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      The missing stones you see in the picture at the bottom half of the pyramids, called casing stones, are believed to have been taken and reused as building materials. But the person in the picture is claiming they wasted away due to some previous sea level rise in the area.

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            They have to believe forces like erosion and tectonic mountains happen quickly to pack Earth’s history into 7,000 years. Not joking. At all.

            What’s really funny is that no one believed the Earth was that young until recently. It’s like The Rapture™ and cherubic angels, totally made up, non-Biblical, hasn’t been around for even 200 years. We’re talking about people who get Milton’s Paradise Lost and Dante’s Inferno mixed into their “ancient” belief structures.

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          How do they reconcile the stories of Moses in Egyptian captivity, presumably part of those building said pyramids, when Noah and the Flood would have been long before any of that?

          Have to make your lore consistent if you want people to get sucked into that fantasy.

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        For what it’s worth: if it was sea water, the damage would have been different, salt water is rather destructive. Also on the inside parts that would have been submerged . Plus, there would have been remnants of seaweed, shells etc.

        Fun fact aside: The early Egyptians must have had a much greener and humid climate than we generally think, so OOP was onto something…. and then did a rabbit hole deep dive. Oh well.

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          I stood on the edge of one of those rabbit holes once. My dad gave me a book called The Sirius Mystery, and it starts out sounding well grounded, but the correlations made start getting wider and wider until…yes, aliens.

          To this day I still feel he may have had some valid points at the beginning on the geology, and the Egyptian historian club is very defensive of questioning their conclusions. The truth could be somewhere between the two with people there longer than we thought, building things in a wetter environment…without aliens.

          And as a side note, it always pisses me off when people attribute early man’s achievements to having an outside assistance. People were smart back then, they just didn’t know all we know. Don’t take away what THEY did just because we have some image of modern man being a genius above older generations. We’re standing on the shoulders of giants, and some of those giants started out with nothing and figured basic shit out themselves.

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            It annoys me at how we can’t even really study some things because of the racist ‘it had t obe aliens’ crowds effectivly turning those topics into a circlejerk of horrible.

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            And as a side note, it always pisses me off when people attribute early man’s achievements to having an outside assistance.

            This isn’t a perfect indicator, but it’s damn close:

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              With the lone exception, god knows why, being Stonehenge. Somehow that’s the one thing white people could not achieve by themselves.

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                Traced back to ‘oh hey the romans were confused on how this was there and rome was our ancesteral peak. therefor Aliens.’