrtle Beach for your annual holidays. Why would you want to do that? Just wait one day and I will sell England on eBay. I estimate, it won't fetch more than a few dollars, I may hold out for $2.99 without postage and packaging.

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02/08/2017 2:02 PM

I would gladly sell California back to Mexico for the price of a measly wall.

I appreciate the tourist advice. Not sure how the Irish (or the Scots for that matter), would react to Texans showing up sporting fur shorts, fur lined boots, bare-chested, and wearing brass hats (or steel) with ox horns. Battle axes and long swords optional. Some Vikings have to settle for being archers, although most Texan Vikings would probably only snag a chicken or two.

Actually, sorry, I do not speak Arabic or Farsi, although once we had a wheat stubble burn on the farm, and I came from a far, you see?

I already tole ya, tole me to say that. The problem mainly I see with some of these foreign countries that are in turmoil right now, is they lack a general sense of humor.

Someone pokes them in fun, and they get all stiff and riled up, as if there was some form of foul odor associated with happiness.

That is why Trump shut down the travel of folk from those places, until we can vet them. I fail to see what dowsing them with water (vetting them down) will do?

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02/09/2017 4:24 AM

'... But England was unofficially declared the 51st state of the USA....'

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Shhhh. Not so loud. Canada might hear you.

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02/09/2017 6:18 AM

No, they made a bid of £4.55. The US outbid them. Reserve price was £5.00. Selling price was £6.11. pp included.

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02/06/2017 12:42 PM

The Sphinx was built when they built things to last.

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02/06/2017 12:49 PM

Well, then that must have been back in Noah Ford's time.

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