Guidelines for Evaluating Media
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
(Alexander Pope, “An Essay on Man,” epistle 2, lines 217–21.)
Satan’s Tools
Uses logic to confuse.
Uses rationalizations to destroy.
Will shade meanings.
Opens doors an inch at a time.
Leads from purest white through all the shades of gray to the darkest black.
(See Spencer W. Kimball, “President Kimball Speaks Out on Morality,” Ensign, Nov. 1980, p. 94.)
Standards to Judge Media
Whatever weakens your reason
Whatever impairs the tenderness of your conscience
Whatever obscures your sense of God
Whatever takes off your relish for spiritual things
Whatever increases the authority of the body over the mind
(See Ezra Taft Benson, “In His Steps,” Speeches of the Year, 1979 [Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1980], p. 61.)
How to Avoid Degrading Influences
Do not see or talk about objectionable movies.
Do not look at pornographic magazines, pictures, or stories.
Have courage to walk out of an off-color movie.
Keep television shows with suggestive conversation and experiences out of your home.
(See H. Burke Peterson, in Conference Report, Oct. 1980, pp. 56–57; or Ensign, Nov. 1980, pp. 38–39.)
Thursday, September 25, 2008
MAYAN CITY UNDERWATER
THE WAY THAT I KNOW THAT THE BOZOS (AND I AM BEING KIND WITH THAT ADJECTIVE) WHO SAY IT TAKES MILLIONS OF YEARS FOR STUFF TO HAPPEN, DON'T HAVE ANY CLUE TO WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. READ ON:
THERE IS AN UPDATE TO THE SUBJECT CITY THAT SAYS THAT THIS DISCOVERED CITY IS NOW BEING SURVEYED BY THE UNDERWATER TEAM WITH INTRIGUING RESULTS.
HERE IS AN EXCERPT:
"ADC has also been exploring a string of underwater volcanoes about 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) deep off Cuba,s western tip, where millions of years ago a strip of land once joined the island to Mexico,s Yucatan Peninsula."
I CAN'T HELP BUT OBSERVE THAT THEY STATE IN THE ARTICLE BELOW, THAT A NARROW NECK OF LAND USED TO CONNECT CUBA TO THE YUCATAN MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO (BY THEIR RECKONING IT SUNK MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO) BUT THAT THE SAME NECK OF LAND HAPPENS TO HAVE A CLASSICAL MAYAN CITY ON IT. THOSE MAYANS WERE EXCELLENT DIVERS!! AND BESIDES THEIR DIVING SKILLS, THEIR SKILL TO BUILD UNDERWATER CITIES WAS UNPARALLELED!! HELPED THEM MOVE THE HUGE BLOCKS OF STONE WITH INFLATED GOAT STOMACH BAGS - THAT’S IT!!
COULD IT BE THAT THE VOLCANOES, THE SUNKEN MAYAN CITY, AND THE SUNKEN ROADS THAT DISAPPEAR OFF THE BEACH IN THE YUCATAN ARE SOMEHOW CONNECTED?? COULD IT BE???
COULD IT BE THAT CATASTROPHISM DOES EXIST ON A LARGE SCALE??
'Pyramids, Roads And Buildings'
Found At 2200' In Caribbean?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/573489.asp
5-16-1
HAVANA, Cuba - Barely touched since the colonial era of piracy and shipwrecks, sea bottoms around Cuba are an underwater fantasy world promising treasure-laden sunken ships, insights into times gone by - and maybe even a lost city.
Once a hub for shipments of gold, silver and other plunder from New World to Old, the Caribbean island,s waters likely hide billions of dollars, worth of treasure from hundreds of ships that sank after encountering reefs, storms or pirates.
But that is not all that tempts foreign companies, which, in a joint venture with President Fidel Castro,s government, are beginning an unprecedented, systematic search of one of the world,s most-fascinating, least-explored undersea regions.
As well as gold-laden Spanish galleons, important secrets and insights into regional history, global environment trends, ancient geography and marine science also lurk in the depths.
"It's a new frontier, Soviet-born Canadian ocean engineer Paulina Zelitsky enthused as she pored over video images of hitherto-unseen seafloor taken by underwater robots.
"We are the first people ever to see the bottom of Cuban waters over 50 meters, said Zelitsky, president of Canada-based Advanced Digital Communications. "It's so exciting. We are discovering the influence of currents on global climate, volcanoes, the history of formation of Caribbean islands, numerous historic wrecks and even possibly a sunken city built in the pre-classic period and populated by an advanced civilization similar to the early Teotihuacan culture of Yucatan.
ADC, the heavyweight among four foreign exploration firms here, was testing its deep-water equipment off Havana Bay late last year when its ship, Ulises, found the century-old wreck of the battleship Maine while surveying the seabed.
The ship blew up mysteriously in 1898, killing 260 American sailors and touching off the Spanish-American War.
ADC has also been exploring a string of underwater volcanoes about 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) deep off Cuba,s western tip, where millions of years ago a strip of land once joined the island to Mexico,s Yucatan Peninsula.
Most intriguingly, researchers using sonar equipment have discovered, at a depth of about 2,200 feet (700-800 meters), a huge land plateau with clear images of what appears to be urban development partly covered by sand. From above, the shapes resemble pyramids, roads and buildings.
ADC is excited but reluctant to speculate until a joint investigation with the Cuban Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society takes place early this summer.
"It is stunning. What we see in our high-resolution sonar images are limitless, rolling, white sand plains and, in the middle of this beautiful white sand, there are clear manmade large-size architectural designs. It looks like when you fly over an urban development in a plane and you see highways, tunnels and buildings, Zelitsky said.
"We don,t know what it is, and we don't have the videotaped evidence of this yet, but we do not believe that nature is capable of producing planned symmetrical architecture, unless it is a miracle, she added in an interview at her office at Tarara, along the coast east of Havana.
ADC's deep-water equipment includes a satellite-integrated ocean bottom positioning system, high-precision side-scan double-frequency sonar, and remotely operated submarine robots. They plan to add two submersibles to take people down.
On the treasure trail, it has already located 700 target sites where historic wrecks are thought to lie, and it recently videotaped and identified three of them as large 17th-century ships with valuable cargo.
THE BIGGER PICTURE
Bringing up treasure will finance the project. But Zelitsky said, "Our agenda is much broader. We are very anxious about global environmental changes. Archaeology is providing us with the means to conduct broader scientific ocean exploration.
The other three foreign companies " one Canadian, one French and one South African " operate in shallower waters than ADC. Under contracts with Cuban state partner Geomar, all the firms have concessions to explore in different swaths of sea and would share profits with the government.
American companies are prohibited from participating by the long-running U.S. embargo on the communist-run island.
The rush of interest in Cuba's seas is due in part to the Castro government's recognition that it does not have the money or technology to carry out systematic exploration by itself, though it does have excellent divers.
"As you know, we have financing problems. This is a very expensive activity. They give us technology and financing. We provide historical and ocean expertise, said Eddy Fernandez, vice president of Geomar.
"These projects are very important in helping us rescue things from history, which contribute to our national patrimony, he added at a ceremony launching a mini-submarine used by the other Canadian company, Toronto-based Visa Gold.
Visa Gold, which operates in Cuba out of Havana's Marina Hemingway, says it has already brought up some 7,000 artifacts including jewelry, diamonds and pistols from a brigantine called Palemon that sank in 1839 off Cuba,s northern coast.
The new target in Havana Bay is the Atocha y San Jose, which sank in January 1642 while trying to reach port after fleeing storms at sea. Like the other firms, Visa Gold combines sea exploration with research, checking archives in Spain and elsewhere to establish roughly where boats went down.
"This is a very historic point, the mouth of Havana Bay, the most strategic point in the New World at that time, company president Paul Frustaglio said at the launch ceremony.
THERE IS AN UPDATE TO THE SUBJECT CITY THAT SAYS THAT THIS DISCOVERED CITY IS NOW BEING SURVEYED BY THE UNDERWATER TEAM WITH INTRIGUING RESULTS.
HERE IS AN EXCERPT:
"ADC has also been exploring a string of underwater volcanoes about 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) deep off Cuba,s western tip, where millions of years ago a strip of land once joined the island to Mexico,s Yucatan Peninsula."
I CAN'T HELP BUT OBSERVE THAT THEY STATE IN THE ARTICLE BELOW, THAT A NARROW NECK OF LAND USED TO CONNECT CUBA TO THE YUCATAN MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO (BY THEIR RECKONING IT SUNK MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO) BUT THAT THE SAME NECK OF LAND HAPPENS TO HAVE A CLASSICAL MAYAN CITY ON IT. THOSE MAYANS WERE EXCELLENT DIVERS!! AND BESIDES THEIR DIVING SKILLS, THEIR SKILL TO BUILD UNDERWATER CITIES WAS UNPARALLELED!! HELPED THEM MOVE THE HUGE BLOCKS OF STONE WITH INFLATED GOAT STOMACH BAGS - THAT’S IT!!
COULD IT BE THAT THE VOLCANOES, THE SUNKEN MAYAN CITY, AND THE SUNKEN ROADS THAT DISAPPEAR OFF THE BEACH IN THE YUCATAN ARE SOMEHOW CONNECTED?? COULD IT BE???
COULD IT BE THAT CATASTROPHISM DOES EXIST ON A LARGE SCALE??
'Pyramids, Roads And Buildings'
Found At 2200' In Caribbean?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/573489.asp
5-16-1
HAVANA, Cuba - Barely touched since the colonial era of piracy and shipwrecks, sea bottoms around Cuba are an underwater fantasy world promising treasure-laden sunken ships, insights into times gone by - and maybe even a lost city.
Once a hub for shipments of gold, silver and other plunder from New World to Old, the Caribbean island,s waters likely hide billions of dollars, worth of treasure from hundreds of ships that sank after encountering reefs, storms or pirates.
But that is not all that tempts foreign companies, which, in a joint venture with President Fidel Castro,s government, are beginning an unprecedented, systematic search of one of the world,s most-fascinating, least-explored undersea regions.
As well as gold-laden Spanish galleons, important secrets and insights into regional history, global environment trends, ancient geography and marine science also lurk in the depths.
"It's a new frontier, Soviet-born Canadian ocean engineer Paulina Zelitsky enthused as she pored over video images of hitherto-unseen seafloor taken by underwater robots.
"We are the first people ever to see the bottom of Cuban waters over 50 meters, said Zelitsky, president of Canada-based Advanced Digital Communications. "It's so exciting. We are discovering the influence of currents on global climate, volcanoes, the history of formation of Caribbean islands, numerous historic wrecks and even possibly a sunken city built in the pre-classic period and populated by an advanced civilization similar to the early Teotihuacan culture of Yucatan.
ADC, the heavyweight among four foreign exploration firms here, was testing its deep-water equipment off Havana Bay late last year when its ship, Ulises, found the century-old wreck of the battleship Maine while surveying the seabed.
The ship blew up mysteriously in 1898, killing 260 American sailors and touching off the Spanish-American War.
ADC has also been exploring a string of underwater volcanoes about 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) deep off Cuba,s western tip, where millions of years ago a strip of land once joined the island to Mexico,s Yucatan Peninsula.
Most intriguingly, researchers using sonar equipment have discovered, at a depth of about 2,200 feet (700-800 meters), a huge land plateau with clear images of what appears to be urban development partly covered by sand. From above, the shapes resemble pyramids, roads and buildings.
ADC is excited but reluctant to speculate until a joint investigation with the Cuban Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society takes place early this summer.
"It is stunning. What we see in our high-resolution sonar images are limitless, rolling, white sand plains and, in the middle of this beautiful white sand, there are clear manmade large-size architectural designs. It looks like when you fly over an urban development in a plane and you see highways, tunnels and buildings, Zelitsky said.
"We don,t know what it is, and we don't have the videotaped evidence of this yet, but we do not believe that nature is capable of producing planned symmetrical architecture, unless it is a miracle, she added in an interview at her office at Tarara, along the coast east of Havana.
ADC's deep-water equipment includes a satellite-integrated ocean bottom positioning system, high-precision side-scan double-frequency sonar, and remotely operated submarine robots. They plan to add two submersibles to take people down.
On the treasure trail, it has already located 700 target sites where historic wrecks are thought to lie, and it recently videotaped and identified three of them as large 17th-century ships with valuable cargo.
THE BIGGER PICTURE
Bringing up treasure will finance the project. But Zelitsky said, "Our agenda is much broader. We are very anxious about global environmental changes. Archaeology is providing us with the means to conduct broader scientific ocean exploration.
The other three foreign companies " one Canadian, one French and one South African " operate in shallower waters than ADC. Under contracts with Cuban state partner Geomar, all the firms have concessions to explore in different swaths of sea and would share profits with the government.
American companies are prohibited from participating by the long-running U.S. embargo on the communist-run island.
The rush of interest in Cuba's seas is due in part to the Castro government's recognition that it does not have the money or technology to carry out systematic exploration by itself, though it does have excellent divers.
"As you know, we have financing problems. This is a very expensive activity. They give us technology and financing. We provide historical and ocean expertise, said Eddy Fernandez, vice president of Geomar.
"These projects are very important in helping us rescue things from history, which contribute to our national patrimony, he added at a ceremony launching a mini-submarine used by the other Canadian company, Toronto-based Visa Gold.
Visa Gold, which operates in Cuba out of Havana's Marina Hemingway, says it has already brought up some 7,000 artifacts including jewelry, diamonds and pistols from a brigantine called Palemon that sank in 1839 off Cuba,s northern coast.
The new target in Havana Bay is the Atocha y San Jose, which sank in January 1642 while trying to reach port after fleeing storms at sea. Like the other firms, Visa Gold combines sea exploration with research, checking archives in Spain and elsewhere to establish roughly where boats went down.
"This is a very historic point, the mouth of Havana Bay, the most strategic point in the New World at that time, company president Paul Frustaglio said at the launch ceremony.
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