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FlashDangerpants wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 2:20 pm
Alexis Jacobi wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 2:07 pm Philosophically, Flash, I get the impression that your horizons are pretty limited.
Philosophically, you have nothing at all. You don't have horizons, you don't have a view, you are a complete zero and your opinion is not important.
Sleep on it, Flash. You may well wake up with a different perspective!
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Alexis Jacobi wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 4:18 pm
FlashDangerpants wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 2:20 pm
Alexis Jacobi wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 2:07 pm Philosophically, Flash, I get the impression that your horizons are pretty limited.
Philosophically, you have nothing at all. You don't have horizons, you don't have a view, you are a complete zero and your opinion is not important.
Sleep on it, Flash. You may well wake up with a different perspective!
What is likely to change? Anybody who has seen you use the word predicate knows not to confuse you with a philosopher.
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FlashDangerpants wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 9:57 am
Eodnhoj7 wrote: Mon Dec 01, 2025 5:38 am
FlashDangerpants wrote: Sat Nov 29, 2025 12:23 pm
Is that word salad supposed to make a point of some sort?

Here's a video about how to assemble the Great Pyramid anew using two cranes:
Could A Modern Mega Crane ACTUALLY Build The Great Pyramid
https://youtu.be/MST6V1IHaTA

This is absurd, if you were sane you would drop the idea that we cannot build the pyramids today, it makes no sense that you insist on doubling down on such crap.
Where is the video of the pyramid of giza being replicated exactly? Proof is the product.

Where is the video of levers and people rolling stones to build it?

Where is the video that shows the hieroglypths explaining the exact process in which it was built?

What I see are assumptions, they are assumptions because there are no exact replicas.

Being real....historical texts give no answers, only second hand myths.
A pyramid is an end product made out of blocks of stone placed in a pattern. We have not lost the ability to make them. It's quite insane that you are continuing to double down on this.
I said: where is the video of the pyramid of Giza being replicated exactly?

You really do enjoy taking things out of context to avoid appearing dumb.

Please continue trying to be clever....we are all ears with what you will come up with.
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Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded Epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy; it asserted that philosophy's purpose is to attain as well as to help others attain tranquil lives, characterized by freedom from fear and the absence of pain.
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Fairy wrote: Tue Dec 02, 2025 7:58 am Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded Epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy; it asserted that philosophy's purpose is to attain as well as to help others attain tranquil lives, characterized by freedom from fear and the absence of pain.
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accelafine wrote: Tue Dec 02, 2025 8:59 am
Fairy wrote: Tue Dec 02, 2025 7:58 am Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded Epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy; it asserted that philosophy's purpose is to attain as well as to help others attain tranquil lives, characterized by freedom from fear and the absence of pain.
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Fairy wrote: Tue Dec 02, 2025 9:13 am
accelafine wrote: Tue Dec 02, 2025 8:59 am
Fairy wrote: Tue Dec 02, 2025 7:58 am Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded Epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy; it asserted that philosophy's purpose is to attain as well as to help others attain tranquil lives, characterized by freedom from fear and the absence of pain.
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accelafine wrote: Tue Dec 02, 2025 9:18 am
Fairy wrote: Tue Dec 02, 2025 9:13 am
accelafine wrote: Tue Dec 02, 2025 8:59 am

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Yep. That one's definitely you.
You’re not wrong.
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accelafine wrote: Tue Dec 02, 2025 8:59 am
Fairy wrote: Tue Dec 02, 2025 7:58 am Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher who founded Epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy; it asserted that philosophy's purpose is to attain as well as to help others attain tranquil lives, characterized by freedom from fear and the absence of pain.
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Eodnhoj7 wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 7:15 pm To cut to the point using Egypt as an examlple

We cannot construct the pyramids.
They could not construct a car.

Superiority and inferiority? Relative.
If the Egyptians had made a car, you would say they couldn't make a car because there is no video of them making it in a Honda factory in Japan?

Silliness of course. All that is required for the ancients to make a car is an ancient internal combustion engine, an ancient steering wheel and so on.

All that is required for a new pyramid is rocks cut and shaped into appropriate form and placed on top of each other in the similar arrangement to the old pyramids. Which is not a technological problem in the least.
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This is synchronistic: I dreamed Epicurus, barking orders in German, headed a millennial troop of English slave-philosophers building a pyramid out of compacted Hondas.

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short stories might help satiate the Epic-curious

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Whenever I hear/read questions of this nature my response to this question is the very much the same has other questions:

Are we talking about the Past, the Present-or, indeed, the FUTURE?

For all we know the 'Greatest Philosopher Ever' might not have even been born yet.

I always feel that this is a slant to the question that always gets somewhat overlooked....
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JamesIan wrote: Wed Dec 03, 2025 9:28 am Whenever I hear/read questions of this nature my response to this question is the very much the same has other questions:

Are we talking about the Past, the Present-or, indeed, the FUTURE?

For all we know the 'Greatest Philosopher Ever' might not have even been born yet.

I always feel that this is a slant to the question that always gets somewhat overlooked....
It's not really a serious question at all, the two philosophers I discussed in the OP McGinn and Baker aren't actually attempting to persuade you that they are the greatest of all time, nor that they can meaningfully nominate somebody else to be, it's just a parlour game.
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FlashDangerpants wrote: Tue Dec 02, 2025 11:55 am
Eodnhoj7 wrote: Mon Nov 24, 2025 7:15 pm To cut to the point using Egypt as an examlple

We cannot construct the pyramids.
They could not construct a car.

Superiority and inferiority? Relative.
If the Egyptians had made a car, you would say they couldn't make a car because there is no video of them making it in a Honda factory in Japan?

Silliness of course. All that is required for the ancients to make a car is an ancient internal combustion engine, an ancient steering wheel and so on.

All that is required for a new pyramid is rocks cut and shaped into appropriate form and placed on top of each other in the similar arrangement to the old pyramids. Which is not a technological problem in the least.
All I am asking is where is the video of us making an exact replica of the pyramids of Giza?
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