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How Many Pyramids Does One Man Need?
#21
RE: How Many Pyramids Does One Man Need?
(April 9, 2017 at 5:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(April 9, 2017 at 12:51 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Those pyramids...didn't prevent the pharaohs from dying nor did those monuments to superstition make their gods real.

Neither of which was the purpose of an Egyptian pyramid.

Boru

Ok then, what was the purpose? I guess I am wrong in reading about how they were monuments to be houses for the dead in the afterlife? That they would bury even slaves and pets? That their organs would be put in jars? All the gods depicted on the walls and the anthropomorphic animal/human deities would guard the entrances to protect the tombs from theft. 

They were monuments to superstition, very ingenious sure, very beautiful and artful, but monuments to an afterlife and a vain human attempt to gain immortality.
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#22
RE: How Many Pyramids Does One Man Need?
(April 10, 2017 at 9:24 am)Brian37 Wrote:
(April 9, 2017 at 5:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Neither of which was the purpose of an Egyptian pyramid.

Boru

Ok then, what was the purpose? I guess I am wrong in reading about how they were monuments to be houses for the dead in the afterlife? That they would bury even slaves and pets? That their organs would be put in jars? All the gods depicted on the walls and the anthropomorphic animal/human deities would guard the entrances to protect the tombs from theft. 

They were monuments to superstition, very ingenious sure, very beautiful and artful, but monuments to an afterlife and a vain human attempt to gain immortality.

I think his point was "they died anyway". The pyramids did, indeed, strive to insure a happy afterlife, but "ya gotta die first, now don't ya?"
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#23
RE: How Many Pyramids Does One Man Need?
(April 10, 2017 at 9:24 am)Brian37 Wrote:
(April 9, 2017 at 5:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Neither of which was the purpose of an Egyptian pyramid.

Boru

Ok then, what was the purpose? I guess I am wrong in reading about how they were monuments to be houses for the dead in the afterlife? That they would bury even slaves and pets? That their organs would be put in jars? All the gods depicted on the walls and the anthropomorphic animal/human deities would guard the entrances to protect the tombs from theft. 

They were monuments to superstition, very ingenious sure, very beautiful and artful, but monuments to an afterlife and a vain human attempt to gain immortality.


As with Rome and Greece, when discussing why the Egyptians did anything one has to define the time period.  The inscription of the Pyramid Texts does not appear until the Pharaoh Unas at the end of the 5th Dynasty.  Unas' pyramid was well decorated but

[Image: pyramid-full-view-97-3929_med_hr.png]

not so well built.

The Giza Pyramids were much better constructed but have all the internal decoration of a NY city subway tunnel.  One has to factor in the obvious differences and also allow for the fact that religion, like everything else, evolves.
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#24
RE: How Many Pyramids Does One Man Need?
I'm just here to answer the OP.

The correct answer is. . . zero. One man needs zero pyramids.
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#25
RE: How Many Pyramids Does One Man Need?
(April 14, 2017 at 1:24 am)bennyboy Wrote: I'm just here to answer the OP.

The correct answer is. . . zero.  One man needs zero pyramids.

Come now, bennyboy. These are necessary pyramids that necessarily exist.... or something. Ergo, someone needs them. Or something.

Never mind.
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#26
RE: How Many Pyramids Does One Man Need?
All of them.
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#27
RE: How Many Pyramids Does One Man Need?
(April 14, 2017 at 1:24 am)bennyboy Wrote: I'm just here to answer the OP.

The correct answer is. . . zero.  One man needs zero pyramids.

Bennie is being a socialist.  No man should have two pyramids until each man has one pyramid!
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#28
RE: How Many Pyramids Does One Man Need?
Pyramids are a migratory species, so you'd need one for each season.
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#29
RE: How Many Pyramids Does One Man Need?
Can I haz pyramid.

Someone put an image of a cat with this and we got ourselves a meme.



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#30
RE: How Many Pyramids Does One Man Need?
(April 14, 2017 at 8:28 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Can I haz pyramid.

Someone put an image of a cat with this and we got ourselves a meme.

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