I remember December 21, 2012. My family and I went to a fancy buffet restaurant to celebrate, um, being smart enough to not believe all that garbage, I guess. When I opened my fortune cookie, it said "don't worry about the end of the world. It's already tomorrow in Australia" which I thought was pretty cool. They custom made fortune cookies for that day.
I also remember my 21st December 2012, I went out on a pub crawl with a whole lot of people I was skiing with. I finished at about 0400 (memory a bit foggy here) and the following morning I wished that the world had ended.
Actually, millions of years ago, Earth used to have a single, global society with technology far beyond our own. That's when the Sphinx was built. But then King Piccolo came, and Master Roshi missed the jar while using the Mafuba wave.
Yes, Jordan, those five shapes all have unique elemental properties. One is a healing potion, one is a battleaxe, one is for Fireball damage, one is for Sacred Flame, and the fifth one controls the outcome of every action we take.
"The sphinx is shaped like a lion, therefore it must have been built while the constellation of leo was in the sky." What? Why? Because there are absolutely no lions in Africa? Because the lion has never ever been used in human history to display strength and ferocity? Because the star constellation looks PERFECTLY like a lion? Is this guy touched in the head or something?
I love the way it implies that just because we associate that constellation with lions, the Egyptians must have too! Some people just have no understanding that different cultures have different constructs.
I love this "spirit science" thing. It just makes up stuff over and over and over, with the flimsiest of arguments, and with little to no rationale to it. It just makes claims, it doesn't even try to present a coherent hypothesis. It's like listening to the incoherent ramblings of a 5-years-old who has learned some big words.
I have hard time understanding the psychology behind it. I mean the phenomenon that people eagerly believe _anything_ that he says, no matter how outlandish and how little evidence he presents (which is zero in most cases.) For example, these people are completely ready to believe that some people came from Mars to Earth some 10 thousand years ago, and that some people today are their descendants. Where does this claim come from? _One_ person claims he had a vision about it some decades ago. That's it. That's the entire "evidence" for this claim. There is zero other evidence for any of this. So why are some people so eager to believe it? I just can't understand.
It indeed seems to be fairly common the sentiment that demanding evidence before accepting an extraordinary claim is somehow being "closed-minded" and bad. Somehow I get the feeling that they treat it like the skeptic is the party-pooper who doesn't want to join the fun that the others are having, and instead sulks in a corner. Somehow they have completely eroded the line between enjoying a work of fantasy and fiction for what it is, and enjoying wild hypotheses and claims by pretending that they are actually real.
WarpRulez Yes precisely. It's a common project your faults onto your opponent strategy. They make up said claims and then call you close minded for not accepting such claims (as if their claims are so good that one can ONLY accept them which is off course bullshit), but we're not the close minded ones here. Our minds are open, provide sufficient evidence or move on. It's fun to have imagination and it's fun to ponder about this crap but the problem is maintaining a position no matter how wrong it is, is frankly dishonest. It's ridiculous if you ask me and how come it's only positions that can't hold up under scrutiny that use the "you're too close minded" argument? That's because they're poor positions that want to use any excuse to be taken seriously no matter how little evidence there is. It's this childish attempt to play the victim and shirk responsibility in admitting error. It's absolutely dishonest to the core. If I have a hypothesis and it gets invalidated, I'd be man enough to admit I was wrong but apparently the courage to admit error is not as prevelant as it should be. I mean this is why in this day and age bullshit like homeopathy is able to sucker in more suckers, because you have people saying shit like "Keep an open mind." but it's a red herring designed to divert the fact that not all positions are tangible. Those who truly kept an open mind are the ones making the world a better place through science, not the fundamentalist whackos who don't have the balls to let go off their pet fantasies.
***** "Burden of proof" is not just a nitpicky smartassy rhetoric. It's rather relevant. The burden of proof is not on the person who doubts an extraordinary claim. The burden of proof is on the person who makes the extraordinary claim. Logic and science do not work, nor should they work, on the basis of "every claim is true unless they can be proven as false." That approach would make absolutely no sense and lead nowhere. The rational, sensible default is that extraordinary claims are taken as false unless they can be proven as true. Else we would end up believing anything that any crazy person happens to claim. Just as an example: Do you believe that magic pink unicorns from Atlantis exist? If not, can you prove that they don't exist? If you can't prove that they don't exist, will you start believing that they do? Of course not. You don't have to prove anything. It's the person who is making the claim that they exist who has to prove it. Else it's just nonsensical fiction.
Oh, I went through the phase of believing wild theories about the occult and thinking I had awesome physic abilities and super-powers... in middle school.
I saw the two guys who made the first crop circle on a tv show where they were "confessing," years later, to have been the perpetrators. Proud of themselves, and rightly, I think, and having a laugh while taking credit, if that's the right word to use here. After they'd explained what they'd done and how they'd done it, and I seem to remember they even still had one of the boards they'd used, someone in the audience started talking about the "real" crop circles that were made by space aliens. Priceless moment in human stupidity.
So, I have no clue if anyone else noticed this or not, and I realize that science is Martymer's specialty, not history, but he should have called Jordan out on this. When discussing the "procession of the equinox" thing, he cites the Egyptians, Sumerians and the Maya as cultures existing during the "waking up" time he refers to. Now, Old Kingdom Egypt and Sumerian history are pretty close historically and overlapped quite a bit, but most available evidence indicates that the Maya were still living in relatively small villages up until around 2,000 BCE, nearly 300 years after the Sumerian city-states had already been incorporated into the Akkadian empire by Sargon of Akkad (the historical figure, not the UA-camr). The classical period during which Mayan civilization reached its height is thought not to have even really begun until about 250 CE, and the even earliest major Mayan cities don't appear to have been founded until at least 750-500 BCE. Now, the latter dates are quite interesting with regards to Jordan's chronology, because he noted the development of philosophy in Classical Greece as the time that we started "dumbing down". Socrates, one of the founders of philosophy, is thought to have died in or around 399 BCE, only about 100 years after the time that the Mayan city states had started to develop major monumental architecture and roughly 650 years BEFORE the Mayan civilization would reach its height during its own classical period. In other words, Jordan's chronology, even if we ignore how baseless his assertions about its implications are, puts an "awake" civilization beginning to reach it's height over half a millennium after the development of the one that he claims marks the "falling asleep" phase.
+Duncan Ryan But isn't that what his "precession marker" graphic claimed? Greeks in the last bit of "falling asleep" where the benightedness is at its worst and we're now a quarter or so into the "waking up again" half (or bad = away from galactic center, good = towards galactic center, again according to his graph... Meh, not that it makes THAT much more sense if he got it right, but well... I'm not sure you can really call him out on an error here... it might just work out that they were late enough according to his sources to fall into "waking up" territory.
Urs F It's been a while since I made this comment, so I would have to go back and watch the video again to answer you precisely. Going strictly off of what I recall though, Jordan said something that indicated, at least to me, that his chronology put the Maya, the Sumerians and the ancient Egyptians of the Old Kingdom as being contemporaries during the same phase of his "procession", while the Greeks marked the "dumbing down" phase. It would certainly make a hell of a lot more sense as you stated it (insofar as Jordan is capable anyway), but I came away with the impression that he had basically tried to sling three cultures, two of which were contemporaries and one of which didn't even really reach its peak until almost 3,000 years later into the same time frame.
Metatron's cube? It's spelt Megatron, and he doesn't have the cube, or matrix of leadership as it's properly called. Optimus Prime carried the cube until he passed it on to Ultra Magnus, who in turn passed it onto Hotrod, who became Rodimus Prime when he activated it to destroy Unicron. Megatron had been turned into Galvatron by this point anyway.
As a D&D player, with the showing of the "5 Platonic Solids", I have to say that he forgot to include the Decahedron. What makes a d10 any less unique a shape?
There are no decahedrons that are also platonic solids, for it to be a platonic solid each face needs to be (the same) regular polygon, each vertex also needs the same amount of faces meeting The shape of a d10 satisfies neither of those Oddly enough spirit science got the fact rught that there are only 5 (3 dimensional) platonic solids
That part becomes even worse when you consider that the Mayans lived after Plato and the others, despite this this Spirit Science fellow claims that they were smarter, something supposedly determined by global phenomena.
When there's evidence missing there's always a conspiracy. It's the easy way out. Interesting that 1) he knows what the evidence is, 2) he knows it's hidden by a conspiracy, and 3) he won't tell what the evidence is.
Why does it make sense for the sphinx to be built when the constellation Leo is in the sky? Leo, Taurus, these are Greek, not Egyptian interpretations of the constellations. Why does it make sense for Egyptians to base their monument projects on a system of astrology that wouldn't exist for almost another 2,000 years? No that makes less sense than just "Pharoh Khafra wanted a statue of himself as a sphinx because sphinxes in the Old Kingdom were associated with wisdom and he wanted to show people he was a wise ruler". Once again Spirit Science comes across the simplest, most logical explanation and instead runs screaming like a naked hippie through the fields of Woodstock in the other direction.
+OsirisLord Even if we agree that the rough concept of the constellations like bull and lion are older than the ancient greeks, i'm pretty sure these relatably similar concepts came from Babylon, not out of Egypt. And that means they are still younger than 2500 BCE and especially younger than 12,000 years ago.
Remember, kids. The time we invented math and first began seriously considering our place in the universe and experimenting with society was us getting dumber. And we were still getting dumber when we later formed the scientific method, invented astronomy, started exploring the world, industrializing, uncovering our evolutionary origins, inventing the transistor and by extent, the computer, and landing on the Moon. This was all us getting dumber.
Darcy Dettmann Junior While I'm unaware of anything in Silent Hill, I wonder what would happen in a battle between all these different Meta/mega-trons?
Well Pyramid Head is basically indestructible...although he may only exist within the main characters head...I'd love to see the Transformers take on armies of deamons though...that would be pretty awesome.
I know there's a lot of stuff I could have brought up, but I address everything Jordan says, I'll never be able to finish this. It's possible that I will revisit earlier lessons at some point, though, just for lols.
more intelligent* No, seriously. Spirit science was created due to the "waking-up-phase" coming closer. Everything is wrong, so wrong in fact you can make better predictions by believing the contrary.
That erosion thing: it would make sense if the Sphynx was a man made extension of a hill that was there naturally. The head could be man-made and the back end might be what's left of the hill it was made out of.
***** You clearly don't know what those words mean; which makes your level of ignorance quite astounding. I seem to recall you were planning to come to my place and "teach me a lesson". I'm still waiting, which suggests that you are the coward.
***** If we ever meet face to face you will discover you lack the skills required to give me a beating. Daniel Chew kuan hong Not just that, but over something I said on a completely different thread.
Another thing I noticed about how you said that the Pharaoh could make himself a lion if he wanted you, why the hell would Egypt care or know about the Greek system of astrology. I also am not seeing anyone during this age checking on what constellation we're in before making a statue.
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There's two different kinds of Sphinx. The egyptian sphinx is different than the greek one even though they look similar.
Gorinich Serpant yeah when I was younger I had a big interest in mythology and studied a lot of it in my spare time so I was able to recall some of this stuff.
Everything else aside, what's with this crap about Pythagoras being the "founder of Greece"? He also mentions it on another video (the World History one, I think) and he couldn't be more wrong. Pythagoras came around rather late in greek history, and all he founded was a school of philosophy - a very important one, yes, but not much more than Aristoteles's or Epicurus's. I don't even know where he got that idea, since Greece was not founded by anyone and wasn't even one nation, rather a collection of smaller ones that were often in dispute.
+Martymer 81 wait what? are you serious? godamn I thougth that fucking sound effect was HILLARIOUS I could have sworn that you put that in for comedic effect.
I wish you and Spirit Science would actually meet each other, sit down and have a discussion. I really wonder what would come out of it- what you'd agree on, and what you wouldn't, If you'd pull spirit science back down to earth or if he could actually explain some of this stuff, ect. Maybe make a vid of it too.
3:24 ... one of the leading hypotheses for the "water erosion" on the Sphinx is a process called "Salt Exfoliation". It looks similar to water erosion, but doesn't require running water -- only a repeated variation in humidity.
One possible explanation for the water erosion on the sphinx is that it may have been built essentially as a cosmetic layer over a geographical feature called a yardang that is actually a sphinx-like shape and will easily exceed the requisite12000 years of age. The erosion could be in the original rock which has become exposed as the man made cladding has been lost over time.
+faolan1686 Not to hand, I'm afraid. I must stress that this is complete speculation, but it seems to make sense of things without resorting to outlandish theorising. In the meantime, if you do a Google image search for "yardang", you should find lots of examples, where it's quite easy to imagine someone using it as the foundation for a sculpture of some kind.
Wait Jordan thinks the Mayans were smarter than us? Yes, a stone age civilization that frequently practiced bloodletting and believed there was a god of bees (Ah Muzen Cab) was smarter than modern civilization.
I cite Africanized bees as evidence for the existence of the Mayan bee god's existence - and his anger at us unenlightened modern people for no longer worshipping him.
I actually love this channel. Finally, some level of intellect on youtube and someone who actually takes the time to "CHALLENGE" in specific "disinformation". I hope that you will continue with regards to other "disinformation" channels. However, Spirit "Science" was very entertaining. At some point, unaware and not educated in the physics during the time I became a follower of Spirit Science channel in hopes of learning, discovering, some form of truths. Ooohhh, how I feel "DUMBED DOWN" - However, after watching your videos, it has been a refreshing new and educative insight. Thank you for your videos and shared knowledge. Hope you and ... ummm.. errr.. Jordon ..... kiss and make up. He can entertain you for hours and hours with his fictional stories, and you could re-educate Jordan on ... LMAO.... "MANY LEVELS" - and aaawww... Share that wonderful "vibration" ... dammit! I said "VIBRATION" Not "Vibrator"! lol. Thank for sharing.
+Daga nerabus If your comment isn't at all sarcastic I can recommend a considerable amount of channels like this. Here goes : CoolHardLogic Thelivingdinosaur Logicked ArmouredSkeptic Bearing CaptainDisillusion King Crocoduck ExabyteSpider That ought though do you for a little while. Let me know what you think and if those guys are your cup of tea as well.
Just a small quibble, but I would argue that both math and science were "invented" not "discovered". A nitpick, I know, but I think Platonism is simply, demonstrably, wrong. AnticitizenX makes some great vids on this subject.
***** I know it's just a nitpick, but some people think numbers and math exist in some metaphysical dimension(Platonism, not that I think that is what you meant), and I think that while the principles and phenomena we describe with math and science are discovered, the tools *of* math and science, and the axioms they are based on, are invented. Anyways, thanks for all the great content. I love your videos and your obvious grasp of scientific methodology and epistemology. =)
Aberusugi I think the universal nature of set theory is because set theory is the abstract of the observation of sets in the world around us, and all mathmetics is then manipulation of sets it some way, by various rules. I beleive math is descriptive, not prescriptive, similar to the way the laws of physics are descriptive. Imo, both are universal because they describe the universe. I freely admit this can be argued either way, and I could be wrong, but I find the arguments against Platonism compelling. Cheers.
munstrumridcully But again, someone didn't invent mathematics, just like they didn't invent physics. They discovered it, and they came up with ways to learn more about the natural laws of physics. The invention is the observational technique (in physics), or the calculated proofs (in physics or mathematics). The Pythagorean theorem exists whether or not Pythagoras discovered it, since triangulation is entirely possible logically without Pythagoras discovering it in the first place. It's a mathematical constant (with some mildly off-putting Einsteinian physics to make the calculations involving far off distances to need a little help to be totally accurate).
When were seven circles mentioned in Genesis? I searched and couldn't find anything aside from some off the wall version I've never heard of's translation of 1:9-13
How exactly did the Egyptians have the exact same names for constellations that we use today? I know Egypt was taken over by the Greeks and the Romans, but the sphinx was built thousands of years before then,
Honestly a while ago when I was a lot younger, I did buy the story about the sphinx and the Leo constellation - at least partly. What I was always more convinced over is the alignment of the Great Pyramids to the belt of Orion. But that is probably manipulated to show that correlating
maybe the water erosion around the sphinx could be from the construction of it? as in they flooded a ginormous pit as a method of moving the large and heavy foundational stones as a means to have a more fluid way of control/placement?
Did he play Dungons&dragons? Because I think I have a set of those magic cubes in a bag someplace. I think I'll just pull them out and make a nice circle of power...
Sorry, I don't quite understand what exactly that means when he says "Hit point A". Is it the moment when our axis shifts to a position farthest away from that constellation? I mean, he says "when we see Aquarius in the sky", but it has never been gone!
about the 9-minute mark: Hey, I can debunk you easily, Marty. I have no freaking clue what you are talking about with Genesis, but the Seven Circles works fine as a reference to Dante (and I assume he got it from there. But more seriously, no idea if you will read this, but congrats on your son and good to have new video fro you. Reason I'm posting this here is that I'm celebrating by running your WDPLaSS playlist. Probably means jack shit to you, me being a random stranger, but I like your videos.
Actually the Sphinx was commissioned by Primeminister at the time , not Khafre , as the Egyptian records show , Khrafe already had his place at his own pyramid and Valley Temple of Khafre and the ritual causeway , the commission of the Sphinx was as a remembrance after his death and symbolise of the state that guarded the ritual causeway for all time , adding to the funeral procession around all the two and now three pyramids of that dynasty
Maybe the sphinx was a very expensive fountain or well and the Egyptians filled water? Maybe it was some kinda of statue of worship for a nile god or something
Also, there actually was a pre-egyptian civilisation, not necessarily stretching the same borders, but the ancient Babylonians and the likes were just as sophisticated, it would actually make more sense that the Sphinx was built by the ancient Syrians rather than the Egyptians - more sense than his theory at least.
As per the speculation of the sphinx's age, it is possible that it was built in the last 400 years of the age of Virgo(somewhere around 13,360 years ago) as a way to ready for the age of Leo(roughly 12,960 years ago), based off of the old astrological worshiping of the magi back then. And just to say it clearly... THIS IS SIMPLE SPECULATION! Astrological ages: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_age What the World Heritage Center says on the sphinx: whc.unesco.org/en/list/86
Crop circles? Wow, they really hit a new all-time low with that one. You really deliver like a pro, man. Every minute of your spirit science videos is priceless.
What if the sphinx was a water eroded, 12,000 year old rock, and it was carved on one side into the sphinx, but they didn't really carve the water eroded back much.
"You chose to try and disprove others for your passion to never have to be wrong.." No. I choose to speak up when people spread misinformation about science, in addition to devoting my professional career to educating people about REAL science. "you have no control of your emotions" Really? How would you know? All you've seen of me is my videos... Any emotional outburts are scripted. "no true standard to how life is to be lived" What's a 'true' standard?
The construction of the "flower of life" reminds me of Graph Theory. Depending on how big you make the "flower" you can produce a lot of edges and nodes and designate them to mean anything you like and show that a path can be formed between any 2 or more nodes you want to go to. Thus you have a connected graph and can claim anything is connected to anything else. Very convenient for woo artists. But in "sacred geometry" the connected graph is created first. Then the woo artist creates arbitrary meanings to the paths.
By now there are actually geological explanations on what the deal with the sphinx is, at least, physically. We don't necessarily know if it was supposed to be aligned to anything but investigations have revealed: 1) the body might have been made bigger to go around a cave inside the rock rather than the head smaller 2) the lower part of the statue may have been carved with methods that look like erosion (= regular rocks as tools.) and 3) there doesn't seem to be any supposed "hall of records" hidden in the sphinx after drilling into it multiple times. (Info from Bob Schneiker M.S., ua-cam.com/video/559K616ohaI/v-deo.html )
I always thought the water erosion at the Sphinx was caused by the over flowing of the Nile. That is why there is water erosion on the walls and not the Sphinx.
I gotta love how Jordan thinks that these... (clears throat) "Higher dimensional beings" would give a shit about us, much less help us out. Their mindset would be so vastly different from our own, that I doubt that we would even be able to communicate with them. And that is entertaining the idea that they even exist.
SlayerOfAmista Entertaining ridiculous ideas is fun and not harmful when you aren't focused on reality and education. SS presents their content as more than just inspirational pieces- which is why it is the standard despicable disinformation (just guised as a warm fuzzy promotion). The reason why SS is BS isn't just because they get their facts wrong (although that definitely is a missing requirement in order to be taken seriously by rational people); it's also because they leave their claims too ill-defined. And when someone vaguely describes ideas instead of properly defining them; it comes off as peddling air as I like to call it- since it's attempting to avoid material that can be fact checked (which would make it easier to be debunked).
They know why the Sphinx has that weird erosion pattern. The stone isn't uniform. There are layers of harder, and softer stone stacked on top of each other. The softer stone is more susceptible to the wind, so it erodes quicker than the harder layers.
I was gonna say for the Egyptian thing, they also didn't focus around the same type of calendar as we do, so the zodiac was centered around Sirius (because it denoted the rise and fall of the nile) so for all we know, a lion or sphinx WAS in the mix. ...also it's a giant statue of a supposed god-king of Egypt, set against a lion that possibly had some connection to their name, lineage, or something else. Egyptian history is long and not a lot of it survived. big statues of kings do, but not always the writing or what it's for. It's like how there's still misinformation about the Statue of Liberty. Imagine a few thousand years from now, if they ever find it.
I remember December 21, 2012.
My family and I went to a fancy buffet restaurant to celebrate, um, being smart enough to not believe all that garbage, I guess.
When I opened my fortune cookie, it said "don't worry about the end of the world. It's already tomorrow in Australia" which I thought was pretty cool. They custom made fortune cookies for that day.
The Pip Oh that suddenly took a turn for the worse
I also remember my 21st December 2012, I went out on a pub crawl with a whole lot of people I was skiing with. I finished at about 0400 (memory a bit foggy here) and the following morning I wished that the world had ended.
I remember may fifth, 2005.
World didn't end that day, either.
@@iami3rian394 Dude I remember Y2K
Man i forgot about this…
Well, of course a tetrahedron doesn't contain the classical element of fire-- everyone knows that fireballs are measured in d6.
Actually, millions of years ago, Earth used to have a single, global society with technology far beyond our own. That's when the Sphinx was built. But then King Piccolo came, and Master Roshi missed the jar while using the Mafuba wave.
Lmao dragon ball z ftw
Your story has more foundation then the Jordan ones.
@@raybidhq Exactly! Jordan is clearly a lazy idiot.
Yes, Jordan, those five shapes all have unique elemental properties. One is a healing potion, one is a battleaxe, one is for Fireball damage, one is for Sacred Flame, and the fifth one controls the outcome of every action we take.
"The sphinx is shaped like a lion, therefore it must have been built while the constellation of leo was in the sky." What? Why? Because there are absolutely no lions in Africa? Because the lion has never ever been used in human history to display strength and ferocity? Because the star constellation looks PERFECTLY like a lion? Is this guy touched in the head or something?
The special class used to have a special special class for him, no doubt.
I read all of that in character. "Ders a no rions in Africa? Its a not rika dey repersent stwengf and fewocity!"
Damian Freeman I don't think he graduated that class.:/
I love the way it implies that just because we associate that constellation with lions, the Egyptians must have too! Some people just have no understanding that different cultures have different constructs.
What? You made a typo.¶
Platonic solids - Geometric shapes that don't have sex with each other.
Lol, I'm so mad at you!
they are just friends!
the l33t hamm3rbro Dodecahedron: I’m sorry. It’s not you, it’s me.
Sorry. I couldn’t resist.
I love this "spirit science" thing. It just makes up stuff over and over and over, with the flimsiest of arguments, and with little to no rationale to it. It just makes claims, it doesn't even try to present a coherent hypothesis. It's like listening to the incoherent ramblings of a 5-years-old who has learned some big words.
I have hard time understanding the psychology behind it. I mean the phenomenon that people eagerly believe _anything_ that he says, no matter how outlandish and how little evidence he presents (which is zero in most cases.)
For example, these people are completely ready to believe that some people came from Mars to Earth some 10 thousand years ago, and that some people today are their descendants. Where does this claim come from? _One_ person claims he had a vision about it some decades ago. That's it. That's the entire "evidence" for this claim. There is zero other evidence for any of this.
So why are some people so eager to believe it? I just can't understand.
It indeed seems to be fairly common the sentiment that demanding evidence before accepting an extraordinary claim is somehow being "closed-minded" and bad.
Somehow I get the feeling that they treat it like the skeptic is the party-pooper who doesn't want to join the fun that the others are having, and instead sulks in a corner.
Somehow they have completely eroded the line between enjoying a work of fantasy and fiction for what it is, and enjoying wild hypotheses and claims by pretending that they are actually real.
WarpRulez Yes precisely. It's a common project your faults onto your opponent strategy. They make up said claims and then call you close minded for not accepting such claims (as if their claims are so good that one can ONLY accept them which is off course bullshit), but we're not the close minded ones here. Our minds are open, provide sufficient evidence or move on. It's fun to have imagination and it's fun to ponder about this crap but the problem is maintaining a position no matter how wrong it is, is frankly dishonest. It's ridiculous if you ask me and how come it's only positions that can't hold up under scrutiny that use the "you're too close minded" argument? That's because they're poor positions that want to use any excuse to be taken seriously no matter how little evidence there is. It's this childish attempt to play the victim and shirk responsibility in admitting error. It's absolutely dishonest to the core. If I have a hypothesis and it gets invalidated, I'd be man enough to admit I was wrong but apparently the courage to admit error is not as prevelant as it should be. I mean this is why in this day and age bullshit like homeopathy is able to sucker in more suckers, because you have people saying shit like "Keep an open mind." but it's a red herring designed to divert the fact that not all positions are tangible. Those who truly kept an open mind are the ones making the world a better place through science, not the fundamentalist whackos who don't have the balls to let go off their pet fantasies.
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"Legit spirituality" is an oxymoron.
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"Burden of proof" is not just a nitpicky smartassy rhetoric. It's rather relevant.
The burden of proof is not on the person who doubts an extraordinary claim. The burden of proof is on the person who makes the extraordinary claim.
Logic and science do not work, nor should they work, on the basis of "every claim is true unless they can be proven as false." That approach would make absolutely no sense and lead nowhere.
The rational, sensible default is that extraordinary claims are taken as false unless they can be proven as true. Else we would end up believing anything that any crazy person happens to claim.
Just as an example: Do you believe that magic pink unicorns from Atlantis exist? If not, can you prove that they don't exist? If you can't prove that they don't exist, will you start believing that they do? Of course not. You don't have to prove anything. It's the person who is making the claim that they exist who has to prove it. Else it's just nonsensical fiction.
"Then we got dumber, and became all philosophical"
*cringes in 73 different languages*
Oh, I went through the phase of believing wild theories about the occult and thinking I had awesome physic abilities and super-powers... in middle school.
@9600GTMAN depends. I had the superpower of not giving a damn
I saw the two guys who made the first crop circle on a tv show where they were "confessing," years later, to have been the perpetrators. Proud of themselves, and rightly, I think, and having a laugh while taking credit, if that's the right word to use here.
After they'd explained what they'd done and how they'd done it, and I seem to remember they even still had one of the boards they'd used, someone in the audience started talking about the "real" crop circles that were made by space aliens.
Priceless moment in human stupidity.
So, I have no clue if anyone else noticed this or not, and I realize that science is Martymer's specialty, not history, but he should have called Jordan out on this. When discussing the "procession of the equinox" thing, he cites the Egyptians, Sumerians and the Maya as cultures existing during the "waking up" time he refers to. Now, Old Kingdom Egypt and Sumerian history are pretty close historically and overlapped quite a bit, but most available evidence indicates that the Maya were still living in relatively small villages up until around 2,000 BCE, nearly 300 years after the Sumerian city-states had already been incorporated into the Akkadian empire by Sargon of Akkad (the historical figure, not the UA-camr). The classical period during which Mayan civilization reached its height is thought not to have even really begun until about 250 CE, and the even earliest major Mayan cities don't appear to have been founded until at least 750-500 BCE. Now, the latter dates are quite interesting with regards to Jordan's chronology, because he noted the development of philosophy in Classical Greece as the time that we started "dumbing down". Socrates, one of the founders of philosophy, is thought to have died in or around 399 BCE, only about 100 years after the time that the Mayan city states had started to develop major monumental architecture and roughly 650 years BEFORE the Mayan civilization would reach its height during its own classical period. In other words, Jordan's chronology, even if we ignore how baseless his assertions about its implications are, puts an "awake" civilization beginning to reach it's height over half a millennium after the development of the one that he claims marks the "falling asleep" phase.
+Duncan Ryan But isn't that what his "precession marker" graphic claimed? Greeks in the last bit of "falling asleep" where the benightedness is at its worst and we're now a quarter or so into the "waking up again" half (or bad = away from galactic center, good = towards galactic center, again according to his graph...
Meh, not that it makes THAT much more sense if he got it right, but well... I'm not sure you can really call him out on an error here... it might just work out that they were late enough according to his sources to fall into "waking up" territory.
Urs F
It's been a while since I made this comment, so I would have to go back and watch the video again to answer you precisely. Going strictly off of what I recall though, Jordan said something that indicated, at least to me, that his chronology put the Maya, the Sumerians and the ancient Egyptians of the Old Kingdom as being contemporaries during the same phase of his "procession", while the Greeks marked the "dumbing down" phase. It would certainly make a hell of a lot more sense as you stated it (insofar as Jordan is capable anyway), but I came away with the impression that he had basically tried to sling three cultures, two of which were contemporaries and one of which didn't even really reach its peak until almost 3,000 years later into the same time frame.
Only white people can Awake
Metatron's cube? It's spelt Megatron, and he doesn't have the cube, or matrix of leadership as it's properly called. Optimus Prime carried the cube until he passed it on to Ultra Magnus, who in turn passed it onto Hotrod, who became Rodimus Prime when he activated it to destroy Unicron. Megatron had been turned into Galvatron by this point anyway.
Dammit, he's adding Transformers to his bad Stargate fanfic.
Run, before he steals ideas from BSG!
As a D&D player, with the showing of the "5 Platonic Solids", I have to say that he forgot to include the Decahedron. What makes a d10 any less unique a shape?
There are no decahedrons that are also platonic solids, for it to be a platonic solid each face needs to be (the same) regular polygon, each vertex also needs the same amount of faces meeting
The shape of a d10 satisfies neither of those
Oddly enough spirit science got the fact rught that there are only 5 (3 dimensional) platonic solids
Then we got dumber, and became all philosophical. I lol'd hard
Ancient Greek philosophers weren't real, I guess.
That part becomes even worse when you consider that the Mayans lived after Plato and the others, despite this this Spirit Science fellow claims that they were smarter, something supposedly determined by global phenomena.
I never thought spirit science would be one to dis on philosophy.
When there's evidence missing there's always a conspiracy. It's the easy way out.
Interesting that 1) he knows what the evidence is, 2) he knows it's hidden by a conspiracy, and 3) he won't tell what the evidence is.
"Do you believe in aliens?
- Not the kind that visit us."
HAHA just love it! :D
Why does it make sense for the sphinx to be built when the constellation Leo is in the sky? Leo, Taurus, these are Greek, not Egyptian interpretations of the constellations. Why does it make sense for Egyptians to base their monument projects on a system of astrology that wouldn't exist for almost another 2,000 years? No that makes less sense than just "Pharoh Khafra wanted a statue of himself as a sphinx because sphinxes in the Old Kingdom were associated with wisdom and he wanted to show people he was a wise ruler". Once again Spirit Science comes across the simplest, most logical explanation and instead runs screaming like a naked hippie through the fields of Woodstock in the other direction.
+OsirisLord Even if we agree that the rough concept of the constellations like bull and lion are older than the ancient greeks, i'm pretty sure these relatably similar concepts came from Babylon, not out of Egypt. And that means they are still younger than 2500 BCE and especially younger than 12,000 years ago.
Did he call Pythagoras the "Father of Greece" at 10:40? He was a pretty good philosopher and mathematician but the father of greece?
Hey, a lot of Greek ladies thought mathematics were sexy.
The only Genesis worth worrying about is the one that had Sonic & Knuckles for it.
Back when Sega was a lead in the console wars 2.
Nice lol
Remember, kids. The time we invented math and first began seriously considering our place in the universe and experimenting with society was us getting dumber.
And we were still getting dumber when we later formed the scientific method, invented astronomy, started exploring the world, industrializing, uncovering our evolutionary origins, inventing the transistor and by extent, the computer, and landing on the Moon.
This was all us getting dumber.
A new way of saying the more I find out, the less I know that I know.
"What is Metatrons cube"
Isnt it what they were fighting over in those shitty Transformers movies?
my mind wandered to Shin Megami Tensei instead.
Damian Freeman
mine goes to Silent Hill 1...
Darcy Dettmann Junior While I'm unaware of anything in Silent Hill, I wonder what would happen in a battle between all these different Meta/mega-trons?
Well Pyramid Head is basically indestructible...although he may only exist within the main characters head...I'd love to see the Transformers take on armies of deamons though...that would be pretty awesome.
***** Silent Megami Transformers: Everyone Dies Edition!
I know there's a lot of stuff I could have brought up, but I address everything Jordan says, I'll never be able to finish this. It's possible that I will revisit earlier lessons at some point, though, just for lols.
Clever graphics? You may want to check out a series called Extra Credit.
And we got dumber so spirit science was created!
more intelligent*
No, seriously. Spirit science was created due to the "waking-up-phase" coming closer.
Everything is wrong, so wrong in fact you can make better predictions by believing the contrary.
wait...what ?
Are you done soon?
That erosion thing: it would make sense if the Sphynx was a man made extension of a hill that was there naturally. The head could be man-made and the back end might be what's left of the hill it was made out of.
***** Insulting you is not blasphemy.
***** You clearly don't know what those words mean; which makes your level of ignorance quite astounding. I seem to recall you were planning to come to my place and "teach me a lesson". I'm still waiting, which suggests that you are the coward.
*****
What an asshole, threaten to beat people up over expressed opinion on the internet.
***** If we ever meet face to face you will discover you lack the skills required to give me a beating.
Daniel Chew kuan hong Not just that, but over something I said on a completely different thread.
***** Franziska von Karma, that you?
Another thing I noticed about how you said that the Pharaoh could make himself a lion if he wanted you, why the hell would Egypt care or know about the Greek system of astrology. I also am not seeing anyone during this age checking on what constellation we're in before making a statue.
There's two different kinds of Sphinx. The egyptian sphinx is different than the greek one even though they look similar.
NUTCASE71733 While that is an intresting fact that I'll look into, how is that relevant to what I was saying?
Gorinich Serpant
Just mentioning it to help seperate the egyptian idea apart from greek astrology.
NUTCASE71733 Ok, that makes sense now.
Gorinich Serpant
yeah when I was younger I had a big interest in mythology and studied a lot of it in my spare time so I was able to recall some of this stuff.
But don't you know? Pharaos were 55ft tall lv 5 beings
"December 21st, 2012"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Wonder how that worked out.
What's this about Megatron's cube?
Everything else aside, what's with this crap about Pythagoras being the "founder of Greece"? He also mentions it on another video (the World History one, I think) and he couldn't be more wrong. Pythagoras came around rather late in greek history, and all he founded was a school of philosophy - a very important one, yes, but not much more than Aristoteles's or Epicurus's. I don't even know where he got that idea, since Greece was not founded by anyone and wasn't even one nation, rather a collection of smaller ones that were often in dispute.
I myself have a theory for the Sphinx's erosion, The Nile flooding or maybe they built the Sphinx after the erosion.
Did you add the Zelda sound effect, or was it in the original video? :D
It was in the original.
***** Well, that's at least one thing to like about Spirit 'Science' videos :)
+Martymer 81 wait what? are you serious? godamn I thougth that fucking sound effect was HILLARIOUS I could have sworn that you put that in for comedic effect.
I wish you and Spirit Science would actually meet each other, sit down and have a discussion. I really wonder what would come out of it- what you'd agree on, and what you wouldn't, If you'd pull spirit science back down to earth or if he could actually explain some of this stuff, ect.
Maybe make a vid of it too.
he's a scam artist. He wouldn't admit to being wrong or even to an interview/discussion with someone who has any formal scientific training
first page of a Newspaper "Marty Chokes Jordan to Death", its what happens.
3:24 ... one of the leading hypotheses for the "water erosion" on the Sphinx is a process called "Salt Exfoliation". It looks similar to water erosion, but doesn't require running water -- only a repeated variation in humidity.
We all know that the old ones and cthulhu ruled the world before humans -all hail Cthulhu
Glaaki13 Fool! Yog-Sothoth will banish your puny squid man to nonexistence!
Cthulhu Ftagn!
There's also software that allows you to add crop circles into images
One possible explanation for the water erosion on the sphinx is that it may have been built essentially as a cosmetic layer over a geographical feature called a yardang that is actually a sphinx-like shape and will easily exceed the requisite12000 years of age. The erosion could be in the original rock which has become exposed as the man made cladding has been lost over time.
cool, have you got anything I can read about that?
+faolan1686 Not to hand, I'm afraid. I must stress that this is complete speculation, but it seems to make sense of things without resorting to outlandish theorising.
In the meantime, if you do a Google image search for "yardang", you should find lots of examples, where it's quite easy to imagine someone using it as the foundation for a sculpture of some kind.
Wait Jordan thinks the Mayans were smarter than us? Yes, a stone age civilization that frequently practiced bloodletting and believed there was a god of bees (Ah Muzen Cab) was smarter than modern civilization.
I cite Africanized bees as evidence for the existence of the Mayan bee god's existence - and his anger at us unenlightened modern people for no longer worshipping him.
A L L G L O R Y T O A H M U Z E N C A B
What if the Sphinx, having a lion-head, was just an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh's lolcat?
I actually love this channel. Finally, some level of intellect on youtube and someone who actually takes the time to "CHALLENGE" in specific "disinformation".
I hope that you will continue with regards to other "disinformation" channels.
However,
Spirit "Science" was very entertaining. At some point, unaware and not educated in the physics during the time I became a follower of Spirit Science channel in hopes of learning, discovering, some form of truths. Ooohhh, how I feel "DUMBED DOWN" - However, after watching your videos, it has been a refreshing new and educative insight.
Thank you for your videos and shared knowledge.
Hope you and ... ummm.. errr.. Jordon ..... kiss and make up. He can entertain you for hours and hours with his fictional stories, and you could re-educate Jordan on ... LMAO.... "MANY LEVELS" - and aaawww... Share that wonderful "vibration" ... dammit! I said "VIBRATION" Not "Vibrator"! lol.
Thank for sharing.
+Daga nerabus If your comment isn't at all sarcastic I can recommend a considerable amount of channels like this. Here goes :
CoolHardLogic
Thelivingdinosaur
Logicked
ArmouredSkeptic
Bearing
CaptainDisillusion
King Crocoduck
ExabyteSpider
That ought though do you for a little while. Let me know what you think and if those guys are your cup of tea as well.
didn't we get the law of the law of equivalent exchange from alchemy.... or was that just the show full metal alchemist.
"Do you believe in Aliens?"
I loved that movie!
brilliant videos mate. keep up the good work
Just a small quibble, but I would argue that both math and science were "invented" not "discovered". A nitpick, I know, but I think Platonism is simply, demonstrably, wrong. AnticitizenX makes some great vids on this subject.
Hmm... well, arguments could be made for using either word. I see your point, though.
***** I know it's just a nitpick, but some people think numbers and math exist in some metaphysical dimension(Platonism, not that I think that is what you meant), and I think that while the principles and phenomena we describe with math and science are discovered, the tools *of* math and science, and the axioms they are based on, are invented.
Anyways, thanks for all the great content. I love your videos and your obvious grasp of scientific methodology and epistemology. =)
munstrumridcully I disagree, since set theory shows that mathematics is universal.
Aberusugi I think the universal nature of set theory is because set theory is the abstract of the observation of sets in the world around us, and all mathmetics is then manipulation of sets it some way, by various rules. I beleive math is descriptive, not prescriptive, similar to the way the laws of physics are descriptive. Imo, both are universal because they describe the universe.
I freely admit this can be argued either way, and I could be wrong, but I find the arguments against Platonism compelling. Cheers.
munstrumridcully But again, someone didn't invent mathematics, just like they didn't invent physics. They discovered it, and they came up with ways to learn more about the natural laws of physics. The invention is the observational technique (in physics), or the calculated proofs (in physics or mathematics).
The Pythagorean theorem exists whether or not Pythagoras discovered it, since triangulation is entirely possible logically without Pythagoras discovering it in the first place. It's a mathematical constant (with some mildly off-putting Einsteinian physics to make the calculations involving far off distances to need a little help to be totally accurate).
9:52 "add the missing circles" ... WHY
Some reasonably advanced civilization built Gobekli Tepe over 12,000 yrs ago(10500 b.c.e approx) , Right ?
When were seven circles mentioned in Genesis? I searched and couldn't find anything aside from some off the wall version I've never heard of's translation of 1:9-13
How exactly did the Egyptians have the exact same names for constellations that we use today? I know Egypt was taken over by the Greeks and the Romans, but the sphinx was built thousands of years before then,
When I saw this coming up in my 'watch later' playlist I actually made popcorn and it was worth it.
"Plato was philosophical and therefore dumb. Also his story about Atlantis was real."
Didn't Kepler kind of disprove that Platonic Solids were "everywhere" in the universe?
Honestly a while ago when I was a lot younger, I did buy the story about the sphinx and the Leo constellation - at least partly. What I was always more convinced over is the alignment of the Great Pyramids to the belt of Orion. But that is probably manipulated to show that correlating
maybe the water erosion around the sphinx could be from the construction of it? as in they flooded a ginormous pit as a method of moving the large and heavy foundational stones as a means to have a more fluid way of control/placement?
Regarding water in Egypt,
What about the nile?
He's not saying it was aliens...but it was aliens.
Did he play Dungons&dragons? Because I think I have a set of those magic cubes in a bag someplace. I think I'll just pull them out and make a nice circle of power...
Sorry, I don't quite understand what exactly that means when he says "Hit point A". Is it the moment when our axis shifts to a position farthest away from that constellation? I mean, he says "when we see Aquarius in the sky", but it has never been gone!
A touchstone to determing the actual worth of an
"intellectual" -- find out how he feels about astrology.
about the 9-minute mark:
Hey, I can debunk you easily, Marty. I have no freaking clue what you are talking about with Genesis, but the Seven Circles works fine as a reference to Dante (and I assume he got it from there.
But more seriously, no idea if you will read this, but congrats on your son and good to have new video fro you. Reason I'm posting this here is that I'm celebrating by running your WDPLaSS playlist. Probably means jack shit to you, me being a random stranger, but I like your videos.
AnotherVolvoxFan I think he meant the seven days of creation.
How would geometry have anything to do with anything?
Anyone else notice that the metatron's cube was fucked up? That not all of the center points of the circles were connected?
juan gonzalez Perfectly consistent with Jordan's playing fast and loose with shaped, I'd say.
juan gonzalez I cannot find where the centers are not connected, yes some lines overlap each other...but all centers are connected by a line.
Give me one example of a point Jordan makes, which I simply assert is wrong, without presenting a reason.
I am now curious about what this exactly means.
Spirit Science is basically just playing "connect the dots" and connecting *all the dots* everywhere... to everything.
Actually the Sphinx was commissioned by Primeminister at the time , not Khafre , as the Egyptian records show , Khrafe already had his place at his own pyramid and Valley Temple of Khafre and the ritual causeway , the commission of the Sphinx was as a remembrance after his death and symbolise of the state that guarded the ritual causeway for all time , adding to the funeral procession around all the two and now three pyramids of that dynasty
Maybe the sphinx was a very expensive fountain or well and the Egyptians filled water? Maybe it was some kinda of statue of worship for a nile god or something
And when the five shapes combined they make Captain Planet
Being from the same province as Jordan it really bothers me every time he says "aboot" instead of about.
I never paid attention to him doing it before, now I hear it every time and it also bothers me. Damn it.
"Metatron's Cube". That's a weird way of talking about Energon.
Can you do a book on the Lost book of Enki or the Emrald tablets of Thoth?
Am I the only one who noticed that Jordan's "tree of life" is really the Sephirot?
The only explanation for the water erosion i found on Nat Geo: the egyptians made a channel (small) to direct water to the area of the sphynx
Also, there actually was a pre-egyptian civilisation, not necessarily stretching the same borders, but the ancient Babylonians and the likes were just as sophisticated, it would actually make more sense that the Sphinx was built by the ancient Syrians rather than the Egyptians - more sense than his theory at least.
Yeah, and my "shifting the burden of proof"-counter has exploded.
Good videos, I'm curious on what your opinion is on Robert Lanza's theory of biocentrism
sand erosion produces the same smooth surfaces , check out the natural erosion in Nevada , Arizonia and the deserts of Australia outback Queens
Pluto being a planet isn't a misconception; it's just an issue of terminology.
I am curious. Would you do a speculation video on what evidence there is about the pre-pharaoh Egypt?
As per the speculation of the sphinx's age, it is possible that it was built in the last 400 years of the age of Virgo(somewhere around 13,360 years ago) as a way to ready for the age of Leo(roughly 12,960 years ago), based off of the old astrological worshiping of the magi back then. And just to say it clearly... THIS IS SIMPLE SPECULATION!
Astrological ages:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_age
What the World Heritage Center says on the sphinx:
whc.unesco.org/en/list/86
| No, it's that no one here believes in the knowledge and wisdom of spiritual power. |
@@ghostfox3560 You'd need to establish that the Egyptians used the Greek zodiac when the Sphinx was built.
Crop circles? Wow, they really hit a new all-time low with that one. You really deliver like a pro, man. Every minute of your spirit science videos is priceless.
What if the sphinx was a water eroded, 12,000 year old rock, and it was carved on one side into the sphinx, but they didn't really carve the water eroded back much.
You helped me ground myself in reality. Thank you.
"You chose to try and disprove others for your passion to never have to be wrong.."
No. I choose to speak up when people spread misinformation about science, in addition to devoting my professional career to educating people about REAL science.
"you have no control of your emotions"
Really? How would you know? All you've seen of me is my videos... Any emotional outburts are scripted.
"no true standard to how life is to be lived"
What's a 'true' standard?
I was wondering when crop circles would make their debut... We've gone through almost every pseudoscience by now, so it was a foregone conclusion...
The construction of the "flower of life" reminds me of Graph Theory. Depending on how big you make the "flower" you can produce a lot of edges and nodes and designate them to mean anything you like and show that a path can be formed between any 2 or more nodes you want to go to. Thus you have a connected graph and can claim anything is connected to anything else. Very convenient for woo artists. But in "sacred geometry" the connected graph is created first. Then the woo artist creates arbitrary meanings to the paths.
*if I address...
7:05
Am I the only one who thought of the 5th Dimension song when you heard him say that?
By now there are actually geological explanations on what the deal with the sphinx is, at least, physically.
We don't necessarily know if it was supposed to be aligned to anything but investigations have revealed: 1) the body might have been made bigger to go around a cave inside the rock rather than the head smaller 2) the lower part of the statue may have been carved with methods that look like erosion (= regular rocks as tools.) and 3) there doesn't seem to be any supposed "hall of records" hidden in the sphinx after drilling into it multiple times. (Info from Bob Schneiker M.S., ua-cam.com/video/559K616ohaI/v-deo.html )
Your bit about a king commanding everyone to build a lion was very Monty Python :)
thank you for your reply. i appreciate it. i will check out those other channels you recommended.
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He obviously referring to the Lexicon from Skyrim.
I always thought the water erosion at the Sphinx was caused by the over flowing of the Nile. That is why there is water erosion on the walls and not the Sphinx.
2:17 not anymore/on mobile*
it’s quarter past midnight as i type this. i’ll come back in the morning and delete appropriately
Marty has so many christopher walken moments when he talks its awesome
I gotta love how Jordan thinks that these... (clears throat) "Higher dimensional beings" would give a shit about us, much less help us out. Their mindset would be so vastly different from our own, that I doubt that we would even be able to communicate with them.
And that is entertaining the idea that they even exist.
SlayerOfAmista Entertaining ridiculous ideas is fun and not harmful when you aren't focused on reality and education. SS presents their content as more than just inspirational pieces- which is why it is the standard despicable disinformation (just guised as a warm fuzzy promotion). The reason why SS is BS isn't just because they get their facts wrong (although that definitely is a missing requirement in order to be taken seriously by rational people); it's also because they leave their claims too ill-defined. And when someone vaguely describes ideas instead of properly defining them; it comes off as peddling air as I like to call it- since it's attempting to avoid material that can be fact checked (which would make it easier to be debunked).
Hi I'm from the "Pluto is a planet" club.
It's a planet.
if Pluto is a planet, then so are Ceres, Eris, Makemake, Gonggong, Charon, Quaoar, Haumea, Orcus, Sedna, Salacia, MS4, AW197, Varda, FY27, AZ84, Ixion, RN43, UX25, VG18, Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà, UZ224, VP113, ST291, RR245, Chaos, Huya and TL66
Why do I keep seeing the "understanding pre-tax benefits" ad on your vids?
They know why the Sphinx has that weird erosion pattern. The stone isn't uniform. There are layers of harder, and softer stone stacked on top of each other. The softer stone is more susceptible to the wind, so it erodes quicker than the harder layers.
'Last time there was water in the Egypt area was over 10000 years ago'
Jordan, you crack me up. The Egypt area. FSM help me.
Calvin O'blenis You could say Jordan is in Da Nile.
I was gonna say for the Egyptian thing, they also didn't focus around the same type of calendar as we do, so the zodiac was centered around Sirius (because it denoted the rise and fall of the nile) so for all we know, a lion or sphinx WAS in the mix.
...also it's a giant statue of a supposed god-king of Egypt, set against a lion that possibly had some connection to their name, lineage, or something else. Egyptian history is long and not a lot of it survived. big statues of kings do, but not always the writing or what it's for. It's like how there's still misinformation about the Statue of Liberty. Imagine a few thousand years from now, if they ever find it.