Potbelly Hill Gives Some Insight into Religion and Society

by E.doc

There was a Turkish temple that was found dating back 11,500 years that is causing a raucous. Apparently, this temple predates civilization, and is making scientists rethink how society evolved. The old thought is that religion is a product of society. "All our theories were wrong," says Ian Hodder, director of Stanford's archaeology program. This temple, called Göbekli Tepe (Turkish for Potbelly Hill), predates agriculture, animal domestication, and specialized labor. It is thought that the temple was the origin of the city, and that in order to maintain the temple, a culture of people sprang up around it.

Potbelly Hill also predates the Great Pyramid by 7,000 years, AND, get this, Stonehenge by 6,000 years.

I don't know about other readers, but this sheds new light and makes me rethink the possiblities of religion. No difinitive answers come up of course, but just something more to think about.



photo cred: Newsweek and Berthold Steinhilber /Laif-Redux

SC State Republican Rep. Wants to Ban Money

By Dave

For reals:

South Carolina will no longer recognize U.S. currency as legal tender, if State Rep. Mike Pitts has his way.

Pitts, a fourth-term Republican from Laurens, introduced legislation earlier this month that would ban what he calls “the unconstitutional substitution of Federal Reserve Notes for silver and gold coin” in South Carolina.

If the bill were to become law, South Carolina would no longer accept or use anything other than silver and gold coins as a form of payment for any debt, meaning paper money would be out in the Palmetto State.

Pitts said the intent of the bill is to give South Carolina the ability to “function through gold and silver coinage” and give the state a “base of currency” in the event of a complete implosion of the U.S. economic system.

“I’m not one to cry ‘chicken little,’ but if our federal government keeps spending at the rate we’re spending I don’t see any other outcome than the collapse of the economic system,” Pitts said.

Holy crap! .... this guy is on his fourth-term! Do people in South Carolina actually check who they are electing or do they just draw names out of a hat? Sheesh

South Carolina: please do this! Also please send me all of your worthless Federal Reserve notes so that I may dispose of them properly.

H/T LGF