AYERS ROCK – ROCK OF CONTENTION?
https://creation.com/ayers-rock Click this link, for more interesting history about this monolith from Dr Andrew Snelling, at Creation.com.
I have been intrigued by your fascination with Ayers Rock. British surveyor, William Gosse, was the first European to find the rock in 1872. He named it “Ayers Rock” after Sir Henry Ayers, a former Chief Secretary of SA. The local Aborigine Tribe, the Anangu, also gave it the traditional name of “Uluru” in 1993. The word means “Great Pebble”.
What further intrigues me is that you humans cannot decide to agree about its origins, nor its significance. You talk about “Original Owners”, but none of you own anything for very long, before you return to the dust of the earth. While the rock stays put. This monkey finds it strange that some would find a spiritual significance in this rock; while others of you, also 100% human, see it as an amazing relic of the catastrophic flood of Noah. (Which many of you choose to disbelieve). It could be seen as a monument, in a way, to The Rock of Ages, a name you often call Jehovah. Who brought about the massive flood to punish disobedient humans. It also wiped out many of my ancestors that failed to board the Ark.
In a practical sense, the rock provides a very commercially helpful tourist attraction for everybody. In their wisdom, (?) the bureaucrats, who are in charge of the rock, have disallowed the climbing of it by tourists. They claim that the rock is being degraded by all the attention. However the well known geologist Marc Hendrickx disagrees. He voiced his opinions on the Outsiders programme yesterday.
Here is another example of humans beings unable to agree. Who said “they have rocks in their head”?
Gibber! Gibber!
Chugley
The Rocking Chimp
5 thoughts on “AYERS ROCK – ROCK OF CONTENTION?”
It might be that that the issue surrounding the climbing of Uluru as a “sacred” site could be a modern PC furphy. This link explains that decades ago, local aboriginals regularly climbed Uluru.
“The most senior Aboriginal custodian of Uluru believed if tourists were ‘stupid enough’ to climb the giant red rock they should be able to do it.
Paddy Uluru once said the act of climbing the monolith previously known as Ayers Rock was ‘of no cultural interest’ to his people.”
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/theyre-welcome-to-it-custodian-of-uluru-had-no-problem-with-tourists-climbing-the-rock-and-aborigines-were-scaling-the-monolith-in-the-1940s/ar-AAEcxax?li=AAgfIYZ&OCID=ansmsnnews11
That is really interesting Paul. You humans continue to confound me! Gibber! Gibber! Chugley
This is a really interesting article Paul, it just illustrates to this monkey how many different ideas and perspectives you humans have. Can you ever agree about anything? Gibber! Gibber! Chugley
As one who, many years ago, climbed Uluru before it was contentious to do so, I must admit that the experience was spiritually profound and as a Christian took me off guard. I cannot explain it better than that. The Celtic Christians often spoke of a “thin place,” where the boundary between heaven and earth is especially thin. It’s a place where they can sense the divine presence more readily. That concept resounds with my unexpected experience on top of Uluru. When traditional owners or visitors speak about the spiritual experience of Uluru I know what they are expressing but do not understand it. I would suggest an alternative to banning the climb, is to allow it, but prepare people to be respectfully mindful of the spiritual significance. Much like opening a grand cathedral to visitors, not to fill the coffers, but in the hope that through the architecture they have their hearts lifted to God. Now I have probably just got both the traditional owners and Christians worried.
You make me want to pack a banana picnic, go, and clamber up the rock. Maybe I have evolved sufficiently to experience this “thin place”. It might prove that I have some Neanderthal in me? Gibber! Gibber! Chugley
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