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The deputy mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Gregoire, said the cathedral had suffered "colossal damages", and the emergency services were trying to salvage the art and other priceless pieces stored in the cathedral. A cathedral spokesman said the entire wooden interior was burning and likely to be destroyed.
Sounds like the whole thing may go up in flames. There's a reason for modern building codes. A structure made entirely out of wood, is a huge bonfire, waiting to happen. Thankfully, at this time, there are no reported deaths.
[Update: 2019-04-16 @ 0222: The Cathedral is not "made entirely out of wood" as was suggested above. There is a great deal of stone work in its construction which can be readily seen on its Wikipedia page. I was at work when I heard news of the fire, immediately took a break, loaded the story queue on my phone, saw a story submission on the fire, and pushed it out to the community. In my haste to get the story out, I failed to notice the erroneous claim about wood construction. I apologize for the error. --martyb]
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/notre-dame-cathedral-fire-today-2019-04-15/
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 15 2019, @10:43PM (5 children)
Instead of lamenting that the whole structure could come tumbling down, others of us were doing something useful and praying for the fire to end. And our prayers worked since the main structure was saved. So instead of fueling your vanity by drawing attention to yourself, why not take a moment to thank the Anonymous Cowards who had the presence of mind to ask God to save this beautiful structure.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Pslytely Psycho on Tuesday April 16 2019, @02:11AM (3 children)
Hahahaha....'Useful,' and 'Praying' in the same sentence.
There is nothing more useless than 'thoughts and prayers.'
"You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Joe Pesci. Two reasons; first of all, I think he's a good actor. Okay. To me, that counts. Second; he looks like a guy who can get things done. Joe Pesci doesn't fuck around. In fact, Joe Pesci came through on a couple of things that God was having trouble with. For years I asked God to do something about my noisy neighbor with the barking dog. Joe Pesci straightened that cock-sucker out with one visit."
-George Carlin
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Tuesday April 16 2019, @06:01AM (1 child)
If you believe in it, praying is indeed useful for your psyche.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Tuesday April 16 2019, @09:36AM
And put that way I would of wholeheartedly agreed.
However, it was phrased as "Instead of lamenting that the whole structure could come tumbling down, others of us were doing something useful and praying for the fire to end. And our prayers worked since the main structure was saved."
Insinuating divine intervention, which if it were, why was it allowed to burn in the first place?
God has the best PR anywhere, if it's good, it's gods will, if it's bad god works in mysterious ways.
Useful prayers might of been for the firefighters who put themselves on the line to save this historic building. But no, god gets the credit, while the firefighters were not even considered. I wonder how it would of fared on prayer alone?
And besides, once in a while ya just gotta troll someone.
Peace out!
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(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Tuesday April 16 2019, @02:35PM
Prayer is absolutely useful!
It is useful for the person praying to feel good about doing nothing.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 2) by DutchUncle on Tuesday April 16 2019, @05:30PM
If I had to choose between "prayers" and "atheist and satanist firemen spraying water on the fire", I'll choose the satanists, thanks.