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Apple Donating to Notre Dame Rebuilding Efforts in Paris After Historic Cathedral Damaged in Fire
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Indeed it is a magnificent building, but there are many older surviving buildings like this one, it's from 140 B.C.
List of oldest known surviving buildings
No offense taken as I don’t think I said anything wrong. Well, besides the snarky comment in pricing. The last time I checked, businesses could deduct 10% of their taxable income. Has to be a 501(c)3 which the Catholic Church should be...
Are you crazy
Very depressing. We visited last year. It was most breath taking and awe inspiring.
And rebuilding will not be the same. Things simply aren't built like they used to.
I'll bite, for several reasons
First, this building is of significant importance to all people, people enjoy going for holidays and see this, might even prolong their lives.
This building outlived lots of generations of people.
There are plenty of people, too many already, yes, I like both my life and care about others but people have to die,
You see where it takes us now, eventually this world will be in deep **** because we care too much.
Distaste-full, not really.
Most of that money is not raw cash but valued through pieces of priceless art, similar to Notre Dame.
Sad that this occurred during the restauración that had already began, and the fire likely the fault of something went awry during said project.
The brick walls and foundation still standing for is a pure incredible testament to the masons that built this monument!
Leaves much power to the phrase ‘The don’t build them like that anymore’
Ok. It’s too bad the Catholic Church doesn’t have any money to rebuild their own church, and needs everyone else to dig deep into their pockets to foot the bill, what with all the lands they own and taxes they don’t pay worldwide.
Hm. I started out being facetious, but there may be an actual cynical argument in there.
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The Catholic Church doesn’t own the church. In 1905 France passed a law, as a result of which the State owns the physical building.
That’s a great arrangement. That way, one religion can still spread their churches far and wide, and make everyone else everywhere pay for them. Alright, that’s all the cynicism I can muster.
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Yeah, it was a challenge to watch that go on in real time and try to maintain a detached architectural perspective on it, but then Le Duc’s spire collapsed and it was like a punch right in the guts.
The Notre-Dame is actually owned by the France state, but not the catholic church.
In European countries in general their own history is some times also the history of the Catholic church and both can't be separated until that actually happened as modern states came to be.
A fun fact to illustrate this
Do you know that the roundel in my country's air force comes from an order of exiled Templar Knights?
It is a great historical building,but is by no means the oldest surviving building. San Marco Basilica in Venice was completed in 1071. Its domed structure was modeled after the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), which was completed in 537 AD. Other standing structures of even more antiquity can be found in Rome (Colosseum, 80 AD) , parts of Greece (Parthenon, dating from 432 BC), and throughout Asia and the Near East. Notre Dame is among several other great cathedrals to be found in France, which is second only to Rome and Venice in Western Catholic antiquity and heritage. I have never visited Paris, and now wish I had - the old cathedral likely won't complete renovations in my remaining lifetime. It is amazing that the building survived both the French Revolution and two world wars. Even Hitler refrained from bombing the historical treasures of Paris and structures such as Chartres Cathedral in the French countryside.
To your point about the lead, I guess the reason the smoke was yellow is bc it was burning up. That can't be good for the people around there. Ugh.
The lead melted. It didn’t vaporize. It would have to be around 3000 degrees Fahrenheit to vaporize.
Melting lead is melting lead. There's a reason why you aren't supposed to huff the fumes when you're soldering something, be it electronics or stained glass.
Well, the building has generated, generates, and will generate billions of dollars to its community if not an entire country. During the years, Notre Dame has provided to more people what a billion of dollars can't provide if not for a very limited time and for a limited set of people. There are about 9 million people living below poverty line in France (1,000Euros or less a month). A billion dollar would generate about 110Euros per person below poverty line. Once. A billion dollar invested to reconstruct Notre Dame will provide much more money to the community each year, for a few hundred years, therefore limiting poverty and increasing the numbers of jobs.
Also, Notre Dame is surrounded by homes and offices. Part of their high value is because they are at "walking distance" from Notre Dame (among others). Without a fully functioning Notre Dame, thousands of building would lose part of their value and appeal.
In addition, yeah. Lives are lost every day, and suffer every day. Take a snapshot of today's earth. All 7.5 billion people. You can be sure that in 120 years or so, all of them will be dead. A few other billions will keep dying, most likely until the end of times, exactly as many billions died in the past for whatever reason. What remains of those billions of people? Their work, what they left behind them. Notre Dame is one of the things that Parisians left us, leave us, and will keep leaving us (until its destruction). They left it us during several wars, governments, poverty, richness, empires, and revolutions. All the poor in Paris are represented by that building. All the rich in Paris are represented by that building. That building is one of the things that remain of all Parisians that lived, worked, and died since the day the first stone was set. A brutal emperor was crowned in there and I walked in there. We are equalized in there as that building is what remains; neither Napoleon or myself will outlive it.
So no, for a society which is fairly in good shape, a building like that one is not only a good investment, but a fundamental functional element.
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