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tiompan
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|  New Message Posted!2013-05-22 15:42
Ric , "the vast majority of prehistoric monuments in these islands do not relate to ... the cardinal points of the sun" was clear enough to most who read it and was clarified by the author i.e. “the vast majority of prehistoric monuments in the British Isles are not accurately aligned on sunsets or sunrises at the solstices and equinoxes.” .However the initial comment was read it was true , as was the confirmation .
You may not like the the use of language but I think it was the content that was really the sore point .
George
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| New Message Posted!2013-05-22 15:04
George Posted [edit] 10-05-2013 at 10:02
Ric, Hutton didn't mention alignments in his correct comment
"the vast majority of prehistoric monuments in these islands do not relate to ... the cardinal points of the sun"
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Ric replied: If by this somewhat oblique above statement Hutton means that not all megalithic monuments reference solstices and / or equinoxes then that is a simple fact, and to state it as some form of scholastic revelation seems rather absurd to me. Why not use direct speech to convey prosaic facts, but instead employ potentially ambiguous if not misleading terms like ‘cardinal points of the sun’ and especially ‘stations of the sun’, whatever these are?
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Orpbit had earlier posted 05-12-2012 at 23:29
“...As far as I'm concerned in archaeoastronomy there are only four important (Cardinal) positions of the Sun. These are the Summer and Winter solstices and the Spring and Autumn Equinoxes...the most important festival (ritual) days were Quarter days in England”
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tiompan
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| New Message Posted!2013-05-22 13:39
About time , maybe we can get back to the discussion .
You can't claim that language or other problems were involved in a simple counting exercise that would have shown to be wrong .
Stick to stuff that is unfalsifiable ,you should have learnt that by now .
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| New Message Posted!2013-05-22 12:03
The constant barrage directed at Me, is from YOU.
This is definately My last reply to You, it is a waste of time answering your constant drivel directed at Myself.
Kevin
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tiompan
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| New Message Posted!2013-05-22 09:34
"I do not fail , at all. "
Lol .
Then why not do the simple counting task to show that you are not wrong . Anyone can do it to confirm the result .
And that is why you won't do it .
It might also get this thread back on to topic instead of a constant barrage about you .
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cropredy
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| New Message Posted!2013-05-22 09:20
I do not fail , at all.
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tiompan
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| New Message Posted!2013-05-22 09:17
Either you can't count or you were wrong about the number of off topic attributable to either of us .
I believe ,but have no evidence , that judging by the primary 2 language you should also have the skills required but are afraid to do so because , yet again when faced with providing evidence you fail , although in this case it obviously exists . Go on , give it a go ,a real experiment , it will be a first ,who knows what it might lead to .
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| New Message Posted!2013-05-22 08:09
Where is all the dark matter?
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cropredy
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| New Message Posted!2013-05-21 20:37
Sem,
Why are You saying that "light is a figment of our imagination"?
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| New Message Posted!2013-05-21 20:12
Kevin
As light etc is a figment of our imagination, why are you posting on the subject of "Solar alignments"?
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