Yes, I also saw that show on crackpot Ark theories

Posted by Abner from user-2ive8gp.dialup.mindspring.com on April 16, 1999 at 09:10:19:

In Reply to: knights templar and the ark posted by Michael on April 15, 1999 at 22:28:59:

: did anyone see a thing on the learning channel today about the ark of the covenant? while it talked about the usual ethiopian theories, i never heard of a theory involving the knights templar. according to legend, not only did they cart it back to scotland, but they claim that *five* copies of the ark were made, and all of them survive. i didn't even know the knights templar still existed as some sort of secret society, but it was an interesting twist on the usual guesses to the current whereabouts of the ark. too bad nobody will actually try and search for the thing. i did disagree with one expert's assessment that the ark used "electricity" to convey the power of God.
: he was quite the skeptic...

: where's the fun of melting people?

: Michael

I did get a kick out of it too. I would take with a very large grain of salt anything said by someone dressed in all black framed by weird camera angles with candles in the background. Did you like the lame Pseudo-Indiana Jones map? One funny part was where the host is walking down an alley in a Middle Eastern city speaking to the camera which is covering him from afar with a long lens. An Arab woman and her child going in the opposite direction stop wondering "Why is this guy talking to himself out loud waving his arms around?" Then they turn around and see the camera. I doubt that any Knights Templar have the ark, or five arks. Why would they have lost all their influence then? It would be interesting to find out what is in that Ethiopian Chapel, though. Like the Germans, we should assemble an armed force and capture it!

Abner

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: : did anyone see a thing on the learning channel today about the ark of the covenant?  while it talked about the usual ethiopian theories, i never heard of a theory involving the knights templar.  according to legend, not only did they cart it back to scotland, but they claim that *five* copies of the ark were made, and all of them survive.  i didn't even know the knights templar still existed as some sort of secret society, but it was an interesting twist on the usual guesses to the current whereabouts of the ark.  too bad nobody will actually try and search for the thing.  i did disagree with one expert's assessment that the ark used "electricity" to convey the power of God.
: : he was quite the skeptic...

: : where's the fun of melting people?

: : Michael

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: I did get a kick out of it too.  I would take with a very large grain of salt anything said by someone dressed in all black framed by weird camera angles with candles in the background.  Did you like the lame Pseudo-Indiana Jones map?  One funny part was where the host is walking down an alley in a Middle Eastern city speaking to the camera which is covering him from afar with a long lens.  An Arab woman and her child going in the opposite direction stop wondering "Why is this guy talking to himself out loud waving his arms around?"  Then they turn around and see the camera.  I doubt that any Knights Templar have the ark, or five arks.  Why would they have lost all their influence then?  It would be interesting to find out what is in that Ethiopian Chapel, though.  Like the Germans, we should assemble an armed force and capture it!

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