You know Egyptians didn't all believe in an afterlife ?

Any books recommended?

As far as texts expressing skepticism of an afterlife ?

2 off the top of my head are " The Immortality of Writers " and " Harper's Songs "

Then why did they preserve their mummies for the afterlife

hold up there scooter

You're responding like I said " No Egyptians believed there was an afterlife "

Read the OP, then respond with something that actually is in response to what I said

Did you know each temple was university town ,social service center? Thats why modern western history does everything to diminish value of it .Bird god , crocodile god etc

are you referring to " nomes " ?

Scooter is my nickname sometimes. Egyptians did believe in the afterlife and prepared for it.

This is why they mummified themselves and some would maybe bring up cloning in relation to this.

no, you'll find cloning in the thread about portals and chakras

good luck !

lets be honest

you've probably never even heard of any Egyptian literature aside from the " book of the dead ", which isn't really a book, it's a compendium from different authors spanning about a thousand years

You mean hieroglyphics lol

Everyone knows about them

Well the floor can babble all it wants but i had 3 cats and there not my neighbours

He's referring to the funerary texts.

There is more than one Egyptian "Book of the Dead" as it's commonly called.

Egypt was a long lasting empire that held many different beliefs during the span of dozens of dynastic periods.

General beliefs probably did vary at times in their 3000 year history but from most of what we know them they did believe in afterlife.


Death was only a transition, not a completion, and opened the way to the possibility of eternal happiness. When a person died, the soul was thought to be trapped in the body because it was used to this mortal home. Spells and images painted on tomb walls (known as the Coffin Texts, The Pyramid Texts, and The Egyptian Book of the Dead) and amulets attached to the body, were provided to remind the soul of its continued journey and to calm and direct it to leave the body and proceed on.

The soul would make its way toward the Hall of Truth (also known as The Hall of Two Truths) in the company of Anubis, the guide of the dead, where it would wait in line with others for judgment by Osiris. There are different versions of what would happen next but, in the most popular story, the soul would make the Negative Confessions in front of Osiris, Thoth, Anubis, and the Forty-Two Judges.

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There are alternative thinkers in every society.

Do you believe in an afterlife OP?

The Tibetan book of the dead is the same book

eh, no

" everyone " apparently doesn't know much

Most religious texts are written in Hieratic, not hieroglyphics

smh

yup

Well I do not, I am more interested in compounded words in hieroglyphics which reveal alien life.

Hope that f Gypsy is there again for you to play onwards with it.

They were the inventors of storage units.

Yeah, I'm sure you are

Can you use an online lexicon to demonstrate what you're talking about ?

wow, what a response, a veiled jab at ben carson

how underwhelming

they mostly just moved on to their other life, especially if they didn't have any karma to pay

yet, most of the " Wisdom literature " clearly expresses skepticism at an afterlife

That's in stark contrast to your claims

No because it’s classified the hieroglyphic language

They didn't believe in a resurrection back to life as immortal beings. They believed you remained awake in the grave. A 'Kingdom of the Dead' that has a 'king'.

right, right " classified " top secret stuff

gotcha

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In other news, lets address this claim a poster just made about " most of what we know about Egyptians says they did believe in an afterlife "

If you'd have bothered to actually study, you'd have known that after one's heart was weighed, and after the " Negative Confessions " ( cf PtahHotep's Maxims )were made , tradition said that Osiris, Thoth, Anubis, and the Forty-Two Judges would confer. If one's confession was found acceptable then the soul would present its heart to Osiris to be weighed in the golden scales against the white feather of truth. If one's heart was found to be lighter than the feather, one moved on to the next phase but, if the heart was heavier, it was thrown to the floor where it was eaten by Ammut "the female devourer of the dead".

This resulted in "the Great Death" which was non-existence.

Hence, no afterlife for that individual

You see ?

Not as cut-and-dry a topic as many of you think

Yeah

Hades
Uranus
And the king of heaven at that time