re: DaVinci's painting of Jesus, "Salvator Mundi", sells at Christie's for $400,000,000.

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If it makes you feel any better, it’s not really worth much of anything and the money it’s worth is made up too.

once the breaking point is reached and the fiat currency stops flowing, once the hunger sets in...you’ll be able to buy fine art for a box of ammo and a few cans of beans.

But you won’t even have to buy it. You’ll be able to raid palatial manors and help yourself to the rotting splendor of these halcyon days once the reckoning comes. If you survive at least.

The mounds of dead will pile high. Da Vinci’s and Picasso’s will be burned for warmth. We live in a false world now, where all is topsy turvy, where men pretend to be ladies and fools claim it to be so. We live in an age of wonder and splendor and idiocy.

It is a soft age. An age of clay and ore and tinder.

One day a spark will alight the kindling and set it all ablaze. And it shall burn bright. Some will he molded into vessels; Some will be forged into blades, But most will burn.

Most, will burn.

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This may be the best thing I've read on this website.

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Really? Why?

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He just learned how to read?

I Wiki'd da Vinci after seeing this post.

Random fact. The Allies nearly destroyed the Last Supper when they bombed the church that houses the mural in WWII.



(I think the mural is on the far wall in the back)

I don't know. It was late, and I just thought it was funny.

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tinder.

One day a spark will alight the kindling and set it all ablaze.

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You spark the tinder to work up to burning the kindling.

You have a special place in Hell waiting for you.

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If it makes you feel any better, it’s not really worth much of anything and the money it’s worth is made up too.

once the breaking point is reached and the fiat currency stops flowing, once the hunger sets in...you’ll be able to buy fine art for a box of ammo and a few cans of beans.

But you won’t even have to buy it. You’ll be able to raid palatial manors and help yourself to the rotting splendor of these halcyon days once the reckoning comes. If you survive at least.

The mounds of dead will pile high. Da Vinci’s and Picasso’s will be burned for warmth. We live in a false world now, where all is topsy turvy, where men pretend to be ladies and fools claim it to be so. We live in an age of wonder and splendor and idiocy.

It is a soft age. An age of clay and ore and tinder.

One day a spark will alight the kindling and set it all ablaze. And it shall burn bright. Some will he molded into vessels; Some will be forged into blades, But most will burn.

Most, will burn.

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fr33manator, you just became my new favorite poster.

I prefer Lincoln in Dalivision

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Then it dropped off the grid for another 50 years until resurfacing in Louisiana in 2005. There, for $10,000, New York-based art collector and da Vinci expert Robert Simon and art dealer Alexander Parish found and purchased it, the New Orleans Advocate reported.

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At one point in time it was mistaken for a copy and sold for $59

was jesus a woman and a wizard?!?! interesting.