Would you like to solve a world Mystery?

@winterose (39887)
Canada
July 12, 2008 11:20pm CST
If you had the ability to solve a major mystery what would it be? Would you like to identify the Jack the Ripper where no one else has been able to for over a century now? Would you like to find out the real William Shakespeare? Figure who and how the pyramids in Egypt were build? find the holy grail or the ark of the covenant? Locate Noah's ark, the hanging gardens of Babylon, the exact location of the garden of Eden, or the city King Solomon built? Maybe you might want to discover a cure for cancer, or find the fountain of youth, maybe find out once and for all if there is life in outer space which mystery would you want to solve and why?
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@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
13 Jul 08
Curing Cancer would be nice since I have lost so many family members to it and so has my husband. I would like to find a cure for Cystic Fibrosis also since my 3 year old niece has it and it is uncurable. I have always wondered where the Ark is located and also the Garden of Eden. And I have always been curious about like in outer space and beyond. I would love to be able to solve these things. It would be great not just for me but for the world if I found the cures for Cancer and Cystic Fibrosis. And possibly thousands or more have set out in search of the Ark. Be kinda cool to be the one to find it.
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@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
21 Jul 08
Hmm, I didn't know that. I should hope that one day it can be dug out and recovered so it will be another piece of history that can be seen by the world...
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
14 Jul 08
many people thing that the ark is lodged in mount ararak in Turkey, they can see the tip of it, but it is at a location where the cannot get to to investigate
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
13 Jul 08
I think perhaps my one and only real passion would be to discover and verify the existence of Atlantis. I can't even begin to remember just how long Atlantis has always intrigued me and the possibility that it existed. Then when I read the "reading" of the psychic Edgar Cayce I really became a devoted Atlantean believer. While I was in college I had an off-beat kind of anthropology course that delved into various ideas....like the Nazca lines (how were they done), bigfoot, Van Daniken's Chariots of the Gods book, Atlantis and so forth...well I wrote a hefty term paper on Atlantis...a total of 40 pages long with illustrations, extensive bibliography, the works. I was disappointed I only got a B on it..why? The professor thought anything about Atlantis was bunk..yet he was a devote Bigfoot believer ..go figure.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
14 Jul 08
yes some people think that atlantis is a modern day island, like crete or some place in south america, it is all intriguing though.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
14 Jul 08
yes I know and some have extended this theory to be the other side of the atlantic in south america, and some have said the ancient mayans, who were so advanced for their time may have been descendants of atlantians
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
14 Jul 08
Yes most people have accepted the idea that Thera was Atlantis....but then you read Plato's Timaeus in which he's relating the story of Atlantis and he states that Atlantis existed beyond the Pillars of Hercules...which is Gibraltar...so that would mean in the Atlantic Ocean, not Mediterranean
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@AmbiePam (91947)
• United States
13 Jul 08
There are many diseases I would love to find a cure for. Some that affect family, some that affect me, and some that just affect so many people I've never met. But besides a medical mystery, I would like to solve the mystery of who killed JonBenet Ramsey. Her mother went to her grave with a cloud of suspicion. Just this past week DNA evidence proved the parents had nothing to do with it. But that doesn't change the fact that JonBenet's mother lived the remaining years with not only a recurrance of ovarian cancer, but always under a blanket of suspicion.
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@AmbiePam (91947)
• United States
13 Jul 08
I think the JonBenet case had a far reaching impact because look at the McCann family. People always blame the parents, even when there is no hard evidence. However, I think the JonBenet case helped change the way police handle these cases. The Boulder police botched the job so bad, as a result many police stations across the country developed new procedures on how to handle cases such as this.
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@roshand8 (1478)
• Sri Lanka
13 Jul 08
I will find the secret scrolls and the hidden documents that catholic church has been desperately trying to hide from the public.But if the scrolls are destroyed before this happen the secret of life will be lost forever.The scrolls are said to contain shocking secrets about Jesus Christ,what is his life giving message,about the radical teaching that led him to the cross, his disciples and the early church.Yes if I had the ability to solve a mystery,I will definitely reveal this scrolls that Vatican don't want the public to read and keeping them in their basement for years.If i have the ability I will find the secret of life...cheers..
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
14 Jul 08
that is a very good one too, do you think that if you found out what was contained in the scrolls, it would change your faith?
@roshand8 (1478)
• Sri Lanka
14 Jul 08
No.Definitely not.They are hiding the scrolls because to save the power of church why are they hiding the scrolls of Jesus Christ?I think teachings of Jesus Christ has nothing to do with Vatican it all went wrong now they are hiding the real teaching for their own benefits. like the same they did to gospel of Thomas.It is clear that gospel of Thomas is against the church.Why new testament has Only four gospels? I think they are hiding our lords teachings and secret of life because to protect their own power.
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@Wolfechu (1193)
• United States
13 Jul 08
I'd be fascinated to know who Jack the Ripper was, having read a bit about it, but I doubt they're going to catch him at this stage in the game ;) William Shakespeare I believe was William Shakespeare, despite what some people think; he definitely existed as a matter of public record, and played to James I on numerous occasions with his troupe. The 'evidence' that someone else wrote his plays is a bit shaky, to say the least. We're lucky to have the first folio and evidence we have, to be honest; most Elizabethan playwrights have vanished from existence with only the vaguest mention. I'd recommend Bill Bryson's book on the subject, if only because he's a superb writer anyhow. Pyramids? They used whips. Great big whips. If I had to solve one, I'd like to know exactly what went on Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. I'm not a big UFO conspiracy nut or anything, but the coverup of whatever did go off is so transparently a lie that it'd be fascinating to see what they feel is so important as to hide.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
14 Jul 08
the man william shakespeare exists but what is said is that this man was illiterate and that someone else who was possibly in the kings court was the real writer,
@Wolfechu (1193)
• United States
14 Jul 08
Oh, I realise that's said. What isn't provided is any evidence, I'm afraid. His literacy certainly wasn't in question.
@AlephWren (135)
• Argentina
13 Jul 08
Well, many things are out there to be questioned about. After thinking well I would like to find out once for all if there are some "brothers" out there in the Universe/s (yes, every time more and more scientists are right about the fact that there are parallel universes in an infinite number existing)... Imagine if they could comunicate how many more secrets we could solve? Maybe they have "the other part of the artifact" we need to solve the puzzle!
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
14 Jul 08
wouldn't it be so exciting if we could do just that, imagine telephoning a doctor in jupiter, saying hey doc, we got this condition here on earth do your people have it and is there a cure?
• Argentina
14 Jul 08
I definetly think so, you make me laugh (in the good way), thats very ncie!
@Bugsey (775)
• United States
14 Jul 08
I would like to find out where the missing tribes of Judah and their descendants are today...
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
19 Jul 08
good question and one many people have studied.
@checapricorn (16061)
• United States
13 Jul 08
Wow, I wish to solve it all if ever given the chance..LOL! From the options, maybe I will choose solving the cure for cancer so it will be less hassle for people, the cure which is not expensive and which can be done at home! I am very far from reality but there is not boundary in my dream! LOL!
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
14 Jul 08
nope there is no boundaries in these hypothetical questions, we can do it all.
@ElicBxn (63568)
• United States
24 Aug 08
I like that one about life in outer space. That sounds like a good one for me. I love science fiction and would like to know if there is life, intellegent life, out there. I say intellegent because I believe there is life. Now, I don't really want to go out there, I'm a coward, but to meet them here - so long as they are reasonably friendly.... I'd also like to know if they've discovered faster than light travel.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
29 Aug 08
remember you are supposed to be the one that is discovering these new things.
@tyc415 (5706)
• United States
13 Jul 08
What I would like to solve, even though it is not your typical mystery as far as mysteries go. But I would love to find out about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy from the United States. I am one who does not believe that there was just one person doing the shooting and I don't think that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
14 Jul 08
that is a good one, there are so many theories about that, including lyndon b johnson being behind the whole thing.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
14 Jul 08
that indeed would be a great one, but I would love know that the world never ends, and we can prove that.
• India
14 Jul 08
Beautiful one.. and there is one thing Mystery which is the greatest of all mysteries, that every one should try to solve."Who am I? " this is the simple question, but a great mystery in every one's life. If you say.. that I am Winterose.. then it is the name that is given to your physical body.. by your parents. Supposing that if they have given you a different name.. then who are you.. It means that Winterose, is not what we are looking for. Some may suffix with, the degrees that they have acquired.. and with the place they live.. again the same argument.. if you have not be graduated.. and live in a different place.. Then recognising your identity with a different thing comes to effect. How could a original piece be.. identified with identities.. if it is originial.. Then this means that" Who am I" is something different.. This is the long pending question in the minds of all great saints and yogi's.. When man tries to solve this mystery.. he travels in the path to attain liberation.. shedding all wordly attachments.. and in the end only a handful... find solution to this.. the net result, they attain liberation. Take care of your health friend.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
19 Jul 08
I have done much study in who I am, it is part of the degree of psychology which I have two, to be a therapist which is a part of who I am not the whole part, we embark upon this personal journey ourselves, part of who we are are is our external degrees, or accomplishments, because they reflect who we are, part are our physical make up, man, woman, human, part is our relationships with other people, friend, child, parent, etc, part is our relationship to our creator, part is our relationship to this earth, planet conservationalist, etc, part is our thoughts, principals, morals, mind, body, spirit. part of it is who we see ourself to be balanced in relation with other people's view of us. part of us is metaphysical, we were created in part from earth, and the spirit of god, or we are pure energy etc, this is a personal journey and a very loaded question, who is winterose, is enough to fill volumes
@ellie333 (21016)
13 Jul 08
The Bermuda Triangle and Stonehenge have always fascinated me and there is also a story about the Devils footprints running from near where I live to Totnes which is a fair few miles away which is an unsolved English mystery, I have done some research on that alrady and these footprints appeared overnight in the snow and were then frozen over but they went through pipes over walls under two river beds and came back out he other side all in a zig zag pattern about 200 years ago and it has been asked if it was some sort of alien probe searching for something maybe leylines of energy but it definitely wasn't the Devil but in those days everything unexplained seemed to be deemed his work. Of course also I would love to be able to find cures for any illness but have no training in that area to begin to even attempt to find out. Ellie :D
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
14 Jul 08
oh elle, that sounds like exciting stuff, it would be great to find out where all of it came from
• United States
13 Jul 08
i think every one would wanna solve something like that.. i would want to find the rest of the Chrystal skulls and figure out what they are about
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
14 Jul 08
tell me more about crystal skulls,
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• United States
14 Jul 08
here is the link http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_6_1.htm i was gonna write it out but i would have prob made some mistakes since i cant remember the documentary perfectly.. but a lot of people think that before the end of times they will find them all and it will either cause or prevent our world being destroyed or something..
@Muelitz (1592)
• Canada
19 Jul 08
That would be a cool job. I am actually an avid James Bond fan and was dreaming to be a spy since I was a kid . I am just not sure if it falls in the category of Mystery Solver though. But concentrating on your question, If I would want to discover or solve mysteries, I would like to uncover/prove or disprove the conspiracy theories that has been floating around. If you were able to catch Nicolas Cages, National Treasure, The Book of Secrets, That I want to get and discover the truth.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
19 Jul 08
yes they are great mysteries, I saw the movie, also the da vinci code is a great mystery too,
@DonnaLawson (4032)
• United States
13 Jul 08
I had never thought of doing anything so huge, as I am just trying to make it day by day trying to figure out how to make ends meet.. Of the choices that you have given us, and I can't on my own, think of any others, I would choose finding a cure for cancer.. I would try to find a cure for childhood cancer.. I had a friend who had fought for custody for her grandchildren since her son or daughter-in-law were not taking care of them.. She was doing a really good job of raising the children and would bring them for a visit occasionally.. One day the youngest child, a boy, said that he didn't feel good and didn't get out of the car to visit as he always did.. By the time that I saw her again, she told me that he had cancer and was undergoing chemo.. I never saw the child again as he was in and out of hospitals, Children's Hospital here and St. Judes in Mamphis, TN, but I did receive updates on him constantly.. He passed away at age 7 and had fought cancer for 2 years.. So, I do believe that I would try to find a cure for cancer, so that no young child ever had to go through this type of pain, hurt and agony ever again.. Thanks for this question, as it did bring back a few good and bad memories of Little Larry.. He was a precious child and was taken too soon..
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
14 Jul 08
It is so hard to think about children suffering like that, they never even had a chance to live. It is so hard.
@excellence7 (3655)
• Mauritius
13 Jul 08
Yes of course, it will be a wonderful pleasure to solve a world mystery...where the world has reached actually, there are still lots to be discovered and solved. All what has been discovered are equal to only a single drop of the ocean, thus lots can be discovered. I would really wish to be the lucky one to predict and understand the exact reasons of end of world :p
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
14 Jul 08
that indeed would be a great one, but I would love know that the world never ends, and we can prove that.