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Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

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Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This life-hack is significantly improved if you change it to: C->F: multiply by 2, then add 30 F->C: subtract 30, then divide by 2.

Ill say. If I follow GPs life-hack for 30C I get 60F, which is significantly different from 86F. Some life-hack.

30*2 + 30 = 90, which is pretty close to 86.

Going the other way

86-30 / 2 = 28 which is close to 30.

Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

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More interesting to me here is the history of the "line". Is this a medieval idea or a modern one? Wikipedia is surprisingly unhelpful. "According to legend", yeah ok. Who first wrote about this? Who picked those seven sites? The earliest source mentioned is from 1969, and it's not even about this particular line. There's no shortage of writing about esoteric Christian topics throughout the centuries, but this one se…

Right, that's the biggest thing. If medieval builders were deliberately placing these in a line, there would be documentation and discussion about it.

This comment has helped me realize that most people likely don't have an understanding of the deeper or more evolved spiritual-religious communities.

For example, the Santo Daime church originating in Brazil - and who drink Ayahuasca at the beginning of and throughout what they call works [Ayahuasca is in Brazil's constitution as a right, and Canada also has it legalized for the church to import legally] - and then sing from hymns depending on the type of work and time of the year, their hymns containing the teachings, sung mostly in Portuguese; arguably those teachings will have been divinely transmitted to the people, mostly the founder to begin, while in the altered-connected state; the biologic pathway for part of this experience is the concept of ego death-dissolution, where your ego temporarily is out of the way to allow your senses to be more aligned with the more holistic - your senses not "calcified" away from feeling more than just your strongest stimuli of your own senses and the signals of your ego mind - both that can mask the more subtle - and can be repressed if disconnected from it at a young age due to various reasons.

Furthermore, if you read the book The Immortality Key, there is the belief circulating that wine - "the blood of Christ" - historically wasn't alcohol but wine was a mix, and arguably an entheogen-psychdelic that then connected people to an altered state to help open the mind and heart, and heal vs. alcohol which is a depressant and poison; where the knowledge that Jesus taught/shared was supposedly from 300 years prior from the Greece region, where millions of people would pilgrimage to annually arguably to partake in drinking the "wine."

Part of the misunderstanding is that it's believed that Christ has already resurrected but in energetic form, where he joined the divine celestial order, along with St. Michael and other energetic-conscious beings.

I've thought it's an interesting idea, whether it was oppressors who wanted to prevent this healing and weaken people's connection to God - which arguably gives people strength when they have a faith in something invisible [and unengaged most of the time], and/or if it was authoritarians incidentally working with or benefitting from industrial complexes - producers and merchants of alcohol who decided to claim their alcohol was the "wine" that "everyone was talking about and pilgrimaging for" - and in high demand, for the sake of profits; which would have also caused people to not ride the wave of word of mouth transmission toward drinking Ayahuasca et al; it makes me think partly of the more recent "war on drugs" that happened to suppress-control and prevent access to arguably highly effective non-patentable and relatively natural medicines, that are now coming to light again - Ayahuasca, mushrooms, ketamine, MDMA, etc.

In conclusion, St. Michael or anyone in the divine order - conscious energetic beings who can influence at least in so much as giving guidance - could have guided each builder or person picking the build site independently, potentially leading to such a phenomenon - whether the St. Michael's Sword line was simply coincidence or happenstance, or perhaps could simply be decided to be human-made and simply a recognition to honour St. Michael; to me it boils down to a fun-playful thought exercise, but where it could be dangerous in that an ideological mob could use it to demonize people who let's say are needing or desperate for hope or truth of the divine - and haven't yet reached a faith state.

Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

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Hello! Being the author of the blog post commented here, I'm glad it became food for thoughts. Here a few of the salient points: > They are not cathedrals! True! As I learned after writing the blog post, a Cathedral is not simply a large church. As written in several comments there has to be a bishop. > Fallacy of using other projection than the Mercator one. It was known that they are "visually" aligned on the Merca…

Hi, I'm at least one person who emailed you to let you know this was on front page of HN.

I just wrote another comment that may interest you to some degree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40607523

It's probably best to reply to each person's comment, letting them know first also know you're author of the article/project.

Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

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Hello! Being the author of the blog post commented here, I'm glad it became food for thoughts. Here a few of the salient points: > They are not cathedrals! True! As I learned after writing the blog post, a Cathedral is not simply a large church. As written in several comments there has to be a bishop. > Fallacy of using other projection than the Mercator one. It was known that they are "visually" aligned on the Merca…

Hi the website was down. Thank you for sharing your ideas!

When you say "strait line" is it globe based curved path like the flight of a bird? Why was it called a sword?

Edit: found a working link! still extra extra curious!

Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

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Nobody to mention that the property of Mercator projection is that it preserves angles? Meaning that the points are not on the shortest path, but are close to being at the same azimuth one to another?

Basically a straight line on a Mercator projection is a rhumb line (i.e. a path of constant true bearing). This enabled sailors/merchants to plot a straight-line course by maintaining a constant compass direction. Could explain the appearance of those sacred sites in such line.

Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

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Nobody to mention that the property of Mercator projection is that it preserves angles? Meaning that the points are not on the shortest path, but are close to being at the same azimuth one to another?

the article mentions it

Read it twice but didn't see any mention of this.

Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

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Since the only geodesics that are closed on an ellipsoid are the meridian and equator, doesn't they mean that all points are (eventually) connected by a geodesics? Obviously this isn't what anybody means by a straight line though.

I'm surprised I can't find a "short" (no longer than the largest distance between points) geodesic fitter anywhere. Sounds like a fun hour-long project using GeographicLib.

Re: Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?

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I feel a new Dan Brown novel coming on! Probably is a coincidence given these countries were basically at war the whole time so getting agreement to even start a project like this is unlikely. Very interesting nonetheless.

Definitely seems like something that could play a role in one of Langdon's adventures.
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