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Topic: That boat don't float
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Percy
Member Posts: 18307 From: New Hampshire Joined: 12-23-2000 Member Rating: 3.2
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Re: anchor stones away ...
| greentwiga writes: The first line says gopher wood (Stalks) and the second line says reeds, a typical Hebrew method of writing things in two ways. |
Somebody ought to tell all those guys looking for the ark in the mountains of Turkey that they should be looking for reeds, not wood.  My NRSV Bible says "cypress wood" and footnotes it as being of uncertain meaning. --Percy
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hooah212002
Member Posts: 3183 Joined: 08-12-2009
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Message 272 of 453 (562434)
05-28-2010 6:48 PM
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Could have sworn I debunked this "reed ark" already....
See Message 198. You {greentwiga} haven't successfuly refuted my response.
"A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way"
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Dr Jack
Member (Idle past 179 days) Posts: 3507 From: Leicester, England Joined: 07-14-2003
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Still not reeds
The first line does not say gopher wood (Stalks) it says gopher wood (wood). What "gopher" means no-one knows, but the wood bit means wood, it does not mean "reeds" - as noted by the Creationist source I linked in the last post.I have no idea what second line you are referring to? The next line says "And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits." Again, no mention of
reeds. What Bible verse are you referencing? Is it just me, or is nothing more striking about "literalists" than how far from literal their reading of the Bible is?
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Granny Magda
Member Posts: 2380 From: UK Joined: 11-12-2007
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Re: anchor stones away ...
Hi CS,Those are indeed pretty damn impressive. The Aztecs used to use a similar set-up as a kind of hydroponic garden. Nonetheless, what I see is a floating platform with some small shacks on it, not a floating zoo with three levels full of rooms. I wouldn't like to keep an elephant on one. Mutate and Survive
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Coyote
Member (Idle past 180 days) Posts: 6117 Joined: 01-12-2008
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Re: anchor stones away ...
| I wouldn't like to keep an elephant on one. |
An elephant? That's no problem. But what about the dinosaurs we are assured by some that cavorted about with Noah & co.? Q. What's harder than getting a pregnant Brontosaurus into the ark?A. Getting a Brontosaurus pregnant in the ark! (Noah! Make them stop. I'm getting seasick!) Edited by Coyote, : speeling Edited by Coyote, : No reason given.
Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Granny Magda
Member Posts: 2380 From: UK Joined: 11-12-2007
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Re: anchor stones away ...
Hi Greentwiga,| Well, that word 'rooms' is actually a word that means erect and is a form of the word that means reeds. |
Where are you getting that from? Strong's has it as being from the word qen, meaning nest, or figuratively, room. | The word for wood is also translated stalks, and reeds fit the word stalks. |
I think you are rather over-egging that; quote:
Definition
tree, trees, woodNASB Word Usage
carpenters* (4), framework (1), gallows (9), handle (1), logs (1), shaft (3), stalks (1), stick (8), sticks (3), timber (19), timbers (5), tree (74), trees (71), wild* (1), wood (111), wooden (6).
Source; http://strongsnumbers.com/hebrew/6086.htm | Also, the only other floating craft called an ark was made of reeds. |
Was it? Do tell. | Furthermore, wood boats were only caulked at the seams with tar. The ancient reed boats and even modern reed objects of the area are coated inside and out with a mixture of tar and pitch. |
Either that or the author of Gen 6:14 wasn't particularly concerned with the details of ship construction. | Large craft could have several stories. |
Can you provide an example? Mutate and Survive
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greentwiga
Member (Idle past 1501 days) Posts: 213 From: Santa Joined: 06-05-2009
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Re: Could have sworn I debunked this "reed ark" already....
The Tigris was longer than Ra II. What is more important is that we forgot much of the trade secrets used by the Sumerians. The built standard sizes, the 100 and the 300. The bills of lading that we have for a single ocean going ship show it must have been of considerable size. The stayed in the water for considerable times. We have tar chips that have impressions of reeds on one side and barnacles on the other. I am not claiming that the standard size was 300 cubits, just that they were large and sturdy.
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greentwiga
Member (Idle past 1501 days) Posts: 213 From: Santa Joined: 06-05-2009
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Re: anchor stones away ...
Google search for Iraqi marsh arab reed mosques. that is the closest I can come to modern examples of tall reed structures on reed rafts. Otherwise we would have to look at the giant greek and roman barges that had several stories above the boat part.
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hooah212002
Member Posts: 3183 Joined: 08-12-2009
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Re: Could have sworn I debunked this "reed ark" already....
Source please? Your assertion means fuck all to me.
"A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way"
-Carl Sagan
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hooah212002
Member Posts: 3183 Joined: 08-12-2009
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Re: anchor stones away ...
| Google search for Iraqi marsh arab reed mosques. |
How's about YOU do the google search and back up YOUR claims. Everyone else here has done so to debunk your hairbrained ass idea, you could at least put in a smidgeon of the same effort.
"A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way"
-Carl Sagan
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greentwiga
Member (Idle past 1501 days) Posts: 213 From: Santa Joined: 06-05-2009
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Re: anchor stones away ...
You mention 7064 as being nest or compartments. Compare that to 7070 (strongs) where the similar word is reeds. Strongs claims the word is from a different word, also meaning erect, but the Schocken Bible translates it as reeds, not rooms. The relationship is close enough and the language is often from such ancient sources, that reed is also a reasonable interpretation.
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greentwiga
Member (Idle past 1501 days) Posts: 213 From: Santa Joined: 06-05-2009
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Re: anchor stones away ...
Please, I have responded reasonably to you.Here is one site: http://www.bibleorigins.net/ReedHutShrinesMesopotamian.html It seemed well researched.
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hooah212002
Member Posts: 3183 Joined: 08-12-2009
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Re: anchor stones away ...
You're NOT new here, so I don't feel as though I should have to tell you how shit works. Is the site you spammed me where you got your information from? I shouldn't have to search through it to find the info you provided. You need to qualify your link with the data you feel is pertinent to your argument.| Please, I have responded reasonably to you. |
Bullshit you have. Edited by hooah212002, : No reason given.
"A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way"
-Carl Sagan
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greentwiga
Member (Idle past 1501 days) Posts: 213 From: Santa Joined: 06-05-2009
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Re: anchor stones away ...
Scroll down and see the huge communal meeting hall made totally out of reeds. Also note the carvings denoting ancient reed shrines.I have kept my responses to the subject and never gotten personal. Disagree with my points to your hearts content, but please don't be personally derogatory.
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hooah212002
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Re: anchor stones away ...
| Scroll down and see the huge communal meeting hall made totally out of reeds. |
How many "kinds" do you suppose that would hold? | Also note the carvings denoting ancient reed shrines. |
The link you showed me, they were speculating that they were reed shrines. | your BS link writes: Could Ea/Enki's shrine have been rectangular too ? Perhaps the earliest shrines were made of reeds or marsh grasses and later of mudbrick ? |
| your BS link writes: Another reed hut shrine (?) with totem poles and cattle with calves |
*note the question marks because they don't know and are speculating. You fell for the specualtion. Yep, those could withstand the sea conditions necessary for a global flood AND hold all the animal kinds. | but please don't be personally derogatory. |
Would you like me to become personally derogatory? Because I sure as hell haven't yet. i'm calling you out on your bullshit. I'm sorry if you can't handle it. Wait, no, I'm not sorry.
"A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way"
-Carl Sagan
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