I thought it was a meme
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Shoot fish with lasers. No need to compensate for refraction, problem solved.
Let's just say that's exactly the purpose, to preserve in stone what angle to spear fish. What a terrible way to communicate a simple idea.
You'd think all the other parts of the world where they do it just by practicing would have built them too if it helped somehow.
Any context for what the heck this is supposed to mean?
"This is why the bent pyramid is bent."
Is that the partially collapsed pyramid?
No, it's a pyramid they sort of fucked up on by putting on an unstable foundation and had to chance the slope of because of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_Pyramid
To be fair, it was a precursor of the Great Pyramid, so they didn't really know what they were doing yet.
Ah yes, my visual memory was correct, but the reasoning for the shape was incorrect.
AFAIK we don't actually know that the Bent Pyramid was a design flaw with a course correction in the middle. We only think that because it's the only one with a slope that changes in the middle, but there were few pyramids before that one: before the Bent Pyramid was the Meidum one that also had a steep slope, and before that was Djoser's step pyramid, which was the very first one. And Meidum was a step pyramid too before the sloped casing was added in the last phase. We don't actually know that they planned for a very tall one then gave up, and what they were experimenting.
Except for the pyramid but and the Bible bit, it's accurate.
It would actually work pretty well as a missionary metaphor, to describe how you can't argue from your own cultural bias and expect to catch many fish in a different culture, even works well with that quote.
Then they had a stroke and started talking about bent pyramids.
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Thanks for clarifying. I wasn't sure what the fish is swimming on or what the human is breathing.
But he/she knows wise words!
Later people would catch fish with an angle. Angle <-> angle, we must be onto something people!
But angle <-> angel so god has sent his horde to handhold you while fishing!
We’re definitely onto something here!!
fish for our people
Proselytizing. Ha ha ha.