Ramses Ii Quotes

the one for whom the sun shines.. -Ramses II

Unfortunately, identifying Ramses II as the pharaoh of the Exodus, which is the identification most frequently found in both scholarly and popular books, does not work if one also wishes to follow the chronology presented in the Bible.

On the subject of Egypt, Ellen Cherry was so vague she thought Ramses II was a jazz piano player. From that, we might conclude that she was equally dumb about jazz.

No one knows for sure what the Mayan pyramids are for-navigation and chronography, some say, like Stonehenge-but we know damn well what the Egyptian pyramids were and are . . . great monuments to death, the world's biggest gravestones. Here Lies Ramses II, He Was Obedient . . .

I used to wonder: Do only ignorant laypeople gaze on the colossal bust of Ramses II at the British Museum and ask themselves how it ended up there? Is it only the unschooled visitor who looks at the soaring column from the Temple of Artemis at the Met and questions why it exists in this place?

So maybe Third World discontent is fomented not merely by poverty, disease, corruption and political oppression but also by mere exposure to First World standards. The average Egyptian was far less likely to die from starvation, plague or violence under Hosni Mubarak than under Ramses II or Cleopatra. Never had the material condition of most Egyptians been so good. You’d think they would have been dancing in the streets in 2011, thanking Allah for their good fortune. Instead they rose up furiously to overthrow Mubarak. They weren’t comparing themselves to their ancestors under the pharaohs, but rather to their contemporaries in the affluent West.

Ozymandias” Mısır’da Luxor yakınlarındaki II. Ramses’in cenaze tapınağında yıkılmış bir heykelden esinlenilmiştir. Antik çağ tarihçisi Diodorus’a göre heykelde bir zamanlar şu sözler yazılıydı: “Kralların Kralıyım, Ben Ozymandias. Her kim benim ne kadar haşmetli olduğumu ve nerede yattığımı bilirse, eserlerimden birini geçmesine izin verin.

Humanism has dominated the world for 300 years, which is not such a long time. The pharaohs ruled Egypt for 3,000 years, and the popes dominated Europe for a millennium. If you told an Egyptian in the time of Ramses II that one day the pharaohs will be gone, he would probably have been aghast. ‘How can we live without a pharaoh? Who will ensure order, peace and justice?’ If you told people in the Middle Ages that within a few centuries God will be dead, they would have been horrified. ‘How can we live without God? Who will give life meaning and protect us from chaos?’ Looking back, many think that the downfall of the pharaohs and the death of God were both positive developments. Maybe the collapse of humanism will also be beneficial. People are usually afraid of change because they fear the unknown. But the single greatest constant of history is that everything changes.

On the subject of Egypt, Ellen Cherry was so vague she thought Ramses II was a jazz piano player.

According to some surviving accounts (which must be taken with some small amount of doubt, as they are largely Egyptian and point to an unconfirmed Egyptian victory that greatly glorifies the personal actions of Ramses II, leading many scholars to believe that they are propaganda that was loosely based on real events of the battle), the

Bu yüzden de, Üçüncü Dünya ülkelerindeki memnuniyetsizlik sadece fakirlik, hastalık, yozlaşma ve politik baskıdan değil, sürekli olarak Birinci Dünya standartlarına maruz kalmaktan kaynaklanıyor da olabilir. Ortalama bir Mısırlı'nın açlık, hastalık veya şiddetten ölme ihtimali II. Ramses veya Kelopatra döneminde, Hüsnü Mübarek dönemine göre çok daha yüksekti, hatta Mısırlıların fiziksel koşulları hiç şimdiki kadar iyi olmamıştı. Dolayısıyla bu insanların 2011'de sokaklarda dans ederek Allah'a şükredeceklerini düşünebilirdiniz, oysa onlar ayaklanarak Mübarek'i devirdiler. Sonuçta, kendilerini firavunların yönetiminde yaşayan atalarıyla değil, Obama'nın Amerika'sındakilerle kıyaslıyorlardı.

When did the Zionist learn to torture people? In Hitler's concentration camps. Some natures forgive, most natures avenge, on the unsuspecting weakest. Where does the Arab direct his anger against Israel? On other Arabs. Rats in a cage turn on each other. A victim learns to victimize. Arab nations (Egypt) made peace with Israel, instead of supporting Palestine. Some Palestinians say they are not Arabs, but the 'sea-people' of the Ramses II's inscription; that they came from Crete rather than Arabia to settle on the floor of the prehistoric sea Thetys in order to claim Palestine as their separate nation. This should balance Israel's Abrahamic claim, if not outstrip it. The Palestinians were the first Jews, then Monophysites under Byzantium, then Moslems. 'We are all schismatics,' says a character in Genet's Palestine Diary.