Different Take;

[neutral_site]

I've been pondering this a lot lately.

Right now, I'm thinking that we had ancestors who were VERY intelligent..maybe so much as to have nuclear weapons, aircraft, and other modern technologies.

Secondly, I'm thinking these humans went extinct...either through a massive world war, a natural disaster, or a mix. A few survived, and these few tried to restart civilization, but in a generation or two all their knowledge had died out.

No, I have no timeline. It's just a theory that I've been fiddling with, and pieces of the past seem to fit.

Take care y'all.

[Moon]

Graham Hancock also thinks pretty much the same. Other researchers and authors do think there was once a great civilization that mysteriously vanished. One reason given was a catastrophic natural disaster, and others include a devastating nuclear war.

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Graham Hancock also thinks pretty much the same. Other researchers and authors do think there was once a great civilization that mysteriously vanished. One reason given was a catastrophic natural disaster, and others include a devastating nuclear war.

@merc:
Well, when you mix in the ancient Indian text, some of the vitrified stone, and then some of the apparent "hot spots" around the globe.....
here's the additional rub:
look at how much humans have accomplished in "just" 10k years. I say "just" because it's a relatively short amount of time. I mean, 2k years ago, Rome was virtually "us' without the motive power and electricity. Anyway, point being, given 100's of thousands of years?? There could be quite a few "rise and falls", and virtually no evidence other than stone work.

Look at us this very day: where we to disappear, the future archaeologists would think we really died off in the mid-20th century (mt rushmore) because we would leave very little if any lasting stonework or cave art

[Ace Rimmer]

I think it is extremely possible we were once an advanced civilization and were wiped out (perhaps several times), either by our own hand or naturally.

[neutral_site]

I think it is extremely possible we were once an advanced civilization and were wiped out (perhaps several times), either by our own hand or naturally.

Chernobyl gives a fascinating view of how fast nature reclaims a modern city.

Route 66 give a similar view of nature and highways, small towns.

Then, when you compound with how much of our current society is temporary: electronic records, cheap paper (no papyrus, no stone tablets), chemical images rather than paintings, coins being replaced with paper money...it is just so easy to see how our day would become a 'black hole' in future generations looking back.

[Ace Rimmer]

I like the series Life After People, it would be no time at all before there would be no trace of us, I agree, except for Mt. Rushmore, that would give people in the future something to ponder.

[Serene]

I like the series Life After People, it would be no time at all before there would be no trace of us, I agree, except for Mt. Rushmore, that would give people in the future something to ponder.

And the pyramids might still be standing....

[neutral_site]

yep, you guys get it.

Now, extrapolate the pyramids, mt. rushmore, and a few other odds and ends...and then try to pull the last 2,000 years out of it.

It's why when I watch the AA shows on the stoneworks, I wonder "where did they get the time, the food, the concepts...."

[Dylon]

I Would go so far to take this one step further. What if the UFO's we see are piloted by People from earth from 100-500 thousand years ago. I Mean Greys could just be a more advanced, More Organic Asimo. Im not saying that all UFO's are non ET's from 'a galaxy far far away' a few could indeed be that.

Image a Highly advanced people facing a world wide ELE (Extinction Level Event) They wouldnt stay, They would build Ships to take them away or even into Orbit, For example. Imagine 2 ships are built With the resources to rebuild their civilsation. 1 would is to be sent off to another Earth like planet or one very close too Earths Conditions, and one would remain to re-seed the Earth after an Ice age or something passes. Remember human History only goes back 10-15 thousand years and has records of people in Modern day Space suits and people coming down from space to teach us. Now, in 10000 years we have come a long way technology wise, but lets not get sidetracked. The best way to 'Teach' a Primitive society is to be a 'God'. Because everyone will do what you say, Learn what you teach and Build what you tell them.

If you are helping a civilisation advance you're not going to be teaching stone age people Space flight and nuclear physics, your going to be teaching them how to advance slowly with what they have, My Example would be Prometheus giving man fire.. now if that actually happened its one of the key things we needed as a race. We still use it today, weither its Sending man to the moon or crafting metals.
Anyways thats my Midnight rant

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I Would go so far to take this one step further. What if the UFO's we see are piloted by People from earth from 100-500 thousand years ago. I Mean Greys could just be a more advanced, More Organic Asimo. Im not saying that all UFO's are non ET's from 'a galaxy far far away' a few could indeed be that.

Image a Highly advanced people facing a world wide ELE (Extinction Level Event) They wouldnt stay, They would build Ships to take them away or even into Orbit, For example. Imagine 2 ships are built With the resources to rebuild their civilsation. 1 would is to be sent off to another Earth like planet or one very close too Earths Conditions, and one would remain to re-seed the Earth after an Ice age or something passes. Remember human History only goes back 10-15 thousand years and has records of people in Modern day Space suits and people coming down from space to teach us. Now, in 10000 years we have come a long way technology wise, but lets not get sidetracked. The best way to 'Teach' a Primitive society is to be a 'God'. Because everyone will do what you say, Learn what you teach and Build what you tell them.

If you are helping a civilisation advance you're not going to be teaching stone age people Space flight and nuclear physics, your going to be teaching them how to advance slowly with what they have, My Example would be Prometheus giving man fire.. now if that actually happened its one of the key things we needed as a race. We still use it today, weither its Sending man to the moon or crafting metals.
Anyways thats my Midnight rant

The God of the Abrahamic religions seems ideally suited to be "manlike" with manlike emotions and temper but 'god-like' powers......and picking 'his' people?? What true god does that?? That's a man-emotion.

so, the Abrahamic God (god of the christians, jews, islam) certainly seems to be either a man or an alien very much like a man.