I can feel both but the latter is the one that matters - outrage at violence against peaceful ppl, The former is an aesthetic thing.https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/927294670371045376 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Yes, aesthetic - but also, to me, there's a powerful poignance in the energy invested in making, say medieval churches, by people who ...
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Replying to @Friedmanzone @HPluckrose
... believed, simply or otherwise - or, let's face it, many not really at all - in the theological ideas associated with it. It's like ...
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Replying to @Friedmanzone @HPluckrose
... the memory of a kindness by a parent who really, at the time, didn't understand the problem they were trying to solve, but the effort...
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Replying to @Friedmanzone
Yes, I think that's the aesthetic pleasure in a church. The history & the care that's gone into it & the beauty of the building.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
This is nitpicking, but what I'm talking about is probably even better expressed in a badly-made building than a high-medieval masterpiece.
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Replying to @Friedmanzone
Ah. There we part ways. I have felt no reverence for a church which was essentially a concrete block that ppl held religious meetings in.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I know what u mean. If the place is v. old, tho, I think the combination of the gulf of time/understanding with architectural simplicity...
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