Palmyra's Baalshamin Temple 'blown Up By Is'

[naomi24]

I read this with tears in my eyes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34036644

Each time another of their atrocities raises its thoroughly ugly head I'm reminded of a line from the script of West Side Story .... "You're making this world rotten".

[pusskin]

naomi, I watched bbc news at lunchtime with tears in my eyes too.
Yes, this world is rotten due to these monsters.

[Svejk]

Goes without saying. Utter madness.

[mikey4444]

I too think that this kind of cultural destruction is dreadful, but I would save your tears Naomi, for the 100,000's of refugees fleeing for their lives from IS, many of them terrified women and young children, and even more for the countless others that never made it, and were killed by IS or Bashar al-Assad's barrel bombs.

Buildings can be rebuilt.....lives can't.

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

Stick to the original post, instead of using it as a platform for your own agenda.

[-Talbot-]

Buildings can be rebuilt.....lives can't.


Are the refugees not leaving to rebuild their lives'?

[mikey4444]

My meaning was obvious......dead people can't be brought back to life, but buildings can be remade and rebuilt. Why are there "tears in the eyes" for ruins and not for the humanitarian tragedy unfolding before our very lives ?

[Khandro]

'Don't break what you can't make' : I don't believe there is one single tradesman among these morons - someone who can create or build anything. When all is destroyed in their dream-state, what will they live off, and what will they live in?
Farmers have complained that next year's seed crop has already been eaten.

[stuey]

Mikey, that's like saying that you don't care about all the magnificent buildings that were destroyed by the Germans when they bombed the hell out of Britain: only the people who were killed. Surely you can feel "sorry" for both.

[naomi24]

Mikey, //Why are there "tears in the eyes" for ruins and not for the humanitarian tragedy unfolding before our very lives ? //

Are there not? Who says so?

These buildings cannot be rebuilt. They are irreplaceable.

[Canary42]

You say what you like Mikey, don't let the nascent censors silence you.

[-Talbot-]

but buildings can be remade and rebuilt.


They would be merely clones, replicas mikey.

About as attractive to visit as Lego-land.

[Svejk]

I'm sure McAlpines Fusiliers could whip something up, Naomi.
;o)

[pusskin]

I feel very sad that these lovely structures can never be replaced, apart from all the misery surrounding people who live there.

[naomi24]

Canary, are you sure you mean "nascent"?

[mikey4444]

Yes, Stuey, of course I can. The destruction of ancient ruins is an act of vandalism. But I was just questioning the lack of sympathy from some of here, for people, compared to the concern for old buildings.

The building can be replaced, as was shown in Europe after WW2. Europe is dotted by re-made buildings. I went to Monte Casino a few years ago, and the reconstruction of the Abbey there is magnificent....I would urge anyone to visit.

But the dead can't be brought back to life. Many thousands are still dying every week in Syria, and I would like to see some sympathy for those still fleeing this civil war, as well as shedding some tears for buildings.

[stuey]

This is sort of an interesting thread and, like others, it keeps on getting pushed off "Latest Posts" by all the crossword and puzzle questions. I've said this before: can't those Topics all be combined into their own "Latest Posts"?

[mikey4444]

Multi-tasking is what is called for Stuey !

[stuey]

Well, I've had my little r--t (Goes with "...and rave").

[-Talbot-]

But the dead can't be brought back to life. Many thousands are still dying every week in Syria, and I would like to see some sympathy for those still fleeing this civil war


Dead people can't be brought back to life but they are replaced with new-born. It is a fact of life that people die.

This thread is about the Baalshamin Temple, as you have said many, many times, mikey...if you want to start your own thread on 'sympathy for refugees' do so.

[naomi24]

Mikey doesn't appear to understand or appreciate culture.