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human
Can some skeptic please explain to me how an ancient builder is going to make these irregular curves?
How do you even describe such a curve?
In the best case scenario it would require advanced mathematics to describe such parabolic curves, not to mention the fact that they're downright irregular, not following any mathematical function at all.

Take pic related for example. It literally curves in 2-dimensions (back-front, left-right).
I think it's safe to say that these curves were not 'described' to builders using language or mathematics. They MUST have used some approach whereby the stone was directly 'fitted' against the opposing stone.

The most down-to-earth explanation I can think of is that a mold was taken of the opposing stone, perhaps using clay and then used by the builder to chip away pieces of the new stone until it fits the hardened clay mold, then put into place on the wall.

But how long would you go about doing that before you realized
>hey, if we just made all these cuts fucking straight in the first place then we wouldn't have to go through this painstakingly tedious process

I'm sorry, but this shit just doesn't add up. This is an absolute MYSTERY, and anyone who denies that is delusionally trying to ignore what they see to preserve their worldview that ancient people couldn't possibly have known something we don't.
gpt
>I'm sorry, but this shit just doesn't add up. This is an absolute MYSTERY, and anyone who denies that is delusionally trying to ignore what they see to preserve their worldview that ancient people couldn't possibly have known something we don't.
Nah. It's sculpture. Humans have been doing it a long time. What is a mystery is the methods because they weren't recorded. They lacked modern science but they had their own natural science and a far better understanding of their local environment than anyone alive today. Those stones are finished in situ, linked to it's neighbors in an organic fashion by people who didn't see in straight lines, which is an abstraction. That's the real mystery: consciousness, it's the true lost civilization of man. We yearn for it because part of us still remembers
human
Just bought some chisels let's fucking goooo