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The ancient people didn't build the pyramids for the sole purpose of being tombs.
That is the worst fallacy I have ever heard.
These people weren't dumb just because they had wants and desires that differ from ours.
The masses of people needed to build these things could have easily overthrown all the armies of the leaders if they were enslaved.
These were strong people. There were no guns then. They couldn't have built them if they were in chains.
Why did they build them? Why did the followers help them build them?
Things don't add up with the present archeological explanations.
The Colosseum and huge hall structures would have been easier to build and more practical.
I'll stick to researching things and seek the truth instead of settling for the fallacies that are presently taught to us.
Evidence is discounted everyday, thrown to the side like trash if it does not fit the present view of accepted reality.
I very well understand the structure of power of the discipline of the sciences. It is similar to other disciplines of belief based social structures.
Originally posted by rickymouse
reply to post by Hanslune
They are buildings capable of holding more than a few people. Their existence make sense. There is no proven evidence that the pyramids were built as burial tombs.
The interpretations of the evidence is what we are speaking about. A bunch of people agreed the present belief is true, they are conditioned to believe this. That doesn't make it real, it doesn't make it unreal. It is just that many people believe in a theory.
I also believe that some of the pyramids are much older than what they say. Some Pharaoh may have written they built it to take credit for it or just restored what was there. They could have removed old stones and replaced them with their own.
reply to post by rickymouse
I very well understand the structure of power of the discipline of the sciences.
Originally posted by rickymouse
reply to post by Hanslune
I said I understand it, I didn't say I agreed with it
Much of what we think we know of the pyramids and is considered as accepted by the sciences studying them presently will be changed in another 40 years.
Evidence is discounted everyday, thrown to the side like trash if it does not fit the present view of accepted reality
Originally posted by DavidWillts
... science is made through study and verification to simplify it. Someone comes up with an idea, if it works it gets it gets tested by others and if it continues to hold up we are on to something. If something gets tested and does not work out it gets tossed out and promoted by fringe theorists to be the ultimate truth.
Originally posted by Hanslune
No it isn't, that's pure fringe fantasy - if that was true why is there a constant stream of changes, new discoveries and overturning of existing theories?
Originally posted by TheLegend
I will prove how the Egyptians didn't build the Great Pyramid, at least according to the Egyptologist theory and the 20 yr timeline.
The current theory (which wasn't even tested, but we'll put that fact aside for now) of how they moved the giant blocks the Nile is they tied 2 barges together and carried them on the middle, so that’s 200 men per block (100 men per vessel).
The journey was 500 miles from Aswan to the build site and the ships average speed was around 4 knots (4.5 MPH). 500 miles / 4.5 mph = 142 hours. Now we’ll calculate the 2 min interval (the statistical estimate for how often a stone must have been laid given the 20 yr period). 142 hr x 60m = 8,520 mins / 2 min = 4,260 ships and 852,000 men. Now multiply that by 2 since you'd need ships going both directions at the same time in order to maintain constant flow = 8,520 ships, 1,704,000 men.... That's how many people (only the sailors) are needed in order to have a constant supply of stones brought onto the build site every 2 mins for 20 years.
Not only is that more ships than what the Egyptians had wood for, but that's more people than were in Egypt. Also, apparently not even 1/1,800,000 people decided to record ANYTHING about the Great Pyramid's construction for those 20 years too? And none of their children decided to record anything that their parents supposedly did either?
Sorry. Egyptologists lost this one on the grounds of physical impossibility. We really don't know who built the Great Pyramid or any other structure that has no construction records.edit on 4-4-2012 by TheLegend because: (no reason given)