Blog #7-Chapter 7-Worship

A huge part of the Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine art was and is religion. However, in my life, religion is not a huge part of it. I listen to other peoples views on religon, beilefs, how they think- but do not have strong feelings on any of it. When reading chapter seven places of worship were shown and talked of which got me thinking about my place of worship. If I was to name a place that I go to "my place of worship" it would have to be either my bedroom or Affordable Treasures. I work at Affordable Treasures, it's a party and more store in Los Gatos. I wouldn't say I worship the store, what I mean is I spend a lot of time there, put a lot of my efforts into what I do there, and it's a place of good means- if that makes sense. Our main goal is to make costumers happy, answer their questions, help them get their party supplies, help them fill a goodie bag for a group of kids the ages 5-12- whatever it is, consider it done and done well at Affordable! Anyways, this- and my bedroom where I take time for myself to either watch television, study, lay down and reflect, sleep, etc- these are my places of worship. Where are your places of worship? Maybe your church? Your gym? Your school? Imagine a place of worship for people totally into TV, just a bunch of TVs and talks about television..people giving speeches and "preeching" sort of speak about different things shown in the media- would people go? Or is this sort of mocking religion? I don't know, just some thoughts.

Chapter #6- Fear Amongst 2 Cities

Pompeii is a city that is half buried/ ashed over in Rome, Italy near the city of Naples. I went to Pompeii some years ago on a trip to Europe with my family- the city amazed me. When I was there I put myself in a Pompeii villagers shoes (did they wear shoes? oops, oh well), the fear one would have having a huge volcano (like Mount Vesuvius) there waiting for the right time to erupt and wash away a city. OH! A good example of this actually is the fear some might have in San Francisco, the fear of a huge earthquake like the one in 1989. So, today I have posted here a map of Pompeii and San Francisco to show it's similarity in design and how Pompeii really was an 'old day' San Francisco to the people who lived there in that time. A few random things I experienced while at Pompeii (this has nothing to do with my comparison of SF to Pompeii)... my tour guy went on and on about everything and we could hardly understand him haha, BUT what was great about all the tours was you got little stories and information that THAT tour guide found interesting. In Pompeii though, I would have almost preferred to just walk the streets and use my imagination..the city spoke for itself with the vibes that were given out by it and the art work (wall decor) and architecture (the buildings, homes, were so well thought out).