Jammer Wrote:
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> That's ludicrous... this is just new age tripe.
> The Laws of Nature are not willingly broken, or
> bent by anything, that's why the finest minds
> out there consider them immutable.

I'd ignore this entirely but I disdain having anything I believe referred to as "new age". This is actually a considered scientific opinion rather than the sort of thing people just scoop up and adopt as their own. This is observation that is not seen by most people because most people assume that science knows just about everything. In point of fact science knows almost nothing and the tools of science are always geared toward learning the secrets of nature. Much theory is invented to explain observations and in modern times there is more effort going into inventing theory than in inventing experiment.

People who believe nature is simple or we know how it behaves are simply poor observers. Yes, this is a common mistake but being common doesn't make it less of a mistake.

Nature is not constrained by any laws that man has discerned to date. The more massive the event and the shorter its duration the more likely it is to appear to follow laws we've invented or discovered through experimentation but it's still merely appearances and our laws don't explain most of nature.

Yes, some of the finest minds have considered many natural laws immutable but most of these finest minds no longer exist and later scientists are far more likely to agree with me on this issue tham Albert Einstien. If he were alive today he'd probably have a different opinion.


But this still isn't the point.

The point is that it's entirely possible the largest reason or part of the reason for building the Great Pyramid could have been so simple as to remind future generations of something so vital to ancient times as the calendar. There's no reason that all their activities and beliefs were so highly complicated that nobody is even sure of the meaning of something so very basic to them as the meaning of the Eye of Horus. Just how complicated do people have to be to be wholly opaque? There are millions of very sharp minds but we don't seem to have even the simplest understanding of people who left massive pyramids and the Pyramid Texts.

We imput layers and layers of complication to the culture and then try to analyze it in these terms. We are left massive structures of unknown purpose built by unknown means by people who used unknown magic for unknown purposes. We are left to argue how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

How can no one see a dichotomy and paradox here?

There are dozens of sceptres known but not one single one of them has a known function. We know beyond question that these people were highly superstitious and believed in all sorts of magic but not one single magical tool is understood. Most of them also have no known origin and no known depiction. How can we state they believed in magic even if we can't show it. Why are the icons also unknown.

Sure it's possible that these people were highly complex and the near total dearth of information is the reason we don't understand them. It's possible they did things in very complicated ways that we might never discern. But why not consider the possibility that they were as simple as modern people who did things for simple reasons.

To just say the Great Pyramid is aligned so perfectly because it was part of the religion is ducking the question rather than answering it. What part of the religion was it?





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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/10/2011 04:35PM by cladking.