And Then They Built An Ark

Hey Noah where did you say you parked that Ark? Scientists confirm historic massive flood, caused by climate change 8,200 years ago.

Which could explain the biblical myth of Noahs Ark and of course that other popular myth, the sinking of Atlantis.

The American 19th Century radical reformer, left wing Republican and Greenback activist , novelist and science fiction writer; Ingatius Donnelly popularized the idea of Atlantis after Platos short dissertation on it. Atlantis remains one of humanities most popular visions of a lost civilisation.

He also wrote Ragnarok, the Age of Fire and Gravel (1883), in which he proposed that a comet hit the earth in prehistoric times and destroyed a high civilization.

Well while I would not call the dinosaurs a high civilization, we have now found evidence that a comet hit the earth and caused their demise.

Love these radicals who go off on some other tangent, and while their social reforms become common place their wilder ideas are what get remembered.

But now with this computer model of a historic flood Donnelly's Diffusionist theory of Atlantis once again gains some credence.

And of course it gives an idea of what is coming as the polar ice caps, north and south, melt.

Ignatius Loyola Donnelly

(1831-1901)
Minnesota

Lawyer, politician, author, publisher, novelist, poet

Ignatius Donnelly was born in Philadelphia on November 3, 1831. "He graduated from the High School of Philadelphia at the age of nineteen, with high honors, and immediately commenced the study of law. He was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1853, and immediately commenced practice in that city . . . ." ["Hon. Ignatius Donnelly," in W.J. Arnold (ed.), The Poets and Poetry of Minnesota 151-161 (Chicago: S.P. Rounds, Books and Job Printers, 1964)]

Donnelly moved to Minnesota in 1857 and two years later was elected lieutenant governor (1860-1863). He was elected to Congress and served from 1863 to 1869). He served in the Minnesota Legislature various terms: 1874-78, 1887, 1891-93, and 1897. He died in Minneapolis, Minnesota on January 1, 1901; interment in Calvary Cemetery, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Ignatius Donnelly
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Ignatius Donnelly
Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography
(New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889)
(James Grant Wilson & John Fiske eds.)(6 vols.)

Prophets and Psychics: Ignatius Donnelly

Ignatius Donnelly

Ignatius Donnelly and the End of the World

At Shakespeare’s Grave
(Ignatius Donnelly Loq.)
A Poem by Irving Browne, another lawyer-poet
dedicated to Ignatius Donnelly

Poetry

Ignatius Donnelly, The Mourner's Vision, a Poem (Philadelphia: [s.n.], 1850)

Writings

Ignatius Donnelly, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (New York: Harper, 1882) (New York: Harper, modern rev. ed., 1949; Egerton Sykes ed.) (New York: Dover Publications, 1976) (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1981) [on-line text; edition unstated]

_____________, Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel (New York: D. Appleton, 1883) (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1883) (New York: University Books, 1970)

_____________, The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-called Shakespeare Plays (Chicago: R. S. Peale & Co., 1888)

_____________, Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century (Chicago: F.J. Schulte & Co., 1890) (pseud. Edmund Boisgilbert) (Boston: Arena Publishing Co., 1894) (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960; Walter B. Rideout ed.)

_____________, Doctor Huguet: A Novel (Chicago: F.J. Schulte & Co., 1891) (pseud. Edmund Boisgilbert)

_____________, The Golden Bottle, or, The story of Ephraim Benezet of Kansas (New York: D.D. Merrill Co., 1892)

_____________, The American People's Money (Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1895) (Westport, Connecticut: Hyperion Press, 1976)

_____________, The Cipher in the Plays, and on the Tombstone (Minneapolis: Verulam Pub. Co., 1899)

Bibliography

Martin Ridge, Ignatius Donnelly: Portrait of a Politician (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962) (Borealis Book, 1991)

Larry Richard Peterson, Ignatius Donnelly: A Psychohistorical Study in Moral Development Psychology (New York: Arno Press, 1982)

David D. Anderson, Ignatius Donnelly (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1980)

Oscar M. Sullivan, North Star Sage: The Story of Ignatius Donnelly (New York: Vantage Press, 1953)

Everett W. Fish, Donnelliana: An Appendix to "Caesar's Column:" Excerpts from the Wit, Wisdom, Poetry and Eloquence of Ignatius Donnelly Selected and Collated, with a Biography (Chicago: F.J. Schulte & Co., 1892)

William D. O'Connor, Mr. Donnelly's Reviewers (Chicago: Belford, Clarke and Co., 1889)

Bibliography: Articles

Ralph Harmon, Ignatius Donnelly and his Faded Metropolis, Minnesota History (September, 1936)

John D. Hicks, The Political Career of Ignatius Donnelly, 8 Mississippi Valley Historical Review 80-132 (June-September 1921)

Research Resources

Ignatius Donnelly Papers
Minnesota Historical Society
St. Paul, Minnesota

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GIVES NEW MEANING TO PANSPERMIA
Proposed ‘Moon Ark’ would shoot sperm into space to save the Earth

Josh K. Elliott

3/12/2021

The first humans walked on the moon in 1969. Will the last humans be born on the moon in 2969, after we've totally screwed up our own planet?

© NASA/Newsmakers Earth is shown from the moon during the Apollo 11 mission.

THIS PHOTO CHANGED HUMAN  CONCIOUSNESS 

AND GAVE BIRTH TO THE ECOLOGY MOVEMENT

That’s the thinking behind a new proposal from researchers at the University of Arizona, who are floating the idea of building a futuristic Noah's Ark-style complex on the moon.

The ark would be an underground facility staffed by robots, powered by the sun and stocked with loads of sperm, eggs, spores and seeds from 6.7 million species on Earth — just in case we totally kill ourselves and everything around us.

Read more: CN Tower-sized asteroid to pass Earth in fastest flyby of 2021

Researchers say such an ark would be a "modern global insurance policy" and a good investment in our future, especially since the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway is already seeing some wear and tear from climate change. The facility houses a catalogue of seeds from around the world, but does not include human or animal samples.

Lead engineer Jekan Thanga presented the Moon Ark idea to a gathering of experts, including NASA, at the IEEE Aerospace Conference earlier this month, where he described it in a 20-minute presentation.

Thanga says the moon would be a good place to set up a fully automated ark, because the moon is not susceptible to the same weather shifts that we see on our planet. It's simply a cold, dead, boring ball, and it's dense enough to repel solar radiation if we hide things below its surface. That makes it a good place to stockpile samples in cryogenically frozen capsules.

Video: What does it take to be an astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency?

Thanga cited a few of the ways we could easily screw things up on Earth, including our ongoing failure to reverse climate change and the potential for nuclear war.

"Earth is naturally a volatile environment," Thanga said in a news release from the university. "Because human civilization has such a large footprint, if it were to collapse, that could have a negative cascading effect on the rest of the planet."

He says the notion of launching millions of samples into space might sound daunting, but some "back-of-the-envelope calculations" suggest it could be done in about 250 rocket launches. It took 40 launches to build the International Space Station, he points out.

"It's not crazy big," Thanga said of the project. "We were a little bit surprised about that."

Of course, we'd have to send humans there to do the construction work.

NASA and its partners plan to send humans back to the moon as part of the Artemis program in 2024. The program could potentially lay the groundwork for future bases on the moon, both manned and unmanned, although the idea of building an ark is likely far down the road.

Read more: Take a look around Mars with Perseverance rover’s HD photo panorama

The moon pie-in-the-sky idea combines several cutting-edge or theoretical concepts to image a self-sufficient "ark" on the moon.

Researchers say the facility could be built in the empty lava tubes and pits underground, and it could be powered by solar panels on the moon's surface. Magnets could be used to keep the samples cryogenically frozen, and sphere-shaped robots (like droid BB-8 from Star Wars) could be used to maintain the facility. Everything would need to be designed to operate at low temperatures, but the cold could be a good thing for keeping the frozen samples stable.

The Moon Ark is simply a proposal at this point, and there are no plans to actually start building it.

The researchers acknowledge that they still need to investigate the idea a lot more before a full plan can be assembled.

They also did not lay out plans for restarting life in the distant future, if that becomes necessary.

Read more: SpaceX to launch first all-civilian flight into orbit by end of 2021

All that raises the question: Who will bring humanity back?

Will it be a few surviving Noahs who don't die on Earth? Or will it be aliens who stumble upon the facility in some far-distant future?

Perhaps we need to answer an even bigger question first: If we screw things up once on Earth, do we deserve to come back for a second chance

Bored with Sunday Service? Maybe Nudist Church Is Your Thing
Or even mass from the comfort of your driver's seat. No matter your lifestyle, there’s a way for you to convene with God in America.

AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM IS A HOME GROWN RELIGION WITH NO LINK TO EUROPEAN CHRISTIANITY
AND IT IS BASED ON THE BARNUM AND BAILEY AMERICANISM; THERE IS A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE 

PHOTOGRAPH: CYRIL ABAD
Visitors take a photo with an actor dressed as Jesus at the Holy Land Experience in Orlando, Florida.

A nudist church in Virginia where the pastor delivers sermons in his birthday suit. A drive-in church in Florida where parishioners can attend services from the comfort of their cars. A 500-foot-long, “Biblically accurate” reconstruction of Noah’s Ark in Kentucky. These wild and woolly corners of American Christianity are the focal points of French photographer Cyril Abad’s series In God We Trust.


While some two-thirds of Americans describe themselves as Christians, a declining number identify with any specific sect. In 2000, half of Americans belonged to a Protestant denomination; today, that number is down to 30 percent. Many of the rest—one in six Americans—consider themselves nondenominational. These unaffiliated worshippers are the ones targeted by the proliferating number of alternative churches and Christian recreational sites captured by Abad.

“Churches have adopted free-market principles to open up new niches in spiritual beliefs,” Abad says. “If you’re a surfer, there’s a church for Christian surfers. If you’re a biker, there’s a church for bikers. I’m less interested in big megachurches and more interested in these small churches designed to appeal to specific tribes.”

Abad sees these churches as a distinctly American phenomenon; there is no comparable phenomenon in France, he says. He spent almost a year researching churches and Christian-themed attractions all over America before settling on the seven included in the series, which he visited over the course of three visits to the US in 2017 and 2018. The most difficult to get permission to photograph was the Virginia nudist church; to make the parishioners more comfortable, Abad took off his own clothes while taking the photographs.

The series can certainly be funny, particularly the images of the Holy Land Experience in Orlando, a Biblical amusement park featuring a re-creation of ancient Jerusalem and daily reenactments of Jesus’s crucifixion. But Abad insists he doesn’t intend to ridicule the people who visit such attractions. “That’s why I don’t show people crying in the Holy Land Experience—I always show them from the back,” he says.

For Abad, the photographs are part of a longstanding interest in the sociology of religion. “I want people to be amused, but after that to be challenged and start asking deeper questions,” he says. Mocking is easy. Empathy—and understanding—are the hard part.

SEE  https://plawiuk.blogspot.com/search?q=NUDIST

SEE  https://plawiuk.blogspot.com/search?q=NAKED

SEE  https://plawiuk.blogspot.com/search?q=CHRISTIANITY


SEE  https://plawiuk.blogspot.com/search?q=AMERICAN+PROTESTANTISM

SEE  https://plawiuk.blogspot.com/search?q=NOAHS+ARK

Atlantis In Sardinia

Lost Continent' of Atlantis Stirs Debate; Scholars Gather to Debate Merits of Sardinia Theory

Ok add Sardinia to the list of possible sites for Atlantis including Spain,Crete, Cyprus, the Black Sea, Ireland, Bermuda Triangle etc.

See:

Atlantis Discovered

And Then They Built An Ark

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Albanian Atlantis

In response to my article Lost Tsunami Lost Atlantis where I said; Could this have been the origin of the Atlantis mythos/meme?

I got this response at Digg.

It sure could be. The eruption of the Etna volcano 8000 years ago caused the tsunami and destroyed many cities in the Mediterranean. Also, recently there have been some findings in Albania, that along the seacoast might have been a city in the form of a circle, which could have been destroyed from the tsunami at that time. Photographs from the satellite show that along the seacoast of Albania, near the city of Durres, there is shape of a perfect circle. And the most interesting fact is that the natives call the place "Taulantis", which derives from the Illiyrian tribe that lived in the region, Taulants.

Could this perhaps mean that the lost city of Atlantis was located in the nowadays Albanian seacoast, and its real name was Taulantis?

Would this maybe reveal the truth about the Atlantis (Taulantis)?

Here is a link that shows some photographs from the satellite and the perfect circle shape: http://www.atlantisinalbania.blogspot.com/

So now we can add Albania to our growing list of possible Atalantian sites.

See:

Atlantis

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The New Atlantis

In Malta they aren't waiting to find the real Atalantis they are building one of their own.

A megalithic temple under the sea

Atlantis: A computer-generated image of how the concrete megalithic temple will look in the proposed marine park.

A highly innovative marine tourist attraction out at sea is being proposed by a group of investors who include an operator in the fish farming industry, a hotelier and members of the diving community. The attraction, which is to be called Marine Adventure Park, would enable divers to swim with fish in an "aquarium" nearly the size of a football pitch that would be situated a kilometre off Ras il-Griebeg, outside Mellieha Bay.

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