Comets, Meteors & Myth: New Evidence for Toppled Civilizations and Biblical Tales

Space.com ^ | November 13, 2001 | Robert Roy Britt

[Question_Assumptions]

An obsession with the end of the world provides the legs on which modern-day terrorism stands, Peiser argues.

Do they mean an obsession like the doom and gloom global warming obsession that environmentalists have?

[JmyBryan]

Nothing like an apocalypse to start apocalypticism.

FYI - literal translation: lifting of the veil

[2sheep]

>>>"I would not be surprised if the notorious rituals of human sacrifice were a direct consequence of attempts to overcome this trauma," he says of the South American impact craters. "Interestingly, the same deadly cults were also established in the Near East during the Bronze Age."

Hmmm.  Things fall out of the sky and great evil abounds.  Sounds like Gen 6, Rev 12 and as in the days of Noe.  Luke 17:26.

Revelation 12:9  And the great dragon was cast out*, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

906. *ballo
ballo bal'-lo

a primary verb; to throw (in various applications, more or less
violent or intense):--arise, cast (out), X dung, lay, lie, pour, put
(up), send, strike, throw (down), thrust. Compare 4496.
See Greek 4496

[Cleburne]

Hmm, doubt I accept the idea of this supposed comet storm fitting in to ancient flood stories (including the one I subscribe to, namely, that of Noah as we know it), though other stories found in various cultures could work into it, especially those of dispersion. I find the ideas on human sacrifice and terrorism a bit dubios and rather silly, though-it might work for those with an immediate or near immediate memory of the event, but people thousands of years later-I doubt it. And I am not aware of any Muslim groups using doomsday ideas to scare up converts. Green liberals yes, Muslims no. But I may be wrong (that twould be novel..)

[blam]

Thanks for the heads up. We FReepers have had this all worked out for a couple of years now. (Time to find Atlantis and the origin of the Leprachauns.) If you're interested in this, some good books to read on the subject are, Cosmic Winter, Clube and Napier; Exodus to Arthur, Mike Baillie and Catastrope, forgot the author. I expect this sort of 'stuff' has happened a number of times to human civilizations. The tree ring data indicates that some serious things have occured on earth in just the last 10k years alone. Five serious incidents to be exact. It was in the 2200-2300BC period that Egyptian records indicate that people were eating their children. (Terrible times indeed)

[blam]

"And I am not aware of any Muslim groups using doomsday ideas to scare up converts. Green liberals yes, Muslims no. But I may be wrong (that would be novel..)"

Didn't Mohammad appear and the Muslim religion begin in about 500ad, many centuries after these cosmic events. Albeit, the tree rings indicate a serious event in 540AD. (The 540AD event was probably a comet that landed in the Celtic Sea)

[blam]

This is an illustration of the Comet/swastica reference.

[blam]

More comet/swasticas

[RightWhale]

That's an interesting graphic. Some people believe that when one is a state of enlightenment of some kind swastikas appear on the skin. There was one fellow who had them all over his body.

[blam]

"There was one fellow who had them all over his body."

Naturally occurring?

[2sheep]

The swastika of course is the emblem of the U.N. council on racism, probably because the U.N. IS racist.  It is an ancient symbol of Luciferian sun god worship and is found in cultures around the world.

[RightWhale]

Naturally occurring?

I suppose they are natural if you think the correct thoughts rightly. He started with none, then became enlightened and one appeared. As he grew more enlightened, more appeared. Eventually he was covered with them. Evidently several people have been able to produce at least one, but I don't know if anyone is capable of doing this in the modern age.

[Darth Reagan]

doubt I accept the idea of this supposed comet storm fitting in to ancient flood stories

Isn't one of the more popular explanations for the flood the one dealing with the flooding of the Black Sea over the Bosphorus, thereby causing the dispersion of the Indo-European peoples? I saw a good documentary on this on Discovery/History/TLC, but I can't remember the date for this event.

[DreamWeaver]

Bump

[the-ironically-named-proverbs2]

Eccl 1:9-11
9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

Rev 16:21
21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

Job 38:22-23
22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

[oceanperch]

Well safe to say they are not toppling here in Oregon this a.m..

[oceanperch]

I just had a flash soon as I wrote that of one toppling through the roof then my mind changed it to perhaps one in the yard (major find being a rock hound).
The good Lord has a way of setting me straight hard and fast when I get to mouthy. Sorry God.

[blam]

We already have a national ID, it's called DNA mapping.