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  • #1

    Stonehenge

    for those of you who don't know what stonehenge is...leave. this wouldn't concern you. 8)
    anyway... so these stones were "assembled" (if I may) in 28,000 B.C.
    but that's not the point of this thread.
    in my architecture history class the other day, the instructor and some students were trying to figure out why this work of architecture doesn't have ceilings.
    lol yeah... you heard me right...and the year I repeat was 28000 B.C.
    I was totally thinking "what the hell r u guys talkin about" but I kept my mouth shut UNTIL... after loads of crappy stupid "theories", some student said "they didn't have ceilings so that they can be able to communicate with the skies or the divine" or whatever.. and the instructor TOTALLY agreed...
    bottomline... don't you guys think we sometimes overanalyze the past with rediculous theories?
    Stonehenge is the OLDEST found architectural work in the history of man kind =the closest understanding people who built it had about
    ceililngs was CAVES...
    so ummm it's more like they didn't know such a concept exists... they weren't aware of the fact that ceilings can be built.duuuuuuuh...
    so why do you guys think "big shot" people do that? why do they sit there and bullxxxx for hours about things that are dry straight simple...
    so basically yeah... I said what I said to the instructor and now I'm considered this evil "rebel" in the class... which I totally don't mind 8)
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    One day, you're gonna get in trouble with this rebellious attitude of yours...

    So what do you study? (Question to all of you)

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    • #3
      history of art and architecture...
      but no one else answer...
      this is the stonehenge thread...
      just start your own "what's your major" thread or something
      jeeeez
      lol

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      • #4
        hahahahaha! I was gonna say "you should maybe answer in a new thread so jahannam won't get angry" but I didn't think you were THAT possessive!

        aaakh, jahannam chllas ! :P

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        • #5
          I agree with you, Jahannam. People always over-analyze the past...something that they cannot possibly confirm. Take for example artists and poets. Those guys were depressed, drunk, or high half the time, not giving a xxxx about their works of art that they were creating. Most of them didn't even become famous until after their deaths. Yet look at all these "experts" trying to dissect these "masterpieces", attempting to figure out what the author meant. Maybe the author was a straightforward dope after all. I guess we'll never know.

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          • #6
            Actually, art has meaning, reflecting the social issues of the era it was rarified in.

            The artists reaction to these is the work produced, however, to attempt to explain what it aroused in the artist or how he felt, etc., is simply stupid on behalf of the self styled experts.
            Achkerov kute.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by patlajan
              FINALLY!! an interesting new thread.

              We will never know for sure what the purpose of the Stonehenge construction is, but I would tend to agree that the construction was probably motivated by superstition.
              The rocks used to construct it were enormous, and completely inappropriate for building a shelter. There are no rocks of this kind in the area which means they were transported from far away, and it probably took hundreds of years to do so. Why would generation after generation of people spend their time and energy carrying these enormous rocks to this particular place? There has to be some significance to the place and the building, besides it being just a shelter.
              Besides that the oldest architectural design is post and lintel, which are two bars holding up a third bar. The third bar being a roof.
              I agree with the fact that it wasn't constructed for shelter. but just because they were cave people...
              Because they didn't have the understanding of building shelters in the middle of nowhere. for them it was giant pieces of sculpture, mostly proving their understanding of nature (sun, stars, seasonal changes)...
              hence the work's circular shape, and the size of the rocks that cast different lengths of shadows every hour of the day/ every season of the year.
              just unbelievably advanced abilities for that era.
              and one more thing... post and lintel is a construction METHOD.
              Stonehenge is the oldest known architectural WORK, that included the post and lintel method.

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              • #8
                People not only always over-analyze the past...the do it to the present and the future as well. i suppose everyone does it...some of us better then others.

                J i think most peole say that it seems to have been designed to allow for observation of astronomical phenomena, things such as the summer and winter solstices, eclipses, basically the heavens, observing the rhythm of the moon & the sun. On June 21st the longest day, the sun appears behind one of the main stones, creating an "illusion" that it is balancing on the stone.

                Some people may have needed to know info like this for farming practices, others say that it was a "temple"...but i think the most popular was 4 astronomical reasons.

                j what ur 4getting to realize is that u need to understand and know the past to be ready for the future. i mean for the people of the time to have created the structure that they have is amazing because of the effort put into it...discovering the reason for it is basically the icing on the cake just to see if these people were advanced in their thinking. I say let the over-analyzer over analyze this gives the rest of us more time to go out and do something else. lol

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Anonymouse
                  Actually, art has meaning, reflecting the social issues of the era it was rarified in.

                  The artists reaction to these is the work produced, however, to attempt to explain what it aroused in the artist or how he felt, etc., is simply stupid on behalf of the self styled experts.
                  What proffessor did you plagarize from this time?

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                  • #10
                    correction...
                    I apologize to all of you as the time period on the suggested architectural work is 2800 BC
                    as opposed to 28000 lol
                    I dunno what I was thinking
                    thank you thank you
                    8)

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