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Esdb3:
Dude what do you even have to say about the bible's prophecies about folks like you and other things.

Teempakguy:
next, we determine, without wheels, how were materials transported? Both to and for and up and down?

I have a theory that they were dragged. But that does not account for how they lifted it. Robinhez as suggested a scaffolding system and a stiff pulley system. What are your thoughts on this?

Teempakguy:
I see it. . . . however, the stones used to build the pyramids are quite bigger than your crane can support, I think. The weight of the stones would snap the lever. Since it was probably made of wood. Below is a close up of the pyramid. See how the stones look like in comparison to humans. They are quite massive. And multiply that by the density of the material used in the stones, you have a very heavy substance that I don't think can be carried with wooden levers.

Johnydon22, what do you say here?

Perhaps they employed the use of an inclined plane? A metal inclined plane?

In fact, I cannot think of any material available to them with which they could have built any ropes strong enough to suspend those stones.

Teempakguy:
I can come to a compromise by saying it is a mixture of skilled and unskilled labour.

Teempakguy:
20 years is a short time nah.
Like you said, thousands of workers. Given the kind of civilization ancient Egypt had, less than 30% of those were skilled. Now, they could have recruited labour by either religious propaganda or external slavery. Which do you think?

Teempakguy:
ah, but there were hierarchies. The skilled designers, the taskmasters, and the slaves that worked under them. Otherwise, it would be extremely difficult to achieve such an achievement as the pyramid in such a short time.

menesheh:
Are you looking for his missing posts?

malvisguy212:
ALL the little onse who could not make moral decision will go to heaven.

Kay17:
This is Christian morality you are espousing.

We atheists, at least as secularists ought to throw off the yoke of Christian morality.

Love is the vaguest term and necessarily coupled with hatred. Everybody does not deserve love, to say otherwise is hypocritical.

If everyone is loved, then who is hated?!

And don't try to pin same sex marriage to love. Love is not even necessary for marriage.

There is no race, colour, class, religion, sexual orientation, no system,
no nothing that makes us better than anyone else. we are all deserving
of love

malvisguy212:
as long as the children are in the age of reasoning were they are capable of making decisions, YET they stick with deception.

malvisguy212:
If people grow up in a culture that accepts things like murder and rape, very few will listen to their conscience and go against what everyone else says. Children learn wrong things from their parents and the surrounding culture; as they mature, they become part of the culture and perpetuate it by participating in it and passing on its teachings to their children

Teempakguy:
fun ke?
It was a job for the slaves nah. Nobody cared about how "fun" it was. Only the end product. Which we now appreciate today.

Teempakguy:
Was there metal at that period? Check if that was the bronze or iron age.
It takes iron to accomplish what you are suggesting.

Slimzjoe:
Honestly, this Thread have made me Realise how Backward I still am in Sciences......

Wat did I even learn in Sec.Skul ?
What am I learning now too??

Lol

Teempakguy:
I suspected it was him. Also, there is another aspect. The pyramid is not merely a construction, it is a building with hollow spaces inside. Ingenious support system.

Why punish the innocent along with the guilty, why kill the children alongside the men (the same children that is said to have been used as sacrifices which brought about punishment in the first place) Is killing them (children) alongside the men while meting out punishment not the same crime as the men committed?

Teempakguy:
you know, the biggest wonder for me here is how on earth they figured out how to calculate the area of a pyramid. Considering the wheel had not even been invented then.

RobinHez:
**yawns**
some guy mentioned me like i knew how they built the pyramids....
**stretches and coils back in bed**

malvisguy212:
God is the creator of heaven and earth and He will do what He say he will do.what do you understand by the word genocide? Genocide, murder or any killing that is
not necessary to defend another person's life is not justified. I provide a verse were it say this people sacrifice there sons and daughters to other gods,as a matter of fact, God had warn them long before in genesis but they refused to heed to his warning. You guys are very good in Exaggeration of Christian Evil, but you people always fail to provide the whole story.

God had patiently waited over 400 years until the Canaanites would be ripe for
judgment (Genesis 15:16)

herald9:
You're right to some extent. But when you question everything, people no longer take you serious. You've to question what's is questionable in order to stay relevant.

As per your example, the Jews will say he was, the story of Moses won't be complete without a mention of Joseph.

But to us, I'm still searching for the link....

herald9:
But that's what the dude is trying to imply here.

We accuse people of blind beliefs... Now we are victims of blind questioning... Not everything is worth questioning, please.

herald9:
'appear'?

Just because you're an atheist, you think you've a standard criteria for measuring what's good and what's bad?

Remember what's good to you might not be good to others.

herald9:
Christian or no Christian, I've to say things as it is or I'll be fooling myself. Some stories in the Bible are didactic-they teach morals.

Like Joseph rising from the position of a servant to 'prime minister' teaches determination and also shows the reward for honesty.

Not all things in the Bible are worth questioning tho.



Btw I'm not an atheist. Just an enlightened soul.

plaetton:
Sorry sir, I made the semantic error of mixing Terror and plunder with 419.
My christian friend calls grace, which means UNMERITED FAVOUR.

SO, according to the new christian nomenclature,
Terror and Plunder = god's grace