Origyptian Wrote:
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> Martin Stower Wrote:
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> > ...arrogating to himself...
>
> Hilariously ironic.

Classic Femano weaselling evasion, starting as usual with mutilation of the quote, to remove all of the substantive content of my post.

What we should be seeing here is (of course) this:

Origyptian Wrote:
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> Martin Stower Wrote:
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> > Origyptian Wrote:
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> > > OCaptain Wrote:
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> > > > Ori,
> > > >
> > > > Who are the builders?
> > >
> > > Hold on. I'm not the one who said I knew who the
> > > builders were. I'm the one challenging those those
> > > who insist the builders lived during around the
> > > 3rd millennium BC. If you also don't claim to know
> > > who they were, then we're on relatively equal
> > > footing on this issue. But if you think you DO
> > > know, then I'm all ears...
> >
> > Translated into Honest, a language alien to
> > Doctor Femano, he doesn’t
> > know, has nothing determinate to say about them
> > and NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER to offer on the
> > question: no inscriptions, no depictions, no
> > tools, no settlements, no infrastructure, no
> > burials, none of the impedimenta of everyday life
> > and death.
> >
> > To these questions, he has no answers:
> >
> > What was their language? What was their script?
> > What were their units of measurement? Were they
> > white, brown or purple? What did they wear? What
> > did they eat? What materials did they use? What
> > sources of power? What means of transport?
> >
> > The entire basis of his “challenge” being a
> > set of epistemic platitudes, of a kind which most
> > of us realise at the sophomore level is not so
> > very clever after all.
> >
> > So, again we have this jumped-up nothing,
> > arrogating to himself the role of arbiter and
> > laying claim without argument or justification to
> > an asymmetry between himself and others, such that
> > we must humbly proffer our evidence to him, while
> > he produces none at all.
> >
> > M.
>
> Hilariously ironic.

That Doctor Femano appoints himself arbiter, demanding evidence of others while producing none himself, is not an issue for him. He sees no need to justify it. He merely assumes a right to do so. Such is the arrogance to which I object.

You have some evidence, Doctor? Some answers to the unanswered questions (all of them) on your posited “other” pyramid builders?

No? Then your tedious, witless and purely personal fantasies have no call on our attention and you may stop pretending that they do.

M.