[TheForge] stonehenge

[rsmuck]

I have often wondered how our ancestors discovered how to melt metals from 
rocks? I recently read that they were using crushed rock as a color glaze on 
pottery, after baking the pottery they found beads of copper on the surface 
of the pottery. That makes a lot of sense to me!
Rowland Smuck/Schmuck of Roseburg, OR 97470
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Freeman" <freemab222 at gmail.com>
To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 5:52 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] stonehenge


>I don't believe anyone truly engages in "linear thinking," judging by
> the definition I found for  that term.  However, I do think few people
> think "outside the box."
>
> I've found that assimilating a bunch of seemingly unrelated
> information can let me reach conclusions others may have missed.  Some
> of the cleverest inventions I've seen seem to have been reached in
> such a way.  I am very amused by textbooks that talk about discovery
> of fire making, rock knapping, bronze founding, wrought iron making,
> etc., as in any way accidental.  I see these things as the product of
> genius - the putting together of disparate pieces of information to
> achieve a new goal.
>
> That appears to be what this fellow has done with regard to moving
> monoliths.  There's nothing unique about the knowledge that you can
> spin a heavy weight on a pivot - every playground merry-go-round works
> on that principal.  Adding that to the principal of leverage and to
> the perceived need to move monoliths is a bit of genius.
>
> The question now is whether this was information generally known, or
> whether moving monoliths was the work of a magical few.  Can you
> imagine the impact of waking up one morning to go to a festival in a
> place you knew but hadn't visited in months, only to find when you got
> there that there was a monolith standing where none had been before?
> The persons in the know could have gained considerable status in a
> community.
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer
> <artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
>> My guess is that linear thinking is a product of a certain sort of
>> education, a certain sort of mind and often simplistic.
>> To move directly to the simplest and most efficient solution to a
>> problem generally requires an extensive knowledge base, talent and the
>> ability to put the right elements together correctly.
>> It then appears to the observer that the solution was simple all along
>> and that there was a linear progress to the solution.
>>
>> GRAF wrote:
>>> The ability to think simply or probably more accurately in a linear
>>> fashion is an art, for the most part, long lost in this culture.
>>> It seems the more education the less linear the thought process.
>>>
>>> Complexity becomes compulsive.
>>>
>>> Tis a gift to be simple....
>>>
>>> Mike Graf
>>>
>>> Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
>>>> The dumber we are, the more complexity is required to solve a problem. 
>>>> pf
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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