Oddbean new post about login | logout “German poet Heinrich Heine was once asked why men no longer build cathedrals. He replied: “People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.” Cologne Cathedral took 632 years to complete. Does modern man have the necessary conviction to build something like this today?” Can you believe someone visualized this, and a culture had so much faith and conviction they spent 6 centuries to build it?! 🤯 Beautiful. 🥹 https://video.nostr.build/30ae98578ceae12119c78c56f1633e13f3b44392ec5a0bb619895cabc10bbb3c.mov
In order to have conviction one must have certainty that there is a future worth building towards even if they won’t live long enough to see it. Hard money standards allow for buildings of this quality. I often wonder what monetary standard was used when they built the pyramids.
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No amount of slaves moves a 1200 ton block of granite with horse hair ropes and no knowledge of the wheel.
It seems to me that our modern happy and peaceful life prevents us from understanding how much we underestimate a human will to survive, eat and drink
No amount of hunger allows for slaves to move a 1200 ton granite block with horse hair ropes.
Then magic or aliens?
Evidence would point towards higher levels of technology than egyptologists claim. I don’t think you need magic or aliens to explain what was done there.
If there would exist incredible technologies aliens or magic would be required to hide it afterwards
That’s not true, look at how much things deteriorate after just 100 years. Anything made of metal 5000+ years ago would be dust by now. The only thing that lasts that long is stone. No amount of slaves with chisels will make marks like this in granite. It requires a circular saw. I’m not claiming crystal powered space ships here. I’m claiming that whoever built the pyramids were more advanced than the AJ cent Egyptians were. https://image.nostr.build/97c9ef47154712603556fbdc3a12f966b35e63e71a75086ba5a54e020106ae6a.jpg
I could only summon my friend Occama to counter that
Even if he could counter it I don’t think he could refute this. https://unsigned.io/log/2023_03_17_Abstractions_Set_In_Granite.html
Still being built, almost a century and a half, should be completed this decade ;) https://i.pinimg.com/originals/96/9d/21/969d2185e4b554631475152b072ebe84.jpg https://media.activitiesbank.com/47666/ENG/XL/sagrada-familia-3746024_1920.jpg http://www.sumit4allphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/4stars-175-e1506330957444.jpg https://image.nostr.build/729bddb816d5d93590c59078dc2c29dac1b284bce64c0cd57fc206b52c67f7e2.jpg
What starving nation was this built in
Barcelona, España https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia
I can’t even imagine the acoustics in there
Yes, so curious about this! I want to visit so badly—missed it somehow when I was 18 living in Valencia. One day. There is a meditative and beautifully quiet film about the architect’s work in Barcelona on Criterion. My wife and I watched it alone in a theater one Halloween night when we were decompressing. Well, alone but for one rat. https://image.nostr.build/ef5d8e132888fc85ca6383de46d09e0adfb8867fa1790b5e54fa87cd078fafd9.jpg
You gotta have generations of slaves
in the past, the church controlled many resources. The church was able to allocate those resources to accomplish impressive projects for their benefit. today, the rich contoll many resources. The rich are able to allocate those resources to accomplish exploitation of the people to benefit themselves. in the future, the people will control many resources. The people will be able to allocate many resources to provide for the welfare of themselves, this will be our liberation.
