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There's a reason that most ancient cultures have worldwide flood legends, you know. I remember in our Spanish class we had to read a legend similar to a lot of things...about people who encountered a giant serpent, which spat water out of its mouth until the whole world was flooded, the people had to flee to a lone mountaintop, they would send out a dove to see if there was any dry land anywhere, and when they finally descended they all magically spoke different languages. Now THAT'S a lot of stories in one legend.

Fortunately the Holy Spirit revealed the truth on these matters or else it would be one big answerless mystery lost to time.

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old comment by Anon-e-moose

"There's a reason that most ancient cultures have worldwide flood legends, you know"

You know, the ancient Chinese don't however. And their civilisation existed before supposed YECers claim the Earth was 'created'; it existed after, certainly during said supposed 'worldwide' flood, and they were sticklers for record keeping (natch, which is why we know so much about them)- so why isn't there word one of such a cataclysmic, civilisation-annihilating event in their records, pray tell...?

...but then, you don't know about that. Because the non-annihilation of the ancient Chinese at that time would in turn annihilate your beloved Bible, and thus your entire 'beliefs'.

The phrase from Sun Tzu's "The Art of War":

'Know your enemy and know yourself, and you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles'

Exists for a reason.

...oh, and how dare you use as a screename that of one of the best characters in anime:

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...however, considering the use of Christian imagery by Gainax in "Neon Genesis Evangelion", you're going to wish you hadn't.

old comment by Horsefeathers

"There's a reason that most ancient cultures have worldwide flood legends, you know."

Yes. I do know.

They have such floods because, before drilling technology, people tended to live near water you idiot. When there's enough water to provide for a group, town, culture or entire civilization then that water is likely large enough to flood on occasion.

Given that most people of the time would have never gone beyond a few miles of where they were born, a large flood would certainly seem as if the "whole world" had been flooded.

"Fortunately the Holy Spirit revealed the truth on these matters or else it would be one big answerless mystery lost to time."

Yes. One big "answerless mystery" to anyone who doesn't have any damn brains. To everyone else it's not so mysterious at all.

old comment by Reynardine

Actually, that is called the late Pleistocene/Holocene meltdown, aka global warming. When Glacial Lake Agassiz, Glacial Lake Missoula, and assorted glacier-pent bodies of water were undammed around the world, they not only washed away everything in their paths; sea levels rose measurably around the world, causing catastrophic marine incursions into (quite possibly) the Eastern Mediterranean, the North Sea (drowning Doggerland), the Persian Gulf (drowning the former course of the Shatt al Arab), possibly the Red Sea and the Sea of Japan, the lower course of the Amazon, and more, besides fairly swiftly inundating the former coastal areas of the Netherlands, Bengal, and Florida. Could we do it again? Yep. Greenland could well have a Glacial Lake Agassiz beneath pent beneath its swiftly melting ice, and let's not even think about Antarctica! If it happens, though, these Bible-thumping climate deniers will claim "Gahd" did it because we all liked sex too much.

old comment by breakerslion

"There's a reason that most ancient cultures have worldwide flood legends, you know."

I like these: http://dqhall.com/atrahasis/tablets.htm

Two explanations are put forth to explain their less-exaggerated similarity to the Noah story.

1. Satan invented a time machine, went back in time, and placed these tablets where they would later be found.(Satan presumably did this by trial and error, riding his time machine back and forth into the future until he saw them dug up.) He did this to discredit the Wholly Wurd of the Babble.

2. Plagiarism.

Guess which explanation I prefer?

I also like the version where Noah's impossible and unseaworthy ship breaks apart when it begins to float because Noah forgot that God told him to invent duct tape too.

old comment by Anon-e-moose

As for 'Floods', what about the ancient Egyptians, who - along with the ancient Chinese - with their continuous recorded history, never experienced a cataclysmic civilisation-annihilating event? Indeed, if 'twere not for floods, the ancient Egyptians would've been annihilated way before that in the Bible.

The annual flooding of the Nile was essentially the basis of the Egyptian civilisation, as the fertile silt deposited on the rich agricultural land on the Nile's banks ensured the continuation of food production.

No flood, no food. No ancient Egypt. They existed after that described in the Bible; certainly before. And during. You do the maths.

@Comrade Potatovich

Sorry 'bout that. On the other hand, like I say, should this Raptard ever hear about the genre-defining series by Gainax - and aforementioned Christian imagery therein (has this idiot never seen the slogan on the 'NERV' logo, for Shinji's sake?!) - then methinks this Retardian will drop said screename like a plugsuit with a skidmark in it. XP X3

...and 'Rei-ge'? I like the cut of your pun jib, sir!

@Swede

Y'gotta love how Kosuke Fujishima used the idea of Yggdrasil as a huge cosmic hypercomputer that controls reality, in his manga/anime "Ah! My Goddess"; also how he incorporated the three Norns in this, one of the finest 'harem' scenarios since "Tenchi Muyo": Belldandy, the quintessential 'Yamato Nadeshiko'; Urd the smokin' hot seductress (via her Demon side, natch) and (al)chemist; Skuld the halfpint but genius engineer.

So many Scandinavians I've seen on the internet have felt pride about how Norse mythology/legends have been used in this way - in manga/anime - to showcase the best of their ancient culture, which still has great power today (as does Arthurian legends - and how such is used in 'pop culture' - with we Brits: Sabre in the visual novel/anime "Fate/Stay Night", for example).

...but, post-Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto" - the nearest thing has been the Franco-Japanese production "The Mysterious Cities of Gold" - I wish there could be an anime of Mayan mythology & legends today, using their 'World Tree' stories as a basis; and their leaders: '18 Rabbit', and the founder, Kinich Yax Kuk'mo.

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