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Was the Amazon Rainforest Man-Made??
Posted on 1/15/18 at 11:47 pm
Posted on 1/15/18 at 11:47 pm
I thought that maybe instead of doing one thread on this so-called antidilluvian culture we have spoken about recently I would post individual threads for each of the topics that lead me to this conclusion.
So, as the title suggests, it appears as though the Amazon rainforest is actually the world's largest garden. Potentially.
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If this is true, then we should expect to find much much more in South America in the coming years. The article is basically driving home the point that the entire rainforest appears to have been improved (soil) over hundreds or thousands of years and the entire river basin was transformed from what one would expect it to be naturally (Marsh type Savannah land) into the world's largest forest.
And if this is true, it would seem to fall into the category of a potential site of the biblical Garden of Eden.
So, as the title suggests, it appears as though the Amazon rainforest is actually the world's largest garden. Potentially.
LINK
If this is true, then we should expect to find much much more in South America in the coming years. The article is basically driving home the point that the entire rainforest appears to have been improved (soil) over hundreds or thousands of years and the entire river basin was transformed from what one would expect it to be naturally (Marsh type Savannah land) into the world's largest forest.
And if this is true, it would seem to fall into the category of a potential site of the biblical Garden of Eden.
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Posted on 1/15/18 at 11:49 pm to BoarEd
I will post a few more topics in the coming days that seem to point towards the existence of a predessesor culture that was global in scope, yet disappeared. Most likely with the timing of the younger dryas event and just before the true date for the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza (calendar that serves to warn us of a reoccurring catastrophy born to us from the cosmos).
Posted on 1/15/18 at 11:54 pm to BoarEd
And what's most amazing about the South American cultures is that they were using conservation techniques that we are only getting around to rediscovering today. For instance, how to harness your region's annual rainfall to sustain crops through the development of rain gardens. This is evident on the terraced slopes of Macchu Picchu.
And also the use of biochar as a soil amendment (in the rainforest). Today we are turning back to this as a means of potentially reversing the carbon effect in our atmosphere to combat so-called global warming.
That's right. Our most cutting edge conservation techniques had already been mastered by the South Americans at least 1,000 years ago, and likely much farther back than that.
Advanced indeed.
And also the use of biochar as a soil amendment (in the rainforest). Today we are turning back to this as a means of potentially reversing the carbon effect in our atmosphere to combat so-called global warming.
That's right. Our most cutting edge conservation techniques had already been mastered by the South Americans at least 1,000 years ago, and likely much farther back than that.
Advanced indeed.
Posted on 1/16/18 at 8:49 am to BoarEd
You are actually the strangest person I have met online. 
Posted on 1/16/18 at 8:58 am to BoarEd
You're probably thinking of the Rainforest Café. Easy mistake.
Posted on 1/16/18 at 9:46 am to BoarEd
Are you retired or do you do this for a living?
Posted on 1/16/18 at 9:47 am to crispyUGA
Negative on both counts.
Posted on 1/16/18 at 10:12 am to BoarEd
A few facts can be a shaky foundation to build a giant supposition on.
Yes, we know that large parts of the Amazon rain forest were domesticated and used to grow crops. There is also evidence of small towns scattered throughout the region that predate the arrival of European explorers.
I don't think it points to an ancient world wide culture though. This is simply what human beings do when they arrive in an area that can support large scale habitation.
Yes, we know that large parts of the Amazon rain forest were domesticated and used to grow crops. There is also evidence of small towns scattered throughout the region that predate the arrival of European explorers.
I don't think it points to an ancient world wide culture though. This is simply what human beings do when they arrive in an area that can support large scale habitation.
Posted on 1/16/18 at 10:32 am to Arksulli
I think that when you look at it all together it does, in fact, point to a predessesor culture that was centered in (possibly) South America. On the antialto plains, to be precise.
Posted on 1/16/18 at 11:07 am to diddlydawg7
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You are actually the strangest person I have met online.
If you say so.
If you think about it though, it makes perfect sense. A river basin' natural state is to be more of a marshland than a forest. Because the frequent flooding tends to wash soil away into the ocean.
The entire Amazon River basin has been amended to accommodate a forest.
Posted on 1/16/18 at 11:46 am to BoarEd
Oh, you're so close! You're going to look around South America and see the Nazca Lines and tRant is going to explode.
Not even the poli board will be safe. There will be so many BoarEd posts that the admins will be overwhelmed, even Chicken.
tRant will be changed to the BoarEdRant overnight. There will be positive proofs of alien intervention pouring from your posts that even NASA can't ignore.
Lay it on us, BE!
Not even the poli board will be safe. There will be so many BoarEd posts that the admins will be overwhelmed, even Chicken.
tRant will be changed to the BoarEdRant overnight. There will be positive proofs of alien intervention pouring from your posts that even NASA can't ignore.
Lay it on us, BE!
This post was edited on 1/16/18 at 11:47 am
Posted on 1/16/18 at 11:49 am to Kentucker
In time, perhaps. Although, the Nazca lines aren't a part of this, unfortunately.
The Nazca lines appear to be marking underground water sources. Remember my dowsing thread? ;)
But I do believe there is much more to be learned about South America. And the Nazca lines are puzzling from one aspect...Why did they mark out trails to water sources that ended up looking like animals?
That's a lot of damn work in an area that is hot as hell. The animals DO appear to be meant to be viewed from above.
This post was edited on 1/16/18 at 11:51 am
Posted on 1/16/18 at 9:05 pm to BoarEd
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And if this is true, it would seem to fall into the category of a potential site of the biblical Garden of Eden.
Nope.
Genesis 2:14 The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
So that’s geographically impossible.
Simple answer is.. a lot of stuff is going to grow and keep growing where it rains every day and has a continuous warm climate.
Posted on 1/16/18 at 11:26 pm to CleverUserName
Nobody has any real clue where the Garden of Eden was, man. It's been theorized to have existed on literally every continent on this planet. People get way too hung up on the names of those two rivers. The truth is, not even the great theologian John Calvin could pinpoint it's location because NOWHERE along the Tigris or the Euphrates is there a location matching the description in Genesis.
I was just saying it would be interesting if the Amazon River basin turned out to be the biblical garden. Not trying to suggest it was.
As to your last point, did you read the article? The Amazon Rainforest was developed by man. It's natural state is a Savannah type habitat. The South Americans built the soil up there to accommodate a forest.
I was just saying it would be interesting if the Amazon River basin turned out to be the biblical garden. Not trying to suggest it was.
As to your last point, did you read the article? The Amazon Rainforest was developed by man. It's natural state is a Savannah type habitat. The South Americans built the soil up there to accommodate a forest.
This post was edited on 1/16/18 at 11:27 pm
Posted on 1/17/18 at 12:00 am to BoarEd
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I was just saying it would be interesting if the Amazon River basin turned out to be the biblical garden.
Unlikely.
When the supercontinent Pangea existed during the period 100-300 million years ago, the river that is today call the Amazon flowed east to west from its origination point in what is now the eastern Sahara desert.
The river flowed across what is now north Africa and South America and emptied into what is now the Pacific Ocean. It was the Panthalassa Ocean then. The Atlantic Ocean didn't exist at the time. It came later when the Americas drifted west from Pangea, opening up the Atlantic Ocean.
When South America separated from Africa after the break-up of Pangea, it drifted westward and collided with what is now the Pacific tectonic plate. This caused the Andes Mountains to rise along the entire western length of South America.
It is this mountain chain that so disrupted the weather patterns in South America that the continent now has a mighty river running in the opposite direction, west to east, along the same path it once did on Pangea.
So, you can see that the Amazon "garden" has been around far longer than humans have existed as a species and far, far longer than the 6,000 years the Bible indicates for the earth's existence.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 12:22 am to Kentucker
Red Herring. Plate tectonics are irrelevant to my point and you know it. I'm not saying that anyone created the river. I'm saying that they built the soil up to accommodate the forest that now sits there.
That the Amazon River basin is the largest garden on Earth.
That the Amazon River basin is the largest garden on Earth.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 12:28 am to BoarEd
Look at the size of the Amazon Basin! It's 2,900,000 square miles. That's bigger than the 48 contiguous states of the US combined. The size of the "garden" alone makes your hypothesis sound absurd.
This post was edited on 1/17/18 at 12:41 am
Posted on 1/17/18 at 12:31 am to Kentucker
And yet, that's what it appears to be.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 12:31 am to BoarEd
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Plate tectonics are irrelevant to my point and you know it.
Hardly. Plate tectonics caused the environmental conditions that allowed the Amazon Basin to naturally develop into the lush rain forest it is today.
Posted on 1/17/18 at 12:38 am to BoarEd
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And yet, that's what it appears to be.
To you, using your vivid imagination. Not to reductionists such as scientists.
Imagination developed in humans some 60,000 years ago and has led to our species becoming a technological race. However, that development has been incremental over those 60,000 years and is only now increasing at an exponential rate.
Any peoples who lived 12,000 years ago simply didn't have an ancestral technology to build upon. Certainly not to the degree that they could tackle the stupendous projects you attribute to them.
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