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kotumeyil
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Topic: "Where God does not exist" Posted: 20-Jun-2006 at 15:04 |
Today I read that it was investigated and found out that it's 13 years old (I'm not sure if true). I think removal of it may cause more damage so let it stay. Also it attracted a few thousand tourists last week
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Posted: 20-Jun-2006 at 20:59 |
Originally posted by Leonardo
I bet it's a fake.
Besides a better translation would be "from where God is absent" or "from where God is far away."
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Yes, I agree with you abeo, -ire, -ii, itum, go away, depart, leave the latin verb variant
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Edited by balkanitus - 20-Jun-2006 at 21:29
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Posted: 21-Jun-2006 at 05:37 |
If it would cause damage to remove it I say leave it there, its not some scruffy little piece of vandalism I think its quite fitting, whatever the precise translation "where god does not exist" just seems fitting to me.
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Posted: 21-Jun-2006 at 06:08 |
Yea if it's attracting tourists then leave it, it's good for Turkey. In
a few hundred years you can authentically claim it to be a really old
and mysterious inscription
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Posted: 25-Jun-2006 at 08:06 |
It can hardly been recently discovered, as not only is there a sturdy gate fixed in the doorway and a handrail fitted to accomodate the doubtless many tourists passing through, which would makr it unlikely no-one ever saw this large red lettering before, also the sign, with translation, shown on the other picture looks as if it has been there for some time, to get all worn like that.
But this wouldn't be the first time authorities or religious groups or any other sort of group for that matter, suddenly sees offence in something which had been there in their face all along. So the whole thing about is being offensive sounds a lot like some kind of attention drawing.
that being said. I don't think it looks very old. How many medieval persons would have been able to scratch such neat grafitti on such a difficult and public spot without being noticed? Of course, while writing this, I realized this goes for modern people as well...
Interesting question, this...But hopefully they wont remove it when it is really old...
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Posted: 27-Jun-2006 at 12:54 |
Originally posted by Constantine XI
Yea if it's attracting tourists then leave it, it's good for Turkey. In a few hundred years you can authentically claim it to be a really old and mysterious inscription |
Yeah give it a few centuries and they'll say of us "those ancients sure had a sense of humour, poor savages shame they didnt have holodecks like us"
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Posted: 29-Jun-2006 at 06:20 |
One more reason not to let the religious fanatics in.
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Posted: 30-Jun-2006 at 14:26 |
There is "u" in the script but the Latins were using "v" instead of "u", weren't they?
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Posted: 30-Jun-2006 at 15:23 |
wasn't this sentence written over torture chambers?
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Posted: 01-Jul-2006 at 02:33 |
Originally posted by kotumeyil
There is "u" in the script but the Latins were using "v" instead of "u", weren't they? |
In the ancient Roman alphabet there was no "U" but only "V". The "U" and "W" letters were introduced in Middle Ages.
Edited by Leonardo - 02-Jul-2006 at 04:12
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