What's the big deal about watching sunrise at Stonehenge?

There's millions go to a big building each week and pray to an imaginary being. Who's the nuttier? Someone who goes once a year or someone who goes once a week?

But they don't dress up like Gandalf and get stoned.

The person that preaches to them does.

I'd quite like to get everyone wrecked on the local industrial strength cider and get a giant domino toppling thing going on.

No, he dresses up like Gandalf and fiddles kids. Not the same thing.

Remember that year (maybe 1987 ?) when these unwashed benefits-hungry dope-smoking freaks (the BBC called them 'Rainbow Travellers' or similar) somehow made a huge national media issue about the 'right to worship the stones' on the longest day of the year.

They rolled up to the site in their uninsured, untaxed, non-MOTd vehicles, and were then allowed to do so, in a supervised sort of way.

An astute film unit took to the air and captured the scene from above. Five concentric circles couls be seen. At the very centre was the ring of stones, the circle around that was a perimeter fence, the circle around that was a ring of policemen, the circle around that was the ring of 'worshippers', and, needless to say, the outermost circle of all was the ring of cretin reporters covering this national non-story.

It's far-out man

Ovalman. Joined: 29 Nov 02
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There's millions go to a big building each week and pray to an imaginary being. Who's the nuttier? Someone who goes once a year or someone who goes once a week?



You still haven't given any evidence for your inane beliefs?

Ovalman. Joined: 29 Nov 02
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The person that preaches to them does.



Your ignorance shows no bounds.Pentecostal preachers don't and neither do many other denominations.

All becomes clear. Stone'enge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpaG-L0zTJ4

Who's god is correct Sunset?

Religion is brainwashing and I fear you've been brainwashed. As I've said elsewhere, the more I read into religion, the more I can see its flaws.

thing is ... they've never even proved what it what made for ??

Big Sundial before watches were invented.

Big sundial .. Nobodies ever proven it have they ?

Dunno, I haven't had it on my wrist yet

check out bbc four

Illuminati Pinhead doing Oasis

Vunderrfooll

it's one of those things you either do and you know why you do it or you think they are all a bunch of spanners.

try it you might even like it

My old man's well into the stuff

and even he can't tell me

Ovalman. Joined: 29 Nov 02
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Who's god is correct Sunset?


I see you want me to answer your question, but you won't answer mine. Does the word consistency mean anything to you?

Ovalman. Joined: 29 Nov 02
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Religion is brainwashing and I fear you've been brainwashed. As I've said elsewhere, the more I read into religion, the more I can see its flaws.



You are the one who is brain washed. You make assertions, but never back them up with any evidence.

Mc Moonbeam Joined: 22 Sep 05
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thing is ... they've never even proved what it what made for ?? 


Archaeological evidence found by the Stonehenge Riverside Project in 2008 indicates that Stonehenge served as a burial ground from its earliest beginnings.[5] The dating of cremated remains found on the site indicate burials from as early as 3000 BC, when the initial ditch and bank were first dug. Burials continued at Stonehenge for at least another 500 years.[6]



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge

And oh how they danced the little children of Stonehenge
Beneath the haunted moon for fear that daybreak might come too soon

Here they are:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/10363116.stm

People in Europe (and elsewhere for that matter) have celebrated the longest day of the year since the dawn of time and they will still celebrate it long after the death of the middle-eastern monotheistic religions.

I know the average (and I mean average) Brit finds this type of behaviour objectionable but that is purely because they are too easily manipulated by the media and other proponents of the state approved world view.

If people want to sport long hair, not wash all that often and gather in a field once a year to celebrate an age old festival that is fine by me - Happy Solstice :)

You're obviously on drugs.

Well I just hope they're going to pick all of that rubbish up

unless it's Sacrificial rubbish, left there to please their God

You're obviously prone to making snap judgements

I watched the sunrise from the beach this morning. Mercury briefly appeared first... which was nice.

If I'd known that not washing on June 21st was a prerequisite I wouldn't have had a shower when I got home.

May be they will give Dr Who a dig out.

the wicker man

Don't underestimate these sun watchers,there is a very good chance that come tomorrow morning a percentage of the local people will have been subjected to robbery, rape or have been set on fire by these people. I am with wur on this one

onewheel Joined: 01 Feb 03
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it's one of those things you either do and you know why you do it or you think they are all a bunch of spanners.

try it you might even like it

A big guy with a bald head once said that to me. but it wasn't anything to do with stonehenge.
I declined his offer, just for the record.

Archaeological evidence found by the Stonehenge Riverside Project in 2008 indicates that Stonehenge served as a burial ground from its earliest beginnings.[5] The dating of cremated remains found on the site indicate burials from as early as 3000 BC, when the initial ditch and bank were first dug. Burials continued at Stonehenge for at least another 500 years.[6]


That doesn't really account for the positioning of the stones that were obv added later though does it ?

The sundial sounds more accurate though i've heard a few wilder theories

That doesn't really account for the positioning of the stones that were obv added later though does it ?

The sundial sounds more accurate though i've heard a few wilder theories



Are you on about the blue stones or the 30 enormous Oligocene-Miocene sarsen stones ? It's all to do with life and death. The start and rebirth of the seasons(Sun).No big mystery. Although some of the details aren't known yet.

Do women dance naked around Stonehenge at the summer solstice?

that ought to be incorporated (and then televised)

Ovalman, I'm surprised you didn't reply to Sunset Cristo's accusations all that time ago. He said that you make assertions, but never back them up with any evidence. Surely it's religious people like him  who claim to know things they cannot know.

Regarding Stonehenge, if some people want to dance around in a field in the early hours of the morning then let them so long as they do no damage to people or property.

you haven't made love until you've made love on top of a stone henge stone.

Just look at how the 'worshippers' left the beautiful Stonehenge site. Most respectful, what?

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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/06/21/summer-solstice-stonehenge_n_7630256.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

Apparently that photo is 6 years old.

ITV's report

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http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2015-06-21/major-clear-up-operation-after-stonehenge-solstice/

Good to see wur, MC Moonbeam, Stretch, Sunset Cristo and egg back.

Stonehenge was built as a token of love for Blodwyn 'because she's worth it'. 

Nobody has ever worked out how one man could accomplish this monumental(!) task. It's a mystery that Olaf the Smart Arse took to his grave.