cladking
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If you had ever smelled Cairo in the 1950s, you would never forget it.
I wasn't aware. What did you smell?
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If you had ever smelled Cairo in the 1950s, you would never forget it.
You should have stopped there.Modern people are very full of themselves.
We couldn't be more wrong about almost everything.
You should have stopped there.
Let me help you:
I, Cladking, couldn't be more wrong about almost everything.
'broccas' area? LOL!
You think the lateral cortex is 'in the middle' of the brain - such naivete, coupled with a massive ego and an unhealthy does of the Dunning-Kruger effect. You are it, champ.
Having no word for “belief”, doesn’t mean people don’t have belief.
People have no word for “flint”, but it has been used by humans as tools, since the Palaeolithic period.
Words did exist in writing until hundreds of thousands of years later, doesn’t mean they didn’t exist.
Perhaps they did have word for flint, but since we have no way to know the languages used back then, we don’t know what words they used for flint.
You are complicating matters with trivials.
A reasonable question indeed.Then why did they have complicated embalming rituals, mummification and sarcophagi?
A reasonable question indeed.
Post #377;
"Hold onto your socks here but there is also no evidence that any king was embalmed and only circumstantial evidence for sarcophagi.
I believe the kings were embalmed to make it easier to burn the body on the 5th day of the w3g-festival but the Pyramid Texts is quite
explicit that the king's body was cremated.
Our beliefs come from understanding the Ancient Language rituals of the Pyramid Texts only in terms of the "book of the dead". None
of this writing makes any sense to modern people. Egyptologists actually believe you need a doctorate in Egyptology to understand the
...(English translation of the)...
Pyramid Texts!!! This is obviously absurd. I merely claim that the Pyramid Texts are ritual read at the kings' ascension ceremonies and
they mean exactly and literally what they say. Egyptologists believe they are incantations!!!!
This is all sublimely absurd. Nobody seems to notice because everyone has been hoodwinked into believing that ancient people were
primitive, ignorant and superstitious versions of ourselves. They believe this despite the lack of any corroborating evidence and despite
extensive evidence to the contrary.
It is apparent that we wholly misapprehend the great pyramid builders and this situation exists because of our beliefs. It exists because
of sample bias and because we can see only what we believe. It exists because we can't even see the natures of consciousness, humanity,
or life in general. It exists because Egyptology refuses to test their assumptions and beliefs. It exists through inertia and the utter fail-
ure of 19th century science.
I believe people in the future will laugh at us and our naivete. "Egyptologist" could become the punchline of every joke. The longer they
refuse to systematically apply modern science and knowledge to the study of the pyramids and their builders the worse it will be in the
future."
What is unreasonable about the answer that ancient people weren't like us so ritual was simply more important to them than it is to us?
Simply stated it is merely Egyptological belief that the structure that's now missing from the east side of G1 was a "mortuary temple". Far more likely it was infrastructure for building the pyramid. Incredibly Egyptologists believe everything we see at Giza it religious and magical in nature and they've identified no infrastructure at all. This is what's unreasonable. The causeway was not a "holy walkway", it was a ramp. The valley temple was not a religious structure, it was a port. Everything we see at Giza is INFRASTRUCTURE. The people did not have beliefs and religions. The Pyramid Texts is not a book of incantation, it is a book of ritual. Across the board everything was for practical reasons and ritual. Even "ritual" has practical reasons.
It's not reasonable to presume the lack of evidence for tombs proves they were tombs. It;'s not reasonable to assume the lack of evidence for ramps means they mustta used ramps.
And it is especially not reasonable to presume that ancient people were just like us and thought just like us but this is exactly what Egyptology has done.
Every day for the past couple of months there are are spectacular new finds coming out of Egypt and none of them mention your theories.
You have never been to Egypt , have you?
Every day for the past couple of months there are are spectacular new finds coming out of Egypt and none of them mention your theories.
There are linguists in charge of reverse engineering the pyramids!!! Linguists make the decisions about what tests should be run even what the results of the tests mean!!! Linguists are not studying the pyramids and even make statements that the o0nly way to understand the pyramids is to look away from them!!! They have been looking away from the pyramids from the very beginning because everything they needed to know about them was assumed; that they must have been built by superstitious primitives as tombs by means of ramps!!!!
This is the state of Egyptology. If they find something new about the pyramids then it was strictly inadvertent as they were looking for gold and dead bumpkins. There were important results that could prove my theory four years ago but they refuse to investigate them or even to provide the data already gathered to the public AND TO other Egyptologists. Instead of proceeding with the research that showed how the pyramid was built and what it was used for instead shuffled around muon detectors in an attempt to look for gold and proof of their own failed and debunked "theories" about what "mustta been".
Mysterious 'Hidden Chamber' in Great Pyramid Confirmed by New Scans - The Daily Grail
For most people it's hard to believe that we inhabit a stinky footed world that used to be completely different. We have only the evidence of our own eyes and it seems that if linguists are pretend engineers then that is the way things should be. If these pretend engineers think pyramids should be studied without science and with their back turned to then then that is the natural way to study ancient works. If math and science aren't taught to Egyptologists then they must not need math or science. If linguists say that superstition makes people strong and wise then why shouldn't it be so?
Who am I to argue with trained linguists. Who am I to point out our priests have no clothes!
He is neither.What is the Daily Grail?
Are you a linguist or archaeologist?
He is neither.
He cannot read hieroglyphs. He can only read translation of the hieroglyphs, and interpreted them (translation) that best fit his conspiracy theory.
I have never claimed to be able to read hieroglyphs.At least O can speak English and I know what the word "conspiracy" means.
What language can you read write or speak properly?
I have never claimed to be able to read hieroglyphs.
What I do know is you cannot read them too. Reading English, and the translation of the Pyramid Texts mean squats to me, because you really have no qualifications or authority to say what your interpretations of the Pyramid Texts say or don’t say.
And that all it is, interpretations, since you cannot read hieroglyphs, and that’s really all you can do.
He is neither.
He cannot read hieroglyphs. He can only read translation of the hieroglyphs, and interpreted them (translation) that best fit his conspiracy theory.
It appears that the Meidum Pyramid may have begun by building a large tower core on solid foundation pulling stones up on this core from above. They added steps that sat on no foundation other then a leveled surface as they went. Stones for the tower core and the steps were pulled up from the step tops. The tower core was built in accretion layers and preceded step construction. Step tops were partially filled as they went to buttress the step sides and provide a destination for the casing stones being mined during the life of the project. The uppermost stones were pulled up from below as well and then the pyramids were finished from the top down. ie- the top step was completely finished before the step immediately below was finished. Casing stone was added from the bottom of each step going upward with the bottom course laid on stones designed to support them and then accept a narrow thin band of stone all the way around.
It appears that the tower core was intended principally to accept and distribute weight. Most of the bulk of the pyramid rested on it and most especially the bulk of the center of the pyramid that was heaviest. Much of the weight of the pyramid leaned against this core relieving forces on the bottom of the pyramid. Meidum partially collapsed during construction and then completely collapsed since and is now "stable". The first collapse may have been precipitated by poor engineering but the subsequent collapsing was probably earthquake. It appears the technique didn't work but even if I'm correct the sample size is too small and data too limited to draw conclusions like this.
It is undetermined at this time whether G1 has such a tower core or not but it would hardly be surprising. I believe the theory is sound and it does allow much lighter building of the steps and backing stone just as the gravimeteric scan indicates. The step tops are higher density chiefly because these need to be stronger to support a bottom row of casing stones and to minimize the danger of stones coming out. There are other activities at the step tops that would tend to cause higher density and these were working surfaces for years. I believe this would cause these to act as a delineation between different density regions but chiefly these region are the result of different practices in filling of step tops.
I might have misinterpreted the high density region in G1 at ~365' on the NE side. Rather than being a storage area for water it might be the top of a tower core. This would suggest the highest unbalanced outward forces on the structure are about 200' up on the SE corner.
Now, I might have gone along with all this, from what I quoted above. I might have agree with you, and even given you a “like” or something...if you have kept your reply focused on the engineering of the pyramids.