i am starting this thread to build on thoughts originally generated in soficrow's ATSNN article entitled
The Changing Earth: Explaining Extinctions, Atlantis and Everything.
now, i will start by admitting that i know a little bit about alot of things, but am no scholar by any stretch of the imagination. so please feel
free to pick it apart with
knowledgeable thoughts of your own....but
please try to keep an open mind as you do so. okay, here we go:
how many times have we, on this planet, risen to our current level of technological advancement only to be lost again into the abyss of ignorance?
think about it for a second folks. if tomorrow some devastating event occurred, be it a large meteor or a nuclear war, how many of us would actually
know how to survive? how many in this technologically advanced civilization of ours actually know how to do the simple things that would allow
us to survive? in being as advanced as we are, we have forgotten the simple things (or more correctly, become dependent upon others to perform the
simple things for us). do you know how to build your own permanent shelter that will remain structurally sound for generations? carpenters do, but
what about the rest of us? do you know how to grow your own food, can or otherwise preserve it, and save some for the next years planting? farmers
do, but what about the rest of us?
what about things that are more advanced, but still relatively simple? if you are dependent upon insulin, do you know how to make it? do any but a
select few know how to make antibiotics? do you know how to make firearms and the necessary reloading equipment and materials? do you know how to
hunt, or dress game without spoiling the meat?
here is my theory: we have been either at this level or close to it many times before, and yet have never been able to pass this particular
level of advancement for many reasons, ranging from impacts of celestial bodies to our own experimentation with the atom. a lot of folks will of
course say "where is the evidence snaf?"
well think about this my friends: glaciers have a tendency to completely destroy anything manmade due to their size and movements.....literally
crushing anything in their paths. iron and other metals are torn apart and eventually rust into oblivion. brick buildings are torn apart and turned
back into the simple elements they were made from. our seas hide all kinds of unknown artifacts that, when brought to the light of day, are explained
by mainstream scientists as "normal rock formations." there is no doubt that glaciers covered much of the most livable parts of the world (areas in
which large civilizations are likely to form), and that rising ocean levels covered a good bit of the coastal areas...this much mainstream science
agrees with. the artifacts that
do remain in areas of more stable climates, such as the sphinx and pyramids, have never been accurately
dated...and by that i mean accurately enough that there are no doubts left as to their actual origins and time of construction. hell, we dont even
have a firm, unimpeachable theory as to
how they were constructed. i am beginning to believe that mainstream scientists are starting to
realize this for themselves, and for one reason or another do not want to change the fabric of scientific knowledge as we know it. oh, how i would
love to have been able to peruse the library of alexandria.
this theory (and again, as i have no proof, i am simply putting it forth as MHO) would explain alot of anomolies that mainstream science either
ignores or attempts to explain away as "natural." things such as uranium deposits that would appear to have been previously mined. anomolous
artifacts that have no place in modern archeology. even other theories on this site that are called "quacky", such as strange rock formations on
the moon that suggest intentional arrangement, or strange lines on mars that suggest mining operations. maybe they appear the way they do because
we've already been there, and such anomolous propagations are simply
our own artifacts from previous technologically advanced
civilizations that explored and attempted to set up mining operations on both celestial bodies.
to delve even further in the direction of what some would call lunacy, what if we managed to get so far as to actually send some of our people out of
this solar system in exploration of the universe before we fell back into savagery on our home planet for another cycle? what if these explorers from
tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago actually found other planets to colonize and produce their own civilizations, but due to the great distance
and time involved, have forgotten their origins as well? could they not be the "aliens" that most here clearly believe in? "battlestar
galactica" did not start as an original idea by glen larson, but as an expansion of theories already put forth by what mainstream scientists would
call "kooks."
this would also explain theories of civilizations such as the atlanteans. for some reason these ideas would seem to appeal to our collective
subconscious on some level, or we wouldnt have scifi shows such as "stargate" that last for over ten years, or "battlestar" that are revived after
twenty years to continue the story.
to move into another direction for those of you who are religious (as i am myself), what if adam and eve werent necessarily the very first humans, but
instead simply the first of one group of survivors of another cyclic holocaust to start an oral rendition of history in an attempt to retain some
knowledge of our past lives? not necessarily the first humans, but simply people who believed that they were spared God's wrath because He wanted
them to start over as his chosen people to hopefully end the cycle so that we might advance beyond the destruction phase? this would explain how
their sons and daughters were able to find partners to continue their line...
converts from other groups of survivors who did not believe as they
did.
the Maya believed that the world goes through such cycles (and obviously many of you as well, considering all of the 2012 threads out there), so why
is it so hard for our modern world to believe the same? if we
really take the time to look, instead of believing that we are smarter than we
really are and already know all about our past, if we look into the past with an open mind instead of a preconceived notion of what is there, imagine
what we might discover about ourselves....and even more importantly, imagine what we might learn that could save us from walking down a path to
destruction that we have already taken many times before? the study of history is about learning from our mistakes so that we arent forced to repeat
them.....but how can we do that if we dont have all the pieces to the puzzle?
i know that alot of what i have just typed is drawn from other theories already out there. but hopefully putting it all together in one post will
draw more thoughts from you, my fellow ATSers, and we can start to decipher what the truth of our existence actually is. because i am deathly afraid
that if we continue down the path we are on at the moment, we are doomed to repeat yet another cycle and the majority of what has been accomplished
will be lost for another ten or fifteen millenia. we are sitting on the precipice of world war three, and as einstein is quoted as saying in my
signature, "world war four will be fought with sticks and stones."
of course, there is always the possibility that no one will find this interesting enough to comment upon. all i can say is oh well.....at least i
have done my part by putting it out there, and maybe it will at least trigger more thought as soficrow's article did for me. if just one of you
reads this and it provokes more thought into the possibility of our true origins, then the afternoon of typing, editing, and retyping is not wasted,
in my humble opinion.
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