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- From: gpalo@digi.lonestar.org (Gerry Palo)
- Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
- Subject: Re: The Great Pyramid of Giza
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.193125.9183@digi.lonestar.org>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 19:31:25 GMT
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- Mea culpa.
-
- Well, I have to modify my defense. I confess to missing a whole section
- of Zerxes post. There are after all people here who subscribe to the idea
- that the ancient stone structures had something to do with aircraft or
- spacecraft or aliens. In the spirit of my earlier postings, I have to
- offer this point of view potential validity too, although I am as skeptical
- as the conventional interpreters about this. But in the spirit of this
- forum, it is perfectly legitimate to ask the question as an archaeological
- theme.
-
- So we have approximately three points of view.
-
- 1. The conventional view that holds the pyramids are remarkable structures
- but did not involve anything extraordinary to build them. This view also
- holds that they were tombs, as indicated by the sarcophagi found in the
- interior chambers.
-
- 2. The pyramids as space ports view, that a superhuman highly technological
- civilization, either earthly or extraterrestrial, built the pyramids and
- used them for all kinds of technologically advanced things that we know
- nothing about any more. Some of the proponents of this view hold that the
- same super-intelligent beings are manipulating life on our planet today
- and are going to appear in various ways, if they haven't already.
-
- 3. My view (so far I have not heard any other advocates), that the pyramids
- were indeed constructed by means of concepts and principles that we can
- no longer duplicate today, that the conditions of both the natural order
- and human consciousness were different than they are today, but that
- human beings built them. I also expressed in another thread my belief
- as to what they were used for.
-
- Now, I have to admit that I sympathize with some of the posters from group 1
- and have little pationce with group 2 myself. So, I can appreciate their
- lack of patience with group 3. But no one is going to throw up his hands and
- admit, I am a fool and a superstitious credulous idiot. You are right, I
- give up. I was wrong. The problem remains is, is it possible to discuss
- the pyramids from all three points of view without straying too far from the
- topic of this forum, namely archaeology. I admit that I am at a loss for
- an answer. I like to think that a discussion of group 3 is possible, but I
- am bound by my own statements of principle to admit the possibility that an
- intelligent discussion of 2 is possible too.
-
- I should point out that one avenue that could keep it on track would be to
- request hard data from the pyramids themselves. They can at least throw
- light on the question, not resolved in some peoples minds, of just what was
- required to build the pyramids, what they were built for, and whether or not
- we could do it today if we had or wanted to.
-
-
- Gerry Palo
-