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One of the perks of my trip was visiting Stonehenge. Some people don't see the fun, but for me this was definitely one of the highlights. Stonehenge is one of the oldest man-made things on earth, and to be within a few feet of it seems to make one's existence on this earth seem humbly simple.

But why is it there? Where is there? For those have you who've gone, you know it's in the middle of nowhere. From London it was about a 2 hour drive on what the NAV system states is "Major Roads". Let me clarify, that the British do not believe in shoulders on roads. Technically the lanes on their road are smaller then my ass, and they love to put sharp curbs, big trees, and anything else dangerous they can come up with for you to hit on your journey. So literally in the middle of these open plains in East Britain is a bunch of huge rocks.

We got out, paid the 6 pounds (I think 6) and walked over on a path which extended around the monument about 20-30 feet from it. In the background are sheeps roaming the area, and a quiet still landscape perfect for landing space ships, configuring the druid calender, or some other weird things. This is when it hits you? Why the hell would someone drag some big arse stones several 1000 miles into the middle of no where? It's the mystery of Stonehenge! Well, that, and why they don't put a giant building around it all.


Basically all we know is Stonehenge is really, really old, and has evolved or been re-built throughout the ages. Is it a calendar, a stargate, a temple, or merely just a prehistoric version of British Dominoes?

I did happen to get several high-res photo shots of Stonehenge, and this one is on my laptop desktop right now. Feel free to enjoy it too:

One of my fondest memories from my childhood is the day I got to walk among those stones. A great wonder, indeed!

It wasn't the 'middle of nowhere' when it was built. It was part of an active community and trade route. There are a large number of other antiquities in the area and a large number of relics have been uncovered.

Rollright Stones, Silbury Hill, Avebury, Cadbury Castle, Three Shires Stones, Uffington Castle & White Horse, Wayland's Smithy, West Kennet Long Barrow, Windmill Hill, Woodhenge, Abbotsbury Castle, Badbury Rings, Cerne Abbas Giant, Dyrham Camp Hillfort, Maiden Castle etc - just to name the ones in that general area. There were ancient track ways e.g. the Ridgeway, that traversed Britain and connected communities. Stone Henge is simply the most famous 'honey pot' - although impressive, it is far from unique.

This came to an end with the Roman Invasion which rigorously eradicated the Celtic religions, built new road systems and towns. Modern Britain has Roman roots, the earlier Celtic ones were largely obliterated. As I child I spent a lot of time on the Downs, exploring the Ridgeway and playing in the Hill Forts.

One of my favorite places.

I've really enjoyed every part of your trip -- from the planning to the visit itself to the recap -- almost as good as going myself.

SouthernFriedInfidel wrote:One of my fondest memories from my childhood is the day I got to walk among those stones. A great wonder, indeed!

Well, the three of us have one thing in common!

I spent an afternoon in 1972 at stonehenge and took over 250 photographs there. As an art history student, it was an amazing experience. The Druids engineered a grand demonstration of their uniformitarian foundational understanding of creation without the understanding that this position is not true:

Genesis 22
"As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease."

While the passage above establishes a temporary uniformity the following must be dealt with by every man, woman, boy and girl:

Revelation 20: 11-12,.. 21:1
11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. 12And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.

21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea.

Or, to borrow and evolutionary skippity-hop: "Punctuated Uniformity" would be a better phrase.

While the Druids understood and acknowledged supernaturalism and worshipped, they did not know by way of creation the Person of God. In the seasons and equino-torial timing, the Druid demonstrated their sophisticated engineering of Stonehenge. The revelation of the person of God in nature is insufficient for their regeneration, or salvation from the wrath of God for the righteous judgment of their sinful disobedience.

This wonder filled monument cries out the testimony of
Luke19:40
" But Jesus answered, "I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!""


Sterling

Yeah it was really mean of God to make them live before Jesus.

But since you are lost in time you might as well be lost in space too. The stones Jesus the horse-thief was referring to were a few thousand miles away at the mount of Olives near Jerusalem and they didn't cry out because the mob wasn't silenced by the Pharisee's

But what's a few thousand years and a few thousand miles of error from someone whose understanding of the age of the Earth is out by 76,000,000%

A Person wrote:it was really mean of God to make them live before Jesus.

Mean according to what standard?

Sterling

The standard of a loving God who really doesn't enjoy torturing souls for the sin of being born in the wrong place and wrong time, but has to do it anyway otherwise why would he need to sacrifice himself to himself to satisfy a rule he made himself so that he could do what he wanted to do anyway

A Person wrote:The standard of a loving God who really doesn't enjoy torturing souls for the sin of being born in the wrong place and wrong time, but has to do it anyway otherwise why would he need to sacrifice himself to himself to satisfy a rule he made himself so that he could do what he wanted to do anyway

That is your imaginary self established god standard.
Hitler had his standard: he was his god
Dahmler His: he was his god.

You have no objective standard to establish that Jesus Christ is wrong.