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RE: Barking Up The Wrong Wall?
November 19, 2015 at 10:14 pm
I had a quick look at this this morning.
Have to read it more in depth when I get a few minutes.
At the moment I'm following the heat scans of the pyramids.
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RE: Barking Up The Wrong Wall?
November 19, 2015 at 10:35 pm
It was Ernest Martin who made a career out of challenging the location of the temple and he had interesting reasoning for his opinion. The problem with Martin was that he was a xtian fundie and suffered the problem of all fundies: He thought this shit was real and "unchanging" and we know that judaism adapted constantly...pretty much every time some new conqueror kicked their asses.
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RE: Barking Up The Wrong Wall?
November 19, 2015 at 11:04 pm
It's pretty sad a pile of ruins can still elicit such suerstitious veneration after 2000 years of dilapidation.
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RE: Barking Up The Wrong Wall?
November 19, 2015 at 11:09 pm
A friend who went with me to the UK years ago whined about being "dragged from one pile of rubble to another" because I insisted on visiting a number of archaeological sites.
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RE: Barking Up The Wrong Wall?
November 19, 2015 at 11:50 pm
Oh, My Fucking God !!!
They've been praying (and fighting over) the WRONG FUCKING SPOT ?!?!?!?!?!?!
Jesus Fucking Christ, didn't God think to give them a heads up ?
"Hey!!, I'm over here !!!"
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RE: Barking Up The Wrong Wall?
November 22, 2015 at 5:21 pm
That's pretty sad. Bad enough that people are killing each other over "holy" ground, but they're not even dying for the correct holy ground?
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RE: Barking Up The Wrong Wall?
November 22, 2015 at 5:35 pm
(November 19, 2015 at 11:09 pm)Beccs Wrote: A friend who went with me to the UK years ago whined about being "dragged from one pile of rubble to another" because I insisted on visiting a number of archaeological sites.
That's what happens when shit gets old.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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