Every time a remarkable achievement or ancient engineering marvel resurfaces, there are voices ready to downplay it with recycled arguments and easy dismissals Not because the evidence is weak but because recognizing greatness can be uncomfortable.
History is full of real human brilliance that needs neither exaggeration nor denial. True criticism deepens understanding; constant dismissal only reveals a reluctance to face what stands undeniable.
by Professional-Fee3323
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“People keep calling me out on my bullshit, so here’s something straight off r/im14andthisisdeep “
“History is full of real human brilliance that needs neither exaggeration nor denial.” – Now let me tell you why these particular ancient people couldn’t stack rocks to save their lives, and instead relied on an even more ancient (and seemingly invisible) civilization that moved shit with their minds!!!
Ironically it’s posts that people claim ancient people had to have some amazing undiscovered technology that diminishes human greatness.
A man with a chisel, raw muscle power, dedication to gods and needing to be paid/earn to get a meal at the end of the day has achieved great things.
What specifically stands undeniable?
Strong word there, you can reasonably deny a lot.
For example, I reasonably deny that the moon landings were faked. In my head it was real, and there’s pretty good evidence to back it up.
We went to the moon, and most conspiracies that say otherwise are fairly easily debunkable.
I don’t have a ‘reluctance to face the undeniable’, I have a ‘reluctance to face nonsense bullshit’.
>constant dismissal only reveals a reluctance to face what stands undeniable
Care to reference this undeniable evidence??
Greatness does not fear criticism. It grows stronger when challenged, reinforced by lines of evidence. There is no need to downplay or dismiss the remarkable achievements and ancient engineering of those that came before us. They were, indeed, great.
What is dismissed is claims without evidence. Empty appeals to a shadow greatness that are shallow and meritless. That rob humanity of its real brilliance that needs neither exaggeration nor denial.
For anyone interested, this is the first chamber of the Red Pyramid.
Sometimes criticism is about things like OP not providing sources for images or using misleading AI imagery.
And of course they wrote their names on it.
Words immediately reduce miracles and magic into less magical and human ideas. Words are mere shadows of feelings and ideas.