I know most of you pooh-pooh some of the metaphysical beliefs which I hold dear, but nevertheless, it includes the belief the pyramids were NOT built as tombs (katlaughing)

That sentence shows very clearly the problems one can encounter with you when discussing such things.

What for others is merely a question which can be decided empirically (as far as archeology goes) or is a question of which theory best fits the evidence so far you declare being part of your metaphysical beliefs. No wonder that you feel so easily ridiculed or whatever else when I still think I'm safely discussing empirical support or lack of for some theory.

This is where in my opinion you are crossing the line again. The aborigines (of Australia) declaring their legends about themselves as truth, natives of different cultures saying that scientific findings about their history different from their oral history violate their feelings, the Christians who take the Bible as a biology book, the Muslims who declare that each word of the Koran has been written in the heaven (and ignore findings that there once were conflicting versions of the Koran) are other examples where opinions originating from a belief system conflict with research.

BTW, the article 'the' in my overly long sentence is short for 'those of that group who' and not for 'all of those'. With a very large majority of Christians and with all (though based on a smaller number) Muslims I have talked about such things so far I have no problems at all.

Wolfgang