From the aptly titled “Brain Drain” :
“When the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids, they were built on exact 3,4, 5 triangles, to exact mathematical specifications which if we tried to copy with today's technology it would be an almost impossible task.
The likes of astrology that appear to connect with certain sites elsewhere as well, Newgrange comes to mind, and the sheer competence to build both Avebury and Stonehenge with the transportation of stones sometimes over hundreds of miles.
Astrology and mathematics are closely linked, but there appears to be some point in history where the world wide evidence of it being used to any degree, just seems to stop dead.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbreligion/F2213239?thread=7082315
To be fair to the BBC bods they jump all over the poster, but then proceed to sagely head around other oddballs, such as:
“it's clear that reading and writing and mathematics and engineering were going full bore long before the Fertile Crescent, and the alleged beginnings of modern cutlure”
“any similarity between New World pyrmaid construction and Egyptian is not surprising, whether it was because of a common knowledge base before these peoples separated, or because of genetic similarity which expressed itself similarly on both sides of the pond. Either that or some intrepid sailors crossed the Atlantic in reed boats. My money is on the former.”
“The Tattoos on Ozti weren't accupuncture as we understand it. They were more like markers that showed the "spirits/ancestors" the location of pain/injury in order from them to work on those locations.”
While all about them others continued playing keepy-up with their own heads Dancing Crow regained theirs after a brief flirtation with the “parallel evolution” of acupuncture (it's placebo, in case anyone thought it was magic) and referenced the very sensible Snowball school:
“I would suggest that we needed to reach critical mass before the wider human culture expanded as it did”
It’s deeply non-sensational compared with neo-Atlantean accounts of human cultural evolution, and thereby deeply unsatisfying to many - the special effects are nowhere near as good as 10,000 B.C., for example - but until some dirt-digger finds the tomb of King Conan of Aquilonia it’s where the smart money is investing. In the meantime I’m not keeping Howard on my history shelf. I will watch continue to repeats of the Stargate franchise. Amanda and Claudia would miss me.
The likes of astrology that appear to connect with certain sites elsewhere as well, Newgrange comes to mind, and the sheer competence to build both Avebury and Stonehenge with the transportation of stones sometimes over hundreds of miles.
Astrology and mathematics are closely linked, but there appears to be some point in history where the world wide evidence of it being used to any degree, just seems to stop dead.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbreligion/F2213239?thread=7082315
To be fair to the BBC bods they jump all over the poster, but then proceed to sagely head around other oddballs, such as:
“it's clear that reading and writing and mathematics and engineering were going full bore long before the Fertile Crescent, and the alleged beginnings of modern cutlure”
“any similarity between New World pyrmaid construction and Egyptian is not surprising, whether it was because of a common knowledge base before these peoples separated, or because of genetic similarity which expressed itself similarly on both sides of the pond. Either that or some intrepid sailors crossed the Atlantic in reed boats. My money is on the former.”
“The Tattoos on Ozti weren't accupuncture as we understand it. They were more like markers that showed the "spirits/ancestors" the location of pain/injury in order from them to work on those locations.”
While all about them others continued playing keepy-up with their own heads Dancing Crow regained theirs after a brief flirtation with the “parallel evolution” of acupuncture (it's placebo, in case anyone thought it was magic) and referenced the very sensible Snowball school:
“I would suggest that we needed to reach critical mass before the wider human culture expanded as it did”
It’s deeply non-sensational compared with neo-Atlantean accounts of human cultural evolution, and thereby deeply unsatisfying to many - the special effects are nowhere near as good as 10,000 B.C., for example - but until some dirt-digger finds the tomb of King Conan of Aquilonia it’s where the smart money is investing. In the meantime I’m not keeping Howard on my history shelf. I will watch continue to repeats of the Stargate franchise. Amanda and Claudia would miss me.
35 comments:
Have these idiots never heard of duel evolution before?
Oh Christ on a cock. This is why I created Anglewytch.
i dont know how Jez can keep going back for more.
i cant help but think greenEllielousise is a hoax, reading it's posts makes my brain ache.
I promise she's not me!
"When the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids, they were built on exact 3,4, 5 triangles, to exact mathematical specifications which if we tried to copy with today's technology it would be an almost impossible task."
Oh that is glorious... wonderful... you couldn't make it up. Any chance of persuading Eddie Izzard loose in there? I would die laughing?
Lost knowledge? Heh heh... someone lost something somewhere along the way...
“i dont know how Jez can keep going back for more.”
In regione caecorum rex est luscus.
God, that was sour!
How long have you been reading my blog now?
“Lost knowledge? Heh heh... someone lost something somewhere along the way...”
Perhaps it’s a wet-run for Pebble’s organ donation policy.
When I read the BBC boards I teeter on the edge of animism myself.
Indeed, fair (subsequent) point.
Out of interest: why pagans? Why not moonies or Mormons or scientologists or flat earthers or New Agers or left wingers or right wingers or anyone else? I agree that you find an abundance of butts for your satirical boot, and long may it kick, but I'm curious. Why single out *this particular* group?
I take it Fog Patches isn't pagan?
Still find him funny though.
funny haha or funny peculiar?
nope he isnt pagan, or at least hasnt been in the 8-9 years i have know him to be a regualr poster/lurker on the BBC boards.
funny haha
“Out of interest: why pagans?”
Go with what you know. If I knew Gaels as well as I know Welsh then I’d take the piss out of them. Contrary to juvenile opinion a person’s character and weltanschauung isn’t determined by the first time someone else thinks they’ve spotted them on some internet message board or other. That wouldn’t be at all a scientific judgement. In fact, it would be a good example of magical thinking.
isnt that what you have done thought? such as with the author of the piece of blood donation?
you have read a short paragraph she werote and made judgements on her. in fact you do it an awful lot on this blog; find something on the internet that has some milaeage and rip the shit out of it with little or know knowledge or understanding of the author or thier wordview.
just an observation.
Well said, Lee.
" in fact you do it an awful lot on this blog; find something on the internet that has some milaeage and rip the shit out of it with little or know knowledge or understanding of the author or thier wordview."
Fog patches seems to be like that with his recent comments on Brython.
“isnt that what you have done thought? such as with the author of the piece of blood donation?”
The difference is that I’ve been corrected by Bo and I accept that he knows this woman better than I could by simply reading this particular article and a number of other things she has scattered around the place. On the other hand, you’re entirely wrong in every respect about who it is that you think I am, yet you will not accept correction.
I'm not alone in making fun of those unknown to me and whose ideas are flakey but I don't see why there should be one set of standards over here and another over there.
“Fog patches seems to be like that with his recent comments on Brython.”
Come now, Arth. You don’t comment on the “Stonehenge druids”?
“Well said, Lee.”
Let’s not forget Anglewytch.
We are all honourable men.
Ah, a favourite phrase of yours. Indeed, indeed. (She was ENORMOUS fun to do, though.)
I suppose that given the --entertaining---venom which you put out there about pagans, I certainly am curious as to the source of your interest. You don't go in for self-revelation of any kind, which is your right, but on the other hand people like Lee, Arth, and myself are only drawing attention to the disconnection between the *effort* you expend on pagans, on the one hand, and the fact that your major response to them is contempt, on the other---a response which, largely, I share. Why expend so much effort? As you don't tell us anything about yourself (I assume you are male, for example, but couldn't be sure) all we have to go on is your very rare statements about yourself and a vague impression culled from the tone and direction of your writing; taken together, this gives your blog a subtle impression of superiority and withholding, which couples piquantly with the exuberantly mordant satire; it is, oddly, very reminiscent of my brother's attitude to life. (FP--you're not *actually* my younger brother are you? He's literate, educated in philosophy, cynical, caustic, sarcastic, amusing, and knows a lot about pagans...)
I'm curious, like I say: not, of course, that you are obliged to tell us anything!
"The difference is that I’ve been corrected by Bo and I accept that he knows this woman better than I could by simply reading this particular article and a number of other things she has scattered around the place."
that isnt the impression you give on that thread, in fact you carry on you assertations almost to the end. it doesnt however change the fact that you saw fit to make a post having a pop in the first place. it also doesnt change the fact that it is a long standing Modus Operandi of yours on this blog and elsewhere on the internet.
"On the other hand, you’re entirely wrong in every respect about who it is that you think I am, yet you will not accept correction."
i have almost 9 years of internet activity to go on. i know you only from the internet and dont suppose to make any claims about knowing you better than that.
this is mask you chosen to wear, dont be surprised if this is how people percieve you.
I'm not alone in making fun of those unknown to me and whose ideas are flakey but I don't see why there should be one set of standards over here and another over there.
indeed, though at the moment only you are dressing it up in an effort to make it seem like something other than being a bitchy twat. Myself and Bo at least have a degree of self awareness about the the whole thing.
Or perhaps we could say that Lee and I make our reasons for being bitchy twats about pagans clear: I was one, Lee still is one, and we both have seen a lot of pagans behaving in a way that demands a satirical response. But your motivation is left, in a lordly fashion, totally opaque, which must be deliberate.
(Are you The Knight Gerund btw? if so I apologise for acrostically calling you a cunt in persona!)
"Come now, Arth. You don’t comment on the “Stonehenge druids”?"
There is a difference, but I know it might sound like hypocrisy to some. The fact is Brython is not trying to change how things are done. Stonehenge druids are activly protesting, writing letters and making petitions. They are trying to deny Britain it's history because of there very modern view point. I reasonable give Frank a counter argument on a forum to which he started to insult me and others on that forum. So the gloves are off, on a argument that I didn't want to be involved in.
The fact is we need a counter argument otherwise archaeologists will think we are all pro reburial.
Hello Bo.
“(She was ENORMOUS fun to do, though.)”
And the others?
“You don't go in for self-revelation of any kind, which is your right, but on the other hand people like Lee, Arth, and myself are only drawing attention to the disconnection between the *effort* you expend on pagans, on the one hand”
It’s no bother. I make a good living and have calories to spare, but I’m not sure that I would otherwise group you with Lee and Arth. Has Lee calmed down yet? There’s no talking to him when he’s in magical-thinking mode. He’ll be listening for clicks on the telephone next, and noting down car registrations.
“and the fact that your major response to them is contempt, on the other---a response which, largely, I share.”
So we agree but you’re curious as to why?
“Why expend so much effort?”
Surely the more pressing question is why do you expend so much effort pallying around with these people when, by your admission, you hold them in contempt.
“this gives your blog a subtle impression of superiority and withholding”
I’m such a Philistine.
Sorry it took me so long to get back to you but I had a couple of {} to kill.
a couple of panty liners?!
And there's only one Anglewytch!
You’re halfway there.
You had to kill a couple of women?! That's going a bit far, isn't it?
The expansion of panty liners is women? That explains a lot.
Well you were being cryptic!
…Said Nessie to the Yeti.
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