Only 50/50 chance Notre Dame can be saved

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Who cares?

I care. I like architecture and old buildings.

It’s a cathedral from around the 12th century.....an architectural marvel.

So did the people of Dresden.

You are a biological marvel,
Yet you too will fade into infinity and beyond.

It’s still a tragedy, no matter how you slice it.

Suppose a fire destroyed the Sydney Opera House?

At least you got that 50% chance.

Same answer.

I see the big picture.
Everything, including the earth, will eventually be swallowed by a red dying sun.
The only difference is the time factor.

It seems to be a bit silly to become overly sentimental about material objects.

WE are material objects as well, and if WE can't be sentimental over material objects, where would that leave US?

I lement over some of the historic structures in my town, I've seen in old photographs that were torn down. There was a really cool 19th century building downtown that had to be demolished after a fire a couple of years before I moved there. I'm not into inanimate objects, but still I feel saddend by it.

You are young.
Come back in 40 years and we will be on the same footing.
Well, actually, I will be under your footing.
You do see my point? <rhetorical question>

Life is for the living,
Not so much for when you are dead, buried and forgotten.

But have you ever been a "Material Girl"?


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The living are the ones who enjoy old buildings. The dead just haunt them, and add to their tourist attraction appeal.

I would like to see the Notre Dame cathedral saved and restored, and then turned into a museum dedicated to the excesses of exploitative cults and religions.

It is the cathedral of Paris, and belongs therefore to the Roman Catholic population of Paris, who are nice enough to open it up and let the tourists from round the world, any religion, no religion, whatever, come take a look.

Even if no tourist ever sets foot inside Notre Dame again, I still hope the rebuilders can stabilize the church so that Parisians can use it again. It's a marvel of architecture, a famous place, but technically it is their church first and foremost.