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[Tom]

Hi Diego & Paola

I´m still alive and sometimes i took a look at your sites - great work!
I tried several times to send you a message via mail
but your spamblocker works pretty good  
so I´ve choosen this way to stay in contact...
and don´t forget to mail me...

tom

[amac]

I hope things are picking up since this message was posted . our website listed Stone Pages as our only link. We thought it might help our clients get some ideas about what we can do for them. hopefully more sites will link up and give you guys new audiences other than those looking at all those sites on the Megalithic Webring Portal??
http://www.secondton...e.org/index.htm

[123hopp]

Under past 3 years I was engaged in megalithic (or rather mostly pre-Greek) things on www.mythography.com. There were some people, who used to quote many pages from books they`d treated as "seminal", just for further discussions. And it was really a drive for the site. Such quotations spurred long discussions...of varying level, of course. Alas, there were also gangs of American upper-graders, who needed desperately help for their school works. They used to clogg our discussions and now many serious people are vanished from this site. It`s really pity about Kice from Idaho - with hundreds of thousands books on his shelves; Terpander - American archaeologist from Sparta, or Caliadne - a New Zealander studying ancient ceramics in Antwerp.
Here this youngster plague is not a menace. You need only someone with a representative library, full-packed with megalith, shamanic and dowsing literature, who could initiate a new discussion each week.
OK. Why shamanic and dowsing literature!? Well, I suppose it`s not enough to list and map all the megalithic objects. We should try to reconstruct the world of ideas and motives of their creators too, shouldn`t we !? Alas, there`s an evident breach between NW and Central European folklore - which is of evidently late Indoeuropean origin - and the ideas hidden behind megalithic structures. Otherwise, I would propose to introduce a Megalithic Folklore into this forum, too.
In some peripheral books, I`ve read once that people, who created megalithic monuments, were strongly motivated by shamanistic ideologies. Now, when megalithic/shamanistic communities are uprooted and vanished from most of the Earth`s surface, it seems to us that it`s only some North-Eurasian specialty. But spreading of those monuments all over the Earth maybe testifies that shamanistic ideologies marched once together over same areas!?
Why dowsing!? Well, we cannot imagine for ourselves the world of ideas of our XV c. AC ancestors, what to say about people, who vanished 4,500 years ago!? Dowsing starts from a presupposition that once people had sense sensitivity similar to this, with which
animals are still equipped today. IMHO Restoring this direct sensitivity not alienating yourself from it through minute analyzing and use of external tools, would be a path leading back to the minds of the megalith people!?
From all this, starting discussions through meaningful quotations would be most reasonable, I suppose!?
Alas, my private library is not of the kind needed. Nevertheless, I`ll try to quote something from Mircea Eliade`s books soon. Just to give an example.
Regards

[IrishStones]

If you are still checking in 123Hopp, please start a new thread. I will be glad to discuss any and all ideas about reconstucting shamanic ideology and speculations of pre-shamanic world views in paleolithic peoples. It is my specialty, and I rarely get to talk to anyone who doesn't just isolate themselves with a "scientific/academic/pedantic" viewpoint, or go to the other extreme and ideate pre-historic sensibilities on New Age/post-Bronze Age theories and evidence.

I'm no longer up for the passionate arguments that apparently lots of people miss here (and into which I always let myself be drawn to my despair!), but I would love to know what anyone feels could have been the "lifestyle" of the pre-5000bce human. In particular Western Russia/Northern Scandinavia, based on what we have in the archaeological record (as opposed to our imaginations).

[yogro]

I recommend you limit the contributions of KevinB to Alternative theories, just seeing that guys moniker makes me go Oh no...not again

[Anew]

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I recommend you limit the contributions of KevinB to Alternative theories, just seeing that guys moniker makes me go Oh no...not again

To be honest, I rather like Kevin.  But I can see your point, and would agree that there are members who put in last words ... and that this can put a person off from reading a thread which may include updates by others.  A possible solution might be to list the latest two or three posts to a thread in its summary bar in the forum; and this could be coupled with a delay period before one could post in reply to ones'self.

To take the other hand, there may be members whose posts one looks forward to reading.  An, "e-mail me if 'x' posts", option would keep a person up to date on their activity.  (Though like all tools, it could be used for ill as well as for good.)

As to the site losing momentum, that was posted in 2003; and whereas this is not the busiest site in the field, it loads quickly, the forum feature is a breeze to use, and there are beautiful photographs.  More photos please.

[ren]

I have faced the same problem and I believe the answer is to share links with other quality forums,even if they are on other subjects.

Please take a look at QUETZALCOATL.

PS:Who is Paola.

[Awen Evenstar]

I believe Paola is Diego's wife

[ren]

Awen Evenstar, on 29 March 2008, 16:39, said:

I believe Paola is Diego's wife

I havn't come across any post of her's Awen Evenstar.It would be a good idea of invite Paola to post on this forum.That would definitely make this forum more active.Don't you think so?

[Pete G]

Paulo & Deigo have recently had a child and so are very busy.
They have left this forum in the hands of several moderators for the time being.
PeteG

[ren]

Congratulations Paola & Diego  

Hope to see u back posting on the forum soon.

Thanx a lot for the info Pete G.

[KLJinOz]

Hi Stoners.  I'm new here, and asking for suggestions as where to begin here?  Is there a thread for 'Newbies'?
Ozzie

[Pete G]

Hi Ozzie,
welcome and jump in anywhere

PeteG