Ark Encounter: 100 Million dollar fail!

[Quixote1818]

Last edited Sun Jul 9, 2017, 03:51 PM - Edit history (1)

[RainCaster]

1. I would be as old as Moses when this piece finished!

Too damn long. A high school video class could have cut this to 7 minutes. Rachel's staff could have done it in five. Sorry, I couldn't make it to the end. It's just too damn long.

[Quixote1818]

2. I actually agree. Mainly posted it to show the thing is not doing well. nt

[SergeStorms]

6. So......

with everything that WAS said in the video, your only complaint is that "it's just too damn long"?

Right......got it.

It's OK that they suckered in the towns, county, and state into giving them tens of millions in tax breaks. It's OK that the "economic boom" they promised hasn't happened, or that the poor people living in the area who helped finance Ken Hamm's ridiculous vision of the past are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy......

"It's just too damned long".

[Quixote1818]

12. What is amazing is Ham is blaming atheists for it failing and yet because tax payers were forced

to pay for this crap, a lot of atheists helped fund it and make it possible in the first place. Not to mention completely unconstitutional.

[trusty elf]

3. going, going......GONE!

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[trusty elf]

4. ....

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[Moostache]

5. Anyone willing to accept the tripe of "the flood" as literal truth should be in straitjackets...

Its beyond embarrassing to see this kind of idiocy in the 21st century...we were supposed to be moving towards "The Jetsons" not reliving "The Flintstones"...

[SergeStorms]

7. Well stated.

And I love your sig line as well.

[BigOleDummy]

8. I live

in Kentucky and could not believe it when they showered this monstrosity with taxpayer backing. Our governor thinks the way to solve our biggest city's (Louisville) violent crime rise in our west end of town , read Black, is to "pray". Literally walk around the block praying.

[LongTomH]

9. If you live on a flood plain and your only history is an oral history;................

yeah, you'll have flood myths. I don't think the Genesis account is the only such story.

By the way, I hate to be a pain in the ass; but, it should be 'Ark Encounter,' not 'Arc Encounter.'

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Yup. Bible flood myth closest to the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh

excerpts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth

The flood myth motif is found among many cultures as seen in the Mesopotamian flood stories, Deucalion in Greek mythology, the Genesis flood narrative, Manu in Hinduism, Bergelmir in Norse Mythology, in the lore of the K'iche' and Maya peoples in Mesoamerica, the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa tribe of Native Americans in North America, the Muisca, and Cañari Confederation, in South America, and the Aboriginal tribes in southern Australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh_flood_myth

The Gilgamesh flood myth is a flood myth in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Many scholars believe that the flood myth was added to Tablet XI in the "standard version" of the Gilgamesh Epic by an editor who utilized the flood story from the Epic of Atrahasis.[1] A short reference to the flood myth is also present in the much older Sumerian Gilgamesh poems, from which the later Babylonian versions drew much of their inspiration and subject matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atra-Hasis

Tablet III of the Atrahasis Epic contains the flood story. This is the part that was adapted in tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Tablet III of Atrahasis tells how the god Enki warns the hero Atrahasis (“Extremely Wise”) of Shuruppak, speaking through a reed wall (suggestive of an oracle) to dismantle his house (perhaps to provide a construction site) and build a boat to escape the flood planned by the god Enlil to destroy humankind. The boat is to have a roof “like Apsu” (a subterranean, fresh water realm presided over by the god Enki), upper and lower decks, and to be sealed with bitumen. Atrahasis boards the boat with his family and animals and seals the door. The storm and flood begin. Even the gods are afraid. In tablet III iv, lines 7-9 the words "river" and "riverbank" are used, which probably mean the Euphrates River, because Atrahasis is listed in WB-62 as a ruler of Shuruppak which was on the Euphrates River.

[Quixote1818]

13. Thanks for catching that. nt

[WinkyDink]

20. Gilgamesh.

[hatrack]

23. More like "Concrete & Structural Steel Encounter" . . . .

With a big side order of Gift Shop.

[Mickju]

10. Epic Stupidity

[dalton99a]

14. What a scam.

[rickford66]

15. The possibility of the collapse of ice dams at the end of the last ice age may explain flood myths.

Some time ago I saw a documentary which explained some odd Mid-west formations on such an occurrence. But certainly not enough water to keep an ark afloat for 40 days or to cover the Earth.

[SergeStorms]

17. Remember....

"the earth", in their time, was as far as they could see, or as far as the outermost land trade route. They had no concept of the earth as we know it. Besides, the earth was still "flat" then, and didn't "round out" for many centuries afterward.

[Raster]

16. Maybe they can turn it into a big disco or something....

...call it: Noah's.

[SergeStorms]

18. I'm hoping......

it becomes a vacant monument to the lack of critical thinking.

I'm guessing that even if it DOES go tits up, they'll always find a way to pay for security patrols. We wouldn't want graffiti artists desecrating this wonderful, historical reconstruction now, would we?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

19. I'm thinking Gay Circuit Party.

[Raster]

21. That is EXACTLY what I am thinking!!!

Commemorative T-shirt slogans:

Goin' DOWN on the Ship!

ROCK the BOAT!

Create a Storm!

[Girard442]

22. If this is a boat, the Empire State Building is a boat.

Ham's own promotional videos released during construction show that it's a massive reinforced concrete structure supported by numerous pillars resting on bedrock. The wooden parts you see are just a facade, not unlike Ham's faith.