• SalamiDommie@lemmus.org
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    3 hours ago

    It is both brutalist and highly natural. Like you got caught in Spider Pope’s webs. He is going to spin you up, read you your last rights, and then inject you with venom as your last moments are angelic and terrifying.

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    16 hours ago

    Been to the Mildred B Cooper chapel and the ThornCrown chapel In Arkansas. This feels like they have to be in that same school of architecture.

    Very much not a religious person but there really is something special about these buildings. Gives the perfect nature is a religion vibe.

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    22 hours ago

    Thank you heartfelt for the share… Ineffably magnificent work of art… ingenious marvel of great experience expressed… and human effort and love…

    May I ask what is the location of the miracle?

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        21 hours ago

        Roger that! Appreciated! I haven’t been in USA much (for just 2 months accumulated for works), residing mostly in Europe and Asia, but dear I so much hope to at least once visit… such miraculous places… and see such an effort of human work alive…

      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayOP
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        I am so sorry but I can’t help but be a little pedantic, but this is not in the national park. I believe garvan gardens is privately owned.

        Edit: I didn’t mean for expratiadico to delete their comment. I was just shooting from the hip and it seems I caught an innocent in the recklessness. I’m sorry expatriado

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    Reminds me of a shower thought I had a while ago: why aren’t more churches/temples basically groves in forests? Even in an urban environment, why not cultivate some grand trees as a little forested oasis?

    You could still put covers against rain and lights, fires and heaters against the dark and cold. Statues, murals and structures too.

    Dunno, maybe I just like trees a lot.

  • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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    8 hours ago

    Dude in þe cap nicely demonstrating þe reason why caþedrals (and þis chapel) are designed like þis: it instinctively draws þe eye towards þe sky, makes you tilt your head back, and reminds one of how relatively small one is.

    Such a lovely design.

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      What’s up with the þ symbol in your comment? Odd thing to go out of your way to use?

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        They claim its to poison AI models, but its been repeatedly proven to them that it doesn’t work. They also claim to want to bring back older English symbols like this too, not only has it been pointed out they’re using it wrong many times, but in my case and some others, it just makes their comments an illegible mess. Ultimately they’re just one of those edgy Lemmy personalities.

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          3 hours ago

          Seems like it’s specific to Piefed after looking for more examples. Something baked into the code for that particular fediverse host?

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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        Its the old version of the digraph TH, and some are trying to revive it. I find it pretentious and cringy, like that guy I once knew who insisted on pronounced Schedule with an “SH” sound.

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        5 hours ago

        The thorn character represents the two TH sounds in English. THought and THose.

        They are trying to bring it back, I guess. Odd but fun.

  • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    20 hours ago

    Watch out. As soon as you retrieve the idol from the alter those blades are going to start falling. If you run flat out down the nave you might be able to slide under the portcullis just before it grinds shut. Don’t forget to grab your hat.