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Notre Dame Cathedral is burning down...

Kepler said:
The US surrendered all its civil rights after one attack and 3k casualties. France had 20% of its of age male population slaughtered in WW1, kept fighting, and stopped the Germans in their tracks.

We're the surrender monkeys.
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But the Anthill!
 
Re: Notre Dame Cathedral is burning down...

Kepler said:
The US surrendered all its civil rights after one attack and 3k casualties. France had 20% of its of age male population slaughtered in WW1, kept fighting, and stopped the Germans in their tracks.

We're the surrender monkeys.
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You don't need civil rights anyway Kep. If you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to hide.
 
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The Notre Dame Cathedral held the first mass since the fire.

Also, remember all those billionaires who pledged hundreds of millions of Euros to the rebuilding effort. You won't believe this, but they've reneged on the pledges. Weird, I know. They got tons of great publicity in the wake of the fire and now that the bill is due and no one is paying attention they have all mysteriously lost their wallets. Almost a billion was pledged but less than $18 million has been received. 90% of those donations have come from the United States.
 
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ticapnews said:
The Notre Dame Cathedral held the first mass since the fire.

Also, remember all those billionaires who pledged hundreds of millions of Euros to the rebuilding effort. You won't believe this, but they've reneged on the pledges. Weird, I know. They got tons of great publicity in the wake of the fire and now that the bill is due and no one is paying attention they have all mysteriously lost their wallets. Almost a billion was pledged but less than $18 million has been received. 90% of donations those donations have come from the United States.
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Sadly, not surprised.
 
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ticapnews said:
The Notre Dame Cathedral held the first mass since the fire.

Also, remember all those billionaires who pledged hundreds of millions of Euros to the rebuilding effort. You won't believe this, but they've reneged on the pledges. Weird, I know. They got tons of great publicity in the wake of the fire and now that the bill is due and no one is paying attention they have all mysteriously lost their wallets. Almost a billion was pledged but less than $18 million has been received. 90% of those donations have come from the United States.
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Is there a reputable place where I can donate and the money will actually get there? This commie atheist will gladly cough up a C-note for one of the greatest buildings and cultural artifacts of world history.
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Notre-Dame came far closer to collapsing than anybody knew. It is still standing only because firefighters decided to risk everything, our reconstruction has found.</p>— The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1151548997980577794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<img src="https://i.ibb.co/hYHkmtV/burning.jpg" alt="burning" border="0">

But hey, oxygen isn't that important to human life, right?
 
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Still a '“50% chance” the structure might not be saved'

The rector of Notre Dame Cathedral says the Paris landmark is still so fragile that there’s a “50% chance” the structure might not be saved, because scaffolding installed before this year’s fire is threatening the vaults of the Gothic monument.

Monsignor Patrick Chauvet said restoration work isn’t likely to begin until 2021 — and described his “heartache” that Notre Dame couldn’t hold Christmas services this year, for the first time since the French Revolution.

“Today it is not out of danger,” he told The Associated Press on the sidelines of Christmas Eve midnight Mass in a nearby church. “It will be out of danger when we take out the remaining scaffolding.”

“Today we can say that there is maybe a 50% chance that it will be saved. There is also 50% chance of scaffolding falling onto the three vaults, so as you can see the building is still very fragile,” he said.
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Chauvet estimated it would take another three years after that to make it safe enough for people to re-enter the cathedral, but that the full restoration will take longer. President Emmanuel Macron has said he wants it rebuilt by 2024, when Paris hosts the Olympics, but experts have questioned whether that time frame is realistic.
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Re: Notre Dame Cathedral is burning down...

MissThundercat said:
Did those donations ever get in?
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Last I heard, no.

If it can't be restored to its pristine self...let it go. I'd rather not have a shell of a structure, because it was that beautiful, if you understand what I'm saying.
 
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The Rube said:
Last I heard, no.

If it can't be restored to its pristine self...let it go. I'd rather not have a shell of a structure, because it was that beautiful, if you understand what I'm saying.
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I don't agree at all. The beauty of the building is beyond how it looks. And its spirit is far beyond that.

Some of the most beautiful and moving of our creations are ruins. Preserve what we can.
 
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Kepler said:
I don't agree at all. The beauty of the building is beyond how it looks. And its spirit is far beyond that.

Some of the most beautiful and moving of our creations are ruins. Preserve what we can.
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I get that. I do. I am of the opinion that I would not want to see a shell of its former self. Construct a memorial, ya know?
 
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