Pyramids Are Not a Mystery

[Meaty Curtains]

http://www.pyramidsarenotamystery.net/

King Solomon built the pyramids as temples. Underneath the Sphinx, there is a labyrinth of one-way passages and tunnels connecting all the pyramids. "Drop all of what you consider to be intelligence, logic and rationality. They are of no use here." Amen, amen, amen.

 

[MRC_Hans]

IMHO, the real mystery is how people like that can make it all the way to the supermarket without stepping in front of a car or getting lost, find and buy roughly the things they need, make it back, put the right things in the fridge, cook a meal (even cup noodles) without setting fire to the house, and eat it without sticking the fork in their ear. Not to mention all the other chores of daily life .

Hans

 

[steenkh]

It is also a mystery how these people come up with this stuff, not just that some people believe in it. We know it is freely invented, but who are these persons who invent it and what are their purpose?

I can understand people who scrounge old sources for clues and weave them together with their own wishful thinking into a new myth. But wishful thinking alone, and not a single source to back it up?

Are they ill or evil?

 

[Wolrab]

Well, I can't build one, so there must be some supernatural explanation.

Why do woo's think our ancestors were so stupid?

 

[TheBoyPaj]

The Egyptians built huge great pyramids with nothing but huge stones and whips. This joker can't even build a web site without loads of Java applets and pointless plugins.

 

[Pixel42]

Well, I can't build one, so there must be some supernatural explanation.

Why do woos think our ancestors were so stupid?

It makes me wonder if there will be woos in 1000 years time who will look at the ruins of a modern building or bridge and say "well they didn't have anti-gravity sleds in those days, how could they possibly have built it? They obviously had supernatural powers, or maybe aliens built it, or ..."

 

[Dragonrock]

The Egyptians built huge great pyramids with nothing but huge stones and whips. ...snip...

According to a show in the history channel they didn't even use whips. The show presented a very non-woo version of the pyramids and their construction. All of the men doing construction were skilled laborers and were held in rather high regard. Heck, the even had full medical and dental.

 

[Dr Adequate]

IMHO, the real mystery is how people like that can make it all the way to the supermarket without stepping in front of a car or getting lost, find and buy roughly the things they need, make it back, put the right things in the fridge, cook a meal (even cup noodles) without setting fire to the house, and eat it without sticking the fork in their ear. Not to mention all the other chores of daily life.

It's easy. They apply this:

Drop all of what you consider to be intelligence, logic and rationality. They are of no use here.

only to the woowoo thing they want to believe. Everyone is a strict empiricist... 95 percent of the time. The other 5 percent is set aside for going "WOO!"

 

[Cleon]

According to a show in the history channel they didn't even use whips. The show presented a very non-woo version of the pyramids and their construction. All of the men doing construction were skilled laborers and were held in rather high regard. Heck, the even had full medical and dental.

And they were paid--they weren't slaves.

 

[Dragonrock]

And they were paid--they weren't slaves.

You mean that Cecil B. DeMille wasn't right?

 

[misawafan]

The pyramids are explained fully in the bible code.

 

[TheBoyPaj]

And they were paid--they weren't slaves.

You'll be telling me the rulers didn't have snakes in their heads next. Is NOTHING on TV the truth?

 

[AWPrime]

All of the men doing construction were skilled laborers and were held in rather high regard. Heck, the even had full medical and dental.

And they have it better than most of their current decendents.

 

[number9]

You'll be telling me the rulers didn't have snakes in their heads next. Is NOTHING on TV the truth?

Snakes on their heads, yes. Whips in their hands, no.

Egypt was a sophisticated society.

The agricultural economy had 21 different growing seasons overlapping year-round. I forget how many flood seasons.

To smooth out the bumps in that sort of activity, they created a public-works employment system that soaked up excess capability.

In addition to the pyramids, they built thousands of miles of irrigation canals, but not just haphazardly. They developed the knowledge to make the canals self-dredging. (It's not that hard; they just kept the slope between 1 and 3 degrees).

They taxed in the form of agricultural goods, stored the tax in huge granaries, and paid the workers out of the stores.

(Modulo what science has determined is false since I was in an archaeology class in 1986. And of course what I've invented through false-memory.)

 

[Earth Angel]

What I wonder about is where all that knowledge went to. I mean the pyramids were built, the egytians has the first batteries, etc but then what happened to all that knowledge?

L&L

EA

 

[kookbreaker]

What I wonder about is where all that knowledge went to. I mean the pyramids were built, the egytians has the first batteries, etc but then what happened to all that knowledge?

Piling rocks on top of each other is not exactly a technology.

The So-called Bagdad battery was not Egyptian, but was found in Iraq. There is a lot of archeology imagination going on to actually make into a battery.

Did Joshua ever make that 'Bad Archeology' site like he said he was going to?

 

[AWPrime]

Piling rocks on top of each other is not exactly a technology.

Well it is a technology, when you make big structures that need to last.