They are digging up Stonehenge

[McLeodGanja]

Yes that is right, I heard it on BBC news.

Apparently they have done it before and fucked it all up, so I can't understand why they would want a to do it again.

THIS IS A SACRED GROUND AND THAT MEANS NOT ONLY THE STONES BUT THE EARTH AND THE GRASS, THE SURR0UNDING AIR AND THE PEOPLE WHO BREATH AND EXHALE IT, AND AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAND ..the silence that used to bllanket.

[orison319]

Im sure its sacred to those who work on it as well. Its a great monument and a symbol of idle time. Since there really must not have been anything better to do back then but to get stoned and move some stones around!

Were stoned today building bigger shit. Ever been to New York? Now thats some rock movements...

[soaringeagle]

wtf???? why?
this pisses me off more then anything

[FireflyInTheDark]

That's awful. Why would they mess with it??

[Spiritawakening]

how ridiculous. damn them

[crummyrummy]

"The BBC are getting set to fund a dig at Stonehenge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge) in Wiltshire, England. The two-week dig will try to establish, once and for all, some precise dating for the creation of the monument (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7322134.stm). An article from the BBC news website explains how the dig will investigate the significance of the smaller bluestones that stand inside the giant sarsen pillars. 'Researchers believe these rocks, brought all the way from Wales, hold the secret to the real purpose of Stonehenge as a place of healing. The researchers leading the project are two of the UK's leading Stonehenge experts — Professor Tim Darvill, of the University of Bournemouth, and Professor Geoff Wainwright, of the Society of Antiquaries. They are convinced that the dominating feature on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire was akin to a "Neolithic Lourdes" — a place where people went on a pilgrimage to get cured. Modern techniques have established that many of these people had clearly traveled huge distances to get to south-west England, suggesting they were seeking supernatural help for their ills.'"

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=08/03/31/2238215



Stonehenge dug up again

It wasn't a UFO landing site, apparently

By Mark Ballard (http://www.theinquirer.net/articles/flameAuthor/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/31/stonehenge-dug-again): Monday, 31 March 2008, 8:44 PM






STONEHENGE was a supernatural healing station, according archaeologists who started digging up the ancient monument today.

In collaboration with BBC TV's Timewatch programme, archaeologists hope to prove once and for all why the monument was built.

The theory has nothing to do with UFOs. But druids might have had a hand in it.

Many of the human remains found around the site suffered from bone damage and were derived from the four corners of the British Isles, according to professors Timothy Darvill of Bournemouth University and Geoff Wainwright, president of the Society of Antiquaries.

The small blue stones that were part of the original monument when it was built five thousand years ago (and before the famous gargantuan stones were added) were derived from a quarry in Wales where ancient inscriptions credit the stones with healing powers.

Ergo, people hobbled and limped from all over the land in the hope of being healed.



http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/31/stonehenge-dug-again

[McLeodGanja]

Well from what I saw there was guys dinging spades into the ground right in the middle of it. Maybe its not as bad as is seems, however I do feel that even the quest for knowledge should take a back seat, this a sacred place that should be left to change over the decades and centuries without some cunt in a yellow hat coming along and waving a shovel at it. It should be left as it is, for all of time until is destroyed by the natural flow destruction and creation. It should be spared the scientifiic inquisition.

[orison319]

We could think this,^ but maybe 500 years ago some nut with a yellow hat on her head was fooling around by all those rocks and had a Epiphany, "Like Holy Shit Im making a fool of myself in the name of discovery" and maybe shell discover herself. I dont need the stones, You probable dont need them anymore either, Its a beauty that they are there. But lets not mock them to much. We're viewing the object in the present and tomarrow it will be in the past, Along with the women in the little yellow hat digging near the magic rocks.

[McLeodGanja]

Who doesn't need the stones?

Let's respect the people to whom it is a sacred place.

[orison319]

Im saying I dont need them. Religions come and go, but rock and roll last forever, The people that built stonehenge were stoners. built to pass the time. like playing dominos.
Ill respect it no more than that!
And Ill never be in awe over its distruction by little aliens in yellow hats either! Since it couldnt possable be so moved by such puny small creatures!

[BlackBillBlake]

..the silence that used to bllanket.
You mean before they built the car park etc?

[McLeodGanja]

I knew there were some roads but i didn't know there was a car park, damn it.

Article on it here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7322753.stm

Interesting short video about the history of the site on there.

[themnax]

well at least the're not leveling it for a shopping mall. i hope.

then again i suppose merlin might want to stretch his dead legs or something.

"... i hear their digging through the wall,
their digging for a brand new shopping mall ...
... i can hardly wait to see that workman's face ..."

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