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Jane J
Jane Jan 21, 2008 14:43:45
Replying to StoneGloves

StoneGloves wrote:
...Human sensibility was very poorly developed back when the stones were put up - you can see that in the enormous amount of energy, time and effort, that went into building them, arranging them and so on.
Gosh! I really must be having a 'blonde day' because I don't understand this either :-(

Who says 'Human sensibility was very poorly developed back when the stones were put up'? I would beg to disagree with this. And in fact, what do you mean by 'Human sensibility'? Surely in saying each half of this above sentence you have directly contradicted yourself?

Or something.

*baffled*
J
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S StoneGloves
StoneGloves Jan 21, 2008 20:15:53
Replying to Jane

Astrologers (western) say that Mars is in dignity in Leo! (I say 'run'). Perhaps we romanticise the ancients overmuch, in what is politely termed the Myth of the Noble Savage. Hunter/foragers. And that what I meant by human sensibility is really 21st century liberal democracy and the behaviour we have laboriously evolved toward. And there wasn't much of that when the stones went up. A curious factoid I found last week was the suggestion that people lost an average of six inches in height with the adoption of farming and a settled - rather than nomadic - existence. It's not all the story (qv Gaugin) though.