11,000-Year-Old Temple Found In Turkey 307
Ralph Spoilsport writes "In Southeast Turkey, the archaeologist Klaus Schmidt has discovered an 11,000-year-old temple. Established civilization theory suggests that agriculture created cities, and cities created monuments. This discovery suggests just the opposite — people got together to build a huge monument to their religion, and in order to sustain it, communities were formed and agriculture (already in development) quickly followed on to sustain the population. Truly a startling find with significant implications."
I read that wrong, and I have to admit... (Score:5, Funny)
Problem (Score:5, Funny)
Come on it was for the hunt (Score:1, Funny)
The Predators showed the early tribes how to build it structures, thats' common knowledge.....
Re:I read that wrong, and I have to admit... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wikipedia entry (Score:3, Funny)
We'll just see about that! I bet you also weren't aware that the number of 11,000 year old Temples found in Turkey have tripled in the last six months!
well yeah (Score:5, Funny)
when i play the aztecs, i can usually get my obelisk built before my starting worker even finishes his first few roads, nevermind that i haven't even discovered agriculture yet. of course, this is because the aztecs have mysticism as a starting tech, and assumes i'm not cranking out warriors to combat barbarian threats so...
wait, we're talking reality?
sorry
Obligatory joke (Score:5, Funny)
fruitcake found in 11,000 yo temple (Score:5, Funny)
sounds more probable
both for reasons of its greater chance of being left alone and untouched, in regards to the original inhabitants and later tomb raiders, and also for its greater chance of surviving physically, intact and inert for millenia
People didn't build that temple (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Another common mystery (Score:5, Funny)
So you're saying that in ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, there lived an ancient race, the Druids. No-one knows who they were, or what they were doing, but their legacy remains, hewn into the living rock of Stonehenge.
Apparently... (Score:3, Funny)
you've been to my grandma's house at thanksgiving...
Why always a temple? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Another common mystery (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I read that wrong, and I have to admit... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Problem (Score:5, Funny)
in the beginning God creates the heavens and earth, then at some point later he says let their be light
That's why I find God to be so amazing. He made all this, IN THE DARK! I would have been, "Oh, sod this, let there be a small star or something, so I can see what I'm doing here."
Actually, that explains why some things are a bit fucked up. Wave/Particle duality? Yeah, look, God couldn't see exactly what He was doing there when that bit came together, so no wonder. Duck-billed mamallian egg-laying Platypuses? Vestigial tails on humans? Same deal. With Him working blind, consider yourself lucky you don't have an anus right next to your nose.
(Well, *some* people do sometimes, but that's a matter of lifestyle preference.)
Re:Problem (Score:4, Funny)
Wave/Particle duality isn't fucked up at all. It's kinda quite cosy.
Re:fruitcake found in 11,000 yo temple (Score:5, Funny)
Of course, I'm violating the unwritten rule of those who-know-how-to-make-it: Don't tell people - it's better they think all fruitcakes are shit. More for us.
Re:Problem (Score:3, Funny)
I love 1980s propaganda, it kinda makes me feel like I'm watching Knight Rider or something (the original, not the new Ford commercial).
So this is how it all started (Score:5, Funny)
So some silver-tongued geezer persuades a bunch of nubile young lovelies that they'll suffer eternal damnation unless they polish his wood. After he finally croaks in the middle of his ninth threesome of the week, a bunch of less-talented pick-up artists find that no amount of funeral preparation can wipe the grin off the old goat's face. They assume this is proof that he's still getting his wand waxed in the afterlife, and build a monument to a god they now regard as eminently worthy of worship.
And it all goes from there. I gotta write me a prayer book.
Re:fruitcake found in 11,000 yo temple (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Problem (Score:1, Funny)
What's weak this week (Score:3, Funny)
So I ask you, why is science without religion lame?
Well because religion is, like, totally righteous - so as radical as science is, without religion it's just totally lame.