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Great Flood Myths from Around the World

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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
LV - what was the elevation of Guizhou some 18,000 years ago?

(I'm asking, I don't know the answer... for all I know, it was higher than 3000 feet.)
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honestly, i don't know either... one thing is certain, it wasn't flat...
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cbus2005 said:
Not to be an ass or anything, but you wouldn't notice ice caps melting as a "great flood" but rather a "very gradual rise in sea levels over the course of a few years or decades."


Not saying this was a miracle or not, or that this is even of any value. However, what your saying doesnt hold much truth...
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Found this link to... take it for what it's worth.

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More on rapid climate change

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lvbuckeye said:
honestly, i don't know either... one thing is certain, it wasn't flat...
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From the research I've done on this unknown (to me) area, indicates that it is rising over time (influence, no doubt, by India crashing in to the mainland) However, I doubt it was "on the water's edge" as it were...

In anycase, most of what I'm reading indicates a great deal of rain followed the dry period dominated by the last ice age. Not sufficient rain to cover the entirety of the region, but bear in mind, literalism is not my thing.. I'd be satisfied with a relative crap load of rain which, through story telling over time, became "a massive all inclusive flood"
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
Found this link to... take it for what it's worth.

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More on rapid climate change

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didn't click the links, but i'll concede the rapid climate change no problem. supposedly it never rained before the flood, and the earth was like a terrarium. Biblically, at least, it also said that water came "from under the earth" as well, so i don't think it was strictly rain...

at any rate, young earth creationists attribute the demise of the dinosaurs to the rapid climate change/ice age that followed the flood, so i won't argue against that either...

oh, BTW, they found Noahs Ark. you can visit it at the Noah's Ark National Park in Turkey. Ark Discovery
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lvbuckeye;574207; said:
so there was a flood... where is this going?
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So there are flood myths....

unless you want to view the sayings regarding Puluga, "one woman", Fu Xi, Nuu, Bergelmir, Milathk, Tangaloa, Dokibatl and Montezuma, etc., as literal and true. If their tales are also true, then you might want to reconsider which of the flood survivors' tales are true, let alone which of the Flood gods to worship, as the choices are many.

I venture a guess that all of those cultures have myths about flying people or entities too.... have we just proven the existence of ancient astronauts?
 
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Could it be that over time as stories are relayed by word of mouth from parent to child that details and truths were lost? which is likely to be more factful, someone writing things down as they occur or someone hearing tales of the event 6 generations later from recolection of what was told by ancesters.

anyone ever do the exercize with a large group of people where one person starts a message and it is repeated all the way around the room and the last person tells what they were told?
 
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afgolfer;893592; said:
anyone ever do the exercize with a large group of people where one person starts a message and it is repeated all the way around the room and the last person tells what they were told?
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Yeah - I once muttered that UnderArmor doesn't look good on everybody, and twenty minutes later someone at the other end of the room told me that anyone dressed like a Pirate holding a cup was probably a drunk that shouldn't be allowed to teach kids... :biggrin:
 
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afgolfer;893592; said:
Could it be that over time as stories are relayed by word of mouth from parent to child that details and truths were lost? which is likely to be more factful, someone writing things down as they occur or someone hearing tales of the event 6 generations later from recolection of what was told by ancesters.

anyone ever do the exercize with a large group of people where one person starts a message and it is repeated all the way around the room and the last person tells what they were told?
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sure. however in this instance, in addition to all of the accounts that have been scrambled up by man, we have the one that comes straight from the source.
 
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lv, I am on your side. I was trying to think logically as to why there might be so many versions that differ slightly one from another.

As a Mormon, i believe the biblical version to be correct, and believe that God does speak to different people, iE, he didnt just speak to the Jews.
 
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Taosman;894491; said:
"we have the one that comes straight from the source."

Pretty arrogant to think that God only talks to one people in one language.
Is God arrogant?
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Taosman;894511; said:
So. Let me get this straight.
One book is right.
All other traditions, religions, stories, are wrong?
Isn't that the definition of arrogance?
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To LV it is "the source" and everyone else is wrong if they dont agree, and thats the view of many.. especially other traditions such as islam (convert or die?.,. ok so thats extremist but still, the point remains theres alot of faiths, only one God)

general belief is that the book of genesis was written by an unknown author, but one that i've been reading about lately was a revelation from God to Moses, meaning Moses is the one telling us of the flood.. moses being the author of a revelation makes more sense to me based on my personal beliefs that the creations story and maybe even the flood etc. are all parables (much like the book of revelation, all imagery)

now wheter or not the flood was real or figuritive to me dosen't so much matter so much, thats not the important part to me
 
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