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cladking Wrote:
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> Warwick Wrote:
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> > I just asserted that they were extremely
> > intelligent and capable in responce to Steve
> > below
>
> So your contention is they knew which god to
> invoke to get their dead king to heaven. They
> knew how long to simmer the toad livers before
> putting them in the magic potion.
WTF are you babbling about???
>
> They mustta been very intelligent to be able to
> extrapolate how to build a pyramid from how to mix
> a libation.
Can a carpenter make soup??
>
> > Are you actually suggesting that anyone with
> > religious beliefs is less intelligent???
>
> For most practical purposes "Egyptology" is a
> religious belief founded in ramps, superstition,
> tombs, and stasis.
That's nice. Trouble is I am not talking about Egyptologists.
You are.
>
> This doesn't make Egyptologists less intelligent.
> It makes them wrong. Concocting an entire
> culture from thin cloth requires intelligence and
> persistence. It comes natural to us because we
> use circular reasoning every single time we start
> with assumptions and we always start with some
> assumptions. Egyptologists started with the
> assumptions that ancient people were highly
> superstitious, wholly ignorant of modern science,
> primitive, savage, and dragged tombs up ramps.
> Voila; this is what they found and if you don't
> agree with their assumptions then you're a nazi.
>
>
It is impossible to discuss ancient Egypt with a person who is obsessed with the Conclusions of a handful of Victorian Acadmemics.
When ever anyone attempts to discuss individual points you return to wallowing in ypur swamp of ignorance, wherein anything written by anyone with a degree is biased trash that should be burned.
You are Ignorant Man.
Warwick
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> Warwick Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
>
> > I just asserted that they were extremely
> > intelligent and capable in responce to Steve
> > below
>
> So your contention is they knew which god to
> invoke to get their dead king to heaven. They
> knew how long to simmer the toad livers before
> putting them in the magic potion.
WTF are you babbling about???
>
> They mustta been very intelligent to be able to
> extrapolate how to build a pyramid from how to mix
> a libation.
Can a carpenter make soup??
>
> > Are you actually suggesting that anyone with
> > religious beliefs is less intelligent???
>
> For most practical purposes "Egyptology" is a
> religious belief founded in ramps, superstition,
> tombs, and stasis.
That's nice. Trouble is I am not talking about Egyptologists.
You are.
>
> This doesn't make Egyptologists less intelligent.
> It makes them wrong. Concocting an entire
> culture from thin cloth requires intelligence and
> persistence. It comes natural to us because we
> use circular reasoning every single time we start
> with assumptions and we always start with some
> assumptions. Egyptologists started with the
> assumptions that ancient people were highly
> superstitious, wholly ignorant of modern science,
> primitive, savage, and dragged tombs up ramps.
> Voila; this is what they found and if you don't
> agree with their assumptions then you're a nazi.
>
>
It is impossible to discuss ancient Egypt with a person who is obsessed with the Conclusions of a handful of Victorian Acadmemics.
When ever anyone attempts to discuss individual points you return to wallowing in ypur swamp of ignorance, wherein anything written by anyone with a degree is biased trash that should be burned.
You are Ignorant Man.
Warwick
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