Nice start, a donation that will surely entice other buko rich to follow suit.
Whatsoever you do
NEW HARTFORD — A statue of a “homeless Jesus,” currently sitting near the doorway of St. John’s Episcopal Church, is eliciting compassion from passers-by and a headache for local first responders.
The despondent figure, hunched over under a blanket with outstretched, beseeching hand, has evoked concern in those seeing it from afar. There have been three 911 calls to emergency services and the police, the most recent to the ambulance service at midnight Tuesday.
Town Administrative Assistant Christine Hayward wrote the Rev. Sandra Cosman suggesting a less visible location for the figure, created by sculptor Timothy Schmalz and titled “Whatsoever you do.”
Someone draped the figure with a scarf that “looked strikingly like a Hebrew prayer shawl” and that it remained covered “for some time,” she said. More recently, a pink glove was put on Jesus’ outstretched hand.
“Earlier this week, the shawl and glove were removed and brought to the church office,” Cosman wrote. “Yesterday, the person who removed [them] came to the church to explain that they removed the items because it is an art installation and the artist’s work should not be tampered with or changed. Clearly people are thinking.”
It’s not the first time a version of “Homeless Jesus” has prompted calls to the police and emergency services. In 2020, St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Bay Village, Ohio, hosted a Homeless Jesus art installation featuring Jesus lying on a bench and minutes after it was placed there someone reported it to police, thinking it was a real person.
In 2014, police in Davidson, N.C., received calls after the statue was placed at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church there. Church officials also received calls from neighbors and passers-by complaining about the statue.
There is a replica of the statue in Rome at the Via della Conziliazione, the street leading to St. Peter’s Basilica outside of the Papal Office of Charities.
The original sculpture was installed at Regis College at the University of Toronto in early 2013, and other versions have since been installed across the world. The statue is based on the Gospel of Matthew passage in which Jesus tells his disciples, “as you did it to one of the least of my brothers, you did it to me"
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: MeditateontheQ LLOLLO
on Friday, October 8, 2021 – 02:08 pm
proof point: He is moving
proof point: He is moving Tesla HQ to Texas, home of big truck lovers and legislators who are anti-women.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: jazfish Jazfish
on Friday, October 8, 2021 – 10:41 pm
He is way more savvy than me
He is way more savvy than me or you(most),,, or is he?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Lance minimum goad Newberry heathentom
on Saturday, October 9, 2021 – 06:34 am
Good riddance.
I say good riddance.
Get more/all of these huge tech companies out of the BA.
They say they're moving to Austin because of the cost of living in the Bay Area.
In a big way the cost of living in the Bay Area is BECAUSE of all the big-time tech companies.
If the exodus to Austin continues, it will be interesting to see what the housing market will look like there in the next few years.
And it will still be Texas.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Rasputin O'Leary Rasmataz
on Wednesday, February 16, 2022 – 06:19 pm
Elon Musk gave a mysterious $5.7 billion donation weeks after he dared the UN to show him its plan for solving world hunger – Fortune
https://fortune.com/2022/02/15/elon-musk-5-7-billion-donation-weeks-afte...
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on Wednesday, February 16, 2022 – 07:59 pm
Probably donated to some far
Probably donated to some far right organization that has nothing to do with addressing world hunger
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Rasputin O'Leary Rasmataz
on Thursday, February 17, 2022 – 01:03 pm
Nice start, a donation that
Nice start, a donation that will surely entice other buko rich to follow suit.
Whatsoever you do
NEW HARTFORD — A statue of a “homeless Jesus,” currently sitting near the doorway of St. John’s Episcopal Church, is eliciting compassion from passers-by and a headache for local first responders.
The despondent figure, hunched over under a blanket with outstretched, beseeching hand, has evoked concern in those seeing it from afar. There have been three 911 calls to emergency services and the police, the most recent to the ambulance service at midnight Tuesday.
Town Administrative Assistant Christine Hayward wrote the Rev. Sandra Cosman suggesting a less visible location for the figure, created by sculptor Timothy Schmalz and titled “Whatsoever you do.”
Someone draped the figure with a scarf that “looked strikingly like a Hebrew prayer shawl” and that it remained covered “for some time,” she said. More recently, a pink glove was put on Jesus’ outstretched hand.
“Earlier this week, the shawl and glove were removed and brought to the church office,” Cosman wrote. “Yesterday, the person who removed [them] came to the church to explain that they removed the items because it is an art installation and the artist’s work should not be tampered with or changed. Clearly people are thinking.”
It’s not the first time a version of “Homeless Jesus” has prompted calls to the police and emergency services. In 2020, St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Bay Village, Ohio, hosted a Homeless Jesus art installation featuring Jesus lying on a bench and minutes after it was placed there someone reported it to police, thinking it was a real person.
In 2014, police in Davidson, N.C., received calls after the statue was placed at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church there. Church officials also received calls from neighbors and passers-by complaining about the statue.
There is a replica of the statue in Rome at the Via della Conziliazione, the street leading to St. Peter’s Basilica outside of the Papal Office of Charities.
The original sculpture was installed at Regis College at the University of Toronto in early 2013, and other versions have since been installed across the world. The statue is based on the Gospel of Matthew passage in which Jesus tells his disciples, “as you did it to one of the least of my brothers, you did it to me"
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Philzone Refugee Herbal Dave
on Thursday, February 17, 2022 – 01:30 pm
If they bottled up and sold a
If they bottled up and sold a fragrance called Elon Musk, would it smell like shit?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Tim Wheres My Flashbacks
on Thursday, February 17, 2022 – 02:36 pm
Wants to put tunnels in Miami
Wants to put tunnels in Miami
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on Friday, February 18, 2022 – 08:57 am
Posted a Nazi meme, last
Posted a Nazi meme, last night...really brilliant mind
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Rasputin O'Leary Rasmataz
on Friday, February 18, 2022 – 09:26 am
He'll be the one you buy your
He'll be the one you buy your flying car with the flux capacitor from.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: intentionally blank mikeedwardsetc
on Friday, February 18, 2022 – 11:25 am
Lone Skum
Lone Skum
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on Friday, February 18, 2022 – 12:54 pm
I'm not sure he's crazy. I am
I'm not sure he's crazy. I am sure he's an enormous asshole.