Ben Carson's Strange Theory About The Egyptian Pyramids

[TyroneSlothrop]

Ben Carson repeated that Egyptian Pyramids were Built For Grain Storage, Not By Aliens Or As Tombs...he added what the aliens built was the Taj Mahal in Agra, India....

Take A Giant Step Taj Mahal

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Giza was never a tomb btw

Take your Bobby Byrd autographed KKK sheets off and look it up

O'rly?

Egyptologists disagree with you. All three of Carson's grain silos were tombs.

Take your pointy head out of your ass.

The main pyramid was an odd tomb because nobody else was buried in it

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Progressives believe someone as corrupt as Hillary should be President. How fucking strange is that?

 

[nuhuh]

I remember standing in line for hours to see the amazing treasures from King Tut's grain silo.

 

[Lakhota]

I wonder how those grain elevators worked?

 

[SwimExpert]

I wonder how those grain elevators worked?

Aliens, of course.

 

[The Rabbi]

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson once vocalized an odd theory about Egyptian history.

According to a video unearthed by BuzzFeed on Wednesday, Carson posited in a 1998 commencement address at Andrews University that the pyramids in Egypt were used for grain storage rather than as tombs for ancient kings and queens.

"My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain," Carson said, referring to the Old Testament. "Now all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs’ graves. But, you know, [something to store that grain] would have to be something awfully big, if you stop and think about it."

Carson appeared to be referencing the biblical figure of Joseph, who was sold into slavery in Egypt and later went on to advise the Egyptian pharaoh to store grain due to a coming famine.

J.G. Manning, a professor of classics who studies Egyptian history at Yale University, called Carson's version of events "lunatic."

More: Ben Carson's Strange Theory About The Egyptian Pyramids

Grain storage? I prefer to think that space aliens built them.

You're lying. Again.

 

[Vandalshandle]

I wonder how those grain elevators worked?

Somebody needs to get in touch with Palin. I'm sure that she could tell us.

 

[Lakhota]

I wonder how those grain elevators worked?

Somebody needs to get in touch with Palin. I'm sure that she could tell us.

I'm surprised the Bible doesn't tell us. Although God didn't know jack shit about the future, he professed to know a lot about the past.

 

[Vandalshandle]

I've said it before, and I will say it again. I honestly think that Carson is in the beginning stages of dementia. He has put out so many versions of his stabbing a friend when he was young, that he honestly does not remember what really happened at all.

 

[Lakhota]

I've said it before, and I will say it again. I honestly think that Carson is in the beginning stages of dementia. He has put out so many versions of his stabbing a friend when he was young, that he honestly does not remember what really happened at all.

It's also hilarious that this idiot savant is beating Trump.

 

[The Rabbi]

I've said it before, and I will say it again. I honestly think that Carson is in the beginning stages of dementia. He has put out so many versions of his stabbing a friend when he was young, that he honestly does not remember what really happened at all.

It's also hilarious that this idiot savant is beating Trump.

Because you're a Trump guy right?
And yet bth Carson and Trump are beating Hillary. Suck on that.

 

[SwimExpert]

I've said it before, and I will say it again. I honestly think that Carson is in the beginning stages of dementia. He has put out so many versions of his stabbing a friend when he was young, that he honestly does not remember what really happened at all.

No, he's just a liar.

 

[The Rabbi]

I've said it before, and I will say it again. I honestly think that Carson is in the beginning stages of dementia. He has put out so many versions of his stabbing a friend when he was young, that he honestly does not remember what really happened at all.

No, he's just a liar.

LOL. Carson's a liar but Hillary tells the truth! You cannot make this shit up!!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I wonder how those grain elevators worked?

They were built without cranes or elevators I think they can manage grain storage

 

[ABikerSailor]

Seems that Ben Carson has his own theory about the pyramids and why they were built.

They weren't built as monuments to bury a pharoah, they were actually built by Joseph (yeah, the dude with the coat of many colors), as a way to help Egypt get through the 7 years of famine that was predicted.

Ben Carson's unusual theory about pyramids

I even saw him say the same thing to a reporter TODAY.

Does anyone still think that Carson is playing with a full deck and deserves to be President? How many of you Christians think the same thing Carson does?

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

WaPo: Ben Carson’s striking ignorance

The political press is chortling at BuzzFeed’s story that Ben Carson believes Egypt’s pyramids were built for grain storage, not as burial chambers. “My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain,” he said in a 1998 commencement speech, referring to Genesis 41, which tells of Joseph storing Egypt’s grain during the “years of plenty” for the coming famine. Carson confirmed to CBS yesterday that he still believes this, but I’m not sure why this is such a big story. Before Wednesday, we knew that Ben Carson takes the Bible literally. After Wednesday, we knew the exact same thing. Frankly, I don’t care whether the president believes the pyramids were built by Joseph, aliens or the Egyptians themselves levitating the stones into place. What matters are the ideas — and that’s where the focus should be with Carson, since it’s clear he has no idea what he’s talking about.

In the same week, Carson also said that Medicare and Medicaid fraud is “huge — half a trillion dollars.” If true, that would be almost 50 percent of our total spending on the two programs. The real number is somewhere between 3 and 10 percent — still a problem, but handing the program to a Carson White House would be like handing the drug war over to someone who believes half the United States is hooked on heroin. In the same Miami Herald interview, Carson was completely stumped by basic questions on U.S.-Cuba policy, before having no qualms about holding forth on the president’s Cuba policy.

And on Wednesday night on Facebook, Carson defended his lack of experience by claiming, “Every signer of the Declaration of Independence had no elected office experience.” That is utterly false: Many of the signatories, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, had been elected to colonial legislatures or other positions (and indeed were partly chosen for the Continental Congress precisely because of their prominence as elected officials). It’s one thing to be wrong about the pyramids, but Carson can’t cite the Founders both for the basic idea behind his outsider candidacy and for many of his policies when he can’t get their biographies right.

That’s just the past week. Zoom out farther, and we find that Carson has changed his Medicare plan from “End Medicare” to a new version that doesn’t make any sense. He refuses to acknowledge that his tax plan would force trillions of dollars in spending cuts to reach the balanced budget he wants, partly because he or his advisers appear to have no idea what does and doesn’t get taxed. (For example, Carson’s calculation would include taxing all government spending, including defense.) And he has confused the budget and the debt ceiling. Those are just some of the specifics he has actually talked about — even the conservative Heritage Action says he needs to release more detailed plans. We haven’t even touched on his many offensive comments about women, the Holocaust, Muslims, gays and so on.


Ben Carson’s striking ignorance

 

[A Perez]

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson once vocalized an odd theory about Egyptian history.

According to a video unearthed by BuzzFeed on Wednesday, Carson posited in a 1998 commencement address at Andrews University that the pyramids in Egypt were used for grain storage rather than as tombs for ancient kings and queens.

"My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain," Carson said, referring to the Old Testament. "Now all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs’ graves. But, you know, [something to store that grain] would have to be something awfully big, if you stop and think about it."

Carson appeared to be referencing the biblical figure of Joseph, who was sold into slavery in Egypt and later went on to advise the Egyptian pharaoh to store grain due to a coming famine.

J.G. Manning, a professor of classics who studies Egyptian history at Yale University, called Carson's version of events "lunatic."

More: Ben Carson's Strange Theory About The Egyptian Pyramids

Grain storage? I prefer to think that space aliens built them.

Aren't the entrances to pyramids on the small side and thus impractical as grain storage or distribution centres?

Who the fuck cares Delta. If it were for grain storage, power plant, tomb or alien beacon. Even if somebody gets it right it still won't give us jobs and better economy at the present.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson once vocalized an odd theory about Egyptian history.

According to a video unearthed by BuzzFeed on Wednesday, Carson posited in a 1998 commencement address at Andrews University that the pyramids in Egypt were used for grain storage rather than as tombs for ancient kings and queens.

"My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain," Carson said, referring to the Old Testament. "Now all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs’ graves. But, you know, [something to store that grain] would have to be something awfully big, if you stop and think about it."

Carson appeared to be referencing the biblical figure of Joseph, who was sold into slavery in Egypt and later went on to advise the Egyptian pharaoh to store grain due to a coming famine.

J.G. Manning, a professor of classics who studies Egyptian history at Yale University, called Carson's version of events "lunatic."

More: Ben Carson's Strange Theory About The Egyptian Pyramids

Grain storage? I prefer to think that space aliens built them.

God forbid we come up with our own ideas.

 

[Desperado]

Giza was never a tomb btw

Take your Bobby Byrd autographed KKK sheets off and look it up

And it was never a grain elevator either!