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[shakatany]

Nowadays I don't watch as much TV as I did years ago and I really haven't loved a show since "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" ended. However every once in a while there is something that intrigues me on TV. The past couple of weeks James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler, on "Jeopardy" has been absolutely fantastic. Today on his 11th day on the

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[trepkos]

Makes sense! In the sense of, neither of the stories making sense! Maybe they put a few goats and sheep in the coracle!

[shakatany]

Probably the guy took his family and the animals he owned on a coracle during a flood which later became a heroic story. What does make sense is that Mesopotamia is between the Tigris and the Euphrates, 2 large rivers that we know have caused huge floods for centuries unlike Israel.

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[spikedluv]

That's interesting about Noah's Ark! I've always known that Christianity stole much from the pagan religions, but this goes back even further. I guess religions have always stolen from one another.

[shakatany]

I picture people, having nothing else to do during their freetime, would tell stories (not like nowadays when we can phone or listen to a radio or watch TV or be on the computer). Perhaps they forgot part of the one their parents told them and made up their own part or decided they liked a story but wanted to change it. Plagiarism was not a crime until around the 15th century when we started printing so one could hear or read a story and make their own version as everything was handwritten and people who heard it or read it would have no way of confirming the story actually happened.

Shakatany