Hahah guys, lets build these massive monuments, that take a lifetime to build and costs hundreds or thousands of lives...

Hahah guys, lets build these massive monuments, that take a lifetime to build and costs hundreds or thousands of lives, for no reason other than to bury one person.

What the fuck were they thinking?

To show everyone how massively powerful that one person is.

eternal empire of the god king, bitch, get to work

>for no reason other than to bury one person.

They had a practical religiopolitical function, you just don't understand their cosmological framework so you can't grasp their function

Things like this make me understand why African-Americans claim they're descended from Egyptians

>practical
>religiopolitical
>function

Implying ancient negus aka ka-angz people didn't move the stones telepathically using their melanin field.

It was literally an FDR pointless megaproject to give the people something to do so they don't starve in the desert months

They'll be remembered for millennia, OP. Will you?

it was literal autism

Tfw ppl still believe that in spite of the lack of evidence.

>there is half a million of us and we live in mud huts working all day
>one guy lives in a palace and spend all our money and eats our best food
>why is this the case?

Well, because he is God, see this huge building proving it, you don't have such a huge tomb, this proves these are Gods.

tl;dr Pyramids are anti-revolt monuments.

They were rich.

>What the fuck were they thinking?

It was an absolutely brilliant plan. This long term investment into tourism finally prayed off.

Because he was Ozymandias, King of Kings.

>Workers build pyramid while farming is not available at the time
>Ensuring continued employment
>Contributing to godly image of Pharaoh
No work, no money, no money, no food. It was practical economical decision supported by religious reasons.

they were shelters to avoid floods from the Nile

But how does it pay them back?
They're using up stone and elbow grease, and then...?

Food bitch

right, they're eating food, using up stone...

What? You don't use up stone. You stack in on top of other stones to get grain and beer and stuff

Presumably there's a billion tonne sculpture of a fedora in there somewhere that you're particularly impressed with