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Solsitce

This is where you can discuss your homework, family, just about anything, make strange sounds and otherwise discuss things which are really not related to the Lancer-series. Yes that means you can discuss other games.

Post Tue Dec 21, 2004 11:35 am

Solsitce

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the staff of TLR for taking the site off line during Solstice Worship.

Thankfully the sky was clear today and the solar eye peered deep into the newgrange chamber.

over 23,000 people applied this year to be selected in a lottery giving them the chance to enter the 5,000 yr old megolithic passage tomb today. for those of you who are not aware of newgrange, like stone henge, this tomb was cleverly constructed to take into account the position of the earth to the sun moon so on the solstice the chamber door is illuminated by the sun. not bad considering it predates the pyramids by circa 2000 yrs

pictures from newgrange today

EDIT: i presume this goes under scientific interest and not religious. i am really just a practicing antagonistic.

"My sig is in the post but the man in the shop promised I will find it witty and topical when it arrives."

Edited by - Druid on 12/21/2004 11:38:25 AM

Post Tue Dec 21, 2004 1:34 pm

sounds religeous to me, i wonder where fd has gotten to?

Post Tue Dec 21, 2004 1:50 pm

I think you mean agnostic, instead of antagonistic...

Post Tue Dec 21, 2004 1:52 pm

that depends ds, on wether or not its taw in disguese again

Post Tue Dec 21, 2004 2:02 pm

Knowing Druid - and I don't - I'd have to say that antagonistic fits him pretty well whether that was the intended word or not.

Post Tue Dec 21, 2004 2:14 pm

Personally I deem this not religious, it may be pagant or something similar, but in my book, its within the rules, just be carefull not to slap in an argument of which is right or better

Post Tue Dec 21, 2004 2:21 pm

i still think its taw..wtf im turning into eskie O_o

Post Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:54 pm

As a practicing Witch myself, I must say that I think this thread could be regarded as Religious but I think Druid meant it as a joke so I won't delete it yet.

We did not take Lancer's offline for The Yule Sabbat. It just happened that way by coincidence.......wait......uh......I forgot.....I don't beleive in coincidence.

Poof...you're all frogs.

Glock36
"No Comment"

Post Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:25 pm

Crooooaak!

Can anyone enlighten me on the "Solstice Worship" if it won't go against the mods here, to me the solstice just means snow, cold weather and two weeks off of school.

Edit: Email works too.

Edited by - Eh_Steve on 12/21/2004 9:31:19 PM

Post Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:31 pm

hmm, i think that might have to be done by email...

Post Wed Dec 22, 2004 4:57 am

@ ff; i am truly honoured to be mistaken for taw, i must be doing something right around here. if however i am taw then i've just been having a discussion with myself about sci-fi music in another thread. i even siad i was pleased to meet myself and complimented my choice of music. very cunning ruse but not beyond the bounds of possibility i suppose.

@ ds; code knows me better then he's letting on. thanks for the compliment code ( yes---i'm taking that as a compliment ). BTW: of course it was inventional.

@ everybody; it was purely meant as a tribute to human ingenuity, particularly that of my irish ancestors, and the natural beauty evident in the pics.---just open the link and look at them. it's wonderful. i think it just looks more like a wind-up arriving right after that FD and all seeing eye ( aka taw, not aka Druid ) event.

@Eh: hopefully this explanation does not step outside the forum remit: it's a pagan ritual similar to all hallows eve (halloween) where the final harvest of the year is celebrated. it gives thanks to the beginning of the return of sun light and with it the growth of new harvests. the romans referred to it as "the birthday of the unconquered sun" (dies natalis invicti solis) indicating that the sun and moon seemed to be at war throughout the year and the solstice is the time where the unbeaten sun begins its ascendency. --- was'nt there a trek "next generation" episode along similar lines where one of the rogue spirits, loci i think it was, enters datas programming---

there are several contentious issues which i will not go into here since the simple mention of them could lead to the same religious debate i never intended to start.

EDIT: my natural tendency to provoke a little thought led to the "antagonistic" comment. i can see how it looked like taw's work. that being said i would have loved to lead you all on but i would'nt direspect taw or the site members in such a manner. sorry if the revalation of me being a prophet and not a messiah is a let down.( pardon the metaphor )

Edited by - Druid on 12/22/2004 1:00:29 PM

Post Wed Dec 22, 2004 1:10 pm

Glad you took it as a compliment, Druid. It was meant that way.

Oooh. Those pics are nice. I've always wanted to visit Ireland, now I want to even more.

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