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- reflex768, on 10/09/2008, -2/+49I guess I don't really know why scholars always seem to want Stonehenge to have a singularity of purpose. By contrast if you look at a modern church for instance, you have a multiplicity of purposes. Sermons, weddings, funerals, charity drives, town meetings, you name it. Multiple use would seem more likely for such a large and expensive structure.
- wexmajor, on 10/09/2008, -0/+29Well in Civ IV it gives you a free monument in every city. Just saying.
- alexsch8, on 10/09/2008, -0/+23A Scientologist once told me that by examing his past lives during counselling he learned that Stonehenge was actually a Flying Saucer repair station. The saucer would land on the ring and thus sit up a little elevated. That way they could service/repair it. He also said that if you were to dig around Stonehenge, you'd probably find old spare parts... happy digging... LOL
- thegrantman, on 10/10/2008, -0/+16The first Burning Man Festival.
Too soon? - Stuchus, on 10/10/2008, -0/+11Stonehenge! Where the Demons Dwell,
Where the banshees live and they do live well.
Stonehenge! Where A man's a man,
And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan. - brandita, on 10/10/2008, -0/+9Maybe it was just meant to be a huge pile of stones? I mean those people back then were probably just bored.
- robertnealan, on 10/10/2008, -0/+7Next week: "Actually it wasn't a cremation cemetary, it was a dance club." They honestly change what Stonehenge was far too often these days.
- RobotBuddha, on 10/10/2008, -0/+6Came here to say the same thing. It's old as hell. Find something it's not been used for and I'll be surprised.
- aptanalogy, on 10/10/2008, -0/+6I agree with the central thrust of your statement, however, I think that the key question here is *why* it was built in the first place. That is, a church is built as a center of worship, a baseball park is constructed as a place where people...play baseball. This doesn't mean that these venues couldn't ever be used for other purposes, but it does mean that these other uses are incidental to the primary function underlying the reasoning for their existence in the first place.
- WhoDoneIt, on 10/10/2008, -0/+5McDonald's drive thru....at least not yet.
- Skod, on 10/10/2008, -0/+4You know...I don't care :) It's old, and it looks cool, I'm content with that.
- dbalaski, on 10/09/2008, -0/+4I'm with you:
Stonehendge was _____________________ to _________ people at ______ time.
you fill in the blanks - - Ceryn1126, on 10/10/2008, -2/+6especially in MMOs
- Jabronious, on 10/10/2008, -0/+4Actually it was a farmer's market. It would take some kind of idiot not to realize this.
- palehorse864, on 10/10/2008, -1/+5Giant druid barbecue pit?
- Dr3w, on 10/10/2008, -0/+4Yes, this one. This is the one I'll believe.
- Crath, on 10/10/2008, -1/+4burn the witch!
- dbzssj44676, on 10/10/2008, -0/+3Who thought Stonehenge was a healing "centre". The last I heard, it was a calendar.
- Aylett, on 10/09/2008, -1/+4I would think people are getting quite frustrated by this, neither of these 'theories' can be demonstrated to be correct from the present evidence. Think about it for a moment, how you prove the people ‘believed’ that the stones could heal, it’s an intangible- i.e. it simply can’t be ‘proven’ from material evidence, its just speculation. Regarding the so called ‘cremation cemetery’ theory. It’s not pointed out that all the cremated bones have been found as deposits in either the Aubrey Holes - or the ditch which surround Stonehenge, neither of which were created for the primary purpose of burial. Where are the burials which go with the massive stone structure that most people identify with Stonehenge? They are in the wider landscape, they are not directly associated with the imposing edifice that everyone recognizes. It’s a nonsense to continue this fruitless debate.
- whatthefu, on 10/10/2008, -0/+3Yeah but someone always already finishes building it by the time you have only one turn left until it's completed.
- innocentsinner, on 10/10/2008, -0/+3That's actually kinda badass.
- CraigKostelecky, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2A big bad wolf came and blew them down, and three little piggies were relocated to the projects.
- Myztry, on 10/10/2008, -0/+2You would think that with all the steadfast absolute declarations of events from hundreds of millions, or even billions of years ago, events counting in the thousands of years old would be trivial.
- piesforyou, on 10/10/2008, -0/+2Heh, so these beings could design and fly a hi tech space ship but for a jack they use ***** great big blocks of granite which they've hauled by hand from wales...?
- olie_baba, on 10/10/2008, -0/+2Oh I see MrBabyMan is still on digg
- Exzhaton, on 10/10/2008, -0/+2LOL yes, "Dude I put on my robe and wizard hat and totally scored with this level 2 druid I picked up at Stonehenge last weekend."
- codywalton, on 10/10/2008, -0/+2What about Woodhenge and Strawhenge?
- wtfhacksDan, on 10/10/2008, -0/+2Where the banshees live, and they do live well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhCBFq818KY - AManWithNoName, on 10/10/2008, -0/+2I dugg you for the image of old pagans ravin' it up.
- inactive, on 10/10/2008, -0/+2Notice the deceptive perceived assumption in quotes. This is but one teams opinion amongst hundreds of others. Perhaps they are all correct? Perhaps people who were sick went there to be healed and some simply could not be healed?! ...perhaps... Churches are a place of healing and worship, yet have cemeteries next to them quite frequently.
- Rudegar, on 10/10/2008, -0/+2hhmmm I would think the mud wrestling arena would soften the foundation causing the possibility of
stones falling :O - planner5, on 01/19/2009, -0/+1Apparently this is true! I saw it on the Discovery Channel.
http://www.funeral-planning-guide.com/ - LilRabbitFooFoo, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1Best argument for this NOT being true?
It's published in the ALWAYS inaccurate TABLOID telegraph.co.uk.
Automatic Digg DOWN. - tortov, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1This is a question that involves human agency. We already know the basic physical facts about Stonehenge; we now want to know why they built it. You don't get that with a lot of events from hundreds of millions of years ago. "Why did Pangaea decide to break up?" "What was the asteroid trying to do when it caused the K-T mass extinction?"
- Matt88, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1I thought that it was a sacred place where the religious leaders got to have sex with virgins for good luck. I know who got all the good luck
- inactive, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1I like the part with the big stone blocks.
- badwithcomputer, on 10/10/2008, -2/+3David St. Hubbins: I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.
Ian Faith: I really think you're just making much too big a thing out of it.
Derek Smalls: Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea. - rpieszak, on 10/09/2008, -7/+8It was put there so Chevy Chase could back into it with his car. Duh.
- protogenxl, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.
- PuterPrsn, on 10/16/2008, -0/+1And your time machine is cached ... where?
- piesforyou, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1It's not too long off. There was talk of making it into a theme park. You can imagine the uproar.
- josepablos, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1i only believe the SPINAL TAP version!-
- daridave, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1If you would rather get beat up than healed up, I'm sure there's more than one person here who is willing to help your case.
- Rudegar, on 10/10/2008, -1/+2yeah no ps3 cause people to do messed up things!
- Smeed, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1Soon its going to be easier to list the the things Stonehenge probably wasnt....
- IceOfDiamonds, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1CLASSIFIEDS
"Scientist" needed. Must be able to guess. - daridave, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1No no no, you and they have it all wrong. It's an alien base. They just can't figure it out yet -- but it's OK... my friend here is working on a device called the Eraser Eraser -- once that's complete, he'll give me a call, and we'll be able to get in there deeper ... I'm not joking! A fly told me.
- Myztry, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1The age of Stonehenge seems to be an unknown basic physical fact. Living (thinking) creatures are obviously a chaos factor as they don't tend to follow the base rules.
More the issue if the foolishness of talking in absolutes. The more distance in time any event occurs, the more unknowable factors that can logically occur. Suns could completely consume massive clouds of material long after being 'born' giving misleading apparent evidence of age and development.
Suns could be gravitationally pulling in and consuming undetectable dark matter inside their nuclear smelting furnaces, completely throwing off the idea they are predictable entities.
I actually more respect the tentative approach towards Stonehenge because the approach is more honest as far as admitting they are just playing the odds with their assumptions, and they don't really know for sure. - bobbym, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1It's a cookbook!
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