How would you rebuild New Orleans?
So, New Orleans should look more like...no, they have a lottery...like...no, the poor can't afford houses there...like...no, you can buy liquor in convenience stores over there. Hmmm...so, where can we find a role model for the new New Orleans to suit Franklin Graham?
For those who hint the lifestyle in the Big Easy brought about its destruction, who's next? I mean, Nevada still has brothels.
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I wouldn't. Why build another disaster waiting to happen. A city built in a bowl makes absolutely no sense whatso ever.
One can make a mistke once and it 's called ignorance. Keep on doing it over again, it's called stupidity.
Posted on October 4, 2005 12:06 PM
I thought that if you really need to re-build N.O. the best thing would be to build everything on 20-ft stilts. Then go ahead and let the ocean in. Make the city an American version of Venice.
As for the other point... about Graham, and wanting to build a less sinful place: yeah, that'll really happen. I get so tired of listening to all that Old Testament superstitious nonsense about community responsibility for individual transgressions. I bet it played well in the bronze ages, but we really ought to grow up, IMO.
Posted on October 4, 2005 1:59 PM
What should New Orleans look like? How about new? The old New Orleans was beloved not only for its jazzy soul but for its antebellum architecture. I hear a lot still stands, but the old "shotgun" houses of the lower classes are demolition fodder.
So, why not put all those billions planned to rebuild into a truly 21st century design? Or are we so stuck in nostalgia that we would prefer all economic classes have hi-def TV inside pseudo-19th century façades?
Actually, we have exactly that in Franklin Graham; only subtract 700 years.
Posted on October 5, 2005 10:17 AM
Nancy: The New Orleans/Nevada "sin capitals" association you brought up has been mentioned by others (some seriously, some facetiously), and it made me think of something weird/ironic:
Both localities are all about water.
New Orleans is drowning and Nevada is drying up. Opposite ends of the H2O spectrum, but both preoccupied with the wet stuff, nonetheless.
Interesting, huh?
Now with all the metaphors and imagery in the Bible about water, well, I can't BELIEVE no one has preached THAT sermon yet! ;) j/k
Posted on October 6, 2005 5:47 PM