cladking Wrote:
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> Hans Wrote:
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> > Some interesting and thoughtful ideas. The
> Bible
> > itself has multiple stories or 'variants' of
> the
> > same tale. I suspect that the PT (the real one
> in
> > Unas) not the collection Mercer worked with, was
> a
> > similar cobbling together of different
> religious
> > ideas, spells, possibilities and directions.
> They
> > sometime contradict just as the Bible does, as
> > does the Qur'an and many other ancient
> writings.
> >
> > Unfortunately unless we come across a surviving
> > piece of AE religious philosophy/theology - it
> > will forever be a source of confusion and
> > speculation.
>
> In light of the fact that everything in the
> Pyramid Texts is contradicted in the Pyramid Texts
> there seems little reason to take any of it as
> gospel. The Pyramid Texts even suggests it takes
> three gods to subdue a single bull. At least the
> Bible consistently says that God is powerful.

Oh is he seems a bit powerless at times - tad clueless.

Which is why he constantly asking people to go out and kill other people - you'd think he could do it himself eh?

Deuteronomy 20:17: But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee:

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> We can assume the "many origins" theory but then
> we're still left with a work that by itself is
> incomprehensible. As such it makes a poor
> blueprint for understanding its authors or the
> culture.

The PT sounds just like any other cobbled together religious text - which is what you would expect from a superstitious and religious people - yeah, yeah Cladking we know your opinion but spare us you boring 2,000th repeat of the same claims?

You made your first such claim in September 01, 2008 02:22PM

""Taking the Pyramid Texts as mostly meaningless tripe and the ram-
blings of superstitious zealots who would haul stones up ramps
into a tremendous pile for no discernable reason implies that the
writers were just as crazy as the actual builders.""

We are still waiting - after 11 years - for you to impress us with your data and research that supports this contention.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/27/2019 10:32PM by Hans.