Difference between revisions of "Talk:Eorl's Grand Unified Timeline (as Calculated by Abner)"

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tcm: Abner is full of shit. 520 years between the second flood and Noah's flood? Did the Bible just forget to mention that there was a flood before Noah's flood? Using simple math and Genesis 5, one can easily determine that there are 1651 years between the time when Adam was created and the time when Lamech died (Lamech was Noah's father and he died 95 years after Shem, Ham, and Japheth were born). 1651 is substantially more than 520, about three times more. I think Abner doesn't actually know how to do math and he's just been bullshitting all this time.

If the 520 years is to be believed, then that posits that there was a flood about a hundred years after Noah was born, which is ludicrous. Noah would probably've brought that up when he was asked to build an ark for another flood.

Kerry: Igwilf quote: "If the information provided by my magics is correct, this place (Kebnekaise) is 520 million years old..."

Abner: I assure you, because of my Pythagorean diet, not even my colon is "full of shit." The calculations are correct for the data given. Don't blame me if your forgotten gods don't know how to estimate distance, or your rabbis don't know how to estimate time.

Scott: Gershom is working on this text and does not have the Igwilf quote, I believe; but if the Igwilf quote is to be believed, that would double the overall range, and make 520 = 1040. That's still not 1651, though. Regardless, what's got Gershom excited on behalf of Chrysopolis (since his mission is the 50 Names) is pinning down the sequence of all of this. He'd skirted a sort of minor heresy for a while, thinking that the rat-things came before the Octopi.

Noah: Gershom certainly has the Igwilf quote. It is from Ikulu's Correspondence to Philip, King of Macedon, a copy of which resides in Chrysopolis.

Kerry: We've got some new texts that may shed more light on this, including the Necronomicon. They'll get put up one of these days. Seems like 1000 years is the standard cycle of Bad Lady(water/chaos goddess) vs. Good Guy(spearer), with Noah's flood likely to be at 1,000 BC., and the next one prevented by Christ at year 0.

Noah: Mmmm... are you sure it wasn't the Babel Incident/Attack of the Sea People taking place at ~1,000 BC?