by badboy 22 Replies latest jw friends
It depends, if the caveman who drew the art followed the society's principles its ok. If the art contridicted what the caveman governing body then the caveman was disfellowshipped and banished from his hunting group.
Its in the 2000 page sleeping pill called the "bible".
LOL, OutaService!!! Great sense of humor! Naru, cool! Love to chat sometime about that!
Terri
Too bad the cave art bastards didn't date their work.......perhaps it would be more believable to those who do not believe it is older than the christian view of the age of man.
Gumby
Yes, Green One, it certainly would solve ALOT of problems!
Terri
P.S. Let me guess, your favorite word wouldn't be "bastard" would it? LOL!
Cave Art falls under the "pagan origins" category.
The drawing would depict animals, people, the sun, the moon, etc. Obviously anyone drawing pictures would want to worship them which would constitute idolatry.
Since they were living in caves with artwork, they obviously were putting their focus on material possessions.
The time they spent doing the art could have been used more productively, by advancing kingdom interests.
Such form of pagan communication was a snare of the devil and is obviously a precursor to the Internet.
***** Rub a Dub
Interestingly, I have thought of what may B an irrelantance(sp?),Y did they live in caves when Noah presumely lived in hut structures, did they lose the ability 2 built huts after the flood.
Cave art pictured what was necessary for the artists survival --- meat. The art would've been drawn to attract good luck in animal husbandry or hunting. Their obsessive interest in survival is THE reason we are here today.
Too bad the cave art bastards didn't date their work.......perhaps it would be more believable to those who do not believe it is older than the christian view of the age of man.
Ahhh, well check this one out, in primative script we can clearly see that early man wished his art to be dated, leaving us this stunning legacy from 12000 BC.
Personally I believe these were simply early flip charts for corporate hunting training sessions.
The WTS of course believe that satan went back in time and drew them to confuse gods people in the time of the end.
A
I'm very fortunate that my department manages a rock art center. I'm really looking forward to taking classes from the Prof who runs it - he's really cool and his presentation on it earlier in the semester was great.
There's a link with info on petroglyphs and pictographs here
http://www.asu.edu/clas/anthropology/dvrac/aboutus/introduction.html
On another note, just because the art was done in caves (speaking of the European cases) does not mean that's where the people lived. Rock art is generally thought to have ritual significance (hint: every time an archaeologist can't completely explain why somebody did something you hear the phrase "ritual significance"...but in this case I don't disagree). In some cases, the art was done so far back in inaccessible locations in caves that modern spelunkers with modern cave technology are challenged to reach it! This wasn't 'living room' art...
Some of the cave art is dated 50,000 years ago or more.
They say the dating system is flawed, because "we know it can't be more than 6,000 years old".
