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What would the pagans do?

wendell borton · 2013-05-24 20:15:02

To get the country back on track maybe we could learn a thing or two from our pagan ancestors. http://www.irishexaminer.com/analysis/digging-up-the-past-166426.html

24-05-2013 8:15pm

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To get the country back on track maybe we could learn a thing or two from our pagan ancestors.

Ritual dictated the lives of kings in ancient Ireland as well as the manner of their deaths. “The king had great power but also great responsibility to ensure the prosperity of his people. Through his marriage on his inauguration to the goddess of the land, he was meant to guarantee her benevolence. He had to ensure the land was productive, so if the weather turned bad, or there was plague, cattle disease or losses in war, he was held personally responsible.”

http://www.irishexaminer.com/analysis/digging-up-the-past-166426.html

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#2 24-05-2013 8:17pm

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They wouldn't be sitting in their fancy houses on the internet anyway, that's for sure.

Internet wasn't invented then.
Neither were houses.

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#3 24-05-2013 8:41pm

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Its about time Enda Kenny paid for this weather. He doesnt care about us as long as he can go on his sun holidays hes going to just let it rain all summer for us.

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#4 24-05-2013 8:43pm

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I've seen plenty of suggestions for how to improve the country on AH but I'm pretty sure this is the worst one OP.

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#5 24-05-2013 8:45pm

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Do you know the one thing that springs to my mind when I think of pagans (or other ancient peoples)?

They must have been wrecked with toothache the whole time, seriously, it would have driven me mad if I'd lived in those times.

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#6 24-05-2013 8:58pm

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Dónal wrote: »

I've seen plenty of suggestions for how to improve the country on AH but I'm pretty sure this is the worst one OP.

Sure, we have nothing to loss by giving it a go.

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#7 24-05-2013 9:07pm

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Human sacrifice.

I'll get a list started....

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#8 24-05-2013 9:08pm

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Zebra3 wrote: »

Human sacrifice.

I'll get a list started....

I shall nominate the OP since this was his idea

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#9 24-05-2013 9:11pm

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Something about kissing a King's nipple

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#10 24-05-2013 9:13pm

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Isn't this the weather most suited for cloud computing. Why aren't the government making a fuss about that; farming is so stone age.

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#11 24-05-2013 9:25pm

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Lando Griffin wrote: »

Isn't this the weather most suited for cloud computing. Why aren't the government making a fuss about that; farming is so stone age.

Good luck there eating your computery clouds.

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#12 24-05-2013 9:29pm

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Read Oedipus Rex... It doesn't end well.

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#13 24-05-2013 9:36pm

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The Backwards Man wrote: »

They wouldn't be sitting in their fancy houses on the internet anyway, that's for sure.

Internet wasn't invented then.
Neither were houses.

They haven't gone away you know?
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=256

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#14 24-05-2013 10:22pm

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The Backwards Man wrote: »

Do you know the one thing that springs to my mind when I think of pagans (or other ancient peoples)?

They must have been wrecked with toothache the whole time, seriously, it would have driven me mad if I'd lived in those times.

no sugar and they only lived to 45

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#15 24-05-2013 10:40pm

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Burnt at the steak. Yum.

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#16 24-05-2013 11:10pm

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They'd marry a bunch of people and problem solved.

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