This is a monumental shift.

[Hetzer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUP_AuLpleQ&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR27ST8CfA_fv_FcqdzybnXZeyfL4LFoaD0S1HH-LHv8nwE1l1-qVodNpZA
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[Easy-X]

Hilarious! Good find
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[Hetzer]

Then this. I kind of watched this guy, doing his thing almost as if it was a tiresome duty and couldn't wait to get the fuck away. That lent it a certain kind of authenticity. Then the whole lot becomes normalised in the brain (maybe because I've been into this shit for decades) and it's "meh, so fucking what, gimme pizza, bikes and sex".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN32T0XHyU8&fbclid=IwAR3x1AeDVLT2feXbrnjtWcfQTvYtIEPeriwsXBJ-6R37d1ifEvUQZd3sjjA

Like, what's the essential difference between whizzing around in the clouds in the astral form and on the roads on a bike? Whoopee fucking doo. I've tinkered with the astral stuff and had some very odd experiences and also my whole DMT journey down the rabbit hole...I'm not sure if any of it is worth the candle.
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[Easy-X]

Errrr... no I got about 2 mins in.

"Astrally projected 30,000 times" makes one wonder if he has time to do anything else! (I'm minded the film Avatar where the character spends so much time in his alter-ego he almost starves to death back in the real world.)

How about an OBE in the ladies changing rooms? Can one wank on the ethereal plane? Answer this crucial questions and you might gain some credibility, Pane Kewl take though, to poke about Area 51 so to speak. I'm sure the audience lapped it up.

I've just finished watch "Altered Carbon" and that made me think more on the practical nature of the soul than any of these snake oil merchants.
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[Hetzer]

[Easy-X]

He lost me when he did the bit about pointing at the '60s encyclopedia and saying "if it ain't in here it don't exist" Nobody does that.

I remember seeing an archaeology assistant on the Joe Rogan show and he was spitting chips over all the conspiracy theorists slagging the profession off - big crossover here between creationists and nut jobs - when the reality is a lot of dedicated, meticulous work (by people probably well on the spectrum) for very little money and seemingly no thanks.

Finding Tutankhamen's tomb intact was important as it gave a real snapshot of ancient history. Things like Stonehenge and this pyramid are nowhere near as interesting. Lot's of stones arranged in a ring? Kewl! What does it tell us about the people who built it? Fuck all really
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[Hetzer]

[stinkwheel]

The above links contaminated my youtube feed with flat earth and nutjob conspiracy theory content.

Private browsing from now on.
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[Easy-X]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

If you're prepared to believe that monumental shite you've got to be a religious nut job too. Why would you believe one and not the other? They're hills!
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-mystery-of-bosnias-ancient-pyramids-148990462/
Interesting nationalist angle.

[Islander]

[Hetzer]

[Islander]

[Hetzer]

Why the fuck must it be a "conspiracy theory"? If a thousand years from now some archaeologist finds an Anderson shelter when the accepted knowledge is there were never any wars in 'pre-history', it would be a 'conspiracy theory'? A massive pyramid has been found in Bosnia and conclusively dated to at least 25k years old. The proof isn't open to debate, its shell is formed of multiple layers of concrete slabs, tested in numerous labs around the world (for error-redundancy). The thing is real, genuine, proven. It has miles of tunnels and chambers under the base and more in levels rising to the top. You think they built them in an ancient-stylee as a hoax?!
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[Hetzer]

What's really freaky is 5000 years back (they carbon-dated organic matter in the material) some civilisation back-filled the tunnels/passages right to the roof. WTF!!!
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[Islander]

[Pete.]

[stinkwheel]

I think i just discovered a pyramid in Scotland. This one is over 1,000 metres tall!

https://www.scottishgeology.com/wp-content/uploads/28-schiehallion-cpudsey-1-webres.jpg
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[Islander]

Ah the Schiehallion pyramid. Well kept secret that one.

And it's been used to do some real science.

[doggone]

It's interesting to speculate what the pyramids would have looked like by now in a more temperate climate, and a wooded hill is possible.

I am open to the idea there may have been a more advanced civilisation which predates a lot of what we see as ancient now.
The way impossibly huge stones have been cut with laser-like precision such as we could barely achieve now is well documented in the nether regions of youtube.

[Hetzer]

[Islander]

[Islander]

[chickenstrip]

[Islander]

@chickenstrip

I'm in broad agreement with your argument. Dating of finds isn't always a precise science unless you're lucky enough to find some form of organic remains for carbon dating in the lowest archaeological strata (hearths are a good source here). Egyptology has been problematic in the past having been dominated by 'experts' that talk in absolutes. That's changing and there are some interesting arguments challenging those views - especially timelines.

I don't always think the skills have been lost either. I've seen some extremely fine mason work using hand tools that would probably meet the same standards as older civilizations. What we have lost is the time and will to complete to a fine standard for the most part - and access to larger numbers of people with the skills of course. The site I mentioned at the Ness of Brodgar appears to illustrate this. The early stuff is built to an extraordinary standard of masonry and probably built to impress. The later stuff not so much, instead function and scale take precedence. It's truly fascinating stuff.

Theories change, that's the nature of science. New evidence is produced, rigorously tested and the old ways of thinking challenged. I'm happy to change my opinions when the weight of evidence says I should

I said we'd have discovered archaeological evidence by now because, well we would have. Given the scale of archaeological work over the past, say 50 years, with improvements on geophysical investigation, aerial photography, satellite imaging, and other techniques, large sites (which you'd expect from any well developed civilisation) would have turned something up to rock the archaeological world. I appreciate that a lot of evidence is lost for the foreseeable future under rising sea levels, for example, but still...

The Bosnian 'pyramids' have been carefully examined by reputable geologists and discovered to be geology after all. No amount of wishful thinking or artificial groundwork on a massive scale is going to change that. It's good for tourism though...