How do you celebrate completions?
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I came across a book back around 1994 that opened up a bunch of history that has been forgotten. It was a bunch of work, and I was wrong for a long time, because the book was wrong. But it was a start.
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David O'Neil wrote:
I was wrong for a long time, because the book was wrong.
...so, the Holy Bible? :laugh:
My work did end up shining a new light on the roots of the Bible, so in a way, yes. Read Randor's responses in one of the previous threads if you want to know more.
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Ok, I probably know more about the subject than I'm letting on. You might be right, the Mayans used a base20 system which the historians claim is "all fingers and toes" but could also be attributed to the Jupiter-Saturn cycle. Daniel Mansfield and Norman Wildberger from UNSW Sydney has made a few breakthroughs in Babylonian mathematics. I highly recommend them. Old Babylonian mathematics and Plimpton 322: The remarkable OB sexagesimal system - YouTube[^] Old Babylonian mathematics and Plimpton 322: Geometry in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt - YouTube[^] This one contains new discoveries of how they did trig: Old Babylonian mathematics and Plimpton 322: A new understanding of the OB tablet Plimpton 322 - YouTube[^]
PS - our early priests even linked Samson to '60,' which makes sense when the astronomy I've outlined is taken into account. The Babylonian Talmud contains,
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It has been taught: R. Simeon the Pious [about 100 AD] said: The width between Samson’s shoulders was sixty cubits, as it is said: And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders; and there is a tradition that the gates of Gaza were not less than sixty cubits [in width]…
This indicates the priests almost two-thousand years ago may have had a dim memory of the story's foundation. Wikipedia states,
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In the Talmudic period, some seem to have denied that Samson was a historical figure, regarding him instead as a purely mythological personage. This was viewed as heretical by the rabbis of the Talmud, and they attempted to refute this.
I have not gone down that rabbit hole. I was satisfied with figuring out the astronomy. Best wishes!
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PS - our early priests even linked Samson to '60,' which makes sense when the astronomy I've outlined is taken into account. The Babylonian Talmud contains,
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It has been taught: R. Simeon the Pious [about 100 AD] said: The width between Samson’s shoulders was sixty cubits, as it is said: And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight and laid hold of the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders; and there is a tradition that the gates of Gaza were not less than sixty cubits [in width]…
This indicates the priests almost two-thousand years ago may have had a dim memory of the story's foundation. Wikipedia states,
Quote:
In the Talmudic period, some seem to have denied that Samson was a historical figure, regarding him instead as a purely mythological personage. This was viewed as heretical by the rabbis of the Talmud, and they attempted to refute this.
I have not gone down that rabbit hole. I was satisfied with figuring out the astronomy. Best wishes!
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I will have a sip of the port I got for my birthday tonight, celebrating the results of my effort. Coming from you, I take that as high praise. Those 27 years weren't wasted.
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