Storing grain inside an almost solid structure seems a bit inefficient, no?
The way I read it was, they were concerned that if religious freedom issues could slow down an investigation without the law, then with the law it might be able to stymie it entirely. There have been some sickening cases in Georgia where children were beaten so severely that they required hospitalization by their parents, who were members of REALLY fundamentalist churches. I suspect that was what was on their minds.
Enh. They could make it a *root *beer.
It kept rodents out of the grain, right? There’s no evidence of rodents eating pyramid stored grain, so it apparently worked!
Moisture from the geyser would rot it, though.
What’s the reason for denying the pyramids’ ritual motivation? Is it just that heathens could not possibly have done something so great for a false God?
No, no, not that Joseph. It was Joseph Smith who built the pyramids. Remember, Carson is a Mormon – well, he’s a 7th Day Adventist, but that’s a kind of Mormon, isn’t it?
I height Don Quixote, I live on Peyote,
marihuana, morphine and cocaine.
I never knew sadness but only a madness
that burns at the heart and the brain,
I see each charwoman ecstatic, inhuman,
angelic, demonic, divine,
Each wagon a dragon, each beer mug a flagon
that brims with ambrosial wine.
There is no evidence for that because they were undocumented aliens. No good going there, he would be playing right into Trump’s hand.
The main reason is that the Egyptian civilization throws a monkey wrench into the biblical time line.
http://www.skepticreport.com/sr/?p=475
So, besides the fundamentalists declaring that the Egyptologists are wrong on the chronology, it leads to fundamentalists into thinking that the explanations the experts give for the pyramids are wrong too, so we get people like Carson.
There’s a theory that Ben Carson’s campaign is one big con and I’m starting to believe it. Just got a robocall from Ben. In Massachusetts. To a Democrat household. A full year before the election and at least three months before the primary. And Ben sounded like he was on qualudes as he described how fearlessly speaking out against Obamacare distinguished him from all the other Republican campaigners.
If there was a better way for a candidate to piss away campaign cash, it would have to involve a fire pit, bales of fifty dollar bills, and a Ronson lighter.
as i observed above, the belief that the pyramids were “Joseph’s barns” (built to house the grain he advised Pharaoh to store up during the seven fat years in preparation for the seven lean years, as told in the book of Genesis) is a Medieval one. it was stated as early as the fifth century CE by Julius Honorius i his Cosmographica, repeated by numerous others, and was still being told in the 14th vcentury in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
What modern Biblical literalist is still hawking this I do not know, but I suspect that Carson didfn’t pick up the idea from Sir John.
New Ben Carson radio ad. Is he really trying to appeal to black voters?
Huh. I stared in disbelief as the thing finished, and then the audio stream flowed into Trump-hype (“trype”?).
See? If Parsons hadn’t already been making the big bucks as a rocket scientist, he woulda been an absolute BEAR as a professional limerick composer.
See, that’s why he would be an authentic black President.
I can totally see him as the black villain in Breaking Bad.
“I’m Ben Carson and I can suck the life out of rap.”
I’m not in any sense a rap fan, but am I right in saying that that’s not even good rap?
Makes sense. Spend money to raise more money, then spend that to raise even more. The real payoff being large mailing lists of rubes with more money than sense. You can then either sell snake oil to those rubes, or sell the mailing lists to someone else who sells snake oil.
And have your own Fox News show, too.