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« Reply #4815 on: 16:41:38, 28-09-2008 » |
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I have everything prepared for the hostilities fun family tea later on. They're all coming at 5. I've got butterflies.
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« Reply #4816 on: 20:15:10, 28-09-2008 » |
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Did anyone else see the Timewatch programme on Stonehenge yesterday? It argued that it was designed and used as a healing centre (using rather flimsy evidence, I thought). The thing I don't understand is why we feel we have to understand everything. To me the pure mystery of the place is much of its appeal.
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« Reply #4817 on: 20:17:51, 28-09-2008 » |
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Hi Eruanto,
No, we did intend to watch it but decided we couldn't be bothered! I read an article about it in the paper and it seemed fairly conclusive but, as you say, it would have been nice to have left some of the mystery intact.
The other thing is that the programme would have been mostly stupid historical re-enactments which irritate me...
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« Reply #4818 on: 20:18:30, 28-09-2008 » |
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argued that it was designed and used as a healing centre (using rather flimsy evidence, I thought)
Didn't we have a whole thread on that a week or two ago?! (Think PW or Milly Jones started it ...) |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #4819 on: 20:22:34, 28-09-2008 » |
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The other thing is that the programme would have been mostly stupid historical re-enactments which irritate me...
Yes, and another thing is how often they feel it necessary to repeat these reconstructions, over and over... argued that it was designed and used as a healing centre (using rather flimsy evidence, I thought)
Didn't we have a whole thread on that a week or two ago?! (Think PW or Milly Jones started it ...) Not that I can remember or find. But I was a bit absent then, and there are also a fair few threads about the programme on a Druidry mb I'm a member of, so I may have got mixed. |
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« Reply #4820 on: 20:26:13, 28-09-2008 » |
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Ah, here it is. Es tut mir leid. |
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« Reply #4821 on: 20:30:45, 28-09-2008 » |
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I didn't catch this, but aim to do so via iPlayer. My problem with what I read in the press accounts was that, far from turning scholarship on its head as the blurb claimed, the thesis that Stonehenge was a place of healing seemed to me to be reasonably consistent with the existing view that the stones are part of a ritual landscape, representing a sacred threshold between the world of the living and the world of the dead.
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #4822 on: 21:28:47, 28-09-2008 » |
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Well that went like a dream!  They've all disbanded now due to school-age children having to go to bed - but it was wonderful! Much hugging and tears. (Not the men of course, they shook hands and blinked a bit ). They ate everything I put in front of them, all made separate arrangements to see each other again, all came and thanked me personally for setting it up and everyone seems very happy indeed. I'm really glad I did that for them and now I hope that they don't let "Madam" drive a wedge between everyone again and spoil things once more. They need to close ranks. She's so destructive. Anyway, I've done my bit and now it's up to them to keep it up.  |
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« Reply #4823 on: 21:38:00, 28-09-2008 » |
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Milly, that's wonderful. Looks like you've done more than your good deed for the day.
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« Reply #4824 on: 21:48:56, 28-09-2008 » |
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Brilliant, Milly. Well done!
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« Reply #4825 on: 21:56:33, 28-09-2008 » |
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Bravissima Milly!! That's lovely to hear.
Blessed are the peacemakers (although I've temporarily forgotten what they get; Gerry? Surely not.)
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« Reply #4826 on: 22:02:04, 28-09-2008 » |
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Excellent news Milly! Let's hope for new beginnings. Sounds as though bridge repairs have started  |
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« Reply #4827 on: 22:31:38, 28-09-2008 » |
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Wonderful news, MJ. It sounds like the best outcome you could have hoped for. Now, as you say, the trick will be to maintain, and continue to encourage the relationships.
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« Reply #4828 on: 22:39:52, 28-09-2008 » |
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Excellent, Milly! I'm so glad it went well.
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« Reply #4829 on: 22:42:06, 28-09-2008 » |
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Thanks everyone. I'm very tired now. It was the lead-up that was stressful, but I needn't have worried. Early night for me. |
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