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Ben Carson's unusual theory about pyramids ("It's still my belief, yes.")
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Posted on 11/04/2015 8:18:58 PM PST by springwater13

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To: springwater13
And they learned how to store grain this way by advanced alien visitors who also insisted on specific symmetries and small space/structure volume to store the grain. Some of the pharaohs bodies got interred in grain and were accidentally put in the silos with the grain being stored.

This is just a small and relatively irrelevant factor in the way Carson sets off my "spidey senses"....

161 posted on 11/05/2015 4:29:11 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: springwater13

That’s an awful lot of stone to make those small grain-storage chambers within the pyramids. I’d like to know Carson’s reasoning.


162 posted on 11/05/2015 4:57:34 AM PST by cymbeline
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163 posted on 11/05/2015 5:19:23 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Marie

“Ben Carson is a tin foiler.”

Which makes him like about 90% of FReepers. . .

(see any thread related to airline mishaps, disasters, any event where there is loss of life. . .)

;-)


164 posted on 11/05/2015 5:29:02 AM PST by Hulka
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To: springwater13

LOL! This is funny but who cares really. I mean, I can’t see any “angle” or “agenda” that’s supported by this “theory”.

At least he didn’t say they were built by aliens. That might be indicative of a larger issue. But to store grain, instead of the accepted archeological theory?

Probably inspired by some nutty Ellen G White “prophecy”.

Who cares.


165 posted on 11/05/2015 5:35:54 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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To: conservative98

No, that doesn’t work. Carson really IS a brain surgeon. Not some politician tourist.


166 posted on 11/05/2015 5:41:45 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: springwater13

That’s just RETARDED.


167 posted on 11/05/2015 5:45:17 AM PST by dinodino
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To: John Valentine

This whole topic goes to a theory I’ve mentioned (and got flamed for ) many times here on FR.

When did it occur that the US President MUST be the supreme learned, don’t of all knowledge? North Korea much?

This all-knowing, seek the wisdom/comment of our Dear Leader mentality gets police officers vilified; clock boys invited to the White House; and a FLOTUS who suddenly is a childhood nutrition expert ruining school lunches.

What the Country needs is a leader, who leads by surrounding themselves with people he (using the qualities that the electorate recognized that got him elected) he trusts as learned on the topic/crisis at hand.

This is such a non-starter. Expertise in Egyptology has NOTHING to do with being President of the United States in 2017. Carson IS however versed, and morally/religiously strong enough to call out both ISIS (note he NEVER refers to them as ISIL to implicate Israel as our current “all knowing” President insists) and the Islam invasion of the West.

The former lack of pyramid building knowledge is acceptable—the calling out of our enemies is NEEDED!


168 posted on 11/05/2015 5:45:39 AM PST by PennsylvaniaMom ( Just because you are paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you...)
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To: FourPeas

So, suppose we had a Presidential candidate whom believed in a flat Earth? Would that matter?


169 posted on 11/05/2015 5:59:35 AM PST by dinodino
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To: dinodino

Apparently not.


170 posted on 11/05/2015 6:00:26 AM PST by jimbo807
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To: dinodino

Suppose we had a President who believed that cow farts, plastic grocery bags, SUVs, candles in Jack 0’Lanterns and fossil fuels were DESTROYING the Erf, and that the solution was more taxes! And suppose he gave massive amounts of tax dollars to his buddies to build windmills and solar panels and DESTROYED the American coal industry, has taken aim at nuclear and fossil fuels, and...

Oh wait. THATS happening! And we are paying MORE for our electricity and other than the pyramids on the back of the dollar bills we no longer have, correct or incorrect Egyptology has no bearing...


171 posted on 11/05/2015 6:15:17 AM PST by PennsylvaniaMom ( Just because you are paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you...)
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To: BushCountry

About how long would it have taken to build the step pyramid? Is this known? Joseph had seven years, starting immediately [i.e.: as soon as he was put on the job] to store the grain. Where did he keep it while the pyramid was under construction?


172 posted on 11/05/2015 6:22:49 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter
This is really weird. I've known of Carson since before he was famous, because he is a biblical creationist like myself. I read very heavily in this area, and I have NEVER heard of anything remotely like this. It doesn't make any sense on so many levels.

A pyramid structure is not even remotely ideal for use as a granary. The timing is wrong (regardless of your preferred chronology, I'm not aware of anyone who believes Joseph was connected to the pyramids). There's no sign of grain storage besides maybe a few pots (ostensibly a food stash for the dead mummy's travels in the afterlife).

Carson's not stupid, so I have to wonder what his thinking is here and where he got his ideas. I suppose everyone has pet ideas they may nurture without much investigation/thought, but to present such in a public speech is absurd, and in the context of a presidential campaign...?

173 posted on 11/05/2015 6:31:50 AM PST by Another Post-American (Jesus died for your sins.)
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To: Marie
College isn’t everything.

Neither is the cr@p the liberal media digs up to destroy GOP candidates. It's disgusting when supposed conservatives act as their lackeys.

174 posted on 11/05/2015 6:40:34 AM PST by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: laplata

I doubt Carson is smarter than Cruz or, for that matter, Trump.


175 posted on 11/05/2015 6:40:36 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: dinodino

The concern trolls are coming out of the woodwork.


176 posted on 11/05/2015 6:44:33 AM PST by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: Another Post-American

Yes, it is odd at best. I just read an article on the step pyramid, and found no reference to grain silos. I did discover that its estimated construction time is between ten and fifteen years. That rules it out as a grain storage facility in Joseph’s time—as did all the other details.

I can’t imagine what Carson was thinking of, to say something like this. I guess he’s not expecting it to get much coverage—and it likely won’t.


177 posted on 11/05/2015 6:47:25 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

Sorry, but Carson is unbelievably wrong on this one, and if he’s unable to understand the facts and change his position, I don’t want him as President. This is mind-bogglngly stupid.


178 posted on 11/05/2015 6:59:13 AM PST by dinodino
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To: Fantasywriter

The step pyramid itself would not have contained the silos—they would have merely been in the same complex.


179 posted on 11/05/2015 7:00:18 AM PST by dinodino
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To: dinodino

Is there an Egyptology site that details the silos?


180 posted on 11/05/2015 7:17:46 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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