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Martin Stower Wrote:
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> Audrey Wrote:
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> > The great pyramids - the greatest achievement on
> > the planet at the time and for 4,000 yrs after.
> > Where is the architect's great tomb? Where is the
> > engineer's great tomb? Queens and family of the
> > king get small pyramids and what did they get? A
> > butler gets a tomb in a pyramid cemetery and they
> > get what? Where are the great tomb walls carved
> > with their crowning unmatched achievements? The
> > means of how they achieved the amazing were not
> > worth mentioning? Not worth a small pyramid or
> > even a dedication plaque? Did they draw blueprints
> > with finger in sand, only to be blown away? Were
> > their extensive math calculations not worth a
> > stela for preservation? Did they even carve their
> > lousy initials anywhere in or on a pyramid?
>
> Which merely assumes that our ways of doing things
> needs must be their ways of doing things. So much
> for imagination. So much for “alternative”
> thinking. The thought of the fringe turns out
> yet again to be pedestrian and banal.
>
> Try to take in this one simple fact:
> autobiographical inscriptions were atypical of the
> time. What we get (in high status tombs) is a
> recitation of the individual’s titles. That’s it.
>
> And again the silly presumption that we have their
> every word and document—and again an attribution
> to supposed “other” builders is swallowed
> whole, despite there being NO
> EVIDENCE AT ALL of their so much as existing.
>
> > Yet you guys think all is told in papyri, stone
> > fragments and pottery pieces. Maybe because you
> > have no idea what it takes to get a pyramid
> > project started, let alone built.
>
> And you do?
>
> What it takes for a start is agricultural surplus
> and organisation of labour. Old Kingdom Egypt had
> these. Your “lost civilisation” has nothing.
> It has no existence.
>
> M.
So, if tomorrow someone reports that 30 feet under the sand a flying saucer was discovered with hieroglyphics inscribed all over its surface, you would assume it was a product of the Dynastics since there's "no proof" of any alien civilization?! Like, the saucer itself wouldn't serve as proof of such a separate civilization?
This is how ridiculous the entire pyramid provenance argument has become.
Yes, the evidence that the civilization that built those pyramids was not the 3rd millennium BC Dynastics...is the pyramids themselves.
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> Audrey Wrote:
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>
> > The great pyramids - the greatest achievement on
> > the planet at the time and for 4,000 yrs after.
> > Where is the architect's great tomb? Where is the
> > engineer's great tomb? Queens and family of the
> > king get small pyramids and what did they get? A
> > butler gets a tomb in a pyramid cemetery and they
> > get what? Where are the great tomb walls carved
> > with their crowning unmatched achievements? The
> > means of how they achieved the amazing were not
> > worth mentioning? Not worth a small pyramid or
> > even a dedication plaque? Did they draw blueprints
> > with finger in sand, only to be blown away? Were
> > their extensive math calculations not worth a
> > stela for preservation? Did they even carve their
> > lousy initials anywhere in or on a pyramid?
>
> Which merely assumes that our ways of doing things
> needs must be their ways of doing things. So much
> for imagination. So much for “alternative”
> thinking. The thought of the fringe turns out
> yet again to be pedestrian and banal.
>
> Try to take in this one simple fact:
> autobiographical inscriptions were atypical of the
> time. What we get (in high status tombs) is a
> recitation of the individual’s titles. That’s it.
>
> And again the silly presumption that we have their
> every word and document—and again an attribution
> to supposed “other” builders is swallowed
> whole, despite there being NO
> EVIDENCE AT ALL of their so much as existing.
>
> > Yet you guys think all is told in papyri, stone
> > fragments and pottery pieces. Maybe because you
> > have no idea what it takes to get a pyramid
> > project started, let alone built.
>
> And you do?
>
> What it takes for a start is agricultural surplus
> and organisation of labour. Old Kingdom Egypt had
> these. Your “lost civilisation” has nothing.
> It has no existence.
>
> M.
So, if tomorrow someone reports that 30 feet under the sand a flying saucer was discovered with hieroglyphics inscribed all over its surface, you would assume it was a product of the Dynastics since there's "no proof" of any alien civilization?! Like, the saucer itself wouldn't serve as proof of such a separate civilization?
This is how ridiculous the entire pyramid provenance argument has become.
Yes, the evidence that the civilization that built those pyramids was not the 3rd millennium BC Dynastics...is the pyramids themselves.
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How can any of us ever know, when all we can do is think?