MJ Thomas Wrote:
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> Rick writes, 'Just takes a little imagination and
> perserverance and the answer will slowly reveal
> itself.'
>
> I couldn't agree more.
> Let's face it,folks, the most likely reason for
> not adopting this approach to matters
> Egyptological is a fear of turning out to be
> wrong.
> Right, that's today's "MJ's armchair psychology
> for beginners" lesson out of the way.

I couldn't have said it better. Everybody's afraid of getting it wrong, or being rendered out of date.
>
> I see from Lehner's The Complete Pyramids that
> there is approx. 170 years between Khufu and Unas
> and his Pyramid Texts.
> Now, look at how the modern world has changed to a
> staggering degree in the last 200 years or so.
> In my own lifetime - about a third of the time
> span between Khufu and Unas - the world has
> changed dramatically.
> But one thing that hasn't changed very much at all
> in the last two centuries is the world's major
> religions.

No kidding. In fact most of the religions of the world are utterly, at times militantly conservative.
>
> When I look at how long the world's major
> religions have been around with very little in the
> way of change, I fail to see how the core of the
> PTs (whichever bits of the Texts it may be) could
> not predate Unas by many, many centuries - perhaps
> even before Menes.
>

Absolutely.
> MJ