To start a conspiracy theory thread about the pyramids?

[Gardener82]

Do you believe the pyramids or The sphinx were built by the ancient Egyptians?
I’m just watching Egypt’s Secret code and Bradley Walsh isn’t accepting this theory, my husband believes it was Aliens.
I don’t know what I think really, please discuss, Share your thoughts.

How did you manage to shoehorn this into a thread about fucking pyramids 🤦

When do you think the apex of our current civilisation was or will be? And what sort of theories do you have for our own collapse

A lesson for us

The first sign is painting roundabouts. 😅

Does it ever make you think Neitszche was right about how catastrophic the death of God has been for us?

Correct. It was seasonal labour used when agricultural population had done their thing and was collectively twiddling its thumbs. No slavery as we understand it. Also a papyrus discovered some years ago in a cave on the Red Sea detailed how the workforce was assembled and the stone transported. There were canals serving the Giza plateau to sail the blocks to the site. The Egyptians were obsessive administrators so we have some insight into their world. They wrote everything down-no mention of little green men though 😏

Any theory that rests on the idea that people thousands of years ago couldn't possibly do something is just patronising bullshit.

You know there are academics who devoted their careers to Egyptology, right? Do you think your husband has spotted something they haven't? Really?

Because once it seemed obvious that institutions could be trusted. Once you've seen several examples of people doing the very opposite of the thing they're trained to do and paid to guard against, trusting anything becomes an act of (often misplaced) faith

A symptom of the cause you say?

See now i think brains of people who discard everything that is "conspiracy theory" are the inflexibly thinking ones. 😁
There were "conspiracy theories" that proved right. So why not aliens 😁

Bit cheeky of people to think we are the only ones in universe. No one is that special

They were built by giants.

You want to start a conspiracy theory on something which is literally the original conspiracy theory? Think that ship has sailed…

I do believe there is life elsewhere beyond the Earth. I just don’t believe aliens built the Pyramids. The two beliefs are not incompatible.

Compromise. They helped 😁

Eh? The water cycle is a recent “discovery”? Think you’ll find even ancient civilizations had a basic understanding of the fundamental links in nature.

Ancient Egyptians were pretty similar, if not identical to us, in their abilities to think, plan and solve problems. They didn't have all the technology we now have, but somehow humans in the past from many different eras and parts of the world managed to create many lasting structures that we still have today and many others that we don't. We don't know everything about their times, but why would anyone assume they were incapable of making large monuments from stone? If it required the expertise of, now defunct, aliens surely these structures would have been far more complex and technologically advanced that they were - otherwise, how did these aliens get to Earth?

Plus the universe is vast and Earth an insignificant part of it. Why would aliens chose it over the millions of other choices they would have?

Logic is a wonderful thing!

They had whips. Massive massive whips.

Sorry that was the first sign of the collapse, not the apex. I think we can see the apex somewhere behind us. Maybe the fall of the Berlin Wall was the apex in Europe and downhill since then.

Modern people think that ancient people were dim. They weren't. They were as intelligent as us. A child born 5000 years ago, if transported to Islington at birth, would stand as much chance of getting into Oxbridge as any other kid in the neighbourhood.

So, being intelligent, they solved problems. We just don't know how they solved them.

Except sometimes we can work it out.

Search on YouTube for Man Lifts 20 Ton Block By Hand.

Maybe the fall of the Berlin Wall was the apex in Europe and downhill since then.
Not for europe eaat of it though

I just like my thinking supported by evidence!

Eh? Is this a serious question for me? I read this stuff as a hobby, I'm just a nerd 😂

I'm just boggled by how some people seem to think that the humans living 5000 years ago were somehow different from current humans.

We do the same stuff, and make the same mistakes.

"Institutions" are just people. People just like you and me. People just like the ones who built pyramids. We're all just people.