RE: Nicholas Roerich (for the love of God)
July 6, 2012 at 7:48 am
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2012 at 8:09 am by Darth.)
There is nothing of greater value than freedom.
To prioritise cultural artefacts over the lives and freedoms of people is to have your priorities completely ass backwards in my opinion.
My life is nothing but a rude and ignorant period of time if some theatres deteriorate? There are far more important things in this world. The rights of cultural treasures to have a perpetual existence? Who decides what is and isn't a cultural 'treasure'? Who pays for it? If you want it preserved, you pay for it, or convince others to.
I'm a firm believer in freedom of speech, the often forgotten side of it is that you don't get to have the government use coercion and force to take money from people to support speech they don't believe in, and perhaps even find offensive. One person's speech, it doesn't matter when they were born, shouldn't be subsidised or prioritised because some politician or beurocratic waste of space is a fan of theirs. They forcibly take from others, who then are less able to express themselves, to produce their own speech.
You say you came here looking for answers, yet you seem to have made assumptions about our beliefs and reasons for them, and then seek to instruct us. You won't find many answers this way.
To prioritise cultural artefacts over the lives and freedoms of people is to have your priorities completely ass backwards in my opinion.
Quote:Later it was the devastations of the first World War and the Russian revolution that spurred his own efforts. He came to realize that the cultural heritage of each nation is in essence a world treasure. And his idea of cultural heritage broadened to include more than just the physical remains of earlier cultures—the buildings and art, for example—but also the creative activities, the universities, the libraries, the hospitals, the concert halls and theaters. All must be protected from the ravages of war and neglect, for without them life would be nothing but a rude and ignorant time on earth.
My life is nothing but a rude and ignorant period of time if some theatres deteriorate? There are far more important things in this world. The rights of cultural treasures to have a perpetual existence? Who decides what is and isn't a cultural 'treasure'? Who pays for it? If you want it preserved, you pay for it, or convince others to.
I'm a firm believer in freedom of speech, the often forgotten side of it is that you don't get to have the government use coercion and force to take money from people to support speech they don't believe in, and perhaps even find offensive. One person's speech, it doesn't matter when they were born, shouldn't be subsidised or prioritised because some politician or beurocratic waste of space is a fan of theirs. They forcibly take from others, who then are less able to express themselves, to produce their own speech.
Quote: I only joined because I need to genuinely understand the logic and quantitative reasoning behind your "atheism"
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Please do not post anything about the Bible or Quran or any other book created by shitting, groveling humans. Arguments against religious texts are primitive and ignorant; it's obvious that historically men have scripted inherently flawed doctrines, simply because humans are by default, flawed. This does not mean that God does not exist . Religion is embedded into human culture and has fostered comparitively distinctive arts, music, sciences, and above all again, cultures. The superiority complex that often comes with religious groups is what confuses many athiests. Forget about religious technicalities and learn to draw parallels on a macro-level. Culture.
You say you came here looking for answers, yet you seem to have made assumptions about our beliefs and reasons for them, and then seek to instruct us. You won't find many answers this way.
