Good symbolic representation of the state of France nowadays.
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I haven't shit on anyone. Sorry if you thought that way. That wasn't my intention.So you don't see any error in shitting all over peoples feelings about a priceless piece of history and culture now being gone?
The Twin Towers were ~30 year old office buildings at the time. Quite a difference from a centuries old cathedral.When 9/11 happened the buildings were also cultural monuments. But we rebuilt there. All I'm saying is this isn't the end of the French cultural impact because a building burnt down. Time to come together and make something even more monumental.
If all you see from my posts are nihilism then you aren't actually reading them. Just assuming what you want to. Humanity made Notre Dame. We can make other things now. I'm saying is a clean slate and a look to an even better future (maybe). But you guys can keep misjudging my posts as much as you want to.
When 9/11 happened the buildings were also cultural monuments. But we rebuilt there. All I'm saying is this isn't the end of the French cultural impact because a building burnt down. Time to come together and make something even more monumental.
If all you see from my posts are nihilism then you aren't actually reading them. Just assuming what you want to. Humanity made Notre Dame. We can make other things now. I'm saying is a clean slate and a look to an even better future (maybe). But you guys can keep misjudging my posts as much as you want to.
yeah that's completely ruined :(
I'm not going to quote and draw attention to them, but anyone drawing comparisons to other tragic events... please don't. We don't need a tragic oneupmanship game going on to satisfy anyone's sense of nationalism or ego. Notre Dame is burning, and that's a sentence I couldn't have imagined typing this morning. It's a tragedy happening in this moment.
This is a good post, thank you.Last thought - this is woefully void of understanding the humanities and the idea of sacred spaces. That building is France, friend. She is the wrapping of theology and empire, of literature and beauty, that echoes from our past into today.
She is a building of breathtaking human achievement tied to an era when humans shouldn't have been able to make it. Yet we did, and we dedicated it to God.
It is not replaceable. Please have some empathy.
Holy shit... good luck putting that out.
You've walked into a thread brimming with people who disagree with you and are obviously distraught about this. The polite thing to do is to recognize that and not choose now as the time to try to get people to change their perception of Notre Dame.I'd consider the Eiffel tower and the Louvre just as cultural and emotional hearts of the city and the country as this. This one building doesn't shine everything about the French.
Yup. Americans, there exists a world beyond those attacks, and this is not an appropriate or even relevant comparison.
The Independent said:The fire chief in Paris says it's unclear if city firefighters will be able to keep a fire at Notre Dame from spreading and causing more destruction.
Fire Chief Jean-Claude Gallet said outside the iconic cathedral as his crews battled the blaze from both the exterior and interior: "We are not sure we are capable of stopping the spreading" to Notre Dame's second tower and belfry.
When 9/11 happened the buildings were also cultural monuments. But we rebuilt there. All I'm saying is this isn't the end of the French cultural impact because a building burnt down. Time to come together and make something even more monumental.
If all you see from my posts are nihilism then you aren't actually reading them. Just assuming what you want to. Humanity made Notre Dame. We can make other things now. I'm saying is a clean slate and a look to an even better future (maybe). But you guys can keep misjudging my posts as much as you want to.
Its offensive to people from france and it should be offensive to other Americans as it is to me. Thousands of lives where lost and the resulting wars cost the lives of hundreds of thousands.
Hyper not relevant and makes no sense.
I think culturally they were just as relevant. Time isn't the issue. When you think NYC you thought twin towers, empire State building, and statue of liberty. Paris was Notre Dame, Eiffel tower, the Louvre, and arc de triomphe.The Twin Towers were ~30 year old office buildings at the time. Quite a difference from a centuries old cathedral.
I've never been there, but these are beautiful pictures. Thank you for sharing them.
Its offensive to people from france and it should be offensive to other Americans as it is to me. Thousands of lives where lost and the resulting wars cost the lives of hundreds of thousands.
Hyper not relevant and makes no sense.
Holy shit. Feels like something from a movie. Surreal.
Literally, the first post you made here was to demean this as "at the end of the day it's just a building", Amidst what is clearly a thread packed with a lot of emotionally hurt people, overlooking horrifying footage of centuries of human craft go up in flames over something tragically accidental, with footage scattered throughout of how much this has devastated the people of Paris, Paris! a city that has been in the spotlight for several years recently through various different forms of strife and unrest, in a country that is Catholic by majority, is overlooking the burning of it's most iconic historical religious landmark, to the point where they are praying and singing in the street to steel themselves.I haven't shit on anyone. Sorry if you thought that way. That wasn't my intention.
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