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by consp 9 days ago
What's the moral guidance and purpose of a tomb of someone who's mourning has passed for over 3 millennia and who has been forgotten due to time?
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This. Forgetting is the biggest crime. Anything in the other direction is atoning.
Recite for me the names of even 100 people you have known who have died.

Otherwise, you are a terrible "criminal" by your own standard.

Anyone who's passed high school history should be able to name a hundred dead people. Kings, Popes, Hitlers, Caesars.
well, it's clear from the objects still being in the tombs when the raiders came to plunder that they dead did not take the items into the afterlife with them. This clearly shows they are not being used by the original owners.