1) I always say "bye" when I hang up the phone. I don't know anybody who doesn't. 2) Here in SoCal, where it's warm and dry 98% of the time, footwear stays reasonably clean, so we wear shoes or flip-flops or slippers everywhere all the time. I wear slippers to the grocery store. When I was living in Canada, where it's cold and wet and snowy, shoes are always removed when you enter a house. Sometimes, if we're visiting friends, we bring slippers with us, and other times we just walk around in socks. But you can't tromp around in people's houses in wet muddy boots - that's just rude and awful.
On the other hand I couldn't give a shit whether people wear shoes in my house, and I have yet to meet a friend that asks me to take them off in their home.
Antwerp, august 1566. Iconoclastic Fury, the protestants movement against catholicism. 450 years later; I wonder where Protestantism stuck in time as an expression of dominating culture; to the point of the eradication of subcultures that are pillars of the national history. Christianity versus Islam: which religion is inspiring which? That aside, a source would be a desired tool. How else can I make the connection between radicalism, patience and effectiveness of the respective trends of eradication between the two? The Christians left the churches building standing. It's a good thing this didn't happen today in Christian society; it already peaked in domination and maintained emancipation. There would be no Vatican left tomorrow... I understand?
I don't know. All I know for me is that it isn't really a competition. Or if it is, it's the most depressing competition I've ever come across. The established Christian movement can also boast the Bonfire of the Vanities in Florence to it's list of crimes against art, culture and humanity. ISIS attacking Nimrod is happening right now however.
I know it's not a competition but it's happened before (and even though I see the connection there maybe is none)
I'm saying that ISIS is doing what the christians did 500 years ago, except they have modern equipment to facilitate their movement in a more radical and decisive way. I also say that's blind assumption because I have no source. Yes, I've seen the news but didn't pay close attention to it; and these were my initial thoughts. I thought "That's peculiar; I remember this from History class".
To be fair to you, the Bonfire of the Vanities was perpetrated for pretty much the same reason. That's the crime against art that I'm most familiar with from those days, anyway. However, with the Bonfire of the Vanities the church burned ... well, vanities: books and artwork they thought was racy. In ISIS they are destroying the remains of a civilization. If the Ancient Greeks were the cradle of western civilization and culture, Mesopotamia and Assyria were the act of conception. They are artifacts and antiques somewhere around 4,000 years old, so 'irreplaceable' should be thought of as a word in huge, 50ft letters.
I just wish sometimes it wasn't so effective. The Library of Alexandra - though, ok, apparently that was an accident. Shame. Imagine all the books we could still have had.
God knows what happened to it. I don't mean to idolize it at all even it doens't exist anymore; but if I would the destruction of it might have been considered not so bad at all to some people. And for some reason there are no depictions of this place...
I just have to post that I edited that post you quoted prior to this post, after your post I qouted post-edit
I have placed protective wards on the forum thanks to my Hylian magic. None shall pierce this forum! The phrase uttered if it is attempted? YOU! SHALL NOT!! PASS!!! <random flashing of lights and bursts of wind>
