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Nine Most Unique Churches.
Harajuku: Japanese Futuristic Church
Harajuku: Japanese Futuristic Church
This futuristic non Catholic church is located in Tokyo and it was first unveiled by the design firm of Ciel Rouge Creation in 2005. The ceiling is specially made to reverberate natural sound for 2 seconds to provide a unique listening experience for worshipers and tourists.
Saint Basil's Cathedral: The Red Square's Colorful Church

The St. Basil's Cathedral is located on the Red Square in Moscow, Russia.
A Russian Orthodox church, the Cathedral sports a series of colorful bulbous domes that taper to a point, aptly named onion domes, that are part of Moscow's Kremlin skyline. The cathedral was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible to commemorate the capture of the Khanate of Kazan. In 1588 Tsar Fedor Ivanovich had a chapel added on the eastern side above the grave of Basil Fool for Christ, A Russian Orthodox saint after whom the cathedral was popularly named.
Hallgrímskirkja: Iceland's Most Amazing Church

The Hallgrímskirkja (literally, the church of Hallgrímur) is a Lutheran parish church located in Reykjavík, Iceland. At 74.5 metres (244 ft), it is the fourth tallest architectural structure in Iceland. The church is named after the Ice-landic poet and clergyman Hallgrímur Pétursson (1614 to 1674), author of the Passion Hymns. State Architect Guðjón Samúelsson's design of the church was commissioned in 1937; it took 38 years to build it.
Cathedral of Brasília: The Modern Church of architect Oscar Niemeyer

The Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida in the capital of Brazilis an expression of the architect Oscar Niemeyer. This concrete-framed hyper-boloid structure, seems with its glass roof to be reaching up, Open, to heaven. On 31 May 1970, the Cathedral's structure was finished, and only the 70 m diameter of the circular area were visible. Niemeyer's project of Cathedral of Brasília is based in the hyperboloid of revolution which sections are asymmetric. The hyperboloid structure itself is a result of 16 identical assembled concrete columns. These columns, having hyperbolic section and weighing 90 t, represent two hands moving upwards to heaven.
The Cathedral was dedicated on 31 May 1970.
Borgund Church: Best Preserved Stave Church

The Borgund Stave Church in Lærdal is the best preserved of Norway's 28 extant stave churches. This wooden church, probably built in the end of the 12th century, has not changed structure or had a major reconstruction since the date it was built. The church is also featured as a Wonder for the Viking civilization in the video game Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings.
Las Lajas Cathedral: A Gothic Church Worthy of a Fairy Tale

The Las Lajas Cathedral is located in southern Colombia and built in 1916 inside the canyon of the Guaitara River. According to the legend, this was the place where an Indian woman named María Mueses de Quiñones was carrying her deaf-mute daughter Rosa on her back near Las Lajas ("The Rocks").
Weary of the climb, the María sat down on a rock when Rosa spoke (for the first time) about an apparition in a cave. Later on, a mysterious painting of the Virgin Mary carrying a baby was discovered on the wall of the cave. Supposedly, studies of the painting showed no proof of paint or pigments on the rock, instead, when a core sample was taken, it was found that the colors were impregnated in the rock itself to a depth of several feet. Whether true or not, the legend spurred the building of this amazing church.
St. Joseph Church: Known for its Thirteen Gold Domed Roof

The St.. Joseph The Betrothed is an Ukrainian Greek- Catholic Church in Chicago. Built in 1956, it is most known for its ultra-modern thirteen gold domed roof symbolizing the twelve Apostles and Jesus Christ as the largest center dome. The interior of the church is completely adorned with Byzantine style icons (frescoes). Unfortunately the iconographer was deported back to his homeland before he was able to write the names of all the saints as pre-scribed by iconographic traditions.
Ruica Church: Where Chandeliers are made of Bullet Shells

Located over the Kalemegdan Fortress in Belgrade, Serbia, the Ru¸ica Church is a small chapel decorated with... with trench art! Its chandeliers are entirely made of spent bullet casing, swords, and cannon parts. The space the church now occupies was used by the Turks as gunpowder storage for over 100 years and it had to be largely rebuilt in 1920 after WWI. Though damaged by bombings there was an upshot to the terrible carnage of The Great War. While fighting along side England and the US, Serbian soldiers on the Thessaloniki front took the time to put together these amazing chandeliers. It is one of the world's finest examples of trench art.
Chapel of St-Gildas: Built into the base of a bare rocky cliff

The Chapel of St-Gildas sits upon the bank of the Canal du Blavet in Brittany, France. Built like a stone barn into the base of a bare rocky cliff, this was once a holy place of the Druids.
St. Gildas appears to have traveled widely throughout the Celtic world of Corwall, Wales, Ireland and Scotland.
He arrived in Brittany in about AD 540 and is said to have preached Christianity to the people from a rough pulpit, now contained within the chapel.
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PATIENCE, not just a virtue, A REQUIREMENT
Early October, a young lady and her little bounding pup, Rover, set out for their usual walk, however, this trip, delivered a life lesson that was anything but usual.
While restraining her energetic, goal oriented retriever, she spotted a motionless black cat. Initially the dog owner assumed the cat was captivated by Rover, and as they got closer, she realized this was not the case.
This young stray cat, unaware of their presence, was mesmerized by one of mother natures greatest creations; A spider web. As the sun shone through its moist tentacles, the cat took the next 3 minutes to investigate, visually dissect then finally, sniff the spider web.
Once satisfied, the cat sauntered through a nearby fence, leaving the woman to ponder, "what would a spider web smell like?", and "When was the last time I stopped my journey, to investigate and enjoy one of the many magical gifts before my eyes?"
As you hurry through life in pursuit of your goals, remember this little cat, slow down, stop and enjoy life's offerings.
Although pursuing goals and dreams is important, remember to stop and enjoy the journey, for achieving goals unfulfilled, would be more tragic than not achieving them at all.
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If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
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Sat here last night pondering the problems behind Re-Using groups and came to the conclusion that we are probably wasting our time trying to compete with Freecycle.
Not many months ago a local Group broke away and renamed itself, they transferred over the complete membership from the old Freecycle Group, the numbers of new members seems to have slowed whilst the number of new members on the resurrected Freecycle Group has grown steadily, the amount of new messages on the Freecycle Group is remaining steady at around 300 a week whilst the breakaway Group is getting less than 200 new messages, that coincidentally have already been listed on the Freecycle Group.
This happens every time a Group breaks from Freecycle, and from what I have witnessed the breakaway Group gradually slows to almost a standstill.
My own Recycl4free groups get a steady stream of new members but very few post any Wants or Offers as they usually find the Freecycle Group in the same area, as it is seen to be a lot busier they get all the traffic.
We are supposed to be just interested in keeping stuff out of landfill so would it not make sense to support the Freecycle Groups, they are after all getting the results that we do not.
BTW, I still cant stand Dearone and his policies but everybody around the World knows what Freecycle does, I tell people about Recycle4Free and the usual reply is, "So its like Freecycle then"Why do I bother, like Jackie I too could do with a break, hence my ramblings.
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