Posted on 09/20/2008 11:35:10 PM PDT by Justice Department
The bizarre Corpus Clock visually explains that it relies on grasshopper escapement to function, and to let you know that time can never be regained once lost, that beast on top actually gobbles down time every 60th second. Oh, and every hour, on the hour, the sound of a "chain dropping into a wooden coffin" is played to really pound home the "time is a destroyer" concept. Thanks for the reminder, Dr. Grim.
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The problem is not the thing itself - the “living sundial,” in this case - but the multicult garbage they dress it up in. That has ruined a lot of things for me. I almost never read all the explanatory material about things like this because it’s full of such PC nonsense that I can’t bear it and it seriously destroys my interest in the thing itself.
If Satan designed a clock, what would it look like?
Even the explanation of the intent behind the design sounds like a mission from Satan.
BTW...
Old St. Mary’s remains an active parish of the archdiocese, and serves the Chinatown and Nob Hill communities of San Francisco. Old St. Mary’s Church is a California Historical Landmark.
An interesting fact about Old St. Mary’s is that under the clock face appear the words “Son Observe the Time and Fly from Evil”. This was actually aimed at the men who frequented the surrounding brothels in the 1850’s
Great! Worth repeating:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHO1JTNPPOU&eurl=http://blog.makezine.com/2.html
Thanks! Very interesting.
How is Old St Mary’s these days? I was in SF just last week and I walked by Old St Mary’s but I was afraid to go in lest it turn out that the Paulists had done something wierd to it. I lived in SF years ago, and Old St Mary’s was a reliable downtown church. Then the Paulists went bonkers in the late 1970s and started doing strange things in churches that they controlled, such as the beautiful St. Paul the Apostle in New York.
I didn’t know that detail about the reason for putting those particular words under the clock!
LOL! The time-clock, instrument of the Devil...
Do you prefer to be referred to as an horologist or a chronometrophile?
I sold my company to two of my employees and one of the first things they did was eliminate the time clock. I visit them from time to time and on my last visit, after 10 years of being owners, they had a new one on the shop wall.
LOL
Global Thermal Nuclear War or Tic Tac Toe
Dang, I’m old.
Nothing like a taste of reality.
Looks like what one sees when slithy toves gyre and gimbal in the wabe.
slithy toves
Slithy Tove Under Glass
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