Corvidius Wrote:
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> What do you mean by this statement ?
Magic is pseudoscience.
> What do you mean by this statement ?
Magic is pseudoscience.
> This is an odd statement that also needs
> explaining, though I'll ask why you think that
> they may have used magic to build pyramids, and
> point out that you say "probably impossible",
> leaving open the door for there being some
> probability. If that is what you mean, do I take
> it that you believe that there is a probability of
> magic being real. But we know that they had an
> absolute belief in magic. In a previous post I
> made reference to red pots, this was deliberate as
> you can find red pots in the PT, and all through
> their history, as a "prop" for magic. If, as you
> say, you have studied the PT, my reference should
> have stuck out, but you did not pick up at all,
> probably because to know the significance of the
> red pots needs a more holistic knowledge of the AE
> than just reading a translation of a translation
> of the PT. The usual tripping point for "alts",
> obession with G1/Giza/Serapeum and no interest in
> any other part of AE civilization leading to ideas
> and posts of astounding ignorance, and books for
> the gullible of course.
Magic is pseudoscience.
> Why do you say "gods" I don't know because while
> in our times we know their gods did not exist, or
> even that there is no god at all, they had an
> absolute belief in the existence in their gods.
Magic is pseudoscience.
The belief that they had an absolute belief in "gods" is also pseudoscience in light of the lack of evidence and the fact that all words that reflect "belief", "thought", or any kind of reductionism are absent in their language. Frankly I doubt they had any abstraction at all implying they were not capable of abstraction much less a belief in "gods".
So on what basis do we believe they had a belief in imaginary consciousnesses that decided the fates of men?
That Egyptology believes they had beliefs doesn't make it a pseudoscience but that they never noticed a vocabulary that breaks Zipf's law and doesn't contain the infrastructure of superstition concerns me. We may not be able to pursue this conversation far in this thread without going off topic. It's a shame we can't talk about these things when they are clearly on topic.
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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.