Oh... like the movie Stargate?

Tom wrote:Oh... I thought Stargates were like people.

No, Soylent green is people.

And Soylent Blue is gasoline made from people. How many lives per gallon? Lemme tellya!

..

Rick Reuben wrote:

Tom wrote:Oh... like the movie Stargate?

Never saw it. I just read about them in books about technologically advanced Egyptian and Sumerian civilizations.

Books like by this guy?

If so you're in good company. I saw one of his books on Elvis's bookshelf in Graceland.

Rick Reuben wrote:Elvis is coming back through the Vegas Stargate on top of the Luxor in 2012 and he's bringing Sonny Red. You should not have mocked the King.

No mockery here. Just pointing out what was on the shelf.

Hey, I found some further reading for you.

i went to egypt. i saw the pyramids. all these street urchins ran up surrounding the tourists going "3 camels, 3 camels for a pound," trying to sell them stuffed toy camels. then this policeman rode over on a camel with a horsewhip and and beat the shit out of them.

in conclusion, the pyramids were good.

Gotta love the local pickpocket population...

s = y wrote:i went to egypt. i saw the pyramids. all these street urchins ran up surrounding the tourists going "3 camels, 3 camels for a pound," trying to sell them stuffed toy camels. then this policeman rode over on a camel with a horsewhip and and beat the shit out of them.

There were people attempting to sell shit/run scams at the Pyramids even before they were finished being built.

I had a conversation yesterday with a 3 Egyptians and an Iraqi on why Egypt deserves the Nile (and later why Iraq deserves the Tigris and Euphrates).

Apparently, Allah wills it to be so because Egypt is and always has been so modern and advanced- they have been rewarded for their forward thinking and hard work with the bounty of the river.

Of course, this is coming from those who label me a fool for believing the Earth revolves around the Sun, when clearly this is not so.

What's your take?

Horuss wrote:

s = y wrote:i went to egypt. i saw the pyramids. all these street urchins ran up surrounding the tourists going "3 camels, 3 camels for a pound," trying to sell them stuffed toy camels. then this policeman rode over on a camel with a horsewhip and and beat the shit out of them.

There were people attempting to sell shit/run scams at the Pyramids even before they were finished being built.

?

Can you elaborate?

I went to Egypt on a trip with my Dad and my sister when I was 17. The pyramids were incredible. One thing that a lot of people don't realize is that the blocks that make them up are huge and not really able to be scaled by ordinary human effort alone.

It is strange, but you could say of the pyramids that they are both a testament to human ingenuity and hard work and a crushing reminder of how the aims of state power veer off into absurdity and vanity. Sort of a paradox, I guess.

The rest of Egypt was weird. Large segments of the population live in little, tin-roof shacks that are clustered together into discrete slums. Soldiers with automatic rifles in their hands dot the Nile. Cars careen every which way in the streets and only take traffic lights as suggestions! It's hot but it's a dry heat that feels like it's searing your skin instead of melting it from the inside-out.