Picked up a National Geographic in the Doctors on Friday and it had an article about this place that archaeologists are saying might be the birth place of religion and that it may have been religion that triggered farming and herding rather than the opposite.
At 12,000 years old, it's discovery has more than doubled the span of human history.
I'm interested to know how they ascertain it is 12,000 years old (what scientist in their right mind would not claim the oldest etc etc when they make a new find)
And how does a busted arse old building show religion spurned agriculture or vice versa?
did they invent kite boarding too ....Buster? that would explain a lot!....[}:)]
Gee if I was the shepherd I'd be pissed off, made one of the most important discoveries and they dont even mention his name.
Whata load of crap - because it had big pillars then it must be the case that an elite class of religious leaders supervised the work and later controlled whatever ceremonies took place there.
We all know that all the old structures were built under the command of, or with assistance of, aliens.
That explains the fkd up dating due to all the radiactive emissions from their isotope spurting nuclear fusion warp drive engines
Well I guess it was a petty crappy topic to be posting on a wind sports forum anyway.
Evidence of how people lived 12,000 years ago certainly has no relevance to our high energy consumption lifestyle today.
Obviously there is nothing for us to learn from them because we are a lot smarter than they.
We have developed highly efficient ways of murdering people en masse or just a select few from several kilometres away from the point of death. Also we have learnt how we can phuck the planet in just a couple of hundred years.
How dumb were they?? They couldn't make a stone pillar stand up without timber props and they must have spent aeons sculpting them without metal tools. Who in their right mind would do that?
Maybe it is just a conspiracy concocted by the intelligentsia to make us feel good about how smart we are today.
I'll think of something more babble babble mundane for my next thread.
