Do you think more advanced races, than who we have today, existed here on Earth in the distant past?

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In Lebanon, lies what many claim is the largest artificial monolith on the planet. This massive stone isn’t just any rock; it stretches about 64.3 feet (19.6 meters) long and tips the scales at an eye-popping 3.3 million pounds (1,650 tons). This behemoth has loomed over the landscape since Roman times—if not even earlier, with some theorizing it was hewn from the earth over 5,000 years ago, although no one can pin down exact dates. Modern engineers are left scratching their heads, awestruck by the ancient brilliance it took to create and maneuver such an astronomical slab of stone.
This monolith is only one piece of the puzzle in Baalbek’s grandeur. Just a stone's throw away stands the Temple of Jupiter, with its Roman upper structure. The real kicker is the base it's perched on—composed of monstrous limestone blocks. This foundation is an assembly of 27 colossal stones, with three of them weighing around 2 million pounds (1,000 tons) each, dubbed the Trilithon. Whoever built this ancient edifice clearly had a mastery of stone quarrying, transportation, and placement that we still can’t begin to fathom today.
The legends only add fuel to the fire of this historical enigma. Ancient Arabic writings link Baalbek to Nimrod, the mythic Babylonian king who allegedly resurrected it after the Great Flood with some giant friends. These tales suggest that even back then, people recognized that this site was something out of the ordinary.
These characters like Cain and those giants may just be attempts by the ancients to wrap their heads around the unfathomable. But centuries later, still marveling at how a civilization could possibly carve and transport stones weighing 3.3 million pounds. What made them pursue such grand designs? How did they nail down such astonishing precision?
A faction of scholars and enthusiasts ponders whether advanced ancient civilizations ever populated our world, only to be obliterated by climate disasters.

Do you think more advanced races, than who we have today, existed here on Earth in the distant past?

DrPepper12 · Accepted Answer

Again, my favorite philosopher George Carlin put it best in describing how insignificant and irrelevant we are. If there was a civilization before us (which I don't believe to be true) or another sentient alien race out there (which I absolutely believe to be true) they wouldn't even notice or care about some "advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star". Take it away George...

"Save the planet!” What? Are these fucking people kidding me? Save the planet? We don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet! We haven’t learned how to care for one another and we’re gonna save the fucking planet? I’m getting tired of that shit! I’m getting tired of that shit! I’m tired of fucking Earth Day! I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists; these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren’t enough bicycle paths! People trying to make the world safe for their Volvo’s! Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet. They don’t care about the planet; not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live; their own habitat. They’re worried that someday in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.

Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet… nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine… the people are fucked! Difference! The planet is fine! Compared to the people, THE PLANET IS DOING GREAT: Been here four and a half billion years! Do you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years, we’ve been here what? 100,000? Maybe 200,000? And we’ve only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over 200 years. 200 years versus four and a half billion and we have the conceit to think that somehow, we’re a threat? That somehow, we’re going to put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that’s just a-floatin’ around the sun? The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us: been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drifts, solar flares, sunspots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles, hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages, and we think some plastic bags and aluminum cans are going to make a difference?

The planet isn’t going anywhere… WE ARE! We’re going away! Pack your shit folks! We’re going away and we won’t leave much of a trace either, thank God for that… maybe a little styrofoam… maybe… little styrofoam. The planet will be here, we’ll be long gone; just another failed mutation; just another closed-end biological mistake; an evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas, a surface nuisance. You wanna know how the planet’s doing? Ask those people in Pompeii who are frozen into position from volcanic ash how the planet’s doing. Wanna know if the planet’s all right? Ask those people in Mexico City or Armenia or a hundred other places buried under thousands of tons of earthquake rubble if they feel like a threat to the planet this week. How about those people in Kilauea, Hawaii who build their homes right next to an active volcano and then wonder why they have lava in the living room?

The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: The Earth plus Plastic. The Earth doesn’t share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the Earth! The Earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the Earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place: it wanted plastic for itself, didn’t know how to make it, needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old philosophical question: “Why are we here?” PLASTIC!!! ASSHOLES!!!

So the plastic is here, our job is done, we can be phased out now, and I think that’s really started already, don’t you? I mean, to be fair, the planet probably sees us as a mild threat; something to be dealt with, and I’m sure the planet will defend itself in the manner of a large organism. Like a beehive or an ant colony can muster a defence, I’m sure the planet will think of something. What would you do if you were the planet trying to defend against this pesky, troublesome species? Let’s see… what might… hmm… viruses! Viruses might be good. They seem vulnerable to viruses. And uh… viruses are tricky; always mutating and forming new strains whenever a vaccine is developed. Perhaps this first virus could be one that-that compromises the immune system of these creatures. Perhaps a human immunodeficiency virus making them vulnerable to all sorts of other diseases and infections that might come along and maybe it could be spread sexually, making them a little reluctant to engage in the act of reproduction.

Well that’s a poetic note and it’s a start and I can dream can I? See, I don’t worry about the little things… bees, trees, whales, snails. I think we’re part of a greater wisdom that we won’t ever understand, a higher order. Call it what you want. You know what I call it? The big electron… the big electron. It doesn’t punish, it doesn’t reward, it doesn’t judge at all. It just is and so are we… for a little while…"

lightbulb27 · Accepted Answer

If you go back even 2000 yeras, the people were really smart. They solved problems using math that would trip up a lot of us... and applied it to practical problems. They had a lot of time to sit around and think. So maybe there are cultures that have been lost and wiped out before that. Seeing how we live today, it's no shock humans wiped out others.

But were they space alien experiments dropped here in a lab experiment and such... I doubt it. Evidence of their bodies be nice, but sometimes there isn't... if they were burned up into ash or burried in ocean.

Kelly6 · Accepted Answer

@daniela1982  Race, not  Creatures Yes, like jinn. In science will should get some clues from religious books

Gwendoline · Accepted Answer

I studied history a bit. There is clearly more than the consensus of historians regarding the past.

Surely · Answer

It would be interesting to learn the secrets behind the builds. I worked on 200 ton locomotives. It is amazing how much you can move with a medium sized pry bar! But I am sure that they didn’t have metal rails and perfectly round steel wheels.
But in those days. There wasn’t all of the electronic distractions. Like today. So people would labour instead.
Today, if we were to harness the power of our politician’s hot air and a hot air balloon. We could move the world!🌎

RavVid · Answer

Very interesting. The neolithic times were sure big on megaliths.

I'm not keen on advanced culture explanations because they are non-answers mostly and there any number of hypothesis possible.

Neolithic times are recent enough to have found evidence of advanced cultures in my view. It certainly is impressive.

Likes2drive · Answer

It’s possible we were very advanced thousands of years ago but things took years or centuries to do back then, they probably didn’t transport much, it was probably carved on site, civilizations did get wiped out like the dinosaurs but you don’t see any fossils of electronics unearthed just things from stone and metal so it’s not like we were that advanced as a race like now , we just have more stupid people now

strateguy632 · Answer

But archeologist have not been finding 2000 year old , or older , cell phones computer parts etc.

Or government did cover up.

joke is "egyptian israeli n Syrian were boasting.

Egyptian: we found copper in ancient digs, we had first electric wires!

Syrian: we found glass, we had ancient fiber optic networks

Israeli: but we are more advanced! We found NOTHING we had ancient wi- fi wireless internet.

nolabels · Answer

Maybe those who achieved these feats were beings other than human, or maybe humans previously had greater knowledge than we do today.

Regardless of that question, there were certainly civilizations that had skills that we humans today do not possess.

Earth is a very old planet.
Who knows how many civilizations, human or otherwise, have existed here.

The modern mind is gob-smacked when attempting to make sense of the all too obvious evidence.

Lliam · Answer

I don't know. New discoveries pop up all over the world for things that are unexplainable. And some of those appear to be tens of thousands of years old, older than the earliest known civilizations.

I don't believe in supernatural beings or magic, but there may have been non-homo sapiens with knowledge from who knows where.

There still isn't conclusive evidence, though.

KostasKouvalis · Answer

I don't know, it certainly seems like it. It certainly is strange that with today's knowledge and technology we can't replicate or at the very least figure out how it was built. I would imagine if they were capable of doing things like this, they would also have a much more advanced method of documentation. Unless some of the theories of an ancient nuclear war or all the records being delibately erased, are true.

ohsheeT · Answer

Yes if course. . Where do you think Trump came from according to . The #1 news in the world national Enquiry..  . According to it he was a used magic carpet salesman. .  And people like CNN. Huh!

Fireguy17 · Answer

there has to be, we sure can't be the most intelligent/advanced race in the universe. just look around you.

TadCurious · Answer

This is amazing. Whether or not there were more advanced races the technical mastery necessary to work and move such massive stones is mind boggling.

Bricealan · Answer

After seeing the Pyramids, and the Cathedral in Cologne, Germany, that took 300 years to build, Yes, I believe in Advanced races.

MrGSpotHer · Answer

I say it all the time we are stupid these days we don't know nothing about these things or true history of the planet, just worry about what looks good on Instagram or what a celeb is doing instead of actually learning something about life

MisterWack · Answer

“Do you think more advanced races, than who we have today, existed here on Earth in the distant past?“ We are all in the most advanced race…. The Human Race!

LiamJHayden · Answer

Wasn't that part of the basis for the various Stargate series?

Ladsin2 · Answer

Are you talking about the Baalbek Stones? Those were cut by the Romans. Pretty sure Romans are human.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes, and all of the primitive humans thought those races were "gods", "devils", "angels" and "demons".

noohair · Answer

Besides Homo sapiens?

Walksbehindtherows · Answer

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