Hermione Wrote:
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> Anthony Wrote:
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> > We don't need
> > invasive, damaging excavation to confirm what
> we
> > already know.
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> But this all depends, doesn't it, on what is meant
> by "we already know".
No, it depends on the definition of "we".
> You yourself have a theory
> about the reason for the enigma of the presence of
> the shafts in the GP, a theory which, as you know,
> I (as a non-Egyptologist) found very impressive.
And although I appreciate that rather clunkily self-depracatory ringing endorsement, it doesn't affect the matter at hand.
Evolution is a "theory". But evolution existed whether or not Darwin offered Natural Selection as the mechanism or not.
> But there are many other theories that purport to
> account for the presence of those shafts.
I can't think of one that hasn't been resoundingly debunked already...without drilling holes into the pyramid.
> Until
> such time as your theory can be discussed,
> compared with others, and perhaps deemed worthy of
> wide acceptance, surely it cannot be safe to say
> that we know why the shafts were there?
The abstract has been available for well over a year, here on this board. The fact that people have not chosen to investigate the answer themselves in that time, and amass their own case for or against the theory, is no reason to advocate the damaging of the structure.
When I came up with the idea, I didn't real somebody's post on a message board. I had to do it on my own, every step of the way. These folks have had a heck of a leg up... and yet it doesn't appear they've done any of the necessary research to either confirm or refute the idea. History isn't an episode of "American Idol". We don't have to wait for the season finale. We can do the research ourselves and find the answers. It's not about imagination, it's about facts, evidence and logic. Those belong to no one person. Every bit of evidence for my theory, and as I've discovered after the fact, a lot more that I didn't even know existed, is available to the serious student of Egyptology. In the 18 months since the abstract first appeared on this site, only a small handful of people have even privately contacted me to discuss the subject... let alone contacted me regarding evidence they had discovered that either confirmed or refuted it. (and for the record, nobody has found any evidence whatsoever that has refuted it.)
Ergo, people's lack of initiative in researching the subject is not a sufficient reason to damage the structure in question. To argue otherwise is, in my judgment, arguing for a victim mentality. Nothing stops these folks from finding the real answer for themselves.
Anthony
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.