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I kind of find our own version of the pyramids to be kind of fascinating...
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Where is that at?

They are all over the eastern half of the US. I just grabbed an image that looked like one I visited. I think the Cahokai Mounds State Park in Illnois is the last one I have actually been to but I see them other places.
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I thought the mayans were americans and they had pyramids of their own.
But please stick to the topic.

EGYPT.

I get very annoyed when I start a topic and then people start talking about themselves, ignoring the topic. EGYPT not other countries.
 
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Talking about Egyptian cotton sheets is talking about Egypt? Really?

I personally think the mound building North American Indians must have some historical relationship to the pyramid building Egyptians...so I don't think it is entirely off topic. Although they were built with dirt, they were build for the same purpose...to bury their royalty and belongings.
 
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anyway picking up from the thread before it got derailed.

My sister gave me this heiroglyph necklace thing right that she bought in egypt and it really bothered me for some reason. She said it was like a good luck charm or something and the letters meant my name.
I decided to get rid of it and remember I had it on me when I was out with a friend and decided that we might see another friend, she was driving on the motorway and was in the wrong lane and went to turn when the car behind crashed into her...or something. Not sure what happened exactly but he said it was his fault. But her car was a write-off.

I don't know if the two things were connected?!
And that friend said HER sister had given her a similar necklace from Egypt and she didn't like it either.
 
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anyway picking up from the thread before it got derailed.

My sister gave me this heiroglyph necklace thing right that she bought in egypt and it really bothered me for some reason. She said it was like a good luck charm or something and the letters meant my name.
I decided to get rid of it and remember I had it on me when I was out with a friend and decided that we might see another friend, she was driving on the motorway and was in the wrong lane and went to turn when the car behind crashed into her...or something. Not sure what happened exactly but he said it was his fault. But her car was a write-off.

I don't know if the two things were connected?!
And that friend said HER sister had given her a similar necklace from Egypt and she didn't like it either.

Do you believe that God isn't in control and some necklace written in a foreign language can really harm you?
 
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My sister gave me this heiroglyph necklace thing right that she bought in egypt and it really bothered me for some reason. She said it was like a good luck charm or something and the letters meant my name.
I decided to get rid of it
I don't understand what you're implying here if it was literally just your name written in a different alphabet. Are you under the impression that everything from Egypt is cursed?
I don't know if the two things were connected?!
They weren't.
 
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The unfinished pyramid on the back of our moneys is to represent they we are always unfinished and constantly building.

What I am talking about is like when you enter Memphis from the Arkansas side you will almost instantly see a pyramid that is now a Bass Pro Shop but why a pyramid. Actually since its the city of Memphis I get it since Memphis is from Egypt but its also new growth in my area. I notice lots of building are being built with a pyramid at the top. To me it represents that it is the same god of evil that made Egypt what it was that is now in bed with the financers who are funding these projects.

Isaiah 19:19-20
In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD near its border. 20It will become a sign and a witness to the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the LORD because of oppressors, and He will send them a Savior and a Champion, and He will deliver them.
 
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One interesting thing about Egypt that I thought was fascinating was the abu simbel temple, how a dam was put close by so they had to move the entire site piece by piece to a new location.

I dont know if it warranted such treatment but imagine, taking a HUGE temple down, then putting it up again exactly how it was in another location. And the money and amount of labour to do such a thing. They really like big monuments these Egyptians.
 
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ive met a few egyptians. there are some egyptian christians still in egypt but probably less than 10% of the population now. many of them have fled since the arab spring, although the situation in egypt is not as bad as in other countries (like Syria, Iraq, and Libya).

at least the 'islamic brotherhood' isn't in power.
 
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What I find disturbing is how we in America is taking on the Egyptian culture instead of the traditional Greek/Roman culture we have always been. Our Government buildings in Washington and most state capitals have always reflected the Roman and Greek culture that we evolved from but if you drive across the country you will see lots of pyramids unlike I have ever seen before. I asked an architect once and he said it was because pyramids are a simple design and cheap to build but I personally believe it is us growing away from the good that we once were and we are evolving into an evil culture.

The pyramid in Memphis was originally a sports arena before being converted into the Bass Pro Shop shopping center. I guess it was originally intended on being a series of 3 pyramids but they ran out of money and the full idea never got develop. I suspect the idea came from the fact that "Memphis" is also a place in Egypt.

I have driven by this pyramid building multiple times and always intended to look up the history because it is such an odd building....so glad I now know.
 
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In the bible, egypt is especially mentioned as a nation that serves as a highway to the promised land. If I recall, I may have to hunt down the verses but it does say something about that.

Whether that has now become reality with the suez canal i guess depends on your interpretation. Before that the only way you could get from a to b or egypt to canaan was crossing the red sea.

Of which God provided the miracle.
 
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ive met a few egyptians. there are some egyptian christians still in egypt but probably less than 10% of the population now. many of them have fled since the arab spring, although the situation in egypt is not as bad as in other countries (like Syria, Iraq, and Libya).

at least the 'islamic brotherhood' isn't in power.
In egypt? Or as tourist?
Or refugees? What are they like? I havent met any but I have met a few saudi arabians. They come over to learn english.
 
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Yes, OP, there are many Christians in Egypt today. It's obviously not a Christian society anymore (Christians were probably a numerical minority there by the turn of the millennium, roughly 350 years after the Arab Muslim invasion in the 640s), but the Christian population that is there has deep roots. St. Mark the Evangelist (writer of the Gospel according to St. Mark) started the Church there within about 10-15 years of Christ's ministry. According to tradition, St. Mark was a Hellenized Jew from Libya who went to neighboring Egypt to preach the gospel of Christ there c. AD 46 (though some sources place him there a bit later, c. AD 51; there is much more agreement about the date of his martyrdom in Egypt, in AD 68).

I am Coptic Orthodox (Coptic = Egyptian), though not an ethnic Egyptian person, so I've never been there. Pretty much everyone I know has been, though, and still go back regularly to visit family who still live there (for weddings, baptisms, etc). Most Copts still live in Egypt, though there is not a reliable estimate of the number of Copts in Egypt, since that is a politically-sensitive question in Egyptian society. The government figure of between 5 and 6 million is almost certainly an underestimation, while some Coptic advocacy groups in the West throw around crazy numbers like 15 to 20 million. That's too high. The real number is probably somewhere in between, say 8 to 10. (If we add in the diaspora as well as the neighboring countries' Christians which have traditionally been within the Coptic Orthodox Church, as in Sudan and Libya, that definitely increases the total by several million, but then we're not talking just about Egypt anymore.)

One thing it might interest you to know is that the Coptic Orthodox Church still uses the Coptic (Egyptian) language in its services. It is not spoken outside of church anymore, but it was also never completely lost since the Church kept using it even after the Coptic people stopped speaking it natively in the 14th-15th century or so. It sounds like this:


(In this video, the hymn is sung in alternating verses of Coptic and English, since this service was recorded in New York, not in Egypt. In America, we use English, Coptic, and Arabic in the liturgy, while in other countries we will use whatever the native language is plus Coptic and Arabic; the Arabic is mainly for the older generation or very recent immigrants who might not know enough English to participate in church services in the language.)
 
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