edsas wrote: Sat Jul 14, 2018 10:39 pm
Kind of weird that people feel creeped out by this place. I think it's gorgeous and a nice addition to the metro. Then again, I'm Catholic so religious places don't bother me, I guess.
It's not that it's a religious site that weirds me out, it's the stupidly immense sums of money being shoveled into the project.
Lets call this thing what it is. Rich and powerful old people have been trying to buy their way into Heaven for thousands of years.
I KNEW YOU WERE ONE OF US GRANDPA!!! STAY WOKE!
Never in my life did I think I'd be in agreement with Grandpa over anything!
I second that emotion.
Being gone from Omaha so much I am increasingly out of the loop, it seems.
I was at Hy-Vee a few days ago and found a selection of “Cloisters” bread on the shelf. I did a double take. Actually a triple take. Not being aware of the earlier news story on this, I thought it was some sort of publicity stunt or prank. All I could think of is that they must be operating a bakery on the property. Either that or this is this some odd extension of the loaves and fishes fable? I guess I should have checked the seafood section for Cloisters Cod.
What’s next? Jesus brand tortillas (“from an Old Old Old world recipe”). Or maybe “Jesus H. Christmas cookies”.
Yes, the sheckels now belong to father Ricketts’ and he can build whatever temple he wishes. But it’s for the rest of us to sit back and try to make sense of it all.
EricHaley wrote: Tue Jul 24, 2018 4:31 pm
No disrespect intended, but doesn’t “Cloisters on the Platte” sound like some sort of medical condition?
No it doesn't, unless you have never heard of nor know what a Cloister is, nor where the Platte River is located.
Learn your Latin. I had four years and three of Greek.
My professor had this in her Creighton office... Translate...
Sic et Tuem!
I still don't understand the purpose of this place. Is it a hotel? Do groups rent space for events?
I go to a Catholic Church in a rich part of town and they hold events in the Catholic School cafeteria and at a retreat center that is a fixed up steel building on a rural highway. What level of Old Money Illuminati do you have to reach to have events at this new place?
Joe_Sovereign wrote: Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:57 am
I still don't understand the purpose of this place. Is it a hotel? Do groups rent space for events?
I go to a Catholic Church in a rich part of town and they hold events in the Catholic School cafeteria and at a retreat center that is a fixed up steel building on a rural highway. What level of Old Money Illuminati do you have to reach to have events at this new place?
Doesn't sound like it. From what I've seen, you go there for a certain type of weekend retreat. Other than that, you can go and walk their Stations of the Cross, but that's it.
I think I read they will attract 3,000 guests per year.
I haven't read into this place much but I thought I heard they would be more of an Ignatian Spirituality Center.
I don't know if they were going to have any connection with the Creighton Spirituality program.
Joe_Sovereign wrote: Thu Aug 02, 2018 9:57 am
I still don't understand the purpose of this place. Is it a hotel? Do groups rent space for events?
I go to a Catholic Church in a rich part of town and they hold events in the Catholic School cafeteria and at a retreat center that is a fixed up steel building on a rural highway. What level of Old Money Illuminati do you have to reach to have events at this new place?
Doesn't sound like it. From what I've seen, you go there for a certain type of weekend retreat. Other than that, you can go and walk their Stations of the Cross, but that's it.
They might be able to pull in some retreat things from Creighton's retreat center outside of Griswold, Iowa. I don't know if CU charges people to use their retreat center, but I know they (at east used to) host a lot of high school retreats.
I finally got around to driving by this place yesterday. First of all the place is located right at the foot of the glacial banks of the Platte River. The primo prime of the Real Estate out there. The place has an electric fence around it that must of cost millions. I can't think of anyplace in Omaha that has a fence like that.....maybe the Federal Reserve Bank downtown! The place was closed and the gate was shut and it looked like there was a not a soul around to be saved. From what I could see from the road the place was manicured like a golf course with automatic sprinklers chugging all over the place. I did not feel the religious vibe but I sure felt the "Hey poor guy stay out of here vibe." Felt it big time. Rickets will see that an exit gets built right there on the interstate someday soon even stupid poor guys like me can see that coming.
IT is one bare electric wire about 1 1/2' out from the metal fence. No different than any livestock farmer uses as far as he electric part goes. They are NOT worried about animals "knocking the fence over" They do what to keep animals from getting caught in the fence.
You are overstating the fence by just a bit....
For the record NEBUGEATER does not equal BUGEATER !!!!!!!
nebugeater wrote: Mon Aug 20, 2018 5:57 am
IT is one bare electric wire about 1 1/2' out from the metal fence. No different than any livestock farmer uses as far as he electric part goes. They are NOT worried about animals "knocking the fence over" They do what to keep animals from getting caught in the fence.
You are overstating the fence by just a bit....
Tell me where one single farm in Nebraska exists that has a fence like that. You can't so stop spreading fake news.
nebugeater wrote: Mon Aug 20, 2018 5:57 am
IT is one bare electric wire about 1 1/2' out from the metal fence. No different than any livestock farmer uses as far as he electric part goes. They are NOT worried about animals "knocking the fence over" They do what to keep animals from getting caught in the fence.
You are overstating the fence by just a bit....
Tell me where one single farm in Nebraska exists that has a fence like that. You can't so stop spreading fake news.
DO you not comprehend I am talking about the one singe electric wire. Not the whole fence. You made it sound like the whole fence was electrified.
For the record NEBUGEATER does not equal BUGEATER !!!!!!!
My company did some work out there while this was built. From what I saw, there was no regard to the expense of things... One of the homes out there had two barns back east demo'd to use the logs in it's design, and the gutters where from a small town in Germany that took 6 months to get. I wouldn't of been shocked it this cost well over $100 million.
I think that building in a place away from the city and abutting one of the most scenic rural places in Sarpy county implies a communion with nature; therefore, it's a contradiction to banish wildlife from such a place.
daveoma wrote: Wed Aug 22, 2018 7:32 pm
I think that building in a place away from the city and abutting one of the most scenic rural places in Sarpy county implies a communion with nature; therefore, it's a contradiction to banish wildlife from such a place.
He just wanted a pretty setting for his weird irl minecraft world.
daveoma wrote: Wed Aug 22, 2018 7:32 pm
I think that building in a place away from the city and abutting one of the most scenic rural places in Sarpy county implies a communion with nature; therefore, it's a contradiction to banish wildlife from such a place.
He just wanted a pretty setting for his weird irl minecraft world.
daveoma wrote: Wed Aug 22, 2018 7:32 pm
I think that building in a place away from the city and abutting one of the most scenic rural places in Sarpy county implies a communion with nature; therefore, it's a contradiction to banish wildlife from such a place.
They probably installed a security fence to deter vandals, burglers and other Intruders from coming on the property. Especially when they are hosting people there.
Animals sometimes will try to run through those fences and get caught. That's what the secondary electrified wire fence would be for.
From what I could see from the road the place was manicured like a golf course with automatic sprinklers chugging all over the place. I did not feel the religious vibe but I sure felt the "Hey poor guy stay out of here vibe." Felt it big time. Rickets will see that an exit gets built right there on the interstate someday soon even stupid poor guys like me can see that coming.
