The kindergarten level reading of biblical texts is definitely stupid, but it remains just as stupid whether you accept or reject what's there. The trick is to stop reading like a kindergartener & try to unpack why people would record & translate these stories for thousands of years.
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the idea of a flood covering the whole world is ridiculous but a heap of rocks hitting the earth can explain much of europe and the americas being flooded (and there is plenty of evidence this happened, the eye of the sahara looks exactly like it was washed away, for example)
there is also a very good hypothesis that noah was somewhere in the region of bulgaria or romania and it wasn't about saving all the animals it was about having animals to farm when the waters finally stopped - the first hypothesis i read that pointed to this suggested maybe it referred to a great glacial melt but giant hot boulders in the atlantic would also very well explain months of rain, including the dust storm, and the evidence exists, the period was called the Younger Dryas and it wasn't until a bit over 1000 years later that another incident happened that burned the shit out of all of the middle east, egypt and north africa, blew up over the atlantic and created several lakes in north america, and all of these are verifiable ... there is numerous legends about a giant fire dragon soaring across the sky, some called it leviathan... , i think others called it jormundangr, it was so legendary i think that the story got to the australian aboriginals who called it the rainbow serpent
and also, the first five books of the bible are basically ripped straight off the sumerian mythology and are the basis of the jewish religion lol
oof, well, thems the atheists right? they can't believe people would do this even though they also understand things like cults exist, and cargo cults, where primitive people have stories about some people who appeared with unbelievable technology they had no words to describe... magic!
Even without things being crazy on any sort of global scale. The Nile floods all the time & any river that regularly floods may go many decades or even centuries between the most severe floods. The story of Noah is about a man who was "perfect in his generations" which probably means all of his family relationships where healthy. And because of that he knew to heed the warnings of elders & the family was able to work together against all sorts of social attacks to build the sort of structure that would ultimately save their farm. They acted on what they knew to be true, not with concern about what others would think. Through family cohesion & efforts to prepare themselves for the unexpected they survived the storm. And part of the message is also probably that people who seem crazy might be able to see something you don't.
Stories that get told over & over, & especially when translated multiple times (idioms, phrases, & literary devices for communicating significance rarely translate well) naturally end up exaggerated in a "telephone game" like manner. The message is what's important IMO.
Interesting. That’s a new perspective for me. 🤘🏻
exactly
and noah features in the book of enoch as well as the books of the exoteric catholic bible, and some of those points are described in more detail
there is stories about this event from many ancient mythologies, i think that even Ragnarok is one of the forms of it, when you talk about Jormundangr (one of the children of Loki) being a giant serpent that drank the ocean (like a meteors slamming into the atlantic and mediterranean)
the outcome of such an event as well as epic tsunamis would have been massive amounts of steam boiled out of the sea - those rocks probably were boiling the water for literally years in some cases before they stopped being hot, imagine 100kton of rock that hits temps like 2500'C as it streaks into the atmosphere...
the destruction and the aftermath would have probably possibly even a decade or more, and where the meteors struck the earth, kicked up so much dust that you have an explanation for the mini ice age between 15-10k years ago which also fits in perfectly with the various flood myths
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