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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:05 pm    Post subject: Spot the Korean logical fallacy Reply with quote

Geez. I'm watching Arirang. The portion where they give their show over to corporate videos. There's some segment about a food company that markets a line of onion products. The video shows a picture of the pyramids.

"Egyptian slaves could move 3 ton stones because they were fed onions!"

You mean it wasn't the whipping?

And I need to point out they weren't being fed KOREAN onions. I noticed Koreans eating Korean onions have failed to build any ancient wonders.
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caniff



Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map

PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

C'mon, MM2. You weren't there during the construction of the pyramids.

For all we know, it was space lizards all hopped up on onions that made them.

That applies to the Korean statement, as well.
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Bibbitybop



Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They've been watching Popeye and simply mistranslated the word "spinach."
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moosehead



Joined: 05 May 2007

PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

actually the revisionist view of the builders of the pyramids is that they were regular employees, much like construction workers are today. engineers, specialists, an entire gamut of professionals and what we'd deem today blue collar workers

this is supported by more extensive excavations which have shown complete cities were built around the pyramids during their construction

the old "slaves built the pyramids" idea was mostly just conjured up by the west it seems perhaps to downplay the idea that something grand could be done w/o slavery? or by a civilization not western? or not christian? whatever. Rolling Eyes
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caniff



Joined: 03 Feb 2004
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's some proof. Do you see how Egyptian they look?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2GtcpzUQNRI
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Scotticus



Joined: 18 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

moosehead wrote:

the old "slaves built the pyramids" idea was mostly just conjured up by the west it seems perhaps to downplay the idea that something grand could be done w/o slavery? or by a civilization not western? or not christian? whatever. Rolling Eyes


Come, now. I'm willing to accuse the West of a lot of things, but I think this is a stretch. I'd say a much more plausible explanation for the slave theory would be that until recently, we didn't think it was physically possible to build something on that scale without some means of efficiently moving the large slabs of rock. We were under the impression that they were doing it by brute force, which would need slave labor to achieve.

Are you trying to tell me that slave labor has never been used to build monuments before? Ask the people who built the Great Wall if they had a lot of say in whether or not they were going to help in that little endeavor.
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moosehead



Joined: 05 May 2007

PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Scotticus wrote:
moosehead wrote:

the old "slaves built the pyramids" idea was mostly just conjured up by the west it seems perhaps to downplay the idea that something grand could be done w/o slavery? or by a civilization not western? or not christian? whatever. Rolling Eyes


Come, now. I'm willing to accuse the West of a lot of things, but I think this is a stretch. I'd say a much more plausible explanation for the slave theory would be that until recently, we didn't think it was physically possible to build something on that scale without some means of efficiently moving the large slabs of rock. We were under the impression that they were doing it by brute force, which would need slave labor to achieve.

Are you trying to tell me that slave labor has never been used to build monuments before? Ask the people who built the Great Wall if they had a lot of say in whether or not they were going to help in that little endeavor.


and who, pray tell, are the "we" you are referring to?

am not sure why you think it's a "stretch" - a lot of Egyptian history has been intepreted - or misintepreted - thru western scholars over time -

thinking it "wasn't physically possible ..." only demeems the concept that the Egyptians could have organized, planned and implemented such construction on a grand scale and completed it - yet they did exactly that. not just them, but others did similar feats in s. america as well.

i don't know anything about how the great wall was built - so can't comment on that.

in the southern u.s., in older sections of larger cities you might notice a lot of ornamental black iron work - the oldest of it - not the reproductions - was done by slaves - tho they were not credited for it by most people because quite simply, most people don't know about it.
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billybrobby



Joined: 09 Dec 2004

PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

moosehead wrote:


the old "slaves built the pyramids" idea was mostly just conjured up by the west it seems perhaps to downplay the idea that something grand could be done w/o slavery? or by a civilization not western? or not christian? whatever. Rolling Eyes


I think the Bible has influenced us to view the Egyptians as slavemasters.
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flummuxt



Joined: 15 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
"Egyptian slaves could move 3 ton stones because they were fed onions!"


It's a lie!

Everyone knows the slaves who built the pyramids were fed kimchi, just like modern Koreans.
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shaunew



Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Calgary

PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

caniff wrote:
Here's some proof. Do you see how Egyptian they look?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2GtcpzUQNRI


Man you should have warned me about the song. My mother in law is dancing and singing the song now and won't let me close the window.
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weatherman



Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea

PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The onion as we know it, wasn't in the traditional Korean diet. the traditional korean diet had pa, then, in the great food exchange of cultures meeting, the youngpa came in. You young-nom-sskies should know this.
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djsmnc



Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like the song "Walk Like an Egyptian"
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the eye



Joined: 29 Jan 2004

PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I live in Sphinx Villa. When i asked the real estate agent why it was so named, she said it was because the owner really likes Italy.
Go figure.
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mindmetoo



Joined: 02 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah the slaves theory is in dispute. I've read others argue it was a make work project between the growing seasons.
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Billy Pilgrim



Joined: 08 Sep 2004

PostPosted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's the problem: you watched Arirang. Look what happens when you do silly things like that.
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