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Concrete Faith: The creation of the Baha'i house of worship (2023)
Author : goles
Score : 58 points
Date : 2024-06-06 23:12 UTC (23 hours ago)
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| lo_zamoyski wrote:
| People need beauty. When people are put in an ugly environment
| and situated in a culture of ugliness, this need will be
| expressed in destructive ways. In such an environment, the female
| body will become increasingly the sole focus of male interest as
| it becomes the only source of beauty in that environment. And
| that kind of intensity, which would otherwise would sublimated in
| the richness of a beautiful environment, is now directed entirely
| toward the female body. This doesn't bode well for either men or
| women.
|
| Beauty is not a luxury. It is essential to humanity. Deprive us
| of beauty, fill our world with ugly architecture and ugly art,
| with ugly human culture, and you will breed misery.
| slim wrote:
| some people perceive beauty as alien and if burdened with
| competitive mindset, they seek to destroy it
| octopoc wrote:
| Nobody truly hates beauty, but some people view most other
| people as cattle, and they don't want to invest a ton of
| money in making the barn beautiful. Especially because they
| rarely / never have to lay eyes on the barn. But their own
| homes? Yeah, they'll make those beautiful.
| somid3 wrote:
| For those not familiar with Baha'i temples or houses of worship,
| lmk. I'm a Baha'i in case anyone has questions. Fun fact... do
| you know who introduced Steve Jobs to Wozniak was a Baha'i? It's
| the only tech related thing I could think of when I wrote this.
| But Baha'is are pretty progressive towards tech.
| Aerbil313 wrote:
| Every other value system on Earth must be evaluated by its
| relationship with tech, whether they see technology as a net
| positive or net negative force.
| em-bee wrote:
| heh, i didn't know that. more well known is actually this quote
| by Shoghi Effendi written in 1936 predicting the internet:
|
| _A mechanism of world inter-communication will be devised,
| embracing the whole planet, freed from national hindrances and
| restrictions, and functioning with marvelous swiftness and
| perfect regularity._
| WarOnPrivacy wrote:
| Baha'i buildings are gorgeous; rivaling (US) Hindu and LDS
| temples. I wish there were more of them.
|
| The complex in Haifa is just superb.
| somid3 wrote:
| Search for the Baha'i Lotus Temple of India. It's also
| beautiful
| hi-v-rocknroll wrote:
| In other news and by contrast, Scientology opened a massive,
| ugly storefront across from UT on Guadalupe St. in Austin, TX.
| (Look at this celebration of stupidity.[0]) I guess they
| couldn't get sucker enough tech people in Mountain View, CA on
| Castro St., so they had to try again in a different market
| preying on naive young people, influenced by TikTok and/or
| evangelical Christianity, who aren't as cosmopolitan.
|
| If you're going to pitch people magical thinking, don't steal
| from them and don't fill them with awful ideas like
| ethnoreligious nationalism, suicide bombing, external locus-of-
| control, denial of science, "infallible" messiahs, excessive
| generosity harming individual survival, or shunning "infidels".
|
| 0.
| https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/2346782/grand_opening_ideal...
| sitkack wrote:
| I implore you, if you are within an hour of Evanston Illinois, go
| to
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_House_of...
| felixnm wrote:
| I agree. Other than the many beautiful homes and beaches, there
| are not a lot of things to see in Wilmette. Unlike other large
| buildings, mainly in the Northwestern (Evanston) campus area to
| the south, the Baha'i Temple is truly majestic and elegant that
| blends in well with the surrounding neighborhood.
| gjreda wrote:
| Grab some baked goods at Hewn (in Evanston), visit the Bahai
| temple, and then walk across the street to Gillson Park to
| wander the Lake Michigan shore and eat your goods from Hewn.
|
| The easternmost portion of Northwestern's campus also has a
| nice walking/biking path along the lakeshore with a great view
| looking back towards the Chicago skyline.
| sitkack wrote:
| Take off your sandals, and soak your toes in that crisp clear
| water, but only a little past your ankles or the moment will
| have spoiled by the crackle of the beach nazis on atvs, "No
| SWIMMING! GET OUT OF THE WATER".
| gjreda wrote:
| The recent changes have gotten absurd
| contingencies wrote:
| That's a shame. I recall last summer seeing some dedicated
| and well-wetsuited people swimming much closer to town,
| along the concrete shoreline to the north of Ohio Street
| Beach.
| Kon-Peki wrote:
| That's the difference between the city and the suburbs.
| Swimming in the city is fine if a lifeguard is on duty.
|
| https://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/parks-
| facilities/beaches
|
| Swimming in the Great Lakes is very dangerous, especially
| if you are not familiar with the behavior of the lakes.
|
| https://glsrp.org/statistics/
| npongratz wrote:
| I hate Illinois Nazis.
| kwhitefoot wrote:
| So much for the land of the free.
| Kon-Peki wrote:
| If you're a tourist, know that you can take the Purple Line
| elevated train from downtown Chicago. At the end of the train
| line, it is about 0.5 KM east, along a lovely tree-lined
| street with sidewalks. The street turns into cobblestones
| after a short distance; it is a very wealthy area.
| brudgers wrote:
| In Oak Park, there's also Wright's concrete Unity Church from
| 1906 for extended Chicago area architectural sight seeing. It's
| about twenty miles.
|
| https://flwright.org/explore/unity-temple
| bbarn wrote:
| When I used to live in Chicago and bike race, this was one of the
| local sprint finish points on weekend group rides. A long flat
| road into a short climb and some of my favorite memories.
|
| There's also a beautiful cobbled street on the other side of it.
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