Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
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According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Quantum Dynamics, we may already be making love right now...
he he i am mike the amazing gloscircus person who is mike.
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Written by: Durbs
I can't say I've ever considered it grave robbing, which to my mind conjures images of pilfering tombs for personal gain or disturbing graves for body parts...
Religions , with regards to burial rites, change throughout the ages... Personally I don't see any moral issue with disturbing a grave from 1000s of years ago. Chances are that their religion is dead/dramatically changed so no-one is around to be morally outraged at the percieved desecration. But this is speaking as an atheist who sees that physical death leads to nothing but good compost.
Obvisouly this viewpoint raises the issue of whether there's a timeline at which stage disenterrment becomes "ok". For example the Inca culture is very recent, having finished only around 500 years ago. Yet it's such a mystery that archaeology is the only option of discovering more about them (having no written records and very little in hyroglyphs or illustrated documents).
I really don't see how discovering a couple of bodies embracing 5000 years after they died is contentious. If they had souls, they'd probably be more outraged at the city that'd been built over them (in Rome for example).
Pele
Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir
"Oooh look! A pub!" -exclaimed after recovering from a stupid fall
"And for the decadence of art, nothing beats a roaring fire." -TMK
he he i am mike the amazing gloscircus person who is mike.
Officaly an exception to the Poi Boys are Girls Thing
Written by: Pele
But then there are ones that we *do*, in fact, know about. I doubt highly that an ancient pharoah would be happy to find his belongings that were to remain buried with him, to be scattered to museums around the globe, along with his own mummy.
kyrian: I've felt your finger connect with me many times
lou kitten: sneaky little meatball..
ezz: please corrupt me more
he he i am mike the amazing gloscircus person who is mike.
Officaly an exception to the Poi Boys are Girls Thing
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
Written by: Pele
But then there are ones that we *do*, in fact, know about. I doubt highly that an ancient pharoah would be happy to find his belongings that were to remain buried with him, to be scattered to museums around the globe, along with his own mummy.
Pieces of pottery or homes, etc, I have no problem with.
Going into tombs and disturbing it, especially for cultures where we do know the death rites were a large part of it, I have a problem with.
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Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
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