Wole Soyinka writes and I agree with him that
(..)all we can be certain of ( because it is clearly provable) is that the proliferation of grandiose cathedrals, basilicas, temples, mosques, shrines, and other places of worship throughout the global landscape has not perceptibly improved the living conditions or moral sensibilities of the large part of humanity
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I agree as well, but what I would disagree with is the idea I’ve seen that says they should be destroyed.
They are a history, they are beautiful architecture, they are a symbol of the past. We don’t burn a painting because someone who disagreed with our current beliefs painted it, the work is still important.
So is the architecture.
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I agree.
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Those buildings should not be destroyed.
They remain as monuments to human folly
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Grand idea. Close ’em up. Turn into museums; tax ’em, and charge fees to people to pop in and visit ’em. The fees charged should then go to house and feed the poor. Jesus would LOVE that idea, would he not. ๐
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It’s a grand idea.
Jesus would be pleased
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The same old….places of worship just get rich, while the poor, stay poor.
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The poor usually take the little they have to the people who run these places of worship
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Unfortunately, they’re made to feel guilty if they don’t.
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Which is actually sad
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At the same time, places of worship are not merely buildings. They also represent community (which includes history as noted above), even if based on myths that are sometimes…toxic. What community does not have its toxic myths, though? In no way would I advocate church burning, despite my musical and philosophical leanings.
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Church burning would be like book burning. The next logical place will be to burn the people. Churches, with their high ceilings, can make good bars or libraries
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The domination of the masses and their religious leanings have been throughout history corralled through places of worship, often usurped from pagan or mythical nature worshipers, also based on fake mythologies or are simply statements of power. Those institutions rectifying their existence of being in the service of the mortal soul, but in truth were always money-spinning edifices since the Antique!
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You are right. They were always the place to justify the collections demanded from the worshippers
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Our governor shut down all non essential services for COVID. Included in that was churches. I really never noticed had I not been told. They really overrate themselves.
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Churches here complained for a long time that they are an essential service. I think they were told to pray from home or organize online services
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As an unbeliever I was rather surprised to find how cross I was during the months of lockdown when our old parish church was kept locked.
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Has it been reopened?
Maybe the authorities thought they were protecting the church goers from getting sick or something
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You might accept that argument for services with a big congregation, but the reason for closing the church altogether so people can’t go in at all? I think some services are now resumed but numbers are limited. Our Office of National Statistics survey has shown that even in the close confines of family living, in 96% of cases only one family member has had Sars-Cov2 and not infected other family members. In other words, it is not now as infectious as the media or politicians make out.
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Here, we are so skeptical of the government that most see their pronouncements on covid as misleading & that it’s a business for a few connected individuals.
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I think skeptism is the best defence. The engineering of consent that’s going on in the UK and US is truly horrifying. The RNA vaccines are a nightmare in the making. Genetic engineering here we come.
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I think we live in very strange times
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We very much do. And there are some very rich cabals with some very unpleasant plans for global governance and us profit units.
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anecdote is not evidence, but my landlady is a doctor, and she tells quite different stories about infectiousness. ๐ฆ On the other hand….I had some really weird and varying symptoms for eight weeks in February. Starting with a sudden asthma attack, rotating through asthma and including flu-like days. And I even developed a blood clott behind my knee The local HMO just gave me allergy and asthma medication, and I infected noone.
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you have left out the part that you are almost always entirely alone ๐
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I do exaggerate. I live with my landlady, an older (mid 60s in somewhat frail health) and I do work in an office that at the time was in full work from the office mode.
I am not a complete misanthrope. ๐
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I know I know.
You are not far from it, Brian:)
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I had a week and more of really weird symptoms in Feb. They cycled from one set of symptoms to another new set, plus the cough and flu-like wipe-out. I didn’t infect anyone else either despite the non-stop coughing in the vicinity of other half. There’s been some recent large-scale genetic analysis which throws up a lot ideas as to how the virus behaves, attaching to ACE2 receptors and hijacking them, thus explaining the plethora of symptoms – a bradykinin storm:
https://elemental.medium.com/amp/p/31cb8eba9d63?source=social.tw&__twitter_impression=true
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Sheesh! I didn’t read the entire article, but from what I did read, this virus definitely makes use of our bodies as it moves from here to there. No wonder there are so many different reported symptoms! ACK!
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Indeed, yes, Nan, but I think the full scale of these effects, as per those in the article, can only apply to people ill enough to go to hospital. I guess it also depends on individual immune systems. Some people seem to be quite immune.
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Some people seem never to get sick at all, like African presidents and politicians. The only time you know they actually do get sick is when they drop dead.
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Ah well, they have the best of everything.
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That they do. And leave their subjects in misery, sometimes with nowhere to go for treatment
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One of the interesting effects of UK lockdown wherein we were all urged to stay at home and save the National Health Service is that for six months 67 million of us either do not have access to appropriate health care, or accessing at all it is an extremely nightmarish experience involving treatment by medics in hazmat gear. Yet fatalities and ICU admissions have been almost flat-lining for weeks. The upcoming fatalities due to lockdown not covid are yet to be calculated, but the Gov have estimated 200,000.
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Here on the other hand I have heard anecdotes that those who had covid like symptoms & died mostly from neglect. Nobody wants to touch you or that kind of thing
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Such a tragic mess this whole thing. I remember reading back in March of the elderly in some European countries being totally abandoned by their carers.
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It’s such a tragedy.
I hope it will disappear as it came
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Sounds exactly like my experience, except mine was a longer period of time and there were many days during which I was functional to the point I could go cycling!
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I gave myself mega doses of liposomal vit C, zinc and other concoctions. I think that helped to get through it fast.
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Prices of lemons and ginger have gone up in Nairobi because that’s what everyone is taking. And there is a big market for honey ๐
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All good ingredients for feeling better! Vit C in lemons, ginger anti-inflammatory and good for nausea and sore throats and coughs; honey = all round good with vitamins and minerals. I would think the masala spices in masala tea would be pretty good too, especially cinnamon.
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Yeah and with honey, you have a concoction for all weather
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One of the nuts featured on The Encyclopedia of American Loons insists that being stung by bees cures everything. I should live to 120 if that is true!
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Haha
I have stories of bees killing a cow
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Talking of coughs, there was a time a few months back I had a cough that just refused to go away. Then i had this meeting and I had to struggle to hold my cough because i didn’t want people looking at me badly. Nobody in my household seemed to catch it.
What I find interesting or curious is that outside the major towns, my country people are treating the virus as a tall tale.
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Yes, us country folk can tend towards the sceptical position.
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The reasoning of the folks in the village is quite simple really. You ask them they tell you they don’t know anyone who has had the corona. So it’s a disease for those in the city
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I think people in my rural county have been saying much the same thing. I also imagine that country folk have access to the freshest food. In fact those few I know of, caught it in from hospitals, either worked there or were admitted as patients for something else entirely. The Government SAGE team noted in their minutes back in March that it was a hospital borne (nosocomial) disease.
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But according to the hysterics, it is going to kill us all! So we need to just hunker down in our bunkers and never leave except in a mist of disinfectant.
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Hahaha.
Now what happens to us without bunkers
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Those of us who OWN bunkers, of course. If you don;t own a personal bunker, you are probably a lesser breed anyway. Or, if this is a liberal hysteric, the government can just give money to everyone who doesn’t own a bunker! Free Government Money!
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Now our government has stolen all the money it could and i don’t think there is any left for us with no bunkers
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