Next he'll be doing MC Hammer knockoffs,
if they can keep him awake long enough.
(well, that whole hammer thing might be a little to close to home)
Posted on 11/05/2015 10:32:33 AM PST by jimbo123
Yesterday, November 4, marked 93 years to the day that the tomb of King Tutankhamen was opened in Egypt, revealing spectacular artifacts and a magnificent mummy of the boy king. The celebration was somewhat marred, at least here in the U.S., by a leading Republican candidate for president, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who confirmed a statement he'd made in 1998 - that he believes the Egyptian pyramids were grain silos, not tombs.
The collective reaction from archaeologists and historians, who have command of literally centuries' worth of research into the artifacts and literature of the ancient Egyptians, is... Wait, what now?
Carson said in his 1998 talk at Andrews University, a Seventh-Day Adventist-affiliated university, "And when you look at the way that the pyramids were made, with many chambers that are hermetically sealed, they'd have to be that way for various reasons. And various of scientists [sic] have said, 'Well, you know there were alien beings that came down and they have special knowledge and that's how, you know, it doesn't require an alien being when God is with you.'"
Just to be clear, no scientists think that aliens built the pyramids. There is a small but vocal contingent of people who believe in pseudoarchaeological explanations, but archaeologists have dismantled those harebrained theories at every possible turn. (See, for example, my piece, "What Archaeologists Really Think about Ancient Aliens, Lost Colonies, and Fingerprints of the Gods.") So while it may look good for Carson to deny alien involvement in pyramid building, he also attributes them to a white guy rather than, well, the ancient Egyptians.
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Just wait until SNL gets Ben on their show or makes a skit of this fiasco story.
Okay, dat’s funny raght thar!
Were the tunnels under the step Pyramid used to trick robbers or were they used to retrieve grain?
https://josephandisraelinegypt.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/were-the-tunnels-under-the-step-pyramid-used-to-trick-grave-robbers-or-were-they-used-to-retrieve-grain/
The pyramids were landing pads for aliens called the Go’auld. I saw that on a TV program called Stargate SG1. Didn’t you all know there’s a secret gate that travels to other worlds and the government is covering it all up?
I saw it on TV so it must be true. Right?
“Not a big Carson fan, but it was 1998 and he was speaking to a SDA college. Most everything that SDAs believe is a little nutty.”
Problem is in the last day or two he re-affirmed this. He could have easily got out of it but he did not. I don’t know of anyone who has thought that the pyramids were built for grain storage.
I did read yesterday that in some locations, pyramids WERE
used to store grain. (I didn’t write it down because it
didn’t occur to me that it would be a major issue.)
At present, I like a Cruz/Carson team.
Obama said he would campaign in all 57 states.
And he won.
Those extra EV’s sure helped...
I quickly scanned the article, so maybe I missed it, but did the author state when/what these ancient Egyptians wrote about the Great Pyramids?
The earliest reference I found was from Herodotus, who wrote around the Fifth Century B.C. Truly ancient to us, but probably nearly two thousand years after the Pyramids were built. And after Egypt had been destroyed/rebuilt several times over the one and half to two millennium. I.e., unless someone has written records from around 1500 B.C., count me skeptical.
Next he'll be doing MC Hammer knockoffs, if they can keep him awake long enough.
(well, that whole hammer thing might be a little to close to home)
Thank you for your due diligence on posting yet another Carson/pyramid link to his statement 17 years ago.
I guess that offends Me on several levels:
First, Joseph was sementic, ie an Arab for all intents and purposes, so are Arabs white guys?
Second, why bring race into this at all
And finally, what's wrong w/ white guys?
I'm way past tired of people thinking I should apologize for being a white guy.
This article highlights the bias of the author far more than the wackie theory of Dr Carson.
This statement by Ben Carson is sad on all sorts of levels, especially in light of the fact that he doubled down on those remarks just this week.
I’m sorry, but even as a lightly educated teenager, I knew that the Egyptian pyramids were nearly solid rock, with just a few small passageways inside.
You have to be either very ignorant, or of a strangely twisted mindset, to imagine they could have ever been used to store anything, let alone used as granaries.
It’s too bad he didn’t have the good judgment to keep such a cockamamie theory to himself so many years ago, but to still stand by those unfortunate remarks while running for president, is going to hurt his credibility immensely.
What you said.
That is the difference between the MSM acting as your personal palace guard (Obama) or acting—should Carson get the nomination—like sharks scenting blood in the water.
I was just told that America doesn’t care and hitlary is the victim. The libs follow that drum beat. God what assholes.
I don’t recall the Egyptians writing down why the pyramids were built. King Tutt and the rest of the pharos whose tombs have been found were in the Valley of the Kings, no mummies of any kind were ever found in any of the pyramids.
Having said that, I do believe Carson’s theory to be more than a bit odd. But, given the fact that he supports amnesty, gun control, and has aligned himself with Sharpton, his theory on the pyramids might be the best opinion he’s voiced yet.
That actually sounds like Jehovah’s Witnesses. They definitely believe that.
My husband and I had invited a JW to our place years ago. When we showed her in 2 Peter 3:10 that the earth would be “burned up”, she couldn’t believe it and left rather flustered.
The illegal alien Mexicans were just doing the jobs that Egyptians wouldn't do.
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