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My Beautiful Middle Earth Cape Town: Where Rises Table Mountain In The Garden Of The Earth. Debate!?

Riverwolf

Riverwolf

Amateur Rambler / Proud Ergi
Premium Member
al-amiyr said:
Cape Town is:


Huffington Post top 10 most popular study abroad cities.

There is nothing like this piece of heaven
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Al, I'm sorry, but I doubt I'll ever be going anywhere in South Africa in my lifetime. Not even Cape Town.
 
al-amiyr

al-amiyr

Active Member
Riverwolf said:
Al, I'm sorry, but I doubt I'll ever be going anywhere in South Africa in my lifetime. Not even Cape Town.
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But if it is the Place of The Holy Mountain spoken of in the Bible and the Qur'aan - where shall be the Day of Judgment that shall take place on This Great Plain; In the presence of Table Mountain; the right of which is The Devil Mountain; the left of which is the Mountain in the form of a Crouching Lion; behind which lie The Twelve Apostle Mountains; the Signal Hill from which the noon gun bangs everyday at noon (except Sundays) for over a hundred years; surrounded by Two Mighty Oceans and two powerful Sea Currents; in the Greatest Garden of the Earth- then surely I will meet you here. Don't ask that I then take you around.
 
K

Kerr

Well-Known Member
Those mountains where beautiful. But beauty is a human perception. What is the most beautiful mountain or city or landscape will therefor be a matter of opinion.
 
Riverwolf

Riverwolf

Amateur Rambler / Proud Ergi
Premium Member
al-amiyr said:
But if it is the Place of The Holy Mountain spoken of in the Bible and the Qur'aan - where shall be the Day of Judgment that shall take place on This Great Plain; In the presence of Table Mountain; the right of which is The Devil Mountain; the left of which is the Mountain in the form of a Crouching Lion; behind which lie The Twelve Apostle Mountains; the Signal Hill from which the noon gun bangs everyday at noon (except Sundays) for over a hundred years; surrounded by Two Mighty Oceans and two powerful Sea Currents; in the Greatest Garden of the Earth- then surely I will meet you here. Don't ask that I then take you around.
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Unlikely. I don't believe in prophecies, even the ones from my own religion.

I'm sure it's a nice place, but there are other magnificent and heavenly gardens in the world; here in California, we have Yosemite Valley and the Redwood Forest.

And, as you've never been outside South Africa, I can say for certain that you've never been in the presence of an active volcano.
 
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kylixguru

Well-Known Member
al-amiyr said:
But if it is the Place of The Holy Mountain spoken of in the Bible and the Qur'aan - where shall be the Day of Judgment that shall take place on This Great Plain; In the presence of Table Mountain; the right of which is The Devil Mountain; the left of which is the Mountain in the form of a Crouching Lion; behind which lie The Twelve Apostle Mountains; the Signal Hill from which the noon gun bangs everyday at noon (except Sundays) for over a hundred years; surrounded by Two Mighty Oceans and two powerful Sea Currents; in the Greatest Garden of the Earth- then surely I will meet you here. Don't ask that I then take you around.
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Rather than spread this information scattered throughout posts, perhaps you can make a web-site or something that you can put all of your special correlations into?
I always like to see how people assemble these things together.
 
al-amiyr

al-amiyr

Active Member
South Africa​
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South Africa -- $2,494 billion in metal & ore
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reserves
 
Riverwolf

Riverwolf

Amateur Rambler / Proud Ergi
Premium Member
Photonic said:
I've lived in the shadow of Mt. Helen, It's pretty imposing.
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...you mean Mount St. Helens? 'Cause Wyoming's Mt. Helen isn't a volcano. You also said that you'd never traveled out of South Africa, and there's only a few volcanoes there, none of which are currently active, based on my research.
 
al-amiyr

al-amiyr

Active Member
Cape Town: Home of The World's Greatest Garden
Cape Floral Kingdom - UNESCO World Heritage Site South Africa

The Cape Floral Region - SouthAfrica.info

Cape Floristic Region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Of the world's six floral kingdoms, this is the smallest and richest per area unit.
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sojourner

sojourner

Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
al-amiyr said:
But if it is the Place of The Holy Mountain spoken of in the Bible and the Qur'aan - where shall be the Day of Judgment that shall take place on This Great Plain; In the presence of Table Mountain; the right of which is The Devil Mountain; the left of which is the Mountain in the form of a Crouching Lion; behind which lie The Twelve Apostle Mountains; the Signal Hill from which the noon gun bangs everyday at noon (except Sundays) for over a hundred years; surrounded by Two Mighty Oceans and two powerful Sea Currents; in the Greatest Garden of the Earth- then surely I will meet you here. Don't ask that I then take you around.
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It isn't. The holy mountain spoken of in the bible and Koran is generally accepted as being located in the Sinai Peninsula, specifically, or in Arabia (which covers most of the Middle East). It is in no wise considered to be in Africa -- especially since the biblical writers were unaware of that part of Africa.
 
Photonic

Photonic

Ad astra!
Riverwolf said:
...you mean Mount St. Helens? 'Cause Wyoming's Mt. Helen isn't a volcano. You also said that you'd never traveled out of South Africa, and there's only a few volcanoes there, none of which are currently active, based on my research.
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Re-read my post. I was lazy and posted it before I realized what I said.
 
sojourner

sojourner

Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
the ancient Celts believed in "thin places," places that represented not-here-but-not-there, such as seashores (not sea, but not land, either), forest edges, caves, hills. These places were sacred. They thought that the "time-between-times," dawn and dusk, were sacred times. These times and places were referred to as "nexus" -- where this world intersected with the Otherworld.

There are many such places, all over the world, in different cultures and available to many belief systems. This "sacred ground" concept is common, and lies not in one geographical particularity, but wherever people of faith and spirituality reside.
 
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