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Slow service here. The chef could at least bring my Christ Tar Tar while I wait.
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One of the things that fascinates me about these structures is the mystery of how people were organized and motivated to produce them. The assumption is slavery. The Great Wall of China was built with slave labor. The workers were motivated by pain and threat of death. That makes these things less shining examples of human achievement and more like monuments of man's inhumanity to man. Whatever the tools and methods used to make these huge stone structures, it seems that they were probably built on a foundation of a great deal of human suffering and death. I can't help but think of that when I look at them and wonder what kind of society could have created them.
No wait! He brought the Tar Tar... here vesvehighfolk... TAKE...EAT for this is my Christ.
Troll Blithering against the Troll Blatherer.
Has moderation ceased to exist?
At the same time the big 323 ton Lateran obelisk from Karnak was still in Alexandria, remaining there until after Constantine's death. His son, Constantius II [reigned A.D. 337-340] had then taken it to Rome instead. However, it did not get to Rome's Circus Maximus until A.D. 357, seventeen years after the death of Constantius II. Finishing the centuries old project took almost fifty years..Knowing all these facts then bears heavily on our judgement of what the Romans could, or could not do at Baalbek.
a) Roman engineers had failed to even budge the 455 ton Thutmoses' obelisk at Karnak for emperor Augustus.
b) But, allegedly, the same Roman engineers had successfully transported the three Trilithon blocks weighing twice as much, plus, twenty-four more blocks weighing pretty well as much, i.e., 300 - 400 tons, all of which we see in the enclosure wall of the Baalbek temple terrace.
Moreover, the transport of the Trilithon blocks would have had been incredibly rapid, because the retaining walls should be in place prior to the construction of the temple itself, as logic would seem to dictate
No wait! He brought the Tar Tar... here vesvehighfolk... TAKE...EAT for this is my Christ.
Crackpot, Fringeologist, terms thrown around by a man that believes that "a cosmic jewish zombie..."
LMAO!
and that man was an educator. it amazes me that smart people can be so dumb.You're right. There should be forums for people like that. ...now let me think, where would I go to discuss my 'fringey' ideas...
thanks manthat is pretty funny stonehart!
First, I apologize now if this comes across as incoherent rambling but I will try with the best of my ability to be as clear as possible.
I have been thinking the past few days of the somewhat obvious, to me anyhow, relationship between ancient "less advanced" civilizations and their ability to somehow know and build things that we cannot replicate today.
The pyramids of Giza and the Pumapunku complex are good examples.
It is assumed that given their accepted age of each that they were constructed by a civilization that is believed to be less technologically advanced then our own.
Without getting into who specifically built them, its safe to assume whomever they were they weren't monotheistic Christians so one can assume that they were of a religion that is more earthly, perhaps similar to neo-paganism in a loose sense.
It seems to me that there is some correlation between the spread of Christianity and the loss of the knowledge these civilizations acquired to be able to carry out these grand constructions.
Were they able to unlock some secret that we may never possess as it directly opposes what we believe to be possible in our conception of reality ?
Was this knowledge lost on purpose during times like the inquisition as it was the satanic babel of godless people as one can assume would have been the general perception ?
Is it possible that the knowledge and techniques were buried because they didn't align with the believed Christian way of viewing the world and humanity itself ?
I don't mean to sound like the worlds biggest atheist but I have a hard time accepting that several thousand Indian's pulled a rock weighing several hundred tons across any distance.
Perhaps the great people here have an opinion or maybe another angle I haven't considered.