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May 3, 2024, 1:35 pm UTC    
August 09, 2011 04:23PM
People grossly oversimplify nature and grossly overcomplicate our understanding of it. We put nature in chains we call laws even though we know she needn’t obey them and believe we have control and understanding. We have a conceit that we always understand one another whether face to face or in communication that span many millinea. We look at everything in terms of our own understanding and can’t see what we don’t expect. We learn what we can see rather than discerning nature directly with our own eyes. Natural processes tend to be invisible while we overcomplicate man made processes but in fact man made processes are very simple elements of natural phenomena ripped out of the lab and put into mass production. These are phenomena that have taken many generations of the human race to identify and learn to use for our own purposes. Thousands of individuals have contributed to each tiny incremental advancement that has allowed us to build each segment of our machines.

We look at the pyramids and make the exact same errors. We don’t see what’s there but what we expect and what we expect is that only primitive people with primitive ideas would attempt to build such things or to waste the vast resources to do it. We fail to see this through their eyes because we can only see through our own. We fail to see simple concepts and simple evidence because we are looking for the complexity of another people who build massive tombs for their dead king/ gods who live forever. We never consider the shape and size might be dictated by the materials that were used to build it.

We never consider that ideas axiomatic to modern times might have been high tech to the builder. Take, for instance, the concept of the four directions. There’s no property of time and space that dictate that there are four directions. Euclidean geometry assumes two axes in a plane but the surface of the earth is not a plane and one must define the terms in order to use the two axes of Euclid. There are an infinite number of directions since one can set out in virtually any one of them usually. One isn’t confined to moving in only a single cardinal direction at a time. Cardinal directions are simply derived from stellar observation. North is defined as the direction to the ideal point in the sky (near Polaris) that doesn’t rotate and south is opposite. The directions are derived from the spin of the earth. This knowledge was probably among the highest technology at the time of pyramid building. Rather than having haphazard definitions for direction that weren’t applicable except at a single place or at a single time the cardinal directions are reproducible everywhere and all eastern directions are parallel one another. One of the most important things in agriculture is a calendar to know when to plant and knowing north was the most important thing to defining a calendar. Remember Osiris in legend was said to have traveled far and wide to teach agriculture. The calendar was invented to make the knowledge useful to man and the pyramids were laid out not only to reflect true north but the corners to mark the seasons. The concavities on the sides of G1, Red Pyramid, and G3 might even reflect the time of day.

There is evidence this was the intent. Yes, there could have been more complicated alignments as well and quite possibly were but why dismiss something so elemental as the definition of the cardinal directions and the spinning of the earth.

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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.
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cladking August 09, 2011 04:23PM

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