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8 Century BC Greece, in a small town called Delphi, there was an oracle at the sanctuary of Apollo. Its origins remain unknown but it was a site of pilgrimmage and worship. People would address the oracle with the toughest questions in life and ask for prophecies about the future.
Famously, Oedipus asked the oracle for help in his quest to answer the riddle of the Sphinx that had terrorized the people of Thebes, strangling all who passed by unable to answer its riddle: "What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?". Oedipus' answer was: Man, as a baby man crawls on four legs; as an adult, two legs; when old, man uses a cane.
Is Yahoo tapping into the same source of the desire for answers to the mystery of our existence? Beyond Yahoo Answers, who would you normally ask the big questions to?
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By AndrewE @ http://www.writerspace.net
2006-08-05
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