Don't Save Me, Save Yourself!

How many times have you heard it, "You need to be Saved!" or "You have to let Jesus into your heart!" or something along those lines. I've heard it so many times. Well, you know what, don't worry about me, my conscience is clear. The only people who believe in being saved, are those who are looking for some sort of backdoor into heaven. They've done bad stuff in the past, then with one stroke it's all forgotten about and the way ahead is clear. There are of course those who buy into the idea because they're easily led by stronger personalities, weak willed people, of whom there are so many.

Well, my ideas of what comes after don't require any priests churches or self-appointed zealots to show me the way. I concur with the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians, which Buddhist philosophy is also akin to. On the day of judgement I expect to stand upon the scales of justice, look back on my life and decide whether I'm worthy. You see how that works, there is no way of erasing wht you've done, what's done is done, accept it! You always had a choice between right and wrong, and if you chose to follow the wrong path, then I'm afraid no-one can save you.

Christianity provides such a convenient system, that's why ex-cons frequently seek refuge in religion, not because they've found God, not because they're remorseful, but because those people tell them that they can wipe the slate clean for them, and once accepted, those same people will tell you how that ex-con is a good person really, they were possessed by demons or something when they did the bad stuff. Sure... It's not demons, it's DNA. Not only DNA, but Materialism as well. Get the combination right, and you find people willing to do anything to get what they want, including being saved if necessary!

Egypt at the Dawn of Civilization!

Some odd things were happening at the "apparent" dawn of civilization, things which academics have never been able to explain. Mainly, because they have chosen to ignore them, but anyone familiar with the works of Graham Hancock will be aware that, at the very dawn of Egyptian civilization, that civilization rapidly achieved a technological and architectual pinnacle. From then on there was only a slow gradual decline in their ability to achieve anything near what they had previously.

The granite sarchophagus in the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid, shows clear signs of machine-tooling. The fact is, that the Egyptians don't appear to have possessed tools of the type, and the amount of pressure (1 ton) that would be required to be applied to a diamond-tipped drill, revolving at thousands of revolutions per minute, it's just not conceivable. So, did the Egyptians possess technologies which we are not aware of? Did they inherit technological skills from their predecessors, which have since been long lost?

Diorite vessels from pre-dynastic, that's 4000 BC, show even more remarkable craftsmanship. Considering, that this stone is harder than Iron, how were those early Egyptians able to bore out slender necks into the vessels, and literally, around corners to hollow out the inside of these circular vessels? The answers to these questions may never be known, but they are important questions, if we are to ever understand the origins of Egyptian civilization and the technological capabilities they had acquired at a very early period.