02 December 2006

Not a fortress, or a temple, or a calendar. Stonehenge was a hospital

For those of us who keep company at times with new spirituality seekers, this is an important new theory. I'm not quite sure if I find it as convincing as Simon Jenkins, but it is certainly plausible and may yet turn out to be the best we have.
Stonehenge's appeal was not religious. It answered to the simplest of human cravings, the relief of pain and the postponement of death. The Great Cursus points not to heaven but to Harley Street.

Anyway, it'll be interesting to see reactions among the pagan and druid fraternities and sororities.
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2 comments:

ProfessorD said...

Are you kidding me! That theory is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of! A pig could have thought of a better theory than you! Have you ever graduated from college? Obviously not, because anyone that graduated from college would have known that that theory is absurd.

College ProfessorD

Andii said...

Hmmm; how to reply to a comment like this? I did consider deleting it to save your embarrassment but noting that you used a pseudonym that could quite possibly be 'all mouth and trousers' and so there seems to be no identity to protect ...

You ought to read what I wrote a little more closely. Then I'd have thought college professor might have given some indication of why it is absurd, remembering that it is college-type people who have produced this work referred to.

As it is what you write is merely the assertion of your own opinion on your own authority -which we have no real reason to believe is well-founded. At least an argument might be persuasive: the mere assertion backed up with mild abuse is practically meaningless.

Whoops; I've probably just fed a troll...

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