Okay, Ive seen it like 3 times now,, amazing , simply amazing feats of design, engineering, construction, craftsmanship. Cutting stone so precisely is amazing in itself, but to believe they had such crude tools & still managed it is beyond reasonable.

Here,, have a look at these cuts. some are beat up pretty bad, but some are still sharp & what we are looking at ( well,, the ones that blow me away) are the inside cuts. Given a perfect chisel, thats pretty much impossible in wood, let alone hard rock.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com...

Well,, I think that stuff is just fascinating. Questions abound, cut stones, fitted so perfectly an X-acto blade wont fit, but Im sposed to believe they did that with a bronze chisel & a stone mallet.. riiiight,,
I believe in God, with absolute certainty, not because I was taught to, but because of things in my life. I dont care who or when or how things got done, that doesnt change,

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 10/14/12 at 07:31:39:


Would you? I'd take that secret to my grave as well. People are still talking about it today.

(The secret was a dozen Mexican's outside of Home Depot)


--Steve

There are so many "things" I can't begin to wrap my understanding around. Just because I can't grasp it, I feel I'd be very disingenuous, or even more self absorbed, if I used that reasoning to assign doubt. I live where its very dark at night (duh, I think most of us do) where city lights have very little influence on the heavens above......
As I glance at the stars, often, I just can't begin to believe, or grasp, that random chance is the cause for how it all works together, the chance (a hard number) would have so many zeros I don't feel I could ever get (read) to the end zero in the equation in my life time if that was all I ever did. And to view nature and the season here most definitely seems to have an answer to a riddle associated with it, and I dare say its for my benefit too!
I love to think of this picture in my mind when I get all uppity thinking I can/need to solve all that riddles mankind (myself). A small butterfly as it flaps its wings will, if we had the capacity/ability to measure it, cause an effect 180 degrees around the globe from where the action took place.....mercy. With that in mind, I reflect on how my actions impart energy into this world. I must confess, most of it would not be in harmony with it, but I pray just understanding that is key in beginning to understand how I can become one with the true force in this universe......

Serowbot wrote on 10/13/12 at 22:17:38:


One way religion can take a shot at it:

The bible says man and the world was created perfect by God.  Man then disobeyed God and became susceptible to death and decay.  

Since that time there has been a devolution in mankind's capabilities due to the compounding of many tiny errors in DNA replication. (like photocopying a copy)

Since we're that much farther from the original, of course we don't have the brains and capabilities that the ancients did.  If the antediluvians  lived 800+ years, that's a lot of time to accumulate knowledge and skill.  


I know, this belongs on the Tall Table, but Serowbot started it  

The ruins at Puma punku in my opinion reveals more about the ancient level of technology, and shatters the idea that humans 4000-10,000+ years ago were cavemen. The stonework there makes me imagine there was alot going on on earth before humans!

Allow me to throw some ideas on the table (popping knuckles like a pianist)...

Visible stellar objects...   even a few 100 years ago there was no pollution or city lights to obscure the heavens at nite.   If you've ever camped in the high Sierras or Rockies you already know the nite sky is hardly what you would call black!  This would have been true no matter where on earth you lived.  So except for size and shear numbers of objects, what was visible then, would be different from today.

Humans...   is it possible we are VERY sophisticated robots and DNA is the unique individual program for each of us?  The technological scale involved is so far beyond our current comprehension that it is scarcely even fathomable.

Alien technology...   try to think where we were 100 years ago, and imagine our level of technology today.   Now try to guess what we will experience 100 years in the future?  How about a 1000 years?   The answer is you can't .  This is because knowledge & technology, and our ability to understand it is based on what you know at the time. In other words, we simply don't have the wherewithal to know what we don't yet know.   Now imagine an alien technology that has a MILLION year head start on us! They possess knowledge and technology that truly cannot be imagined.   Think about this...  if by some miracle one of our nuke subs went thru a time warp and drifted into the port of Lisbon, Portugal back during Columbus's day.   Their naval engineers and scientists would be extremely curious about this mysterious "advanced vessel", but would have no means to duplicate it.   Why?  Set aside the electrical and metallurgy involved, they would have no knowledge of atomic theory; let alone how a nuclear reactor works!   There's no way to hyper-jump the gap; it's a bridge too far.