Keanu Reeves and Graham Hancock!

a reply to: Astrocometus

"organized' Archaeology began about 250 years ago. While the excavated portions of the world are 0.000001% one thing we have learned is that civilizations leave massive archaeological footprints. They are very easy to detect - if by magic you deleted all knowledge and sites for the known civilizations it would be a matter of hours before evidence of them would be found again, days before we would know that some organized culture had been in that area. Example once when I was at the train station in Luxor and I had an hour or so to waste. I went out to walk around the parking lot (after shooing away the hordes of touts) and in doing so I started kicking around int he sand on the edges and in about 15 minutes I found 3 New Kingdom sherds, 1 Middle, 1 modern and 1 old kingdom. So, the idea that a lost civilization was world wide and everywhere doing stuff but left absolutely nothing behind? This lack of evidence is why Hancock changed his ideas and noted in his last book that the missing civilization had no technology but instead 'used their minds', meaning no artifacts, no use of resources etc....Thanks for the response

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originally posted by: Harte2

originally posted by: SprocketUK
Whats not to love?

Well, since you asked, what's not to love is listening to a grifter lying about archaeologists, lying about archaeological sites, and lying about archaeological consensus.
What's to love?
The cinematography.

Harte

How has this place been the last few years?

a reply to: Hansllune

While the excavated portions of the world are 0.000001% one thing we have learned is that civilizations leave massive archaeological footprints.

I wasn't clear in reference to that 250 yrs so my bad and of
course that's the age of archaeology. What I was referring to going much
further back is my reason for speculating there was a worldwide civilization
that left no footprint? Is do to a massive flood that covered the earth. If there
was a civilization on earth that used stone to make pyramids and many other
structures. And a world wide deluge occurred. Then our civilization would
see exactly what we do see being left for us to find.

Are you even open to the possibility of a deluge as an explaination?

And you're welcome.

No, no deluge occurred, the entire world wasn't wiped out and reset. If such a thing happened it would be very noticeable. No it would also so leave the pottery, the quarries, the burials, the mines, the stone tools - just like it did for all the other cultures - the only one being eliminated was the 'Lost Civilization'. In the Nile valley we can detect a succession of earlier cultures going back 40,000 years before the Egyptians and HG groups back to 1,000,000, so why did the 'flood' not wipe those traces out too? The 'flood' fails due to a lack of geology, biology and archaeology evidence to name a few disciplines.

a reply to: tjack

Does look like an edit that went round the execs and channel so many times that it's best version got lost way back and that cut was the shell shocked remains stitched together randomly and shoved at the front of their ticker-tape parade

a reply to: Hansllune

So just discard some 250 flood myths from around the worlds
diverse cultures and the biblical account because archaeologists
say nope no flood, can't have one without evidence. When right
there it seems like total bias to manipulate the narrative. How
is just ignoring the evidence a lack of evidence? And why would
anyone risk dismissing so many variables of the basic story out
of hand in disagreement with so many sources? Seems like bias
to me whether you give a crap about public perception or not I
don't know.

originally posted by: Hansllune
This lack of evidence is why Hancock changed his ideas and noted in his last book that the missing civilization had no technology but instead 'used their minds', meaning no artifacts, no use of resources etc....Thanks for the response

We are still talking about working with raw stone, so advanced stonework is closer to the truth than advanced civilization. but the interesting part is how was the world when the seas were 400+ feet lower to maybe allow more travel at a much longer period in our past.

I do believe there were waves of higher capable civilizations. We see this in the waves out of Africa where some waves had much better tools than past and future waves. If he goes down the path of minds only then I will stop watching.

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a reply to: Hansllune

No you note that those 250 stories aren't backed by evidence. Stories are hearsay, not evidence that something happened in the real world.You can find common stories around the world on things like talking animals, do animals talk? Can you tell me what year all land life was destroyed and the entire world covered by water? Many deities are mentioned - does that mean they are all real? That there are trickster gods and spirits? Again the evidence against the flood can be found in all the scientific disciplines.

originally posted by: Xtrozero


I do believe there were waves of higher capable civilizations. We see this in the waves out of Africa where some waves had much better tools than past and future waves. If he goes down the path of minds only then I will stop watching.

Yes, in Graham Hancock's most recent book, "Magicians of the Gods," he heavily implies that the lost civilization he posits, which flourished during the Ice Age, possessed advanced mental abilities that could be considered akin to "magic," allowing them to manipulate matter and energy through focused consciousness, essentially suggesting a form of psychic power beyond what we understand today.
Key points about Hancock's theory:

Advanced technology disguised as magic:
He suggests this civilization used their mental powers to achieve feats that would seem like magic to later societies, including the movement of large stones and the construction of monumental structures.
Spiritual knowledge and practices:
Hancock speculates that these people had a deep understanding of the universe and used practices like meditation and psychoactive plants to access altered states of consciousness, enabling them to manipulate energy and matter.
Survivors and transmission of knowledge:
He proposes that survivors of this civilization, known as "the Magicians" or "the Shining Ones," passed down this knowledge to later cultures, influencing myths and spiritual traditions around the world.

a reply to: Hansllune

Alright well either way I love archaeology and at
the end of the day I have a lot of respect for the
knowledge it takes to do what you do with such
precision. So thank you for sharing.