cladking Wrote:

...

> All funding for research goes to further what
> Hancock calls "the narrative" and all results are
> expressed in terms of what is already "known". It
> is simply impossible for any change so long as
> this persists. As the anomalies stack up nothing
> changes. New hypotheses are treated with an
> "immune response" by experts. There's no dialog
> because new ideas are a disease that must be
> attacked and eradicated rather than discussed or
> investigated. Anomalies are dismissed as "too
> confusing for the general public" and then fill up
> the basements of museums. Then even the narrative
> is periodically updated to reflect current beliefs
> rather than reflecting ancient beliefs!!! We
> live a massive non sequitur.

Oh, for goodness' sake, cladking ... How many times has this view been shown to be wildly off the mark?

Just one example: how many times does this article show archaeologists changing their minds because of new evidence? [www.smithsonianmag.com]

> Hancock is wrong about wiki though. They aren't
> only wrong about heretics, they are wrong about
> everything. Wiki has always been an attempt to
> reflect state of the art and factual statements
> about reality especially in terms of state of the
> art are almost impossible. Wiki reflects modern
> beliefs and always has and now the search engines
> are just as bad and even much worse. They don't
> return relevant hits at all and merely return
> doctrine based on a single keyword in the search
> parameters.

I've never read such rubbish ...

We're not only trapped in non
> sequitur world, so long as people believe they are
> Siri geniuses, we can never emerge. People used
> to believe that scientists know everything (homo
> omnisciencis) and now they believe that with Siri
> they know everything too!!!!
>
> Academia has gone beyond orwellian by eating its
> own tail. Or is that eating its own "tale". The
> messenger has become the message.
>
> The pyramid should inspire utter awe. I think
> this is where Egyptology went so wrong. By
> pounding a round peg in a square hole they have
> sealed their fate. They should not have been able
> to create the narrative in the first place due to
> the 6 1/2 million ton anomaly. They should never
> have stuck to the idea that it was a tomb due to
> the lack of any corroborating direct physical
> evidence, and the extensive cultural context that
> says it was not a tomb. All of archaeology has
> succumbed to these errors and incorporated them
> producing "the narrative". They believe that
> superstition can create civilization without
> knowledge and science.


What on earth are you talking about?

>
> Hancock is very insightful, very well spoken, and
> nobody's fool. I wonder if the same can be said
> about Hoopes?

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