The Immovable Ladder

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I feel like this is, somehow, relevant to just about everything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immovable_Ladder

The Immovable Ladder (Hebrew: סולם הסטטוס קוו‎, literally: The status quo ladder) is a wooden ladder located above the facade, under the window of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem. Made of cedar wood, possibly from Lebanon, it was first mentioned in 1757 and has remained in the same exact location since the 18th century. The ladder is referred to as immovable due to an understanding that no cleric of the six ecumenical Christian orders may move, rearrange, or alter any property without the consent of all six orders.[1]

Upon the pontifical orders of Pope Paul VI in 1964, the ladder was to remain in place until such a time when the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church reach a state of ecumenism. The ladder has since been related to the agreement of Status Quo which defined the six Christian religious orders which claim rights over the use of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The primary conflicts however, surrounding the ladder and its immovability has been disputed by a lasting conflict between the Greek Orthodox Church and the Armenian Orthodox Church.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

You really CAN'T make this shit up.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

That makes me want to go MOVE it a little and decorate it with Truck Nuts.

[navkat]

Get a horde of masked anons together to fucking Airsoft gun that bitch in the same spot until it comes down.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

I only know one Israeli anon, and I'm pretty sure she could shatter that thing with her tits if she took a crack at it.

[navkat]

I dig you, Pennyworth. You and your giant octopus.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

I dig you, Pennyworth. You and your giant octopus.

Thanks!

[Bu🤠ns]

Someone should move it like a half a centimeter a week for so many weeks.  We could take bets on when they'd figure it out.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Holy shit! This is about as dumb as pretty much every other aspect of their bullshit superstitious fantasy world. Colour me shocked!

[Junkenstein]

Hmm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre#Calvary_.28Golgotha.29

Establishment of the 1853 status quo did not halt the violence, which continues to break out every so often even in modern times. On a hot summer day in 2002, a Coptic monk moved his chair from its agreed spot into the shade. This was interpreted as a hostile move by the Ethiopians, and eleven were hospitalized after the resulting fracas.[30]

There's something about Jerusalem. It may be some kind of tribal quality, or it may just be people are really really stupid.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Pathological gullibility, coupled with absolute inability to form basic logical thought.

"Thou shalt not kill" = "Thou shalt kill"

You can't combat that kind of insanity using conventional means. The way I see it the choices are medication or incineration. And I'm not convinced the medication route will work.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It really, truly, elevates bureaucracy to an art. The committees must be AWESOME.

[Cainad (dec.)]

I'm really starting to think that Jerusalem must be home to some as-of-yet unidentified pathogen that afflicts the frontal lobes. Like cordyceps for humans, but instead of weird fungal growths they just get all insane.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Some kinda weird, supernatural radiation leaking out of christ's corpse?