New Posts For Thread: They are lying to us.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43991/28885331/They_are_lying_to_us.On another thread I stated that since we cannot check the experimental and philosophical reasoning used by our scientists to arrive at their conclusions, we have to accept them at face value on faith. For this I was lambasted by my scientific type fI got a virus once while I was connected to Beliefnet. It tried to sell Viagra to everybody in my address book. And then did it again every few months. It was an old computer and I juked it.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43991/28885331/They_are_lying_to_us.?post_id=517420795#517420795I got a virus once while I was connected to Beliefnet. It tried to sell Viagra to everybody in my address book. And then did it again every few months. It was an old computer and I juked it.Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:07 -0500No, you just got a virus. Don't start posting that creepy paranoid conspiracy stuff. You're not that important.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43991/28885331/They_are_lying_to_us.?post_id=517415429#517415429No, you just got a virus. Don't start posting that creepy paranoid conspiracy stuff. You're not that important.Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:12:53 -0500You are screwing around. The important thing is that the Epic of Etana doesn't mention a spherical earth.Translations of ancient Hindu texts have been around for some time,Rig Veda translated by Ralph Griffith 1896.They are not "a recent type of Hindhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43991/28885331/They_are_lying_to_us.?post_id=517414947#517414947You are screwing around. The important thing is that the Epic of Etana doesn't mention a spherical earth.Translations of ancient Hindu texts have been around for some time,Rig Veda translated by Ralph Griffith 1896.They are not "a recent type of HindSun, 11 Mar 2012 14:58:00 -0500Classical Sumer ends with the rise of the Akkadian Empire in the 23rd century BC. The Sumerians were eventually absorbed into the Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian) population.Its the same place different time and you are hair splitting.Translations of anchttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43991/28885331/They_are_lying_to_us.?post_id=517413613#517413613Classical Sumer ends with the rise of the Akkadian Empire in the 23rd century BC. The Sumerians were eventually absorbed into the Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian) population.Its the same place different time and you are hair splitting.Translations of ancSun, 11 Mar 2012 14:19:37 -0500The Rig Veda does not describe a spherical earth. The aforementioned Hindu chauvinists deliberately misinterpret references to a circular earth as references to a spherical earth. Biblical inerrantists like to do the same thing. They don't (or shouldhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43991/28885331/They_are_lying_to_us.?post_id=517408249#517408249The Rig Veda does not describe a spherical earth. The aforementioned Hindu chauvinists deliberately misinterpret references to a circular earth as references to a spherical earth. Biblical inerrantists like to do the same thing. They don't (or shouldSun, 11 Mar 2012 11:43:35 -0500Yes I'm still ALTranslations of ancient Hindu texts have been around for some time,Rig Veda translated by Ralph Griffith 1896.The Epic of Etana (Sumerian) describes a flight above a spherical Earth.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43991/28885331/They_are_lying_to_us.?post_id=517407027#517407027Yes I'm still ALTranslations of ancient Hindu texts have been around for some time,Rig Veda translated by Ralph Griffith 1896.The Epic of Etana (Sumerian) describes a flight above a spherical Earth.Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:11:16 -0500It's not so much New Age nonsense as a recent type of Hindu chauvinism according to which all the major scientific discoveries of the West were originally made centuries or millennia earlier in ancient India.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43991/28885331/They_are_lying_to_us.?post_id=517404725#517404725It's not so much New Age nonsense as a recent type of Hindu chauvinism according to which all the major scientific discoveries of the West were originally made centuries or millennia earlier in ancient India.Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:59:01 -0500Hindu texts consistently describe the earth as a disk until the early centuries CE, when the Greek concept of a spherical earth was introduced.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43991/28885331/They_are_lying_to_us.?post_id=517404145#517404145Hindu texts consistently describe the earth as a disk until the early centuries CE, when the Greek concept of a spherical earth was introduced.Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:40:11 -0500CaduceusDo you still answer to AL?"Two thousand years before Pythagoras, philosophers in northern India had understood that gravitation held the solar system together, and that therefore the sun, the most massive object, had to be at its center."Wherhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43991/28885331/They_are_lying_to_us.?post_id=517404071#517404071CaduceusDo you still answer to AL?"Two thousand years before Pythagoras, philosophers in northern India had understood that gravitation held the solar system together, and that therefore the sun, the most massive object, had to be at its center."WherSun, 11 Mar 2012 09:38:22 -0500Brahmana literatureA spherical earth is recognized in the Shatapatha Brahmana (ca. 7th-6th century BC) and the Aitareya Brahmana composed around the same time, and in a later Sanskrit commentary Vishnu Purana.Aitareya Brahmana Sanskrit commentary Vishttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43991/28885331/They_are_lying_to_us.?post_id=517403149#517403149Brahmana literatureA spherical earth is recognized in the Shatapatha Brahmana (ca. 7th-6th century BC) and the Aitareya Brahmana composed around the same time, and in a later Sanskrit commentary Vishnu Purana.Aitareya Brahmana Sanskrit commentary VisSun, 11 Mar 2012 09:06:32 -0500