The Tower of Babel

[Minimalist]

We know where the Egyptians got the limestone blocks for the Giza Pyramids; the quarries are right on the Giza Plateau.  We know where they got the Tura limestone for the casing stones and have even found the landing point where they brought them across the river as the Tura quarries were on the east bank of the Nile.  We know where the granite stones came from (Aswan, up river).  There is no mystery in any of this.

What remains unknown is the type of ramp they used as any of the more obvious ideas fail because of practical or topographical reasons.  They probably laid out the base and then began building both up and out at the same time raising the stones level by level as they did so.  So there was no "ramp," per se.

The one piece of the puzzle that makes no sense is the "tombs and tombs only" approach of Egyptologists and this is a self-inflicted wound.  The math simply does not work for building that structure in 20 years as a tomb for one man.

[The Grand Nudger]

It's that last bit where loons feel free to insert aliens and atlantean tech.  Presumably, they don't realize that the question is more like;

"Were they also intentional projections of state power..or might they have served a purpose in keeping the rabble busy - and therefore not revolting- in the doldrums between farming..or could it have been an early attempt at a welfare initiative, make work for pay in bread and beer...or maybe all of the above -plus- a tomb and a temple."

Questions on the phenomena of loons...might it be useful for them to imagine as many silly things as they can not only as support for one of those silly things..but also to make other silly things seem less silly by sheer amount of silly shit they believe in?

What's one lie compared to one thousand?

[Minimalist]

The 5th Dynasty pyramid of Userkaf:



Didn't hold up so well compared to the alleged 4th Dynasty pyramid of Khafre:



Looks as if someone lost the secret!  Most pyramids in Egypt now look like Userkaf's.

[Huggy Bear]

This is painful. Someone please put Huggy out of his misery.

You thought that was painful? That's nothing more than Rhythm / Khemikal's desperation showing in trying to put one up on the scoreboard, but fails as per usual.

But my bad, I've apparently been slacking, let me give you a crash course in painful.

Ya'll gon learn today

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Are you going to shitpost all day today..because you see the word mystery, and therefore there must be a mystery...?  Do you need to have words explained to you, now?

*emphasis mine*


Says the guy who demonstrated on these very forums he has no clue how the English language works (it could be a side effect of the mullet). Did you forget the intance of you not knowing that there is a difference between the words 'head stone' and 'headstone'?

let's take a stroll down memory lane shall we, the irony is that it's pretty much on the same topic.
https://atheistforums.org/thread-54556-p...pid1747963

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I;m pretty sure we all knew what a head was, but thanks?


Headstone of the corner, hugs.  It's actually a brilliant metaphor. I don't see why you're compelled to butcher it on behalf of pyramidiocy.

It;s the part of the rubble construction that ties two intersecting walls together and it's instrumental in the structural support of all those other rocks.  You know....like our lord and savior.  The passage expresses that a uniquely capable stone had been cast into the rubble, but that it would now be used to build a great and strong building.  While this may sound like esoterica to the modern reader..it was common knowledge at the time of the narratives composition.  Literary competency at it's finest.

You'll find alot more of that sort of imagery in magic book..constantly going on about pillars and great beams.  They're not planning houses.  Magic book isn't a site schematic........or a treatise on doors.

*emphasis mine*

'Head stone' not 'headstone'

Psalm 118

22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.

Since you admit that head means 'top', why can't you figure out that verse is speaking of a 'capstone' as I put it earlier?

Okay Huggy.  You're right.  Magic book is a treatise on pyramid construction.  Meanwhile...the headstone is at the bottom...even though we call it a headstone.

I know, I know, it's confusing.

Maybe you should write a letter to the editor of your bible?  They got that translation all wrong.  The original must have been about capstones and pyramidiocy.

It's not confusing at all for those with an adequate reading comprehension level...

you seem to be the one conflating 'headstone' with 'head stone'. You do realize a space  between the words means they are separate right?

This conversation couldn't go any other way with a dude rockin a mullet.

Can you explain for me the difference between "headstone" and "head stone"?

And shame on you for shaming his rocking mullet.

Headstone is a compound word which has a different meaning.

It's the same difference as for instance  "blackbird" and "black bird", one is the name of a species of bird, and the other is describing a bird that is black.

"head stone" means a stone at the head or at the top, on other words 'capstone'...

I notice how Khemikal won't admit he was wrong though...

Technically, the separation between the two is an archaic usage no longer employed...but it;s not like that matters, since I;ve conceded that magic book is a site schematic for the building of pyramids and not in any way a book of descriptive theological metaphor.

We're passed that, Hugs...now I;m trying to brainstorm ways that you and I can get all these fucked up bibles fixed.  We've got a hell of a task in front of us..because after we fix all the magic books...then we're going to have to correct centuries of christian tradition.

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LoL, and you guys say I wont admit being wrong...

Oh, and no interaction with khemikal is complete with out this:

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Bees, btw...all have 2 parents.  They reproduce sexually.........

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[Angrboda]

Nobody gives a shit, Huggy. Well, let me correct that. No one but you, and you're just pathetic for doing so.

[Cyberman]

Yeahhh... everyone knows that you only fall back to your ad homs once you've run out of actual things to say, Hugs. How very sad for you.

[The Grand Nudger]

Oh, and no interaction with khemikal is complete with out this:

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Bees, btw...all have 2 parents.  They reproduce sexually.........

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You should take a lesson from that interaction with me.  How, when notified I was wrong...I said, "huh, you're fuckin right Huggy, I was wrong."

Three little words man, it's not that hard. Even you could do it.

[Cyberman]

Nah, the point is that he proved you wrong about something. That's all that matters to him. Anything else is an atheistic trick.

[Silver]

If anything, "The Tower of Babel" is common term for Christian rhetoric.

[The Grand Nudger]

Nah, the point is that he proved you wrong about something. That's all that matters to him. Anything else is an atheistic trick.

Stop the presses, khem can be wrong about shit, lol.