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December 4, 2010 - 1:03 pm Comments Off

I originally purchased this documentary with the hope of using it in my 7th grade art class. We are discussing graffiti and community art. Unfortunately, the title “Bomb It” could be the way the f bombs were dropping left and right. But that’s something you would have to expect when gang members are being interviewed. I found it to be very interesting and informative. It follows the world of graffiti from its start in Philly to places all over the world. The artists that are featured have different styles and stories to tell. Even though I couldn’t show the film to the class, I am still able to impart the history it tells.

Christians, Jews, and Muslims, what do you think of this?
I was watching a documentary on Moses. A group of scientists were trying to find any evidence that the biblical story of Moses was accurate. At first they couldn’t find anything, not even the city where Moses had grown up. Then they realized that a certain branch of the Nile had gotten clogged, traced this branch using satellite pictures, and found an ancient city called “The City of Ramses”. In mines nearby they found ancient, primitive Hebrew “Graffiti” scrawled on the walls, and enough stables to hold nearly one hundred chariots. They also figured out that the “Ten Plagues” could have very well been environmental consequences of the cataclysmic explosion of a volcano on Santorini (Which coincided exactly with Moses’s lifespan), as such violent eruptions have been known to have bizarre consequences. They also found Documentary Graffiti Dvd a mistranslation, the ancient Hebrew texts actually say that Moses crossed the Sea of Reeds, not the Red Sea. (To be continued :\)This could refer to any of the large lakes on the eastern edge of the Nile delta. They also calculated how long it would take a tsunami from Santorini to reach the Sea of Reeds, and it turned out to be the same amount of time it takes to travel there from the City of Ramses. As we all know, a tsunami causes the water to recede before the tidal wave strikes, and the scientist’s calculations showed that the water would have stayed receded long enough to allow Moses passage across the Sea of Reeds, and then it would have struck his pursuers. They also found another error in the texts when it said that Moses ad his followers camped out at Mt. Sinai. Apparently, they actually camped at some other mountain, where the researchers found the foundations of primitive shelters, the 12-pillared shrine mentioned in the Bible, and carvings in the stone shaped like the tablets with the ten commandments on them.I find it fascinating that these stories have been recorded with such accuracy. There were only a few errors in translation! I’m not saying whether or not a deity was behind the events, because I honestly have no idea. But I think that their research brings up an interesting point: religious texts are not infallible, because they are written down, translated, and interpreted by human beings, who tend to make mistakes.

It was on the discovery channel, I’m not sure about the producers. I can ask the professor who showed it to me, but I won’t see him till next week, I might be able to PM it to you. Oh, and Maya, they found the records in the City of Ramses, included Hebrew graffiti in ancient egyptian mind shafts…
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