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- Clbck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23I'd say it's _ancient_.
/badjoke - Sithlrd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14"its often ambiguous pronouncements were shamelessly reinterpreted to suit particular policies and interests"
Boy am I glad THAT doesn't happen any mo... wait...
Never mind. - lbreevesii, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14OLD news.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+19You can use the enter key to make paragraphs.
(I'm not sure how this is world news as this is old and really retarded.) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12People just realizing this NOW?
Welcome to grade 9 Mythology - foofightrs777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Hmm..yeah I'd say this is really old news...When I was in Delphi a year back the local tour guide stated that there had been vents found which leaked toxic gases that the oracles used to "divine" the future, etc.
Still good though. Anything that people can learn from is front page worthy in my opinion. - Hrvat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Bring the Oracle back!
FTA: "664BC The Oracle advises the Locrians of southern Italy to rule that anyone proposing a new law should do so with a rope around his neck, so that if the motion failed he might be hanged with a minimum of public inconvenience "
We need more of that around here... - mcherm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Wait a sec... from the title, I expected an article on databases!
- Surreal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This guy can't write, but you make stupid stereotypes.
- synapse1712, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5OK, I can't let you get away with saying that. William goddamn Shakespeare, probably the greatest writer of the English language, was English. And what about Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf? Arthur C Clarke?
- nikkesen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The priestess needed to transcend the realm of reality and mental restrictions, and seeing how she didn't have LSD or any of those, they needed to find an alternative...
- ghostcat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I went to Delphi 10 years ago, and this was old news even then.
- Surreal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Lamed! I learned this crap in grade school!
- dinonion, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Burning crazy herbs all day long in a dark cave with no ventilation, of course she was getting high. Definitely old news unless some body's willing to try it out now to see where it will take their mind to.
- Wisgary, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Umm, I remember learning this in my humanities course at college a few years ago. So... yeah, it's old.
- ZenMojo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Now if only you could get the Oracle to make a prediction more than once every 10-200 years....
- vagarach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I watched a documentary on this on National Geographic. They even traced the gas with some clever geology/chemistry and tried it out themselves!
- mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why is this in World news?
- Petrushka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@tac0: Yes, it is extremely old news -- several thousand years old -- but in a way it's news because about it's been about 50-50 among classicists over the last century as to whether they have actually believed it. The article linked here isn't of huge interest; much more interesting is the fact that in the last few years someone actually bothered to ask a geologist what he thought, and he immediately pointed out a massive fault in the area and that the temple of Apollo is sitting smack in the middle. (No links at my fingertips, sorry.)
- rome420, on 05/09/2008, -0/+0another oracle in greece from the shrine of dodona was said to inhale fumes from cracks on the earth, and the fumes were not just hallucinogenic but they were said to cause infertility too. so even if oracles do sleep with men, which they are not allowed to do, they dont even get pregnant.
check out http://www.rhodes.com for more articles and images - Tweekster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Um seriously, this has been known for a long time?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1What's lame is not the oracle making predictions but those so called leaders of state actually believing that crap and sacrificing "virgins" etc to win wars. Morons. There have been people like GWB right throughout history. Imbeciles.
- Rocketmac, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1What was this about again? Google Ads? Guys, give the writer a break, the British have horrid writing skills.
- IdanE, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5Look, I don't know much about spirits and such, so it is not something I would consider factual in any way. I also know that there's lots of stuff we can't understand. Just because we can't measure something doesn't mean that it doesn't exist - it just means we can't prove it's existence.
I still haven't found any way of proving that Pres. Bush is sentient. All the evidence points to the opposite. But, since he is a human being, I guess he's just not sentient enough for our observational tools to notice. Same goes to the spirit realm. - Eicos, on 10/12/2007, -15/+4No, YOU'RE retarded. And no, anything involving "spirits" or "unbound sentience" is not plausible in any chemical state, although you do make interesting points regarding meta-structural entities within societies.
- Endoquixote, on 10/12/2007, -25/+13I've read about this before. With all this talk of atheism about I wonder why the assumption is that people long ago were absolute nit-wits. While I don't think that the oracles were getting input from the real God, it seems plausible that there is a spiritual interface within certain chemical states. I also put forth that if spirituality is real, it is not necessarily "super-natural" as just an extension of what we hold as mutually natural. Maybe it would be better stated that spiritual reality is not separate from "normal" reality. Perhaps a lot of the things that people in modern times have labeled with diagnostic terms are in truth spiritual realities. I haven't seen anyone openly asking questions like what is the "substance" of spirit, it always comes into the conversation with the mutual assumption that everyone knows what it means. Coming up with a term like "hallucination" or "subconscious" doesn't really do anything to demonstrate what the true nature of something is, it just makes a name for something assuming it is an end in that. Could terms like hallucination or subconscious be lexical veneers for deeper truths, explaining away realities that are beyond the scope of our discussions. For instance, what is the origin of all this random noise thoughts that occur throughout a day? Are we truly responsible for all the content we bring forth? Consider surrealist games, or techniques such as free-writing or the methods of problem solving that involve drifting into near sleep. Does anyone ever ask if sentience must be bound inside flesh? Anyhow, I don't think it is wise to go gassing yourself until you bark out crazy stuff that is beyond the scope of comprehension, but it is valuable to consider that chemical states could quite possibly invoke substance beyond the coinage of synapses. Just because we can describe a physical process does not mean that that description is the end of the story.
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