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Old 08-07-2006, 05:38 AM   #11
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I can't: I must be presumed a fabrication in use for conspiracy purposes.:devil3:
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I can't: I must be presumed a fabrication in use for conspiracy purposes.:devil3:
Let me guess? The French again?
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Yet the problem is, if Diocletian aka Constatine built the pyramids, who did write Herodotus’ History, which to date was supposed to include the earliest mention of them?

Let me guess—a Mythical Herodotus?:huh:
Obviously that part of Herodotus was interpolated by someone else. Probably by Eusebius.

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Obviously that part of Herodotus was interpolated by someone else. Probably by Eusebius.

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I've read somewhere that there's evidence that the pyramids are 6,000 years old or something like that...
There was a chap called "The Great Pyramidiot" who thought things like that.
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The pyramids are natural feature, as anyone with the simplest of geological learning can attest.

They just appear designed to some less educated humans because the human brain has evolved with pattern recognition systems that penalise false-positives much much less than it penalises false-negatives (running away from a tiger that isn't there is wasteful, but much less wasteful than not running away from a tiger that is there).
Yes the passages in them were formed by water erosion.
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(Can't... resist... ) 300 CE. Constantine built them.
I saw a silly film once in which the God-fearing Hebrews, lead by James Robertson Justice with a Scottish accent,--built the pyramids and taught the Egyptians everything they knew about building.
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But surely Diocletian is only a fabrication by Constantine...

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But Constantine is a Christian invention to account for christianity in the West.
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