Comments by "Ponto" (@Ponto-zv9vf) on "GRAHAM HANCOCK's Hypothesis On The PYRAMIDS Makes NO SENSE - Lex Fridman Podcast" video.

  1. He's good at mixing things with some validity with BS. He is one snake oil vendor.
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  2. Hancock relies on people like you. You have done him proud.
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  3. I don't know either personally. This is my view, Joe Rogan is a working class man with little education, but he wants to know things to learn and that makes him open to people like Hancock. Lex Friedman want to start a discourse with the people who create some sort of notoriety or write challenging books or provide alternate answers.
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  4. Because then they are no longer secrets.
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  5. It doesn't have to face the constellation of Leo. You can put up a Lion stature anywhere, or make a golden statue of a bull in the deserts of Sinai.
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  6. It is up to them. Look at some famous artists, they have their phases. They change and evolve. So the Egyptians decorated, added hieroglyphics and then didn't. I sometimes go for a walk soon after I wake, and other times in the afternoon, sometimes I will have a favorite food, then it changes to another.
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  7. I think his description of that chamber being claustrophobic and clambering on hands and knees, is jus to frighten us from going there and seeing for yourselves.
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  8. He is plausible, and knows how to win an audience. He is also entitled to believe in fairies at the bottom of his garden, the ones with wings.
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  9. The gee I am so tiny feeling. Yes, there is ego as well, and hubris.
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  10. It was a plateau.
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  11. Yes of course. It is like a man owning a Lamberghini, it is an artifical phallus. Look how great I am. Just pure ego.
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  12. There were pre Dynastic Egyptians.
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  13. I didn't understand that bit. It is said that the Egyptians diverted waters from the nile towards the area where the pyramids were to be built because it was easier to transport the stones to the site. The Nile was what made Egypt without it all of Egypt would be a red desert, the river deposited silts and turned the land beside the river, black and fertile.
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  14. It is a nice saying but not really true.
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  15. Now he is making money, and gathering a following. Pope Hancock.
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  16. You have made an accusation. How about saying who they are? I have never heard that myself. There is nothing about Hancock that is supreme, and what his race is is irrelevant. But don't hide like a coward, come out and say who those people are. So far I am not impressed by his followers.
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  17. It should as it is meant to entertain us. A better looking Alien could have been chosen, and a manly looking ancient Egyptian.
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  18. Maybe the ancient Egyptians should have an foresight and written something for the Aliens and Hancock lovers to say they did it all themselves, but they don't want us to know how.
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  19. They used copper tools as well, they weren't that backward.
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  20. Really. Thanks, I will take that under advisement.
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  21. How can knowledge be secret if people know about this secret.
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  22. And there's no way of disproving the Ice Age idea of an ancient civilization. Look at the movies and TV shows on Vampires, Dragons, faster than light travel, Magic and mythical people. There is a need for those type of things, and for what Hancock talks about.
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  23. Well, I think the Egyptians wanted to build something new on virgin ground.
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  24. Well they say that most written languages are the product of the Phoenicians. However I am sure they had some symbols that meant something, just not a whole lot.
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  25. The precession of the equinox was well known, you don't need any pyramids, it was common knowledge. The constellation that arises on March 21 has been moving backwards which is why the ancients worshipped the bull, why Jesus is associated with the Lamb.
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  26. There's nothing you can do about it. A large part of humanity wants to tear down those with expertise and knowledge because they don't have the expertise and knowledge but can do the tearing down. It is like the Celts going to Rome and destroying it, taking loot and booty. It is good to question things but to say everyone is lying, and they are hiding informations is just a form of paranoia. They will eventually burn themselves out and then spark themselves into action again. It's cyclical.
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  27. Extinction is the fate of all species. How many trilobites have you seen lately?
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  28. Well send one to me, I am sure an Alien pie would taste nice.
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  29. What you are saying is fact, the disciples of Hancock don't care about facts, they are lies and dissembling.
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  30. Do you despise it because it is wrong or because you are an acolyte of Hancock's. Those people you despise are, guess what, humans, and flawed. I am sure they upbraid themselves when they are mocking, deriving or shouting rather than being controlled. Personally I have never seen any of what you just said. Shouting?
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  31. All ancient writing wasn't about warning, it was accounting, business transactions, who owns what.
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  32. The Middle East where those Astrological ideas came from, was in contact with Egypt, and those ancients did not have TV or Youtube, so they looked at the stars.
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  33. It could be the definition of civilization. It has to do with cities and writing. Maybe advanced human cultures. What caused ancient humans to go into caves to paint lions, bison, rhinoceros, wild horses, and why was there a sudden change in their stone tools? Hancock's ancient people were quite mean in not sharing things like the wheel and domesticating bovines and horses for moving the good by cart.
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  34. Whatever happened to the idea that the star Sirius was supposed to shine on the Pharaoh's face, or his death mask, in order for him to ascend to meet the God Osiris? I am sure that if you asked one of the workers on that pyramid he'ld say, dunno mate, it just a job for the governor.
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  35. And the head fell off and shattered so they replaced it with a Pharaoh's head.
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  36. Well, I guess so. They probably didn't exist then, Egyptians. There probably a lot of ethnic groups moving in and out of the area that is now Egypt. In Australia a lot of people don't know their grandparents, let alone their ancient forebears. Saying that the Aborigines have stories of the rise of sea level 10 kya, and their ancestors having to move inland from the coast.
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  37. The Sphinx could have been built over and over. Egypt has a tough climate, and the stones seem to suck whatever moisture there is in the foundations into it. Stonehenge was a mess before the collapsed stones were raised again and cap stones placed on top. The point is its age cannot be proven to everyone's satisfaction, hence the speculation.
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  38. You think so. Those Egyptians worshiped everything, so you can say they were rather religious or superstitious.
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  39. As the actor said in the Indiana Jones movie, if you want truth go see Reverend, Archaeology deals with fact and evidence not the Truth. It isn't logical, a rational group of assumptions, but there is no logic in there. Plausible is plausible, it don't make it true and correct.
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  40. I think that Graham becoming a Sociologist was very upsetting to his parents, and he carries a lot of guilt and an inferiority complex.
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  41. It is likely that a statue of the Sphinx made when the constellation of Leo came up at the equinox on March 21st probably fell down due to salt, water penetration, sand blasting, the temperature day and night, summer and winter causing spalling, so it was rebuilt much later. Even Stonehenge was just a heap of stones before it was put back together.
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  42. I don't have any hypotheses on the Pyramids, I have no need to explain or speculate. The point is why does he, and why do you? Honestly the pyramids are just a pile of rocks to me, nothing more, nothing spooky.
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  43. Belzoni the strongman, and born again Egyptologist is just like Schliemann, after gold and wealth. And so is Hancock.
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  44. Metatron is an Angel. Mr. Raffaelo is a human.
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  45. Man, I will not be watching.
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  46. That is one way to put it. I am into free speech. Hancock is entitled to come up with any ideas he wants to, and gather his willing flock, but it also means he can be criticized. If he and his flock say the experts are lying to us, they are hiding the truth. Then you know he and his flock have no evidence or facts to back what he believes, his ideas. Cults educate their members to do the same. Who knows we can have the start of a new religion: Church of Hancock. It has been done successfully do a Sci Fi writer not all that long ago.
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  47. People don't suddenly change on the precession of the Equinoxes, they keep some of the old images for some time. Take Jesus, he was born when the constellation Pisces was at Equinox, and the fish was used by Christians as a symbol of Jesus, but so was the Lamb, and the aspect of a shepherd guarding his flock.
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  48. If there was, wonderful. If there wasn't wonderful. It really does nothing to advance our lives either way. What is the gain for Hancock with his ideas? I am rather suspicious of his motives.
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  49. Sounds like any building in Italy.
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  50. Europe a baby compared with Egypt. And who else was in Egypt before the Egyptians? Those people you refer to are different European ethnic groups, and cultures.
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  51. Well the Lion's head is speculation because the head looks small on the body. Never noticed myself, I am not into that sort of art. There are plenty of Lion statues on many public buildings and you could just go to a stone mason and buy one. Of course size seems to be an issue for you.
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  52. And an expert.
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  53. Fair enough. Humans like their meanlinless structures, they are called follies.
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  54. It isn't a theory, it is a bunch of ideas.
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  55. Who? You are throwing Nasturtiums around. Name them. You say they have no clue. Just come out and enlighten us.
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  56. I thought the Sphinx was older because of Astrological iconography. Sphinx a body of a lion, so constellation Leo. The bull Apis represents the constellation of Taurus, and the usage of the Ram as Ra, represents the constellation of Aries. Look at Jesus with the lamb Of course this could all be coincidental. When in academia you have to be prepared to be scrutinized and even derided, science runs on paradigms and questioning paradigms can arouse a lot of anger. So Graham Hancock says some things which can be rational, the precession he is talking about is the precession of the equinoxes. The Spinx's head being a lion's head is conjecture. Graham Hancock uses a lot of natural things, then runs with it with his ideas. He says the Giza plateau, it's a plateau, a flat area, now that sounds like a good place to build the Sphinx and Pyramids. Erosion of rock depends on the type of stone. Hills can be leveled even in ancient times. Usually I don't listen to Graham Hancock, he has a lot of problems with things he doesn't like. Pyramids were a waste to time and money as tombs since they were robbed soon after they were finished complete with sarcophagus and mummy. I want to thank the Sumerians for the seconds, minutes and hours, and the degrees that Hancock mentioned.
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  57. Really? By whom. I am well educated and I have never heard such a thing. The Milky Way is full of stars, and the Nile a brown river.
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  58. It would be simpler just to believe that Aliens, not the Xenomorph, did it all.
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  59. The Sphinx has a chamber, so I was told.
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  60. The so called Queen's chamber.
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  61. Yes, I guess. There are some questions that no living person or previous living persons can answer. The Egyptians painted many people pulling a large weight. Is that how it was done, it is unanswerable. A good answer is I don't know, rather than speculating and coming up with a lot of weird and not so wonderful answers.
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  62. I can tell you why. They are sick to death of a bunch of inane foreigners coming into these old monuments to damage them with their bodily secretions so they can downplay the role of real Egyptians building those monuments. What if I can into your yard and stuffed around trying to prove Pocahontas was a Grey Alien.
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  63. Miniminuteman can talk! I like him even if he is anti European. He has bagged Europeans at every video I have seen.
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  64. Wow, I don't understand a thing you wrote.
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