Originally posted by OzWeatherman
Really people, how on earth can you believe a man that claims he is the only one that can correctly translate ancient Sumerian tablets, with no formal education in ancient history. If his translastions were correct, then that mean all the other ligitimate, ancient biblical scholars in the world are incorrect, or misread the same tablets. Now in my opinion, thats apretty enormous call.
So Sitchins claim to fame, is apparently that "gods" from another planet, Nibiru, came to Earth 450,000 years ago, and created humans through the gentic engineering of female apes. He also claims the planet Nibiru, sits outside Pluto and orbits the sun every 3600 years. Because Nibiru sits so far out from the sun, its only source of heat comes from within, by the decay of radioactive materials. He also claims that human descendants of these "gods" killed themselves off 4000 years ago, with nuclear weapons, despite the fact that there is no evidence to sunstantiate this outrageous theory.
Sitchin alone can look at a Sumerian tablet and see that it depicts a man being subjected to radiation. He alone knows how to correctly translate ancient terms allowing him to discover such things as that the ancients made rockets (ibid., p. 46).* Yet, he doesn't seem to know that the seasons are caused by the earth's tilt, not by its distance from the sun.
Thats pretty good for someone who is apparently an educated man.
According to a real sumerian ancient text scholar,
"[Sitchin] demonstrates a consistent lack of appreciation of even some of the most basic fundamentals of Sumerian and Akkadian grammar, even to the extent of regularly failing to distinguish between the two entirely different languages, and mixing words from each in interpreting the syllables of longer compound words." This mixing of languages allows Sitchin to make amazing "discoveries."
Due to his arrogance, and claims of being the only one able to translate the tablets, he is shunned by other ancient scholars and stands alone with his belief about Nibiru (apart from the conspiracy theory community, and his followers)
So despite all this information discrediting Sitchin, why do people still believe in it?
And whats this about Nibiru only being visible from the Southern pole. Anyone, that knows basic astronomy knows that if something is visible at the southern most point of the globe, then it is visible from the entire southern hemisphere. Considering that none of the observatories and private astronomers have found anything to idicate an enormous planet (or star in some cases) is hurtling towards us, then still why is this considered a plausible theory? Also, some Nibiru'ers claim that it is hiding behind the sun, which is why we cant see it, again, this is impossible.
Another point to consider is the failed appearance of it in 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, and late 2008. If a prophecy fails to come true on more than one occasion, why continue to believe it?
So I dont understand why people are getting all worked up about it, there's no evidence, people are taking the word of an economist (Sitchin was an economist of all things), and worse of all negelecting all the evidence that points towards the Nibiru theory being unplausible.
www.sitchiniswrong.com...
jcolavito.tripod.com...
www.doomsdayguide.org...
Thoughts on this?
Just to add, the first link is from a real ancient text scholar, he has tax returns to prove it![]()
admin edit: removed "not nice name" from title. No reason to sling names regardless of one's opinion of the person.![]()
[edit on 1-21-2009 by Springer]
So the fact that he IS one of the few people left on Earth who can read and translate these dead languages makes him a loon, huh. Well, have you considered that he has admittedly laid out possible translations and that he does not relay them as the definitive translations ever occurred to you, or did you skip through those parts of his writing, if you read them at all??
In the bible God asks Job where was he when He laid out the foundations of the Earth. The Hebrew word used was "chugh" which means sphere", so, how did they decide Earth should be used? It really asks Job where was he when God laid the foundations of the Sphere. Now, why would those who, at that time, declared the Earth was flat and burned, excommunicated, exiled, and ridiculed anyone who said otherwise, get the notion that the Sphere was a direct implication of the Earth. How about noah's Ark, or the Ark of the covenant, which the word's used are derivatives of the root "sod" which means "box", therefore, implying these were boxes. OK I'll give you that, but, it is actually not talking about a box. The idea conveyed by this word references "box" due to another use of it's analogy, as the idea that the word represents is defined as "box, revealed, secret, hidden". And on and on through ancient manuscripts and their bias politico- religious translations. Zechariah must be a fool to believe something other than what is proposed as the translation must be the translation. He is arrogant to use all possible interpretations and the contexts to arrive at his alternative translations, because, it is arrogance to believe that the translator is traitor, and that the other translators had no reason to mis translate, on purpose or otherwise. Read before you bleed the war- cry of other's denouncing what they are to narrow minded to accept or understand as alternative renderings. And worse still are those who jump on bandwagons without looking beyond the world as they believe it to be to see there is more out there than just their own limited views.


. 

