08-03-2011, 11:13 AM
(08-03-2011, 02:42 AM)Cracker Wrote: "Teachers open the door... You enter by yourself."
Stop telling and start asking. They will embrace it when they think it is their own idea. Then you can smile when you tell them how smart they are.
Somebody got your goat, clad. Don't let them keep your goat. No telling what they may do to your goat. Especially if they live in West Virginia.
This is great advice but most of them are almost as afraid of providing me ammunition by answering questions as they are of arguing any point. Egyptology as a canned response to anyone who doesn't accept their assumptions. If ignoring it doesn't work they respond with long reading lists and gently suggest you won't be stupid any longer after you read their tripe. If you persist they launch into word games and insults. All the while they make references to some some vague mountain of evidence that only they can tap.
It's all a sham and they even had themselves fooled. Sure, there's a great deal of scholarship and research but there's just no data for the great pyramid building age so everything is a construct founded on the absurd notion that they mustta used ramps. From this is derived they mustta been tombs and it was off to the races.
I've changed my tactics repeatedly. Ya' shouldda been around when they were playing word games with me. Now that was funny. I'd twist their silly words into silly weapons and hurl them back. I don't blame most of them for being unhappy with me. Sure, they brought it on themselves and I've been far nicer to them than they to me but I'm the outsider who isn't kissing their ass.
I think a lot of them suspect I must be right and are just waiting for guidance. Nothing has happened since Hawass was dragged into a cave a year ago that he spent his whole career insisting couldn't exist. Two years ago he called geysers "other unscientific ideas on the net". He has recently OK'ed some mid-20th century technology that has a high probabilty of being able to show my technique was used and nearly as high a probabilty of being able to show it was not. (depending on whether it was used or not, of course).
I've tried repeatedly to get help with this. I've asked lots of questions but they tend to be met with derision as well. Don't get me wrong; I have had a great deal of help and questions answered but the help tends to be in the form of arguments against my theory and the answers have never been in an organized fashion.
I keep telling them that history is going to be brutal if they make me prove this myself. "Egyptology" would be the punchline of jokes for millions of years. On the bright side if I'm wrong everyone will have a great laugh at my expense and it will be forgotten in days.
When you get right down to the root of the problem there really aren't many answers to many questions. There is no information and everything is dependent on how you arrange a few pieces of a puzzle. My way just has a better fit for the pieces and a hazy picture actually emerges.