cladking Wrote:
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> Hermione Wrote:
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> > cladking Wrote:
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> > ...
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> > > when they said the king was
> > > the pyramid and his tomb was in the sky
> that's
> > > exactly what they meant and it was exactly
> > true.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > In a metaphorical sense.
> >
> > You do appreciate the difference between a
> > metaphorical statement and a literal statement,
> > don't you?
>
> Metaphors are abstractions.
>
> But there are no words for "thought", "belief",
> taxonomies, reductionism, or abstractions in the
> Pyramid Texts.
Yes there are you simply refuse to see them. However, lets fix your 'opinion' first - so give us your definition of what an abstraction is?
Okay
There are words we believe to be
> beliefs but no evidence other than the "book of
> the dead" that they are representative of
> beliefs". There is no evidence that the word
> "neter" was ever used to represent an imaginary
> consciousness but rather interpretation of the
> words.,
There is a ton of evidence for the AE believing in religion and gods - that you refuse to see it isn't our problem
>
> It's interesting that even one anthropologist
> agrees with me.
>
> [
en.wikipedia.org]
>
> "One of the few mid-20th-century anthropologists
> to take seriously the idea that early humans were
> our intellectual equals was Claude Levi-Strauss,
> who argued that mythological thought, rather than
> representing some sort of pre-logical haze, is
> better conceived as a kind of “neolithic science”
> as sophisticated as our own, just built on
> different principles. Less well known – but more
> relevant to the problems we are grappling with
> here – are some of his early writings on
> politics."
The above comes from here: [
www.pehalnews.in]
He did not use the phrase (as far as I can determine if he did please link to it) 'neollithic science'. You are basing this on one person's opinion on Levi-Strauss opinions.
"Lévi-Strauss argued that the "savage" mind had the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere". You are taking his writing - as usual - out of their context I read his material (long ago) his ideas about how early people thought had nothing to do with your silly ancient L and science.
>
> The difference is he was speculating and using
> induction to find this but I used deduction and
> even have some understanding of the science that
> they commanded.
No you made something up
I understand that they didn't
> even experience thought and needed far more
> knowledge to function than we do.
REALLY making up stuff