Carson: "Joseph built the pyramids to store grain"

Roofgardener said:
The pyramids are NOT made of Lego, GS.

This can be proven by the fact that there are no BLUE pyramids !:D
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There was a place near where I lived in Indiana that had a fence made with colored or painted concrete blocks that looked like Lego. People used to stop and let their kids play on it. (There was a sign farther up the drive that said "That's far enough, please." I guess the owners thought people would come looking for more such?)
 
Gawdzilla Sama said:
Yeah, I'm Navy. ;) But isn't there a "cadet summer" that is designed to weed out the weak?
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Beast Barracks. Less designed for culling than it is for tearing down than building back up. Of course, culling us inevitable, so they admit mire cadets than they know will graduate.
 
varwoche said:
Does the bible actually say that pyramids were used for grain storage?
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The protestant bible doesn't even mention pyramids. (The first Book of Maccabees in the Catholic bible does, but not in connection with grain storage).

Just as interesting as Carson's belief in the pyramids I think is his being a Seventh Day AdventistWP, and all that belief implies. Such as the emphasis on the imminent second coming.
 
Denver said:
The protestant bible doesn't even mention pyramids. (The first Book of Maccabees in the Catholic bible does, but not in connection with grain storage).

Just as interesting as Carson's belief in the pyramids I think is his being a Seventh Day AdventistWP, and all that belief implies. Such as the emphasis on the imminent second coming.
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Indeed. Any fundamentalist running for POTUS (or any office higher than dog catcher) should be asked:

Do you believe in literal end times? Could end times arrive during your term in office? As POTUS, what actions would you take if end times arrives? Etc.

For some bizarre reason, this sort of questioning is considered out of bounds.
 
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Bob001 said:
There are comments following one news story where posters speculate that Carson may be displaying symptoms of actual dementia -- the lies about matters of fact, the rigid extreme beliefs, etc. One notes that Carson retired from medicine entirely -- not just from surgery, but also from teaching and administration -- at age 61, much earlier than most doctors give up their profession, and wonders if it could be the result of declining skills and deteriorating thought processes.
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Well the Regan vibe should appear to Republicans.
 
varwoche said:
Indeed. Any fundamentalist running for POTUS (or any office higher than dog catcher) should be asked:

Do you believe in literal end times? Could end times arrive during your term in office? As POTUS, what actions would you take if end times arrives? Etc.

For some bizarre reason, this sort of questioning is considered out of bounds.
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Those would be good questions for Carson. It probably wasn't fair anyway for me to assume he believed in an imminent second coming just because his church does. But I think it is a reasonable inference, and one he should be asked about.

I'd include: Do you think your election as president is part of god's plan to usher in the end times?
 
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varwoche said:
Indeed. Any fundamentalist running for POTUS (or any office higher than dog catcher) should be asked:

Do you believe in literal end times? Could end times arrive during your term in office? As POTUS, what actions would you take if end times arrives? Etc.

For some bizarre reason, this sort of questioning is considered out of bounds.
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It's probably too close to a "religious test" for office. Streng verboten.
 
"The pyramids were made in a way that they had hermetically sealed compartments. You wouldn’t need hermetically sealed compartments for a sepulcher. You would need that if you were trying to preserve grain for a long period of time,” he said, according to MSNBC.
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His claim that they were hermetically sealed is nonsense. There are air shafts connecting the king's and queen's chambers to the outside.

Steve S
 
He already is for me. I felt initially he had good prospects to help the party and heal some of the divides but what he has said on various comments and his inability to articulate his vision have been major turn offs for me.
 
"Ben Carson’s Past Faces Deeper Questions" (If you want the see the article, google the title to get around the WSJ paywall)

In his 1990 autobiography, “Gifted Hands,” Mr. Carson writes of a Yale psychology professor who told Mr. Carson, then a junior, and the other students in the class—identified by Mr. Carson as Perceptions 301—that their final exam papers had “inadvertently burned,” requiring all 150 students to retake it. The new exam, Mr. Carson recalled in the book, was much tougher. All the students but Mr. Carson walked out.

“The professor came toward me. With her was a photographer for the Yale Daily News who paused and snapped my picture,” Mr. Carson wrote. “ ‘A hoax,’ the teacher said. ‘We wanted to see who was the most honest student in the class.’ ” Mr. Carson wrote that the professor handed him a $10 bill.

No photo identifying Mr. Carson as a student ever ran, according to the Yale Daily News archives, and no stories from that era mention a class called Perceptions 301. Yale Librarian Claryn Spies said Friday there was no psychology course by that name or class number during any of Mr. Carson’s years at Yale.
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What is wrong with this guy? In an attempt to make people think he's honest, he makes up a story about how he was only honest student in the class. Except that the story isn't even believable because in no way would him staying to take an extra, more difficult test make him more honest than the rest of the students.
 
Maybe Carson meant the grains in rock formations?

Of course not. But I really don't expect this or any other of his truly weird beliefs to cause significant problems among his followers. The new political strategy for the weirder Republican candidates appears to be to never admit you were wrong, no matter what the documentation of your error or the multitude of easily demonstrated facts that go against your statement. Never. It appears that once you admit it, then you are held accountable by your core followers, but if you double down they will come to believe that you are right and those who profess otherwise are politically driven, ignorant, evil lackeys. "Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?"

Not for this thread, but I think that Carson is at somewhat greater risk among his core followers for his mis-statements about his admission to West Point- even though here too he is trying to spin it as a politically motivated, unfair criticism that only reflects a minor error in wording. We will see.
 
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