Temple to de unknow god

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I just saw a rather interesting fact in a documentary about the greek gods: The athenians had a temple that they called "Temple to the unknow god". Apparently, the athenians feared the possibility of there existing a god that they didnt know but that could punish then for not workshiping him anyway, so they built that temple to cover that possibility.

That explains why the greek had so many gods. Apparently their policy was: "If you dont know if it exists, it does!" =)

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i prefer temple of the dog

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If you saw it on the tee-vee, it's gotta be true!

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Reminds me of this poem, a favorite of mine...

Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear --
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.'

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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@Setanta,

Setanta wrote:

If you saw it on the tee-vee, it's gotta be true!

Im hoping that I can trust what a program about ancient gods in a channel about history has to said about ancient gods =)

And it makes sense, considering how godfull the greeks were.

chai2 wrote:

Reminds me of this poem, a favorite of mine...

Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear --
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.'

Percy Bysshe Shelley

This poem seens to be a favorite or everyone, or, at least, what the sculptor has written. I have heard it a thousand times but I still dont quite understand what he means =)

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@manored,

I can't say if the program were accurate, and i'm not saying that it wasn't. However, if you were watching "The History Channel," that channel bears exactly the same relationship to history that Christian Science does to science.

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@manored,

manored wrote:

This poem seens to be a favorite or everyone, or, at least, what the sculptor has written. I have heard it a thousand times but I still dont quite understand what he means =)
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It means don't go around thinking your **** don't stink, because sooner or later no one's going to know who you were.

No one is badass enough to never be forgotten.

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I'm still cracking up over "de unknow god" . . . that am high-larious . . .

Oh de leg bone connected to de knee bone
De knee bone connected to de hip bone . . .

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I have heard it a thousand times but I still dont quite understand what he means =)

Look up the definition of the word "hubris".

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@chai2,

chai2 wrote:

It means don't go around thinking your **** don't stink, because sooner or later no one's going to know who you were.

No one is badass enough to never be forgotten.

Ahh... so my whole life I misinterpreted this poem =)

I always though it was something like a mere sculputor mocking the great kings by saying he could make something in the desert that would preserve his memory for longer than the great kingdoms of the kings would preserve theirs.

But it is actually a great king proclaiming his greatness, only his kingdom is no more...

Setanta wrote:

I can't say if the program were accurate, and i'm not saying that it wasn't. However, if you were watching "The History Channel," that channel bears exactly the same relationship to history that Christian Science does to science.

Im almost sure that was the channel, but my memory sucks. Anyway, yeah, it does take off rather badly in some programs. But it is comprehensible... how are you going to tell history 24 hours a day without it ever getting boring? =)

But I think this kind of program is trustworthy. The ones to watch out for are the ones that go on speculating about the end of the world and stuff.

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