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The fall of Notre Dame is a body blow to Paris and all it represents
Washington Post ^ | April 15, 2019 | James McAuley

Posted on 04/15/2019 7:44:50 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

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To: Hieronymus; CondoleezzaProtege; metmom
Maybe the writer of the article ought to study miracles and news wires a little more. All things considered, the place looks miraculously intact.

Evidence in the Hebrew: Seine [סן] reverses to nes [נס], "miracle":

נֵס ᴵ m.n. 1 standard, ensign, flag. 2 signal, sign. [Together with Aram. נִסָּא, Syr. נִיסָא (= signal, sign), of uncertain origin. According to several scholars borrowed from Akka. nīshu (= something lifted), from nashū (= to lift), corresponding Heb. נשׂא. cp. נֵס ᴵᴵ. cp. also נסס ᴵ.]

נֵס ᴵᴵ m.n. PBH miracle, providential event, wonder. [Prob. sense enlargement of נֵס ᴵ.] Derivatives: נִסִּי, נסס ᴵᴵ.

Today [Nisan 10] - another word play on nes/Seine [ניסן - Nisan] - was the traditional date for the passing of Miriam, Moses' sister.

Notre Dame ---> "Our Lady" i.e. Mary (also Miriam)

What's up is down and what's down is up.

It's like with the little lander on the Moon. It crashed, meaning it crashed out after a very long journey. Fast asleep on the Sea of Serenity (sea of calm)... dreaming.

21 posted on 04/15/2019 8:47:23 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Most of the leaders of Europe are traitors who want it to fall to Islam.


22 posted on 04/15/2019 10:46:47 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Chengdu54

That would be an easy photo to get. I’m in northern Italy right now, and every large church has many muslim tourists in it.


23 posted on 04/15/2019 11:02:30 PM PDT by Chaguito
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That’s something I wondered about, and why I posted it here first.


24 posted on 04/16/2019 1:19:31 AM PDT by Chengdu54
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

It even has Twin Towers.


25 posted on 04/16/2019 1:32:20 AM PDT by arthurus (gs)
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To: RightGeek

Unbelievable! What does that mean, they are going to add islamic touches during the rebuilding of Notre Dame? Sounds like blasphemy to me.


26 posted on 04/16/2019 3:29:16 AM PDT by dougherty (I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The Spirit that inspired the Cathedral can die in damn near every heart in France without a wimper but a building burns and everyone laments it’s passing..


27 posted on 04/16/2019 4:33:14 AM PDT by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitch!)
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To: Hieronymus
All things considered, the place looks miraculously intact.

What about all the irreplaceable relics and artifacts that were inside?

-PJ

28 posted on 04/16/2019 5:26:25 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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29 posted on 04/16/2019 5:30:44 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To have lived in Paris in recent years is to be well acquainted with loss and even unspeakable tragedy. The killing of 12 people in the attack at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo after a morning meeting in January 2015. The bombings and shootings that claimed 130 people at the national stadium, the Bataclan concert hall and on random cafe terraces near the Canal Saint-Martin. The killings of two elderly Jewish women — one hurled from her apartment window. The omnipresence of armed guards at any site where crowds may gather.

Hm. And I'm guessing the author can't quite grasp what, exactly, all these have in common?
30 posted on 04/16/2019 5:59:28 AM PDT by Svartalfiar
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Not a certifiable miracle from what I can see.

Notre Dame still has a Cathedral Chapter—which is sort of like a religious order attached to a particular Church—and lots of staff. If they were to have a fire, it likely couldn’t have happened at a better time for having all hands on deck and no people who were not part of the team in the way.

It would take bravery to go into a burning Church, but the thing is high enough and the stone ceiling provides enough protection that it isn’t rushing into your standard burning building.

It looks to me like they lost a really nice steeple, three of four world class pieces of stained glass (and some others as well) but the pulpit, which is made of wood and not that far from the part of the ceiling that did give way still stood. The free-standing altar looks ruined. Alas.


31 posted on 04/16/2019 5:59:45 AM PDT by Hieronymus ("I shall drink--to the Pope, if you please,-still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.")
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To: Svartalfiar

Another battle in the war....lost.

Another Light Out....


32 posted on 04/16/2019 6:05:48 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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“What does that mean, they are going to add islamic touches during the rebuilding of Notre Dame?”

There are no “islamic touches”. Either it’s a mosque, which means all Christian iconography has to be destroyed or defaced, or it isn’t.


33 posted on 04/16/2019 9:27:43 AM PDT by Boogieman
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