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Posted by Fred Parhad (Guest) - Wednesday, November 12 2003, 12:26:18 (EST)
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In Oates' book, "Babylon", she too refers to Utnapishtim as the "Babylonian Noah". I find that an odd way of referencing someone who came beofre Noah...well before. Utnapishtim is the BABYLONIAN Utnapishtim. Noah is also a Babylonian Utnapishtim. Noah can't even be the "Hebrew Noah"...there was no such thing...and couldnt have been without Utnapishtim first.

There's no source for any flood waters in Israel much less for a Flood Story. That pissant stream, the Jordan River, couldn't flood if you paid it. Obviously in BetHanrain you've got serious rivers and floods were a regular feature of life there. Besides...even if the Jordan River flooded...who'd miss anything? Were there vast and fertile fields of grain, flocks of cattle and sheep...or anything along its banks? Were there waterfront estates and palaces, docks and quays with ships tied at anchor, storehouses with goods to be exported, or filled to bursting with imports? Was there in all of Israel a ramshackle, dust encrusted "city" that couldn't have been improved by a good hosing? Probably the only time those people had any water to spare to wash with. All that happened of note in the Jordan River is that John "The Washer" grabbed as many people as he could by the scruff of their greasy necks and threw them in to clean off the goat turds and donkey piss they used to annoint themselves with...only he called the accumulated grime and filth "Sin".

No...a flood would only have improved conditions in Israel...which is the reason they stole the idea from us, even a disaster of ours was something they coveted, as proof that anything of value existed in Israel to be destroyed in the first place...to make it appear there WOULD be a tragedy if the entire country was drowned. They didn't fool anyone, bless their hearts...back then anyway.

The Hebrews took whatever of value they ever came up with from other people...us mostly. Nothing wrong with it...but they don't credit their original sources...and worse, try to pretend they came up with the stuff first like teling us our Utnapishtim is THEIR Noah. Huh?

They put their cart before our horse...and we dummies wonder why we can't haul a friggin thing 12 feet today without collapsing in exhaustion.

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