Notre Dame Updates

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I’ve been on the road all day and just catching news on the radio, but if this is true, it’s a freaking miracle.

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47 Replies to “Notre Dame Updates”

  1. The Hunchback of Notre Dame saved the bell towers…!

    http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/215814/Hunchback-of-Notre-Dame-The-Movie-Clip-Water-.html

    And where were the incessant cries of: “Water, water…”?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll_-pnXC8NU
    HB: I am not a man, I am not a beast, I am about as shapeless as the man in the moon….

    Esmerelda: Why did you save me?

    HB: Oh I tried to carry you off. And then next day you gave me a drink of water and a little pity.
    You must never leave the Church or they’ll hang you and kill me. Yes…

    Cheers

    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  2. Well that is good news. The rebuild of the burnt parts should be easier to accomplish.

    1. Salma Hayek’s French billionaire husband pledges 100 million euros to help rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral as President Macron launches a national fundraising campaign to restore the building to its former glory
      Visibly upset Macron said outside the Notre Dame he was planning to rebuild
      Firefighters battled for hours on Monday to stop the blaze at the gothic cathedral
      Billionaire Francois Henri-Pinault has pledged 100 million euros (£86.2 million)

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6926083/French-billionaire-pledges-100-million-euros-help-rebuild-Notre-Dame-Cathedral.html
      …..

      Well perhaps that might be a start…and where was the retrofitted built in fire suppression sprinklers on a 300 year old WOODEN ROOF?

      Some fire proofing engineers, will need to be seconded and/or conscripted…

      Cheers

      Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
      1st Saint Nicolaas Army
      Army Group “True North”

  3. The bell towers saved by the Hunchback…

    Pretty good engineering standards for an 850 year old structure.

    Judging by some of the pictures subsequent to the the blaze, if appears that the majority of the stone sub-roof saved a large part of the interior; save the collapse of the nave in which the cross stands singularly out amidst the wreckage.

    Well if you needed a symbol for Easter that would be it..Happy Holy Week!

  6. From the Guardian always good pictures and 1st reporter into Church with Macron. Spooky pictures smoke around the altar. Looks like kneeling Templars. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6926257/ROBERT-HARDMAN-witnesses-inside-ravaged-Notre-Dame.html?ITO=applenews
    Remember this, the construction of these cathedrals predates so called engineers. They were built by Master Craftsmen. I am referring mainly to the carpenters and masons. Priceless treasure. The stained glass made by masters of their craft, the pipe organs made by masters of their craft, the carvings and statuary by masters of their craft, the masonry, made by masters of their craft, the whole affair overseen by a Master Craftsman. I read an article years back by one of the top international structural engineers of that time. He said we could not build these ancient cathedrals today. Yes as an engineer we understand how the forces were distributed etc. But the Master Craftsmen do not exist anymore, these things predate engineers as we know them.

  10. Even if it can be done, which I highly doubt, rebuild it as what? A mosque? A museum at best. Christianity is mostly dead in France.

    1. That’s the sad part. Notre Dame is a spectacular monument, but Christianity in Europe and North America is not strong. To some extent, that is why Islam has been apparently successful in its quest for world domination. No one is fighting back. Our traditional culture is rooted in Christianity, but it is now a target for secularism and the Marxist state. As a result, both Christanity and our culture are dying — at least in the Western world.

  11. Relevant juxtaposition.
    Christianity built, Judaism built.
    The wailing wall, NotreDame, the Temple Mount, Gotti Cathedral, Chartes Cathedral, the Cathedral of Constantinople.
    These where built.
    Now, for the quiz question, who would tear down, or conquer and renames these great works?

    1. Also the Hagia Sophia.

      I think we here all know but it may be against the law to say so.

  12. Dennis Prager is very good at framing events in a big, overriding picture, and he does so here:
    https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2019/04/16/notre-dame-an-omen-n2544832

    As a church-going Baptist, my Christian view is slightly different, in that we experience church closings every week, in North America and as well as in Europe. I am not that concerned with “national treasures” or “irreplaceable icons”, etc. This is the stuff of traditionalist, old-line Christianity and secularism. The real tragedy is that we no longer believe in God, period.

    1. Well said. Some still do, even if not in a traditional sense. The coming fire will separate the wheat from the chaff.

      Those that believe in nothing will soon fall for anything and I think we are seeing that around us everyday. The currently ascendant church of Marxism and Climate Change as well as a resurgent 7th century ideology are allies as well as competitors for empty souls who since cave man days have needed a cornerstone of faith in some deity.

      1. Nature abhors a vacuum. People will always believe in something. Climate Changism is basically pagan but it fills the gap. I doubt it satisfies the soul, however.

    2. Real tragedy tends to prompt people to think about God.

      Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,
      Ev’n at the Brink of danger; not before:
      After deliverance, both alike requited;
      Our God’s forgotten, and our Souldiers slighted.

      Francis Quarles (1592–1644)
      QUOTATION:

    3. I don’t wholly disagree and still love my old Lutheran hymn – My Hope is built on Nothing Less
      http://lutheran-hymnal.com/lyrics/tlh370.htm

      On Christ the solid rock I stand
      All other ground is sinking sand.

      However, High Gothic Cathedrals were the “moonshots” of their era. The highest possible form of human achievement at the time. A synergy of culture, religion, finance, engineering, and tradespeople. An edifice of Religious Faith and commitment that has stood nearly 1,000 years. No, the “church” is not a building. Faith can never be consummated by a “mega-church”. But the mega-churches of the Middle Ages were far more important to the advancement of man’s freedom and liberty than we fully understand. Just as with all REAL history, we have lost all perspective on just what these mega churches meant to mankind … and to the Christian faith.

      So the Solid stone structure still stands. Literally, the solid ROCK upon which the Church was built. Solid stone stacked to dizzying heights behaving like gossamer aerogel! It still stands. A wonderful metaphor. Yet there is another darker metaphor expressed by FIRE and destruction. Of Hellish forces burning away the superficial … the flammable. Of Satan incinerating the weakest elements. The elements most susceptible to Satan’s elemental force. Beware the great deceiver … and his handmaidens such as Frau Merkel

    1. It does look suspicious. If that is what it looks like the public will not be told. Could also be a fake apparition.

      1. The credit for that item goes, of course, to Bill Still. I have no idea where he gets his information from.

    3. It might have been the hunchbach himself. I’d add one of those inflection thingers to my spelling of hunchback like Nancy might….if I knew how to do it…

      Apparition? Possibly. I once took a picture of an abandoned building and when I got the developed pics back (this was awhile ago) there was a human figure in a window. I dunno?

  14. It, being France and Paris where Christianity is just about dead, watch for it being turned into mosque any time now.

  15. The Roman Catholic Church is in crisis.

    The Pope is proving to be a Globalist, and has very strong Marxist underpinning.

    He is yet another Pope unwilling to divest the Church from the Gay Mafia who appear to be the gatekeepers. Much like Eli who was a unwilling to reign in his wicked and evil sons their brutal demise was their consequence.

    The Cathedrals are beautiful and exquisite monuments wrought by skilled tradesmen and artisans of their craft. They were built to show the power and extravagance of the RCC, to be a focal point of community and bring people together.

    They also were a testament to the corruption of the Papacy, the stripping of wealth from the people and the oppression and the evil done in the Name of God.

    Sometimes there is a cleansing which is required. Sometimes the images like we are seeing from the pictures and videos are a reminder of what really matters.

    The Cross. Surrounded by smoke, ashes and water. But still it stands.

    A fitting scene being spread all over the world, to every tribe, tongue and nation.

    From the ashes…

    1. Yeah, pope Kremlin the first, or maybe second. They picked their pope, they knew what they wanted. They get to get what they voted for, good and hard.

      I wonder how long the communists have been doing the long march through the Catholic church? Didn’t take them long with the united church.

    2. “They were built to show the power and extravagance of the RCC, to be a focal point of community and bring people together. ”

      This is not intended to change your mind.

      Those cathedrals were build to the glory of God.

      That they were build by people that did not go to school for a long time, majestic as they are, by trial and error, could be interpreted as influence by the Almighty.

      Everybody thinks different.

      1. No.

        I mean that the cathedrals were build to the glory of God.

        There are no hidden meanings, there are no double entries, even the airhead in Ottawa could not assume different meaning.
        Just what is sez (sic, because there is concern about being erudite)

  17. Where is troll watto? Haven’t heard anything really stupid yet today, want to get that out of the way.

  18. Even Fox News is cutting the mikes of commentators who dare raise the possibility that the fire was the work of Muslims. The narrative control is excellent today, I’ll give the bastards that.

  19. People wouldn’t be wondering if “some people did something”, if those people didn’t have a history and a habit of doing those sorts of things. Just sayin…

    1. Exactly! We will be TOLD that this huge conflagration was started from a pile of oily rags (more like ragheads) casually discarded by a worker named ‘Mo’.

  21. Could this be a case of history repeating itself? Could this be France’s Reichstag Fire? The picture of the Yellow Vest in the bell tower would provide Macron with all that he needs to shut down the Yellow Vest protests. But then again maybe it was orchestrated by the same group that sent agents into America to learn how to fly airplanes. Now there is a thought. ISIS agents dressed as Yellow Vest protesters incinerates both a religious and historical treasure and sets the French population against each other. That is one way to win a war without ever getting involved. No that couldn’t happen in real life that only exists in John Le Carre, Graham Greene, John Grisham novels, doesn’t it?

  22. I personally believe that God lives within our hearts, and not necessarily in a stone structure. Having written that, and assuming that beliefs have changed drastically in the last century, I do believe the Notre Dame is worth saving. rebuilding etc. I was there in 1985, it was a heartwarming feeling to walk in the footsteps of French history. I hope I’m still around to visit the renovated structure.

  23. In its unending effort to be rigorously politically correct, the Medieval Academy of America circulated a bulletin today about the fires yesterday at Notre Dame in Paris and Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Here is the story in the Jerusalem Post about the fire at Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Marwani Prayer Hall a.k.a. Solomon’s Stables. This fire sounds like nothing compared to the one in Paris, but never let the facts get in the way of the narrative. https://www.jpost.com/OMG/Fire-breaks-out-near-mosque-on-Temple-Mount-586985

  24. The symbolism seems powerful, but with so many perceptions possible. The imagery is stark and foreboding imho.

  25. so, is THAT a photo of the post-fire interior?
    if so, why why why cant the tweeter EX-PLI-CIT-LY saaaaay so? hmmm? 1 way or t’other??? askin way too much disclosure???
    let me time the following typing:
    “as seen in the accompanying pre-fire photo”
    there. 25 seconds counting the backspace to CLARIFY the clarification.
    aaaaand THAT is, gasp!!!! 25 seconds I can never never never never git baaaaack!!!! wha wha wha!!!!
    jeezuz murphy. the number of ASS-rump-shuns one has to make in these days of instant news feed . . . . .

    and yes, Im in a pissy mood today.

  26. “…a freaking miracle…” – Perhaps the sophomore would like to try writing like a grownup.

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