cladking Wrote:
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> Hans Wrote:
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> You believe that the ancient Egyptians might have
> thought that stone grows! I suppose they also
> believed that stones turned into statues and flew;

Prove me wrong with direct evidence Cladking....lol, why wouldn't they? When you have a religious belief that Gods created everything using the term grow makes sense.
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> 1130a. When thou sayest, "statues", in respect to
> these stones,
> 1130b. which are like fledglings of swallows under
> the river-bank;

Sorry you didn't provide a link
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> You can't just look at a few lines in the PT and
> expect to understand the English translation.

Sure you can, you do and I do - the only difference is mine makes sense in context of the AE religion and culture while your interpretation is imaginary and a tad goofy.

If
> you go into reading or translating it with the
> belief that it's just like the "book of the dead"
> you've already reached your conclusion even before
> it is translated or read.

Never read it except for excerpts

If you go into it
> believing that ancient people thought stones grew
> wings and arms to paddle a boat at the desire of a
> dead king then you already believe what is current
> belief;

Yes the AE believed in magic and gods - just like every other ancient culture and something all humans did until recently. You should try reading a book about religious history.
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> Unfortunately my opinion of what these words mean
> (what the authors meant) is considered irrelevant
> but the reason I have a different opinion is that
> I looked at ALL of the words in the Pyramid Texts
> and tried to understand ALL of them instead of
> just the English translation or the opinion of
> translators.

In other words you cannot answer the questions I asked - why not just say that?

Yet in tests of your 'opinions' on the meaning of words your 'solutions' failed - so why should we believe you know what you are talking about?

The experiments YOU suggested were done and showed you were wrong - your failure to accept that doesn't mean they don't exist.

You don't having any accurate understanding of the PT - at all as demonstrated by the experiments you set up and we did.

This means lines that suggest stones
> flew are far more relevant to #319 than any of the
> words around "makes the stone grow".

No it doesn't you are just making that up

>I believe

(making stuff up)

> you can't understand even one word in this
> language unless you understand ALL of them.

You cannot understand any of the words in the AE language Cladking who are you trying to kid? Chuckle

Nope you don't get to pronounce yourself an expert that no one can laugh at. LOL
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I'm a little surprised not to see
> more opinion from more people.

Cladking do you not understand how you and your ideas are viewed in the real world?