Reviews for SS - Keys of our Past

[T-rebel]

Look up the word spurious.

The earth is very old and many MANY things have been carved into many MANY cave walls. While I won't dispute the facts that you have stated in your expose, I would like to leave you a cautionary note about spuriously relating these facts to one another in order to draw conclusions.

For example (and this is also true) there is a thermometer buoy in the Pacific ocean whose temperature fluctuations predict Microsoft Corporation share prices for the past 10 years. This occurred purely because there are many buoys (thousands of them) in many oceans and many stocks that one could choose from to track performance (at least 120 years). In fact, if we picked a different set of 10 years, we could probably find a different buoy to make a match with a different stock. The relationship exists, but it is meaningless.

Similarly, the earth is about 4.5 BILLION years old. If the markings on the wall in one cave happen to mirror the position of a star someplace in the universe and point out the white dwarf orbiting it, it's probably just a spurious correlation. Think about how many stars there are out there and how many cave walls have been drawn on... I bet if you pick a cave wall somewhere on earth with a drawing on it, I can find you the galaxy that looks exactly like it. Same story as the buoys... too many caves and WAY too many galaxies...

I could go through most of the facts that you jumbled together in here and untangle them, but I don't have the time or desire. Suffice it to say that if we have a huge pile of facts (data) to pick from it's not difficult to pick two subsets that are trivially related.

I'm giving you 4 because the animation was good.

[DylanJames]

These are not lessons but simply opinions.

This series is still the same as it was from the beginning. It consists of your beliefs stated in a factual manner while providing little in the area of legitimated sources. You may at times provide a source but that does not mean it's true. I could provide a source that would "prove" Obama is a reptile. You also assume that correlation denotes causality and this is a well known fallacy to commit. Cave drawings matching up to star patterns means nothing as there is not any way to prove causality between the two. Correlation does not denote causality!
Many of your arguments are unsound as well. For example, it does not follow that if a person is a Muslim they believe the earth is 6,000 thousand years and therefore must disregard any evidence that points to the contrary because of their religion. You make a personal assumption about a large group of Egyptologist's and their personal beliefs and have nothing to show us why you're right. You wouldn't say that because somebody is a Christian they believe in a literal six day creation and therefore must disregard all evidence to the contrary would you? That would be absurd because there are many Christians who do not believe in such a thing. Assuming what a person believes then basing a claim on that assumption to further your point is not a good idea. This is just one argument I remembered off the top of my head. If you want to truly reach people you need to state your beliefs in a less "matter of fact" way because to many people this is merely opinions based on little evidence. You also need to check your arguments for validity and soundness as arguments that are neither valid nor sound will not be heard by those who wish to discuss your views rationally in order to learn. I must admit I am guilty of assuming that you want to reach people though instead of just preaching to those that don't ask questions. Do you want to reach people or do you want to stand on a soapbox?
I read in one response to a review about 3 men who made "amazing" scientific discoveries and I promptly looked them up. Graham Hancock is a writer and journalist and his findings are generally criticized as pseudoarchaeology. This is the exact same story with John Anthony West. Robert Bavaul's findings are highly challenged by archaeologists and historians. Why should I believe them over scientist? Why did you claim these men made such great discoveries when they did not? This is where you make me suspicious. It is the second time I know of that you have exaggerated credentials in order to prove a point. A spiritual person certainly would not approve of this sly tactic unless you simply, again, neglected to research. I've also seen you disregard augments on both youtube and here. You do not respond to their points and it makes you look quite bad in the eyes of inquisitive people. If you cannot defend yourself then it appears as if you cannot back your opinions.

RiverJordan responds:

Well for one, "everything" is a theory and opinion. Even something like the sun coming up in the morning, it's a theory. What if one day it didn't? Sure, maybe we could find scientific evidence that something was going to happen to the sun, but again that's just theory and opinion of people.

In the case of Graham Hancock, John Anthony West and Robert Bavaul, i've researched their work and i see what they see, i agree with them about this, because their findings are incredible and "for some reason", the egyptian archaeologist community won't allow their discussions about the age of the sphinx. Not saying that i know exactly what that reason is, but i did offer one "theory" in this video.

[Surpss]

Oh great another one of these...

Im gettin tired of these new age awakening videos. They are meticulously peddled by these smooth talking jack asses with hidden agendas or the completely gullible ppl that believe them. You give me ancient knowledge star, formations and all this other crap thats based more in opinion and inferences than facts. Seriously?? HEY EVERYBODY ALL THIS BULL CAN BE FACTUALLY DISMANTLED. Im not saying nothing is gonna happen in 2012 but not some great earth new agey awakening. EVERYBODY THAT JUST WATCHED THIS DESERVES A SECOND POINT OF VIEW! GO ON YOUTUBE PEOPLE TYPE IN (How 2012 "Enlightenment" Will Lead To Genocide). Learn the truth about this propoganda

[ArmouredGRIFFON]

See I would have rated it higher

But swinging around the claim that being philosophical is making the earth dumber is entirely contradictory to everything you just said AND completely thwarts that circle, thing. You really must have a very limited understanding on history, the period of the enlightenment, the dissolution of man (Nietzsche), or at least an inept conception of it.

[stvsteve]

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Just great... another Zeitgeist movie. Just state a lot of 'facts' that you simply made up, mix it with some mystery, take some stuff, people know about and try to sound like everything you said is just scientific fact and voila: massive bullshit, that everybody believes.

1. The Dogon speak of 2 companions of sigi tolo (assumed to be sirius, but every whise man who was asked pointed at a different star)

2. You claim that the sphinx points in a the direction of a sign of the zodiac... When does it do that? You remember, that the earth is spinning and stuff, right? You further claim that the zodiac was in use 11000 bc. The earliest known use of the zodiac is 2500 bc by the babylonians. It is true, that you cannot disprove, that it was known before, but 11000 bc is a little far-fetched.

3. You claim that humanity gets smarter and dumber due to the wobble of the rotational axis of the earth... Why? And what are those 'ancient scripts' you are referring to? Who wrote them, or at least tell me what they are called, so I can verify your claims.

Fascinating what 10min on Wikipedia can do to those kind of conspiracy videos.

TL:DR Before blindly believing whatever somebody tells you in a vid like that, just check some of the key facts.