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May 12, 2023

Nearer to Thee Cafe

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Great, now Kathleen Kennedy has hired Wes Anderson to reboot Star Wars.


Christopher Walken says:
"Cows!" "Mountains!"

Cat's intended Rampage of Senseless Destruction is interrupted when he sees a bubble of carbonation in the bottle he was about to smash. "You have amused me," he says. "I shall permit you to live."

He's either sneezing or possessed by a very silly demon.

Cuddly cats.

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This kitten's on acid, I think. Wow, man... the colors...!

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A church in Ethiopia is carved into the side of a towering cliff. It can only be accessed by climbing.

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The Epoch Times:

A test of faith challenges the souls of all who make the perilous pilgrimage to Abuna Yemata Guh, the monolithic cave church in northern Ethiopia that towers 400 feet above the valley floor.

It was in the fifth century that the Christian priest Father Yemata from Egypt supposedly walked into the Tigray region in the African country and, according to local legend, established a monastery high on a rocky spire, either to reach divine heights or else escape the reach of foes. The church was somehow hewn directly out of the living sandstone, while the spire itself offers protection in the form of sheer cliffs on all sides.

There is only one way to access this monastery, and that is to make the dangerous climb up the spire.

...

The obscure monastery is still inhabited by some twenty Christian clergymen today, some of whom have lived in these heights for 30 to 40 years, according to The Daily Mail.

The monastic in charge of the temple today, Priest Gebre Rufael Asresseha, has for over 50 years made the precarious climb every day despite the danger. His job is to receive visitors. Although travelers will pass tombs where family members have laid deceased loved ones to rest along the way, local accounts hold that no one has ever died from falling during the journey.

The pilgrimage to Abuna Yemata Guh begins before even reaching the spires themselves. The tiring trek from the valley floor to the cliffside offers ample difficulty before reaching the rocky feet of the monolith. Here, travelers are told by guides to remove their footwear before setting foot and hand into toe-holds polished by centuries of human usage.

On one such sojourn in 2014, photographer Philip Lee Harvey, on assignment for Lonely Planet, commented on how the furious wind "keeps you cool, but it just adds to the nervousness of it all" during the daunting, two-hour ascent.

Nope:


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