There’s a never-ending audience for mystical bullshit. Hence the continuing “documentaries” on the Bermuda Triangle.
You seem…angry. 
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Modnote: Please none of that, he’s already been modnoted.
Yes En Sabah Nur (more commonly known as Apocalypse) is ancient. He is at least five thousand years old. I hope this answers the OP’s question.
Yep. Gardner covered that too.
A video that touches on the long and dark history of pseudoscience surrounding Atlantis:
Doesn’t the guy straight up say at the beginning of the series that he is NOT a scientist and to take what he says with a grain of salt?
I mean, he’s just a reporter right?
I watched a few episodes. I didn’t find his conclusions very compelling but I did find the unanswered questions interesting.
I am very curious as to which specific questions you found compelling, and whether they are actually “unanswered” by anyone, or just presented that way in the documentary.
It worked out so well for Thor Heyerdahl.
Well, it’s been a minute. And I don’t remember very well bc I was never that invested in the show.
But I do remember they had a cylinder type object that had perfectly carved out lines around it and evenly spaced.
The mystery was how were those lines carved considering they had no metals (or anything) at the time strong enough to make said carvings on this particularly hard surface.
Hey, thanks for the thread! Netflix recommended this to me, and i have some interest in ancient civilizations, so i watched about 20 minutes. I ran into some red flags, and stopped, but i was vaguely curious is it might be worth continuing. I guess not.
Without knowing the specific artifcat in question, we can’t really assess any of the claims made about it. It wasn’t the pillar at Gobekli Tepe was it? Do you remember what part of the world it was from?
Yep. Gardner covered that too.
Also Lemuria. Why hasn’t that had a resurgence? It’s manifestly stupider than Atlantis, so it’s perfect for today’s crowd.
Geocultural bias, I suppose. Atlantis being between Europe and the Americas and coming from Plato, it catches more eyeballs from Westerners than Lemuria/Mu out much farther away in the middle of nowhere and from some 1800’s professors nobody has heard about.
But give it time. The woo shall rise (ha!) again.
Every time I see the meme with him in it, I wonder why he’s cosplaying a Centauri.
Lemuria also has the problem of being named after lemurs which are too cute to be taken seriously. Still, it’s not as bad as Mu which is a profoundly silly name.
This is a well-developed technique among people wanting to undermine scientific credibility. Its a leading question and closely related to JAQing off - or Just Asking Questions tactic.
I haven’t watched too much of this series - I can’t stomach it - but it and other shows like Oak Island, constantly raise these misdirections as questions, often in voiceovers, to push you toward a certain path of thinking, and to imply that there are no other options - e.g. ‘they found a piece of pottery covered in dirt? Could this have been dropped by the Knights templar, during a secret mission to bury the Nazi Gold?’ Well, yes, its a piece of pottery but there are about 5 million more likely explanations. By putting the question that way, they skip over any more plausible explanation or question to ask.
They also like the ‘I don’t know, therefore no one knows and all possible answers have equal legitimacy’ type of questioning.
They are literally teaching their audience to be stupid. One seductive sugar-coated bite at a time.
Oddly enough, commercial political malware providers quickly glommed onto the reality that people who will buy that kind of “reasoning” will also buy things like Limbaugh, Hannity and Trump. And here we are.
This is no mystery at all.
You don’t need a harder substance than a rock to carve a rock. Rocks are made of smaller bits joined together, and can be carved by abrasion and wearing down. You know, just like, oh, all the mountains that used to exist and no longer do.
That, and early metals weren’t even the hardest things to carve with that were out there, anyway. You know what’s harder than those metals? Other rocks. You know what’s harder than bronze? Obsidian. You know, the stone lots of ancient people used for tools and weapons. Say, how do you think they shaped their stone tools?
So that’s two different ways that little impossible cylinder story would be utter bullshit. People like Hancock are expert bullshitters. Don’t fall for it.
Yeah. I have personally shaped rocks with other rocks. It’s easy. You can pretty much always scratch a rock with another piece of the same kind of rock, for instance. What a dumb question to ask.
Well I googled it at the time. And according to the real experts, it is true that it is a mystery how the carvings were made.
The artifact is a small cylinder that could fit in the palm of your hand. The with perfectly spaced small lines wrapped around it.
It’s the equivalent of engraving a wedding ring 1000’s of years ago. Only except, instead of gold, it’s something much harder.
Again, I just find the mystery itself interesting. I don’t believe any of the things the man in question is pushing.