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<a href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/ark_hunt_020830.html" target="_blank">Space.com article</a>

Amos

Silly guys, I could have saved them some money.

Ark builders are people of faith who faithfully contribute 10 % of their time towards self-reflection in relation to their destiny here on earth, and they must do this along the lines of a religious paradigm.

The accumilated data presented by religion is absorbed and retained in the subconscious mind where it becomes the vessel needed to keep us afloat when the involutionary floodgates open that will end in the tempest of human life.

Up until the recent medical revolution this was called involutionary melancholia which was involutional because it was persistent while not situation related. In other words, the sign of Jonah arrived despite the fact that he was on a paid fare and the storm intensified while he was asleep below the surface of human relations.

The flood is equal to the Grand Inquisition wherein is presented "all that we have and all that we pretent to be" (the flood), in answer to the question "who am I and what is my purpose here on this earth." The answer to this question will be that we are non-rational beings by nature first (and therefore retain only "one of each" in the ark) and that our faculty of reason is second to us by our imagination only (just opposite to "cogito ergo sum").

So the flood is just a very effective parable to describe the transformation of the human mind.

Bible Humper

Hahahahaha!

OMFG, I can just imagine the people who were commissioned to build and launch this satellite trying to keep a straight face while their client was chattering all excitedly about finding the big boat that all the animals lived on!

Amos, no surprise that you found this legend to be a parable describing mental states, you find hidden metaphors for the id, ego and superego in the most unlikely places.

On the other hand, using your methodology for discerning transcendant metaphysical revelations from seemingly mundane sources, I found that the political cartoons in today's newspaper contained equally profound parables regarding the floodgates of our consciousness.

Keep up the good work, we love ya anyways!

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Sephiroth

Mt. Ararat? I thought that the idea of the ark being there was already disproven.

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Elaborate

Greetings from your friendly local lurker!
I recently saw a history channel program on the subject, and they showed a satellite photo of teh "anomaly" to some satelllite photo analysts. Two said it was a rock, three said it was possibly man-made, and another said it was inconlusive. And this had a six-inch resolution mind you!

Amos

It was, but each generation new science must regenerate the hope of the faithfull.

Amos

Would that in itself not be a good reason to built an ark?

The point is that the more data we stuff into our mind the more confusing it will become and the greater the flood will be when at last we say "Oh no more, no more" (from Coriolanus).

Other solutions are suicide, drugs, booze, atheism, existentialism, "the ahuum position" and of course the well known hormone (yin/yang)therapy. Oh yes, we also can become walking stiffs like Emmanuel Kant.

Gregg

I doubt that this is what the Jewish priests intended when they adapted the story of Gilgamesh for their sacred scriptures, but whatever.

Actually, when the flood story is taken literally, it loses its power as myth. The thing that is overlooked is that in the story, water represents Chaos (because the Sea was, and is, a power humankind cannot control). So when the windows of heaven are opened and the waters of the great Deep are unleashed, this is not merely a big flood--it represents Order being overtaken by Chaos, with Noah's faith being the only thing protecting him from annihilation. It's a pretty powerful image, one that the Gospel writers drew on when showing Jesus calming the storm and walking on the water.

Many "literal flood/Ark" advocates point to widespread flood myths with similar components as evidence that some singular event like this took place in the distant past. Actually, I think it has more to do with the fact that 90% of the earth's surface is covered with water. It would be odd if widely separated cultures HADN'T developed similar myths about a hero, with the help of the gods, saving his people from the forces of Chaos, represented by the sea.

Amos

I always thought that the opposite is true and that water repesent harmony and peace but only if we can walk on it. To walk on water is equal to goind by our intuition and so Peter needed to keep his eyes on Jesus (instead of the land) to be able to walk on water. Our intuition is the Celestial Sea and is where there is harmony and peace (milk and honey in purgatory first).

From this also follows that it was wrong to part the waters to get to the promised land. Rather we must walk on top of the water and into the promised land.

Cipher Girl

What an absolutely incredible waste of money. You'd think with a 6-inch resolution for the optical system on the satellite a skilled photo-interpeter would easily be able to say what they are looking at. It seems the people who are searching really don't want to admit that there is no ark on the the mountain. <img src="confused.gif" border="0">