Pyramids

I was recently watching one of the many shows on the Discovery Channel that deal with Pyramids and Ancient Egypt. Seems that modern thinking has ruled out the slave labor theory that everyone believed for many centuries. They still didn't address the concerns of some major archaeologists that claim the Pyramids where built long before the Egyptians where there. Though, I guess that is because The Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt doesn't let people with non-traditional theories examine any of these relics. Non-traditional being defined as anyone who says that Ancient Egyptians didn't do The Sphinx or The Pyramids.

Well, I've spent a lot of time thinking about this, and since I have never been to Egypt, I am not regulated by The Supreme Council of Antiquities. And since I have never seen any of these things in person, I am not bound by physical evidence. That leads me to my theory about the pyramids: a Big Casino!

Let me explain, though you probably already can guess at my theory, which kind of makes it the most obvious explanation for the facts, don't you think? When we look to modern times, and we find a place that has more wealth than it knows to do with and a big empty desert, what do we see there? Las Vegas! A place where people will spend endless money to make the gaudiest buildings possible. And after it had been around long enough to generate enough money to build a large building that would last forever, fit for gods, what was built? A Pyramid!

As I see it, whoever built the pyramids in what is now Egypt, must have been at the peak of wealth and needed to bleed some of it off. So, they built a large gambling area in the desert, complete with the luxury accommodations for High Rollers, The Pyramids. Each was an accommodation for one, overlooking the vast gambling city surrounding it. Why there is even Ra in cRaps!

I believe that what we currently believe is the One True History will be proven wrong at some point in the future, just as history has shown us has happened in the past. With this in mind, we should brainstorm and come up with other ideas, and maybe we will find a theory that better fits the facts. Then some future generation will wonder how we could have been such visionaries with the level of technology we have currently! Let's dream of a better past for the future!

-Edward