Hmm

I don't know whether to dare post to this thread or not, for the simple reason the whole premise of this thread seems to be treading into dangerous areas for this forum.

A while ago in another thread I tried to make the point about how we should be very wary of taking some other persons translation/interpretation of passages from ancient scriptures. All to often people seem to take as unchallenged truth when one self proclamed prophet or another claims that some ancient writing says (A) or (B). The number of times I have heard people claim that the Book of Revelation says x or y I just felt I had to read it for myself. Needless to say my interpretation of what I read was totally different to their's (but that is for another forum not here). Of course I was not looking to prove an earlier preconception of what it was all about but rather trying to see how such a story could have been dreamt by someone living in that time and culture given what was know of the world at that time. Of course even then I was limited because I could only read it in English and not in the form it was originally written therefore I fully accept that my source was already flawed by having been translated by someone else.

Therefore where in any ancient book is there clear reference to beings that travel to this world of our aboard vessels which are purely mechanical devices, devoid of spiritual or magical power need to make them fly.

Any references to Gods Demons Angels - flying charriots giant birds or whatever could be just that and nothing more. People back then believed in believed in flying charriots as well as dragons and people who were half man half animal. This is myth not science and to try and say that a flying charriot must have been a spacecraft or a giant bird was an aeroplane is going to far - that is not deductive reasoning it is fantasy, just like many of those stories of the past were if not fantasy then dreams and delusions.

So I say again show me where in any ancient book in the ORIGINAL TEXT is describes any advanced vehicle in sufficient detail that it is quite clear that it could not be the description of some mythical animal. That requires an accurate description of it shape, means of propulsion, how its occupants controlled it and navigated it even down to how many decks doors hatches and windows it had. Then and only then I might believe we are talking about a spacecraft and not a dragon.

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