I've heard the grain silo stories. But to imply that the pyramids are grain storage buildings is certifiable.

BTW, I wasn't attacking your family, I was attacking the people who actually believe and pass out Chick tracts. I grew up in the SE and learned to associate those with mental illness quite early.

And, yes, it was from Chick tracts and the ones that are even crazier (usually mimeographed by some dude in a basement).

weird weird shit

You had probably never laid eyes on such a horrible thing and my reference to it probably made you google it.

oppo research.

I just didn't realize it was not better-known crazy.

I was afraid I my first reply would offend you and that was not my intent.

I have never heard that story about the pyramids.

I grew up in the South and DH grew up in the UK. Neither one of us had ever heard it. I am thankful it finally shut DH up when I tell him Carson is crazy though. He can no longer half defend Carson.

He hates Hillary too....sometimes I wonder why I married him, lol

My question is, if such monumental structures were needed to store grain safely; just how big were the fucking rats?


Why don't those rats rule the world now?

The Egyptians thought cats were sacred........because they got rid of all those big rats?

It there were cats big enough to subdue rats that need a 400 million ton stone building to keep them away from the wheat; Were are the religious texts honoring the cleaners of the litter boxes?

You can't let the cats figure out they can crap in the desert, the country would vanish in mountains of cat shit.

Lived near a 7DA church for a while. Saturday nights were loud.

I hated going over his house.

Bought a new bed and slept for hours earlier. Best purchase in a long time. Feel so GOOD!

I wish my hip would let me get one some nights. I just got a new bed too......but didn't get a memory foam....that was a mistake I think.

I am so delighted.
My shoulder and back are out of wack. Next time do the memory foam. I was trying to get this nice spring matteress but my husband was not having it. So thankful he is bossy.

It's totally worth it.

We just got rid of one.....but I was pissed because it started getting sections where the foam would split (if that makes sense) and it started doing that after about 2 years....we lived with it a long time, but finally had to replace it and I didn't want to get another one because of that. Now I am sorry.....even with the splits in the foam......it did wonders for my hip and now the pain is back with a vengeance.

But I was raised Methodist, so either it wasn't taught by the Methodists or I missed it when I was out partaking behind the Baptist church where my friends that skipped Sunday school always met up.

Stories like that are big in certain black churches I been to. My grandma was a holy roller Seventh Day Adventist. Boy oh boy! I learned all type of untrue things. I learned very early how to hold crazy stuff in my head and not believe it. Probably why I'm an atheist now.

Partaking behind the Baptist church.

Never got caught once!

Which is amazing, lol

quick to point out that that is not part of their belief system.

I do not belong to that church, but I know some Adventists. They are not as crazy as some people here are saying.

The conservative christian type.
Like LDS vs FDLS.

I had a good grounding in studying the Bible when I was a child and the Pyramids were never mentioned in anyway. Also a few years back, I read a great book about finding King Tut's tomb in the 1920's. The book had a section of photographs taken right after the tomb was opened and there would be very little room to store grain in the rooms, only enough to feed a few people. And it took more than 7 years to build a Pyramid; something like 20 or 30 years. It may work for Fox News viewers, but it sure doesn't work for me. It's ridiculous!

Saturdays were spent at the Museum of Natural History. Then off to Kendo practice.

But then, according to quite a few fundies, Catholics aren't really Christian.

Catholicism is often conservative, but when it comes to the Bible, it is not fundamentalist at all, and it accepts historical-critical approaches to the Bible. So they would not say stuff like this.

I remember being shocked meeting anti-evolutionists for the first time in college.

how old you are...

It was a popular thing in some circles in the 80s-90s. Especially in SDA circles.

when I was young.

There are adventists and pentecostals and assembly of God and I cannot remember which is which...

was a no no. LOL

My dad was a milkman. Delivered milk to supermarkets and had one hospital in the southwest suburbs. It was 7DA, and the cafeteria was meatless. They had these soy burgers in cans (like the size of a paint can) that just looked terrible. They served no meat. Didn't even have a meat cooler in a hospital with over 400 beds.

I guess it was dirty or something. Strange religion. .

the Jewish were forbidden to eat Pork
and shellfish, it was considered unclean.

is 98% solid inside. Seems to me if you wanted to store grain, you might think about having a little space inside where you could actually put some grain.

seriously by an adult.

...and I missed that one entirely.

If they were tombs?

I don't believe they were for storing grain nor as tombs. Pyramids like chichen itza served an entirely different purpose and I think the grave meme are just as uniformed.


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This is just SDA teachings, which my Dad would have called 'as fake as all religion' and my Mum would have called 'blasphemy'.

But I am from New england I and I don't think we have many churches of that religion here.

the grain in the pyramids.

I can't wait to hear his views on Catholics. I'm surprised he didn't go off on Halloween.

We had carnivals.

I miss the funnel cakes

heard, the pyramids built to only to store grain.

Not batshit crazy Fundies, at least not at the time, but very conservative.

Plenty of medieval art depicts it... though it has been decades since it was at all reasonable.

But Joseph didn't lower taxes... he increased them. The grain was the tax.

I grew up reading about Ancient Egypt and the Mayas and early China (yes, I was a geek), and the Pyramids were tombs, end of story.

and I look for commonalities in the stories as well as connections between peoples. In Mesopotamia, the goddess Ishtar was the one first credited with storing grain in anticipation of 7 years of famine. The Joseph account echoes her story of filling granaries in anticipation of a famine and her story predates his by centuries. The Ishtar story is one Abraham's tribe took with them when they left Mesopotamia.

I don't remember the details of the tale well enough to say where the grain was supposedly stored.

Never heard the grain was stored in the pyramids

I guess they shouldn't have gone with the first thing they found on google.

in Egypt by Joseph.

Just a broad assumption.

It's one of the pyramidiots' theories.

It's possible maybe I'd heard it second hand from a fundie and just forgot.

earliest childhood. According to the King James translation, the grain from the seven years of plenty was put up in storehouses throughout the cities of Egypt (see verses 48 and 56 at the link below). No mention was ever made of the pyramids, and frankly, this type of confabulation was frowned upon. I don't see how Carson can claim this as an article of faith, if that is what he is doing, since there is no biblical basis for it (and of course, no historical or archaeological basis either).

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+41&version=KJV

Back in the day, before decipherment of hieroglyphics, there were all sorts of theories--mostly based on the Bible--or the Koran for folks of the Muslim persuasion. They also had the Greek historian Herotodus who clearly said that they were tombs but not everyone read the ancient Greek authors and lots of people read the Bible so the theory stuck.

The granary story--I refuse to call it a theory--was pretty well debunked early on by William Flinders Petrie and other early archaeologists. The idea that the pyramids were built by space aliens or refugees from Atlantis of course became more much more widespread in popular culture. I suppose it stuck in certain Fundamentalist circles (I've seen pamphlets to that effect) but it was pretty much underground until Dr. Ben opened his mouth.

I had no idea at the time what a priceless gift that was...

some little bits anyway....molecules maybe. Or something.....right? Hmmm...

And it's a dumbass idea anyway. It would have been much easier to build many smaller silos than one large one. It's not like the pyramid was hollow and they just could pour in grain at the top until it was full.

Grain has to be stored properly to keep bugs and rodents from eating it. And you have to dry it out first so it doesn't rot. A large mass of grain encased in stone isn't the best recipe for air circulation.

that were used to store grain and Moses built the other ones, the purpose of which are unknown but they are definitely not tombs.

Then one poster goes on to suggest that they built the Giza pyramids of solid rock with the plan to hollow them out to make graneries later. Moses just didn't get around to that part I guess.

The contempt of the right wing hoi polloi for ration judgement of any kind in favour of hyper subjectivity and emotion is staggering and quite dangerous

To them to say, I think 'it' could have happened in such and such a way according to bible based retrodiction, contradicts evidence that ]'it' happened in an entirely reasonable way according to all available evidence and existing pharonic texts.

They hate rationality. It is as simple as that

I got lucky.

It's the first I've heard of it.

and set up the Pharaoh as the tyrannical owner of the whole country. It's a story of how a major figure in Jewish mythology was an evil bastard. Just substitute, say, 'Montgomery Burns' for 'Joseph':

The pyramids were tombs. Never heard they were used for storing the Pharaoh's grain.