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Talos of Crete: A 2,000-Year-Old Tale of the First Robot God
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Posted on 05/23/2022 9:58:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin

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1 posted on 05/23/2022 9:58:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Freaked the hell out of me when I saw that as a kid.


2 posted on 05/23/2022 9:59:49 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

Ditto.


3 posted on 05/23/2022 10:02:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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To: BenLurkin

Didn’t Athenas commission a robot owl to be built similar to her owl, Bubo?


4 posted on 05/23/2022 10:02:38 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: BenLurkin

Supposedly the first people to gain entrance to the Great Pyramid found strange things, what would be described as a robot today.

What is seen today is just the innards, originally was covered with smooth limestone. The joints were so finely put together the exact location of the entrance was not known. It hinged outward. That’s why the hole in the structure used as the entrance today, was bored into the side.


5 posted on 05/23/2022 10:04:19 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: SunkenCiv

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6 posted on 05/23/2022 10:09:10 AM PDT by SteveH (.)
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To: BenLurkin

In Kabbalah this kind of thing is called a Golem. You make one by saying the letters of the Hebrew alphabet in just the right sequence. The oral Torah says that the thing that got Joseph in trouble with his brothers was that he reported to Jacob that they had made a Golem.


7 posted on 05/23/2022 10:13:05 AM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: BenLurkin

I can still watch it once a year.


8 posted on 05/23/2022 10:14:09 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: BenLurkin

Yep me too


9 posted on 05/23/2022 10:21:19 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: SteveH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha05Yub2nK4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD9qc44oMqU

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4046017/posts


10 posted on 05/23/2022 10:22:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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To: SubMareener

My understanding was writing the name of G-d in the golem’s forehead (72 letters in the proper sequence). The story goes that on the first day, he called his maker ‘master’. On the 2nd day, ‘brother’, and on the third, ‘servant’.


11 posted on 05/23/2022 10:24:41 AM PDT by silent majority rising ( )
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To: Freedom4US

The first people to break into the Great Pyramid found nothing. They tunneled in because they could not find the actual entrance and were looking for gold on the orders of the Calif. Very disappointed, they were on finding the structure empty except for a stone sarcophagus. No gold, no jewels, no inscriptions, no robots.


12 posted on 05/23/2022 10:32:49 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Yes, that’s one account, that they didn’t find anything. There are other traditions, claiming they found quite a few weird things. That’s why I brought it up.


13 posted on 05/23/2022 11:04:40 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: silent majority rising

Quite a lesson in that :-)


14 posted on 05/23/2022 11:12:08 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: silent majority rising

‘To Serve Man.’


15 posted on 05/23/2022 11:21:43 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes!!! What a great creation from Ray Harryhausen. Talos looks much better that the CGI monstrosities one sees today.


16 posted on 05/23/2022 11:33:55 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: BenLurkin

Yes!!! What a great creation from Ray Harryhausen. Talos looks much better that the CGI monstrosities one sees today.


17 posted on 05/23/2022 11:33:57 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: Freedom4US

I do believe the account was written and is history - “traditions” are internet memes found on sites of who-knows-what validity.


18 posted on 05/23/2022 12:09:43 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: BenLurkin

Remember when was a kid watching JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS on TV

Featured TALOS, The flying Harpies and skeleton army ......


19 posted on 05/23/2022 12:35:07 PM PDT by njslim
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Still my favorite “Sword & Sandal” movie!


20 posted on 05/23/2022 12:38:41 PM PDT by Reily
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