Who are we? Part 5
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
By: Seeker
Even according to normal history, the past holds special things. If we just accept what we are told, past societies did amazing things.
In the thousand or so years after we supposedly came away from hunter-gathering and became farmers, we built entire civilizations. Two thousand years after we purportedly first build communities that didn’t move with the game or the seasons, we built the pyramids at Giza.
Research and archaeology have shown that the idea the Pyramids were built by slaves is not correct. With the discovery of the town that is close to the site, the idea is now that thousands of people lived there to build the pyramids, artisans and craftsmen, respected workers who were looked after well.
But this changes how we must view these people. In a society that could NOT have been millions of people, they thought enough of their world, their society, for many thousands of people to devote long periods of time to building these magnificent structures. They were not forced to this, they contributed willingly!
This is the equivalent of a hundred million Americans leaving their daily lives and going to build a bridge over the Atlantic, or perhaps fill in the Grand Canyon with buildings. In other words, a huge contribution to a huge project.
And we are meant to believe the society did this because they believed their pharaoh to be a God who needed a good place to be buried? Even though there is actually no evidence the Pyramids, particularly the early ones, were ever used for burials?
It is further examples of how our modern society wants to believe we are the pinnacle of all the past, that there has been a steady progression from cave to mall and it’s all been an upward path to greatness.











