Mysteries of the Gods 1977 - Bill Shatner [Archive]

Richard

13th February 2007, 05:24 AM

brettDbass

13th February 2007, 05:48 AM

Why does . . . . . God . . . . . need a spaceship?

[/Shatspeak]

Vorticity

13th February 2007, 08:49 AM

Why does . . . . . God . . . . . need a spaceship?

[/Shatspeak]
[pedantic geek]
starship
[/pedantic geek]

elgarak

13th February 2007, 08:57 AM

[uberpedantic geek]
What does ... God ... need with a starship?
[/uberpedantic geek]

If you quote, quote correctly :).

brettDbass

13th February 2007, 09:09 AM

Ok, if this is geek-poker, I fold right now.
:rolleyes:

TheGline

13th February 2007, 11:47 AM

"What God wants, God gets." -- Roger Waters

(see and raise!)

Tricky

13th February 2007, 12:29 PM

Wow.. I forgot all about this one. Finding all sorts of old stuff on google and youtube... seems that the skeptics are still right.

Mysteries of the Gods 1977

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Mysteries+of+the+Gods&num=10&so=0&start=0
Not as bad as that wretched Leonard Nimoy series In Search Of... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of...)That damn thing is probably responsible for more woo woos than anything up until the X-Files.

Tricky

13th February 2007, 12:30 PM

"What God wants, God gets." -- Roger Waters

(see and raise!)
I am amused (to death).

Fnord

13th February 2007, 12:49 PM

I'm still looking for a copy of "Hot Rods of the Gods" to complete my Von Daniken collection.

mollyblack

13th February 2007, 01:16 PM

I'm frightened by his hair. Somebody hold me?

*Shivers with fear* :faint:

Richard

13th February 2007, 01:26 PM

Not as bad as that wretched Leonard Nimoy series In Search Of... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of...)That damn thing is probably responsible for more woo woos than anything up until the X-Files.

Anyone know how I can get a copy of that show?

Fnord

13th February 2007, 01:44 PM

The. Very. Idea. That gods. VisitedtheEarth. In. Flying saucers is. Ridiculous. And what. Is wrong. Withmyhair?

mollyblack

13th February 2007, 02:43 PM

The. Very. Idea. That gods. VisitedtheEarth. In. Flying saucers is. Ridiculous. And what. Is wrong. Withmyhair?

It's the thing living in the center of his head. Can't you see it? It's feasting on something and being held there by the hair on the sides.

It's darker than the rest of his hair. It's scaring me. It's going to give me horrible nightmares. I just know it. And I have bad nightmares as it is (I can't tell you how many times I've died in my dreams).

Thanks a lot for this. I live in fear that it will come creeping up the stairs...

:yikes:

Dr Aardwolf

14th February 2007, 07:40 AM

Don't worry about Bill Shatner's hair folks, I've got it on good authority that it's just a very well-trained Tribble!

brettDbass

14th February 2007, 08:36 AM

"What God wants, God gets." -- Roger Waters

(see and raise!)I am amused (to death).

Which surely has its Pros and Cons.

CptColumbo

14th February 2007, 10:07 AM

Wow.. I forgot all about this one. Finding all sorts of old stuff on google and youtube... seems that the skeptics are still right.

Mysteries of the Gods 1977

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Mysteries+of+the+Gods&num=10&so=0&start=0

Hate to admit it, but I actually saw it in a theatre on the big screen. His conversation with Jean Dixon at the end is priceless.

TheGline

14th February 2007, 10:13 AM

Which surely has its Pros and Cons.

And runs the risk of disintegrating into pure Kaos.

quixotecoyote

14th February 2007, 12:26 PM

Nah, he went back into the ice cream business

coalesce

14th February 2007, 12:26 PM

And runs the risk of disintegrating into pure Kaos.

Well, this thread has hit The Wall.

Michael

TheGline

14th February 2007, 02:41 PM

Well, this thread has hit The Wall.

I think it's just been Obscured By Clouds.

St.Michael

14th February 2007, 04:40 PM

Kaaahhnn!

http://www.joblo.com/newsimages1/tvkahn.jpg

Luke T.

14th February 2007, 04:49 PM

Don't worry about Bill Shatner's hair folks, I've got it on good authority that it's just a very well-trained Tribble!

Or Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict.

wahrheit

14th February 2007, 05:08 PM

Thanks for the link to those Shatner videos, Richard!

Erich von Däniken my a** :mad:. Guys like him are, in my opinion, a major reason for all the woo we have today. Publishing (and selling) a gazillion books for decades, giving readers the impression/semblance of scientific work, has caused a lot of damage.

Just read this quote from a viewer of the video at the youtube site:
all these videos r amazing!! if just finishd reading erich von danikens book "the gold of the gods" it is brilliant and brings up facts that have been lost and hidden by modern human stuipdity! i think we culd learn a lot from aiciant people! one day we will learn it the hard way...
:(

Rrose Selavy

14th February 2007, 06:29 PM

When I was in my late teens , I think, I read a couple of Von Danikens books and was fascinated by them - what an amazing theory I thought - then a little later I read "The Space Gods Revealed" by Ronald Story in which he effectively debunked the entire theory and more , showed what a crook Van Daniken was.

I was taught a lesson that I carry with me to this day.

TheGline

14th February 2007, 08:22 PM

"Crook" is the nicest word I have for Von Daniken.

One of the things that I never really realized about his books until someone else pointed them out to me was how they contain a profoundly offensive and downright misanthropic premise: Ancient man was too stupid to do anything we've attributed to him without the intervention of aliens.

But I'm not even sure he realized that -- he was just happy with whatever drew attention to him as a "thinker" and not as someone who embezzled from his last job.

Tricky

14th February 2007, 08:28 PM

And runs the risk of disintegrating into pure Kaos.
Not at all. The tide is turning, haven't you heard. If not, we'll discuss it one of these days.

TheGline

14th February 2007, 08:44 PM

Not at all. The tide is turning, haven't you heard. If not, we'll discuss it one of these days.

Just look out for pigs on the wing, okay?

Flange Desire

14th February 2007, 09:37 PM

Just look out for pigs on the wing, okay?
I think you may have had a momentary lapse of reason.

TheGline

14th February 2007, 09:49 PM

I think you may have had a momentary lapse of reason.

Possibly due to brain damage.

Checkmite

14th February 2007, 09:57 PM

I think you may have had a momentary lapse of reason.

Nice one! I could almost hear the delicate sound of thunder.

As for Von Daniken's book "Gold of the Gods", it shouldn't impress anyone. In fact, it's the book whose claims could be more credited with proving Von Daniken's foolishness than any other. I'm speaking, of course, of his claim that a certain cave in Ecuador (Cueva de los Tayos, to be precise) contained within its considerable depths a wealth of all manner of alien artifacts, including a neeto-keeno "library", consisting of dozens of books with scribed metal pages. And lots and lots of gold. He claimed to have been there, and seen and touched all of these things. They were incontrovertible proof, once and for all, that Von Daniken was right.

The claim was so spectacular that someone organized a massive exploration of this cave in the 70's. Lots of people (as in, like 80 or so) joined in including, IIRC, Buzz Aldrin of all people.

Guess what they found?

A big, dark cave.

Rrose Selavy

15th February 2007, 05:51 AM

There was a UK TV documentary in the late 70s or early 80s where he was apparently uncovering remarkable small stones that quite clearly and explicitly appeared to depict images of open heart surgery - then they were traced to a tribesman in a nearby village who was producing them and passing on to VonD to reveal to the world.

Fnord

15th February 2007, 02:54 PM

In all fairness, I must insist that people visit the Erich von Däniken (http://www.daniken.com/e/) website, read through it, and judge for themselves. I mean, so far no-one has mentioned that he has started a theme park.

It's true!

Then there's his theory of Astrosociobiology (http://www.answers.com/topic/astrosociobiology), which is the speculative scientific study of extraterrestrial civilizations and their possible social characteristics and developmental tendencies.

Ooo... Ahh...

He also claims that entropy drives evolution to higher levels of complexity for the sole purpose of disseminating energy gradients.

But wait, there's more!

Erich von Däniken has uncovered the secrets of levitation (http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa031901a.htm)! Yes, the true means by which the pyramids were built!

Can I get a witness?

No?

Never mind.

wahrheit

16th February 2007, 04:42 AM

In all fairness, I must insist that people visit the Erich von Däniken website, read through it, and judge for themselves.

Don't miss the picture on the index page of Däniken's website (http://www.daniken.com/).

I wonder why they chose a picture where Däniken makes such a tense face.

http://forums.randi.org/imagehosting/451445d598713670a.jpg

MortFurd

16th February 2007, 08:36 AM

I read some of Van Daniken's stuff when I was a teenager. I remember being envious of all the cool places he went and all the cool things he saw and photographed. I also remember thinking "Cool pics. Stop with the crap and just tell me where they were taken."

Say what you will about Van Daniken, he really got to some cool places and took pictures of really interesting stuff.

Psiload

16th February 2007, 08:57 AM

In all fairness, I must insist that people visit the Erich von Däniken (http://www.daniken.com/e/) website, read through it, and judge for themselves. I mean, so far no-one has mentioned that he has started a theme park.

Actually... Mystery Park closed it's doors about three months ago... thereby disproving the theory that you'll never go broke overestimating human stupidity.