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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by abduhl on Thursday May 16, 2024 @06:18PM (#40384004)
>>all of the wasted effort that went into ensuring the Pharoah's resurrection and immortality after death.

How do you know that it didn’t work? What if it wasn’t a waste?

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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by krapp on Thursday May 16, 2024 @07:08PM (#40384428)
Gods aren't real, neither is the soul, nor an afterlife.
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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by spiderice on Thursday May 16, 2024 @10:33PM (#40385771)
I don’t believe gods are real, but I can still see the irony of making absolute statements regarding unfalsifiable ideas.
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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by krapp on Thursday May 16, 2024 @11:17PM (#40386032)
If I die and find my soul being weighed on the scales of Anubis you can say you told me so. What a fool I was to doubt!
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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by roywiggins on Sunday May 19, 2024 @05:30PM (#40409899)
Building a big thing because you think it would be neat is not really a waste. It's a big thing, everyone knows it's not strictly necessary, but whether it's for the glorification of your nation or your people or your God doesn't matter so much. If people don't have gods they build big monuments to other stuff.
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