From: "Ronald 'More-More' Moshki" 

On Mar 30, 3:34 am, "ZenIsWhen"  wrote:
> "Martin Phipps"  wrote in message
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> > >Fromhttp://www.flood-myth.com
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> > General introduction
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> > There are six surviving versions of the Ancient Near East flood story
> > including the Genesis version. One of these versions, written
> > centuries before Genesis, is called the Epic of Atrahasis and clearly
> > describes the flood as a river flood. Later story tellers changed
> > "river" to "sea" and thus changed the local
river flood into an ocean
> > deluge. The ambiguous word for hills was mistranslated as mountains.
> > There were several such mistakes or mistranslations during
> > transmission of Noah's flood story.
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> > Noah's father Lamech was king of the Sumerian city-state Shuruppak, a
> > commercial center on the Euphrates River in what is now Iraq. Noah
> > also became king of Shuruppak. The ark was a commercial river barge
> > for hauling cargo on the Euphrates River. The river barge hauled wine,
> > beer, stone, lumber, textiles, oil, and livestock which was less than
> > 280 head of cattle, sheep, goats, and other domesticated animals.
> > There were no kangaroos, giraffes, elephants, lions, etc. on Noah's
> > cattle barge.
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> > About 2900 BC a freak thunderstorm caused the Euphrates River to rise
> > 15 cubits (22 feet) and it overflowed the levees. By the time Noah
> > recognized that the levees were about to be breached, it was too late
> > to evacuate his livestock to highground. He therefore boarded the
> > nearby river barge to ride out the storm. He had to cut the mooring
> > lines to prevent barge from heeling over in the rising river. The
> > runaway barge floated down the Euphrates River into the Persian Gulf
> > where it grounded in an estuary at the mouth of the river. This is
> > discussed and described in detail in the Noah's Ark book. Maps in the
> > book show the route taken by Noah's river barge.
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> > Noah was a wealthy land owner and a merchant or trade official for the
> > Shuruppak government before becoming king. The flood of 2900 BC did
> > not destroy Shuruppak. There were thousands of survivors of the flood
> > and Noah met some of them after the barge grounded. Some of the things
> > they talked about are quoted in surviving versions of the flood story.
> > Noah was no longer king and had to flee into exile. A dispute occurred
> > between Noah and his sons. His family separated and he never saw his
> > sons again. A map in the book shows where the sons went and the route
> > they took to get there. Noah got angry with his sons after being seen
> > naked. The reason why he got angry is explained in the book.
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> > The Noah's Ark book gives the exact location (within a few yards) of
> > Noah's altar where he offered a sacrifice after the barge grounded. It
> > is an archaeological site and has already been excavated by
> > archaeologists. The book describes in detail how the ark was probably
> > constructed using the technology of 2900 BC. It was much smaller and
> > shaped differently than it is usually described. The numbers in
> > Genesis 5 are deciphered in the book and compared with the numbers in
> > the Sumerian King List. The numbers were mistranslated. Methuselah did
> > not live to be 969 and Noah did not live to 950. Noah lived to be 83.
> > Methuselah was 85 when he died a few months after the barge grounded.
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> > The barge did not ground on a mountain. The mountains of Ararat were
> > mentioned in the original legend, but the ark did not ground there.
> > How the mountains of Ararat got involved is discussed at length in the
> > book. After the barge grounded, Noah, his wife, his daughter, and his
> > boatman traveled to a island where they lived in exile. The island is
> > a real island and is identified in chapter 5 of the Noah's Ark book.
> > Noah was an interesting man and several new facts about him are
> > discussed in the book
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> > Martin
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> OK.
> I have no doubt the biblical flood did not happen.
> Now, do you have ANY valid evidence that these claims are nothing more than
> a different fairy tale?
> "It says so in the book" is no different than "it says
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But Goddi/Gotti (god) said it, mang. Vishnu said it before JC, Zeus before Vishy.

Then Alla-Hashpipe came along, claiming to have been The Man all along.

"Oh, what a rush!"
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