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Merged Their Return

Cuddles said:
Manatee:
[qimg]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/FL_fig04.jpg[/qimg]

Mermaid:
[qimg]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Leighton-The_Fisherman_and_the_Syren-c._1856-1858.jpg/385px-Leighton-The_Fisherman_and_the_Syren-c._1856-1858.jpg[/qimg]

I really don't think you should be criticising other people's perceptive and reasoning skills if you seriously think those two things look alike.
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Easily confused.
 


I'm not trying to be snarky here - but I think it's worth noting that the blob in that painting looks like something else more than an alien spacecraft to me.

Without asking the artist or going to an expert, this theory is as solid as "alien spaceship".
 
Marduk said:
I don't buy the elephant origin for cyclops either, the Greeks were familiar with elephants, they used them in their army ...snip...
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Yes, it has its holes.

However it may not be far-fetched. Ancient Greeks were people just like us. Some were bright, some were dull, many were somewhere in-between. Some were very rational, some were very gullible, most were somewhere in-between. Some knew pretty well the limits of their skills, some did not, and so on.

Now, imagine KotA's Ancient Greeces equivalent, a guy who calls himself King of the Athenians and which happens to claim to be the timely truth among other things. Its not hard to imagine such a guy could look at an elephant's skull (or to a carving or drawing or it) and claim "It must be from a monocular giant! Elephant? No way! Where are the trunk's bones?" King of the Athenians, of course, would not accept someone else's arguments.

King of the Athenians, by the way, would be exactly the kind of guy whom, after looking at engravings and/or drawings say, from a Minoic palace, would claim ordinary humans from his past could not have built such a colossal thing, since he could not figure out how to do it. Maybe, Zeus knows, King of the Athenians would claim a race of monocular giants built the Minoic palace. His next step would be to grab Polyphemus myth and distort, I mean, reinterpretate it, force-fitting it in to his beliefs, turning the two-eyed giant in to a single-eyed giant.

It could happen, just saying...
 
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Cuddles said:
Manatee:
[qimg]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/FL_fig04.jpg[/qimg]

Mermaid:
[qimg]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Leighton-The_Fisherman_and_the_Syren-c._1856-1858.jpg/385px-Leighton-The_Fisherman_and_the_Syren-c._1856-1858.jpg[/qimg]

I really don't think you should be criticising other people's perceptive and reasoning skills if you seriously think those two things look alike.
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Just let time do its work (especially if coupled to fast-food and a marriage) and they will become very similar indeed...
 
aggle-rithm said:
Interesting that these artists painted these UFO's but didn't think it notable enough to tell anyone about seeing them.
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well seeing as they were all painting iconic religious scenes which they weren't present at, I expect they didn't think it was necessary.
:D
 
Marduk said:
Madonna_PalVecchio.jpg
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I must say, baby Jesus was hitting the weight room ..
 
Oh noes!

This thread...

It returned! Its like a zombie, like a creature from a terror flick that always comes back after its finished, just before the end titles...

But to date, not a single trace of "their return"...
 
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