The oldest bookin the world.

[cladking]

...And no one even bothered to read it.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/pyt/

[Riotgear]

Hey speaking of old books and sorry about going off topic here a bit, but do you have any thoughts on the so-called Voynich manuscript you'd be willing to share?

[cladking]

No, not really.

But someone recently for the first time claims to be able to decipher it.

[crash]

...And no one even bothered to read it.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/pyt/

Any mention of ramps in it?

[Donovan]

...And no one even bothered to read it.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/pyt/

Aw jeez, like I didn't have ENOUGH distractions on the internet. Dammit cladking, how am I supposed to get any work done?

[cladking]

...And no one even bothered to read it.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/pyt/

Any mention of ramps in it?

No!

The word actually is used once in it but only in reference to a walk down to the geyser of all things.

1717a. A ramp is trodden for thee to the Dȝ.t to the place where Śȝḥ is.

Just copy and paste this into a search engine to find any word in the PT;

site:sacred-texts.com utterance ramp

389b. the two dd-pillars are standing, the broken steps are falling down.

Same concept. The "djed pillars" control water.

[cladking]

...And no one even bothered to read it.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/pyt/

Aw jeez, like I didn't have ENOUGH distractions on the internet. Dammit cladking, how am I supposed to get any work done?

I've read it about 120 times through now but have read it much more in searches. Each time I understand more and more of it.

This work probably includes the earliest rituals known and some go back to before the invention of the written word.

Despite the importance of the work it's like no one has ever even read it before. They've instead forced it into a mould that is the oldest version of a book of magic and never noticed it doesn't fit. There is no magic in it. The word "magic" is used a few times but the correct translation is something closer to "proper scientific observation" than it is to the supernatural ability to control things.

[Riotgear]

Alchemy.

[OnBendedKnee]

Ok, no BS nor disrespect, but this has got to be the most boring thread on mock... scratch that, on the whole world wide web, right now.

[Riotgear]

WHAT!?!? HOW DISRESPECTFUL!

Sanctions may be in order.

[cladking]

Ok, no BS nor disrespect, but this has got to be the most boring thread on mock... scratch that, on the whole world wide web, right now.

I don't really disagree.

But the only reason it's so boring is everyone has fallen for the assumptions that the book is superstitious gobblety gook written by barefoot bumpkins. So long as it's not understood the fact that it's the mother of the Bible and the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is invisible. It's all that's left of 40,000 years of human advancement.

[cladking]

It's so aggravating. The scholars won't really read this book. If they did it would be almost immediately obvious these people didn't believe anything they couldn't see, hear, feel, touch, or smell. All they talk about are what they sense and how this relates to the concrete world. But Egyptologists are so busy trying to pound this work into what they think it means that they've never even read it really. They scorn me for trying to understand it in the writers' terms because they choose to deconstruct it in their own terms. To an Egyptologist it simply doesn't matter what the authors intended because it has to fit modern day beliefs.

1770a. To say: N. has ascended like a swallow; N. has alighted like a falcon.

They think it's actually funny that I should become familiar with the way swallows fly or falcons alight. But it's in such pictures that the meaning of the work becomes most clear. It explains their artwork and what they're thinking. Swallows fly like they are being pulled through the air and falcons use up the last of their kinetic energy as they alight. Herons push off from the earth with their legs and ibis' are flying rainbows. The "Gods" themselves are part man and part animal but an Egyptologist doesn't even seem to know not all animals are identical.

Egyptology hasn't been able to identify one single "magic" sceptre or icon in 150 years of studious work. They can tell you nothing about the origin or function of a single one of them but for some reason I can't comprehend people believe them when they say the ancients were stumble bums and nincompoops. If we know nothing at all about them then where do Egyptologists get off claiming to know the culture?

Sorry, just gotta let off steam once in a while.

[crash]

Maybe there's a word that frequently occurs in the script that refers to ramps that hasn't been linked yet? You know like when everyone thought gay meant happy, until we actually all found out it meant queer?

[cladking]

Maybe there's a word that frequently occurs in the script that refers to ramps that hasn't been linked yet? You know like when everyone thought gay meant happy, until we actually all found out it meant queer?

This is simply impossible if any of my definitions are correct. actually it's more highly improbable even if I'm wrong because there is nowhere in the work that "ramp" would fit in context. The builsders are quite adamant that the pyramid is the ka of the king and everything which goes up it flies up it. even the stone fly up like the "fledglings of swallows".

1130a. When thou sayest, "statues", in respect to these stones,
1130b. which are like fledglings of swallows under the river-bank;

[Donovan]

OBK is a goddamn philistine. Keep talking, cladking.

[Riotgear]

I heard that bigfoot guy saying Goliath might've been a 'squatch.