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Thank you Matthew for moving it and your insight on some of the disgusting comments & the image.
Why oh why would you ask for extra/less bonuses on the Notre Dame GB, really?? Where is your head at, are you for real?
We have as mankind almost lost a treasure beyond value, and for France & Paris, the heart of the nation has been sorely wounded, and my sympathies go out to them, and thank their lucky stars no one was killed or seriously wounded.
Over hundred years in the making, 800 years old, made by highly skilled craftsmen and at a time with no high technical tools at their disposal, just their hands and their backs. If you had been and seen it, you couldn't help but stand in wonder & awe at such a magnificent building, and we must protect and preserve buildings like these as monuments to man's creative skills of yesteryear, which sadly those skills have nearly all but gone.
I have a personal perspective on this as I was fortunate that I had seen Notre Dame & other buildings in a private tours to places not open to the public with my father who was a Master Carpenter, and had worked on and specialised on buildings from the medieval to Victorian eras.
York minster when the south transept was ruined by fire, Royal Albert Hall, Westminster Abby, The Vatican, Windsor Castle, Wartburg Castle, are just some of the buildings he had worked on, and I know for sure if he had still been with us, he would have been on the phone to offer his services as soon as he heard about the fire.
So next time you have the chance to visit a famous monument, look up and wonder at the intricate details, vaulted ceilings with many details you cant see unless close up, but they still put them there, no shortcuts, on the outside as well as inside. Put yourself in their shoes and ask yourself 'just how did they do that'? Many people have put their heart and soul into building these buildings, and sometime their lives, not something you see today with your 'stick um up quick' with steel, concrete & glass, no heart, no soul, no craftsmanship, and will never have anywhere near the lifespan, that's why it would have been a catastrophic loss, if Notre Dame was gone.
Why oh why would you ask for extra/less bonuses on the Notre Dame GB, really?? Where is your head at, are you for real?
We have as mankind almost lost a treasure beyond value, and for France & Paris, the heart of the nation has been sorely wounded, and my sympathies go out to them, and thank their lucky stars no one was killed or seriously wounded.
Over hundred years in the making, 800 years old, made by highly skilled craftsmen and at a time with no high technical tools at their disposal, just their hands and their backs. If you had been and seen it, you couldn't help but stand in wonder & awe at such a magnificent building, and we must protect and preserve buildings like these as monuments to man's creative skills of yesteryear, which sadly those skills have nearly all but gone.
I have a personal perspective on this as I was fortunate that I had seen Notre Dame & other buildings in a private tours to places not open to the public with my father who was a Master Carpenter, and had worked on and specialised on buildings from the medieval to Victorian eras.
York minster when the south transept was ruined by fire, Royal Albert Hall, Westminster Abby, The Vatican, Windsor Castle, Wartburg Castle, are just some of the buildings he had worked on, and I know for sure if he had still been with us, he would have been on the phone to offer his services as soon as he heard about the fire.
So next time you have the chance to visit a famous monument, look up and wonder at the intricate details, vaulted ceilings with many details you cant see unless close up, but they still put them there, no shortcuts, on the outside as well as inside. Put yourself in their shoes and ask yourself 'just how did they do that'? Many people have put their heart and soul into building these buildings, and sometime their lives, not something you see today with your 'stick um up quick' with steel, concrete & glass, no heart, no soul, no craftsmanship, and will never have anywhere near the lifespan, that's why it would have been a catastrophic loss, if Notre Dame was gone.