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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lizjewel, post: 2183085, member: 13874&quot;]We once knew socially a man who regularly went looking for <b>Noah&#039;s Ark</b>. <i>This is not a joke</i>. Back in the 1980s, he with a group of people regularly went on trips to the <b>Ararat Mountain</b> in Turkey, paid for guides, gear, tents, provisions, etc. to make the dangerous climb up the sides of the mountain.</p><p><br /></p><p>The locals there live on the proceeds from these Ark-chaser&nbsp; expeditions. The participants all have &quot;evidence&quot; of the Ark being there &quot;somewhere&quot;, maps, photos, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fact that the only huge <i>protrusion</i> thought to possibly represent the Biblical vessel ever recorded on a photograph is on the <i>Russian</i> side of Ararat they totally ignore.</p><p><br /></p><p>The American military pilot who took the picture from his plane was actually in a forbidden zone [Russian] so lied and said the photo was taken from the Turkish side of Ararat. Anyone familiar with how the peaks there look sees immediately that it was the Russian side.</p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, the dozen or so fellows (no women allowed!) enjoy getting away from their big mostly Southwestern families every two-three years or so to &quot;go looking for the Ark&quot;. They do not expect to ever find it. It wouldn&#039;t be <i>a true quest</i> then, would it.</p><p><br /></p><p>And returning to WOOD as in a memento: The Turkish locals do a brisk business selling amulets and little keepsake boxes with <i>pieces of the Ark</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Having once been shown a small splinter in a tiny box, I recall it was very dark, charred, like it had been in a fire. I asked about that and was informed that &quot;the wood in the Ark was coated with bitumen and tar&quot; [to make it waterproof] according to the Bible. That explained why it was of a black color.</p><p><br /></p><p>And how did the locals get hold of these wood splinters if the actual Ark has yet to be found? They claim that they always find pieces of the Ark along the mountain sides where pieces chafed down from the ship over the thousands of years since it came to rest on Ararat.</p><p><br /></p><p>So much for today&#039;s history lesson in what else can be called a <i>reliquary memento.</i> Thank you all for your enthusiastic attention![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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