Great meditation on the cross. Herr Luther would approve.
Isn't it amazing that the impact of Christ in history was so significant that even his mode of death was slowly turned into a metaphor, because men increasingly shunned making a spectacle out of it? I'm not completely sanguine about using M.D.s to devise modern capital punishments, as that goes against their oaths, but it heartens me that the civil authorities no longer view it as a means to frighten the citizens into worshipping power, as it was used in Rome.
Now we can talk about bearing our cross even if it's an illness, or family conflict. It retains its humbling and somewhat public character. A means to suffer something faithfully while doing good and serving as an example to the world.
That was a delight to read. Thank you. Venice is now slightly demystified for me, and I'm even more eager now to visit someday.
To me, cars don't represent dehumanization, so much as frontier economics. The internal combustion engine and plentiful fuel were effective solutions in certain places to the boom of human growth and what that naturally does to real estate values. As an American, of course, my perception is colored by the western expansion. The car is essentially the horse. The Methodist circuit riders couldn't have done what they did without the horse, or, in another day and age, the car.
But there is no denying the delight of a pedestrian dominated cosmopolitan landscape. I wonder if perhaps these landscapes will emerge more and more as the earth becomes more cosmopolitan, as the bible seems to predict, and newer, more cost effective solutions are developed.
Some extol trains, which have their allure. But it's difficult to imagine those in Venice!
It will be fun to see in 100 or 200 years if even the relatively economically modest demographic set are able to enjoy delightful walking cities. Even some stereotypical sprawling car built cities in the USA, founded after the ICE, are now wealthy enough to install numerous delightful walking and biking greenbelts.
Great meditation on the cross. Herr Luther would approve.
Isn't it amazing that the impact of Christ in history was so significant that even his mode of death was slowly turned into a metaphor, because men increasingly shunned making a spectacle out of it? I'm not completely sanguine about using M.D.s to devise modern capital punishments, as that goes against their oaths, but it heartens me that the civil authorities no longer view it as a means to frighten the citizens into worshipping power, as it was used in Rome.
Now we can talk about bearing our cross even if it's an illness, or family conflict. It retains its humbling and somewhat public character. A means to suffer something faithfully while doing good and serving as an example to the world.
Speaking as a privileged westerner, of course...
That was a delight to read. Thank you. Venice is now slightly demystified for me, and I'm even more eager now to visit someday.
To me, cars don't represent dehumanization, so much as frontier economics. The internal combustion engine and plentiful fuel were effective solutions in certain places to the boom of human growth and what that naturally does to real estate values. As an American, of course, my perception is colored by the western expansion. The car is essentially the horse. The Methodist circuit riders couldn't have done what they did without the horse, or, in another day and age, the car.
But there is no denying the delight of a pedestrian dominated cosmopolitan landscape. I wonder if perhaps these landscapes will emerge more and more as the earth becomes more cosmopolitan, as the bible seems to predict, and newer, more cost effective solutions are developed.
Some extol trains, which have their allure. But it's difficult to imagine those in Venice!
It will be fun to see in 100 or 200 years if even the relatively economically modest demographic set are able to enjoy delightful walking cities. Even some stereotypical sprawling car built cities in the USA, founded after the ICE, are now wealthy enough to install numerous delightful walking and biking greenbelts.