To: Pharmboy
American slaves played a sophisticated, technical role Meaning: they put pointed objects near the doorway, in order to keep harmful spirits from entering the building.
2 posted on
02/15/2011 4:44:39 AM PST by
ClearCase_guy
(BO + MB = BOMB -- The One will make sure they get one.)
To: ClearCase_guy
I think they were referring to the actual construction rather than the superstitions they brought from Africa. And, they were no different than other peoples who brought their own superstitions with them. My grandparents certainly did...
4 posted on
02/15/2011 4:49:27 AM PST by
Pharmboy
(What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
To: ClearCase_guy
“Meaning: they put pointed objects near the doorway, in order to keep harmful spirits from entering the building”
Oh that never works.
5 posted on
02/15/2011 4:52:27 AM PST by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: ClearCase_guy
Obamafaces or gargoyles? Same thing?
10 posted on
02/15/2011 5:08:25 AM PST by
Hardraade
(I want gigaton warheads now!!)
To: ClearCase_guy
Geez.... you say that like being ascared of haints ain’t sophisticated.
For shame...
14 posted on
02/15/2011 5:32:30 AM PST by
Lee'sGhost
(Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
To: ClearCase_guy
IIRC, I think it was Arthur C. Clark, the late SF writer, who said he was amazed by people who would condemn primitives for beating on drums to scare away evil spirits are the same people who would honk their automobile horns in an effort clear a traffic jam.................
22 posted on
02/15/2011 6:08:17 AM PST by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name. Want to have fun? Google your friend's names.....)
To: ClearCase_guy
No doubt this will be spun into further evidence that Africa is the seat of all western civilization, and that we owe all we have today to the genius of black people.
24 posted on
02/15/2011 6:16:38 AM PST by
IronJack
(=)
To: ClearCase_guy
One grows used to the frantic press attempts to “discover” early cross-cultural contributions to the “useless and clueless cultural contributions of European White Males” (i.e., everything worthy of note), but this piece, entering into paroxyisms of enthusiasm for what amounts to a few broken stones and bits of chicken bone a la voodoo, is so grotesquely over the top, one suspects the author is mentally unbalanced.
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