Graham Hancock

The mentioned debate has been released just recently at the JRE #2136.
I watched the first 2 hours of the high res version on Joe Rogan's Spotify channel (https://open.spotify.com/episode/3rsD5v3sFlZOmck7oNrZJL)

Some thoughts on the first 2 hours:
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  • Flint Dibble makes the case that in the 1000s of excavations they have made on land and underwater, they have yet to find evidence of a lost civilization (traces of food, footprints, artifacts).
  • Flint Dibble attributes the underwater structures explored by Graham Hancock to be natural formations for the most part.
  • Hancock highlights right in the beginning on how researchers with anomalous findings have been ostracized and attacked by mainly some powerful figures in the American archeology scientific community - he brings up how he has been attacked.
  • Graham Hancock pushes the fact that the mainstream archaeological excavations are too few to rule out and dismiss the idea of a lost civilization - emphasizing that only 1% of the coastlines, Amazon forest region, and Sahara has been excavated.
    Dibble does try to portray that they have enough excavations, food traces, and artifacts to support the current theories about the progression of human development.
  • So far Graham, Joe and Flint attribute and assume any anomalous findings to "human-made" structures and have not touched upon the idea of an alien technology.
  • They both maintain that stone age hunter-gathers and more advanced civilizations could have existed at the same time on earth.
  • Joe Rogan interjects at key points, one example at about the 2 hour mark Joe puts into question Flint Dibble's use of the racist card when commenting on Hancock’s work (Dibble here exposes a bit of libtardness), as Dibble wrote: "This sort of "race science" is outdated and long since debunked, especially given the strong links between Atlantis and Aryans proposed by several Nazi "archeologists". The point Joe and Hancock make is that this is totally unnecessary and it associates this kind of lost civilization (e.g. Atlantis) research with "racism" and "exploitation".
I'll have to see how the next 2 hours when I get back to it. One thing that does come to mind is the assumption during this podcast that there would be or needs to be signs of human livelihood and activity. From what we have discovered on this Forum, the cataclysmic effects during some extinction events could have destroyed all signs of human activity, and only left the monolithic structures, or that is how I've understood it. And these guys focus on the last ice age - some of this lost civilizations could have been from 25, 35, 50 or even 100 thousand years ago, and that really hasn't been brought up in the first part of this podcast (Hancock may have mentioned in passing some earlier dates).
 
I have watched some parts of the “debate“ between Flint Dibble and Hancock. If it is true that Flint Dibble is the main guy that defamed Hancock recently by calling him a “white supremacist“ and similar stuff (as Hancock explains at the end) I think that this quite likely tells us something important about his character! I found the beginning also a bit strange: Flint presented pretty much “Pornograhic“ ancient art as an explanation for what Archeologist do for laypersons. Strange. I also noted that Flint is exceptionally articulate and glib. Good with words and very fast at that. He has an answer for everything and very fast.

So, in summary, I don’t trust that guy one bit, unless proven otherwise. I bet he went in with a specific agenda. And maybe he was even hired by “the PTB“ in order to spin the whole thing in certain ways.
 
I watched the first 2 hours of the high res version on Joe Rogan's Spotify channel (https://open.spotify.com/episode/3rsD5v3sFlZOmck7oNrZJL)

Some thoughts on the first 2 hours:
'
  • Flint Dibble makes the case that in the 1000s of excavations they have made on land and underwater, they have yet to find evidence of a lost civilization (traces of food, footprints, artifacts).
  • Flint Dibble attributes the underwater structures explored by Graham Hancock to be natural formations for the most part.
  • Hancock highlights right in the beginning on how researchers with anomalous findings have been ostracized and attacked by mainly some powerful figures in the American archeology scientific community - he brings up how he has been attacked.
  • Graham Hancock pushes the fact that the mainstream archaeological excavations are too few to rule out and dismiss the idea of a lost civilization - emphasizing that only 1% of the coastlines, Amazon forest region, and Sahara has been excavated.
    Dibble does try to portray that they have enough excavations, food traces, and artifacts to support the current theories about the progression of human development.
  • So far Graham, Joe and Flint attribute and assume any anomalous findings to "human-made" structures and have not touched upon the idea of an alien technology.
  • They both maintain that stone age hunter-gathers and more advanced civilizations could have existed at the same time on earth.
  • Joe Rogan interjects at key points, one example at about the 2 hour mark Joe puts into question Flint Dibble's use of the racist card when commenting on Hancock’s work (Dibble here exposes a bit of libtardness), as Dibble wrote: "This sort of "race science" is outdated and long since debunked, especially given the strong links between Atlantis and Aryans proposed by several Nazi "archeologists". The point Joe and Hancock make is that this is totally unnecessary and it associates this kind of lost civilization (e.g. Atlantis) research with "racism" and "exploitation".
I'll have to see how the next 2 hours when I get back to it. One thing that does come to mind is the assumption during this podcast that there would be or needs to be signs of human livelihood and activity. From what we have discovered on this Forum, the cataclysmic effects during some extinction events could have destroyed all signs of human activity, and only left the monolithic structures, or that is how I've understood it. And these guys focus on the last ice age - some of this lost civilizations could have been from 25, 35, 50 or even 100 thousand years ago, and that really hasn't been brought up in the first part of this podcast (Hancock may have mentioned in passing some earlier dates).
Mega cringe moment lasting 4 hours. 2h mark Geophysics is garbaged in public! Archeology declined into pattern matching without thinking reducing everything to hunter gatherers! Thank you Frank Dibble!
 
Joe Rogan interjects at key points, one example at about the 2 hour mark Joe puts into question Flint Dibble's use of the racist card when commenting on Hancock’s work (Dibble here exposes a bit of libtardness), as Dibble wrote: "This sort of "race science" is outdated and long since debunked, especially given the strong links between Atlantis and Aryans proposed by several Nazi "archeologists". The point Joe and Hancock make is that this is totally unnecessary and it associates this kind of lost civilization (e.g. Atlantis) research with "racism" and "exploitation".

So, Flint really has done this! That alone suggests to me that Flint is a shady character with little to no scruples.
 
Graham summarizes his position or “thesis” starting 02:20:38 of the podcast:

Let me summarize in very brief what I am actually saying. I'm saying that there was a cataclysm at the end of the last ice age. It's called the Younger Dryas.

There are arguments about whether this cataclysm was caused by fragments of a disintegrating comet. This is the Comet Research Group. This is the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis. But I'm saying there was a cataclysm at that time. There was a civilization. Now, it's you, not me, who say that that civilization was an empire.

It's you, not me, who say that that civilization, you know, had temples and was highly advanced. I don't say that. I don't say that.

In my view, what we're looking at is a civilization like all others that emerged out of shamanism, but that went a little bit further than some other shamanistic cultures that developed a highly advanced knowledge of astronomy that was able to explore and map the world. And I'm saying that at the end of the ice age, that civilization was largely destroyed, that a very small number of survivors settled amongst hunter-gatherers as we would today. I've made this point before, but if there was a cataclysm on our planet today, people from our so-called advanced technological civilization would not survive it.

We have absolutely no hope of surviving a global cataclysm like the Younger Dryas because we are spoilt children of the world. We do not have the survival techniques. The people in the world who know how to survive are the hunter-gatherers in the world today. And if I were a survivor of this civilization, I would head for hunter-gatherers, and I would try and make my home amongst them so that I could have some hope of surviving. And that's all that I'm suggesting, is that a civilization which had quite advanced astronomy, which was able to map the world, had a knowledge of longitude. I'm not saying they had machines.

I'm not saying they had motor cars. I'm not saying they sent a spaceship to the moon. I'm saying that they were destroyed at the end of the ice age, that there were a very small number of survivors, that those survivors settled amongst other hunter-gatherer peoples and benefited from their knowledge and exchanged knowledge with them.

I am not saying that they introduced agricultural products to those people. I'm not saying they brought agriculture from where they came from. I'm saying that they helped to nurture the idea of agriculture amongst those people.
 
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