Willow:
I'm going not going to respond to the first part of your Message 20 simply because (A) I don't need a lesson in semantics; and (B) You continue to use such crap to avoid answering the simplest of questions in this thread and others.
As regards the second part of your message (the part where you graduate me from "honestly ignorant" to "massively ignorant" and then make several misrepresentations of what I supposedly did and did not say ... oh, by the way, thanks for putting words into my ignorant mouth for me):
1) I never said, "if you've seen one pyramid, you've seen them all."
Basically, I said the Great Pyramid and its smaller companions are constructed generally of the same size and nature of materials; and that if you can transport and place the massive blocks of stone in one pyramid, you certainly can use the same procedures to move and place the same sized, same material composition of stone in a larger pyramid. Now that's the third time I've expressed the same supposition and asked you for a reply ... but, I assume you will once again dodge this issue since you seem incapable of visualizing anything but modern man as being capable of pulling a rope, leaning on a lever, or constructing a rubble and earthen ramp.
While you continue to employ your well-known tactics of avoidance, also feel free to dodge the following obvious issues and questions:
a) If God built the Great Pyramid, as you contend, did He do so using levers, pulleys, etc.? I will assume your answer is an emphatic "NO." And that you would say, if you ever get around to actually answering a question, that God does not need such plebian instruments to erect massive stone edifices, and that is exactly your point ... that it would take the power of God to move such weighty materials to such a lofty extent.
Then, Willow, how did man copy God's supernatural construction techniques during the subsequent erection of the "lesser" pyramids. If pulleys, levers, ramps, and other obvious tools and methods were beyond the Egyptians ability to employ, did they rent some anti-gravitational devices from the local Interstellar Rent-All outlet in Giza? Did God direct the Heavenly Hosts to swing down and assist the pig-ignorant Egyptians?
Of course the rediculously ignorant notion that God built the Great Pyramid first, and that all others are simply inferior copies brings up another point:
b) How do you rectify reversing the sequence wherein dozens of lesser pyramids were constructed prior to the Great Pyramid? Considering the archaeological evidence proving the sequence of development of pyramid structures, wouldn't it be more accurate for you to contend that God copied and improved upon man's model? And if so, what was His point ... to prove that He can out-engineer man? Sheesh!
c) Also in Message 20 you say, "you also ASSUME that just because it is in Egypt - shazaam ! It must of been built by egyptians."
Okay, Willow, I do assume that persons of Egyptian residency constructed the pyramids. The designers, supervisors, laborers, etc., may have been of one ethnic derivation or another. I could really care less. But, yes, I assume they all were human beings residing in Egypt at the time of the construction of all the pyramids great and small. Where do you suppose they were registered as residents and where do you suppose they came from? Planet X? Pearly Gates Estates?
d) Willow, you also play the mind reader by saying, "you also assume that it is a tomb or crypt." I never said or alluded to either. Actually I asked you why God would construct an edifice for an idolatrous use such as the deification of a pharoah. Fact is, I think one of the intended functions of the Great Pyramid is as a "resurrection machine" designed in hopes to convey the dead pharoah's seed and spirit back to the constellation including Osirus' Belt and the Dog Star. As such, the pyramid clearly performs an idolatrous function according to the Law. Any thoughts on why God would create such a abominable monument, Willow?
e) Farther along in Message 20, you say, "Herodotus said 100,000 men built the Pyramid in 20 years. This is impossible." Why? Because Herodotus, with his advantage of living at a closer proximity chronologically and geographically (not to mention his vastly superior intellectual and factual knowledge compared to yours) to the construction of the Great Pyramid failed to attribute its construction to God? Pathetically humerous.
f) Then in Message 20, you include a nearly incomprehensible sentence: "This is circular concluding because to even CONSIDER the 'other' evidence would demand the dogma of an ancient 'neanderthal' man building this Pyramid be abandoned summarily."
Willow, are you attempting to say that Neanderthal men, even though they had totally disappeared from the face of the earth nearly one hundred millenia before the construction of ANY pyramid, somehow were resurrected to participate in the construction of the Great Pyramid or any of its companions? Excuse me, but you've lost me here.
In fact, you completely lose me ... my attention, my interests, my ability to cope with your evasion and empty pride. It's absolutely sinful the extent of your false pride ("my topic "Proof of God" is the rightful topic to debate this subject.") and your haughty superiority regarding whom and what you will and will not answer. For example, your refusal to answer or debate Purple regarding the New Covenant simply because he holds a different opinion regarding the validity of Paul's interpretations of Jesus's teachings runs directly against the teachings of your Messiah (unless He is Paul).
Forgettaboutit. Ab.
This message has been edited by Abshalom, 06-17-2004 01:36 PM
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