You are a pilgrim. Where do you go?
Post places of religious significance, preferably aesthetically pleasing.
Where else?
>>411952
Some pilgrims go crazy over there, you know?
Holy Land Experience, Orlando Florida
The people in my corner of Brazil generally go here.
/pol/tards gonna rage
>>412030
That thing creeps me out desu.
>>412030
Civilized beings* gonna rage
>mfw 20% of Muslims support Islamism
>>412030
I've been a pilgrim, and I went to Santiago de Compostella. It was pretty cool, and I want to do it again at some point.
It would also be cool to check out Jerusalem, Rome, and the Sikh Golden Temple, along with various smaller Buddhist monasteries. I'm interesting in going to the Bodh Gaya as well, but I've heard bad things about it being full of touts.
I like the pilgrim life, and lots of religious places interest me. It's too bad that Santiago has the most established walking tradition, because it would be cool to replicate that experience in another place.
Ive always wanted to do the Way of Saint James pilgrimage. Starting in london, going through france. On foot of course.
Not religious but seems like a great experience
>>412051
That's a vagina.
>>412056
So you like to travel, but you don't care what spiritual traditions you associate with as a pilgrim?
>>412059
But this is a religion thread, not a history thread
>>412062
Funny you should say that, I was thinking op's was a vagina and clitoris.
>>411755
Visited on a giant eagle that constantly farts streamers of red white and blue that smell like freedom.
>>412070
I guess. I like going to places that have cultural significance. The Camino de Santiago is great because you walk there, which introduces an element of harship that most traveling doesn't have, and which teaches you a lot about yourself, and what a pilgrimage is. And before anyone jumps in to criticize me, it's not really a Catholic thing anymore, it's more about general spirituality and feeling connected to tradition. Even the priests at pilgrim's mass talk about it like that.
>>412061
It is great, probably one of the best experiences of my life. I didn't go for that long, but that sounds cool.
>>411755
Near Barcelona. Napoleon named the region after this place when he annexed it.
>>412101
looks ugly.
>>412030
>the cube has doors
I must see what's inside.
>>412085
Don't worry senpai, I did Santiago for the same reason, I'm not even baptized and it was great.
Everyone can have a different reason, but for me doing the one for doing the Camino is to learn to love Spain and it's places and peoples. Nothing to do with religion nowadays.
>>412107
It looks weird but I like it.
>>412109
Stairs to the hollow earth where fantastical kingdoms of aliens exist that secretly rule the world. They are know as the Illuminati and Reptilians, Hitler went there after WWII, he went in a different route though, he used a flying saucer to fly to Antarctica.
>>412119
You can't hide a city on a mountain, but you could hide one inside it.
>>412101
Yea this place was pretty sweet. Unfortunately I was too young to really be able to appreciate it at the time.
>>412109
It's just a small room plated with meteorite, fancy shit but nothing insane.
>>412056
There's an excellent book called Crusader: By Horse to the Holy Land, about a guy who rode all the way to Jerusalem from France in the 80s (I think). Probably won't be able to take the same route today though...
all other answers are wrong
>>412085
But you realize how inauthentic that is, right? I mean, there are major differences between the religion's that venerate these various places. I don't understand the mindset that just thinks about holy places and decides visiting a lot of places that are considered holy by religions you have nothing to do with and no intention of converting to is offensive. I'm not trying to be offended on behalf of Buddhists or Sikhs, I'm just offended by your unthinking postmodern syncretism.
>>412172
>I don't understand the mindset that just thinks about holy places and decides visiting a lot of places that are considered holy by religions you have nothing to do with and no intention of converting to is offensive
I don't understand the mindset that just thinks about holy places and decides visiting a lot of places that are considered holy by religions you have nothing to do with and no intention of converting to. You don't see why this could be offensive?
>>412101
Spain is truly the most beautiful country in the world.
So many things to see in such a small country.
>>412030
it honestly doesn't look like much. i feel as a non-muslim, this thing is only interesting because a lot of people go there. a lot of people go to mcdonalds and sea world and the grocery store too though. many of them forget to bring their helmets.
>>412030
Does anyone have that pic of the guard leaning on the cube?
>>412172
>unthinking postmodern syncretism.
Why are you assuming I'm doing some kind of New Age syncretic thing? I'm not religious at all, and I don't really care enough to be. Religion is an important part of pretty much every culture, and experiencing some aspect of their religion helps you understand that culture. Believe it or not, most religious people are totally cool with that (I've sat in on a bunch of religious services and meetings, with the approval of religious leaders and community members - in general, they want people to know what they're about). I grew up in a seriously multicultural environment, and have training as an anthropologist. Understanding cultures is important me, and religion is one way of doing that (and more substantive than the usual example of food).
I've been to the Sistine Chapel.
Definitely one of the top 5 moments of my life, pictures can't do it justice
“Surely, there exists in the hearts of the believers, with respect to the martyrdom of Hussain, a heat that never subsides.”
>>412230
So you have no sense of what religion is, but you like to travel and see pretty architecture and landscapes? I get the impression that you're the kind of person who gives my generation a bad name.
>>412030
lel
>>412248
I actually have a pretty good sense of religion. Maybe not as an active believer (I just wasn't raised religiously, so its hard for me to make the jump to believing), but I've done enough serious study of religion as a whole (actual academic study, not fedora study), that I know what it is. And believe it or not, you can gain lots of insight about religion in genera from doing something like walking hundreds of kilometers to a religious site. The closest I've come to feeling the presence of god was on the way to Santiago. Experience religion makes you understand it on some level, even if you don't totally believe in it.
Be high-minded and condescending about it all you want, people experience religion in different ways, and religion means different things to different people. As someone whose business it is to understand different cultures, I see religion as an (often overlooked) way to do that.
>>412293
I'm sorry, but when you tell me 'I'm not religious but I've been to holy sites on multiple continents and plan on visiting more of them, because I've studied anthropology,' all I hear is 'I'm a douchebag,' and I don't think you're going to be able to change that reaction.
I've been to Cologne and Aachen for the sole purpose of seeing their cathedrals. They are extremely beautiful buildings.
I'm not a fan of Islam, but the Kaaba is fucking cool as fuck.
>>412322
And I hear the same thing from you, because you don't understand that people who aren't religion can appreciate and understand religion. And that's fine. Difference of opinion or "all arguments are caused by people misunderstanding each other" or whatever. I honestly don't care enough to debate about this any more. Have fun getting offending over what you read into things, I'm sure it gives you meaning knowing you're more authentic than other people with different experiences.
>>412030
I ain't even mad.
>>412344
>you don't understand that people who aren't religion can appreciate and understand religion
But you're not doing it for religious purposes! If you were, you'd call yourself religious!
>>412338
was it not bombed in the war, or did they rebuild it as it was?
>>412374
I don't think Aachen's was bombed at all. It's a fairly small city.
>>412165
I went here for 5 days of prayer at Easter this past year. It was breathtaking.
>>412293
Religious experiences are a human universal. I wager you could get those without being a believer by doing the same things that believers do.
>>412574
Aachen was bombed. Not very badly, but it was bombed. I believe the church where Charlemagne was crowned remained untouched.
Source: I lived in Aachen for a year as a foreign exchange student.
>>413026
Well, the chapel is part of a larger cathedral. I never saw the throne, though, I looked. My German is too poor to ask anyone where it might have been but from what I gather large sections of the cathedral were closed to the public.
>>413019
I get where are you coming from, but I don't really see the problem. It may seem a bit silly from a strictly materialist point of view and the actual religious people would find it disrespectful but I think Catholicism would be able to power through the indignity of an atheist's pilgrimage.
Monastery of St. Anthony in the desert of eastern Egypt
>>411755
Wherever I go, there I am.
>>413091
I think so, too, and I'm not worried that any of these religions will die out because of his behavior. I just think it's worse than New Agey because there's an explicit denial of religious or spiritual elements in favor of an 'anthropological' 'study' of these places. At least New Agers admit they're looking for something to worship.
>>412030
Islam disneyland is always the best option.
Byzaboo butthurt incoming.
>>414083
Whoa Ahmed, you smell like shit!
Get out of here.
>>414346
>In the "strawberry region" in Pottenstein (Austria) and on at least ten other strawberry farms workers are required to wear pants because Turkish women who were working there seasonally were urinating on the strawberries and even defecating among the plants....Certain migrants have a completely different concepts of hygiene than we Europeans.
Nice women, Ahmed.
Do you enjoy shaving your wife's chest too?
>>411755
I've made the pilgrimage to Saint James of Compostela
I highly advice anyone in yrop to do it.
>>414546
Also I am atheist but I lied to the folks at Saint Jean Pied de Port to get a certificate that said I am religious.
Dat dere remission of sins brehs
>>414346
>Portufilthy
>>412253
>it looks like Big Ben
A vision of the future?
>>411755
To Walhalla
>>411755
+1 more for Graceland
>>414409
>literally no source
nice BS
>>412084
nice, anon. I chuckled.
>>416390
you, too!
really, guys?
I grew up Roman Catholic, and though I no longer believe, I'd love to see >>412236
>the Sistine Chapel
>pic related
My family is Italian and Slovenian, and we have (somewhat distant) relatives there, so I'd love to see both countries. Would love to visit Vatican City.
Would like to go back to Spain, too. (Whizzed through there on tour with my college choir when I was much to young to appreciate fully everything we were doing/seeing.) I'd like to see southern Spain and the art there. I know we sang in a few beautiful cathedrals, but I'd like to see the art and architecture with a Muslim influence, like the mosque in Cordoba (that's now a cathedral.)
Shrine at Roza Bal. Possibly Jesus's tomb.
Shwedagon Paya
>>415946
Alright , I admit I kekked
>>412180
>You don't see why this could be offensive?
By that logic every place you ever go that you don't remotely have anything to do with is offensive
And
>offensive
Are we SJW crybabies now?
>>413019
>It seems objectionable to treat them like collectibles and do pilgrimages to check them off of a list of places to study anthropologically before your degree becomes worthless
How is this objectionable, these places have just as much anthropological/+historical significance as religious. Just because a persons does not personally believe in a certain religion does not mean they are looking down upon or disrespecting them nor does it men they cannot appreciate them.
>>412702
>5days
why would you go 5 days to vatican city to pray?
don't you get bored?
>>417666
as opposed to the source you provided with your pic?
erh
Whenever I can.
>>421921
>win/gallup2015
>>422214
Almost got suckered into going to service with the Mormons just to be able to walk around their temples. They keep a remarkably thorough database of them, too bad they started mass producing the same styles lately. The Mormon architects truly breathed life into what a monumental building is. I must say I'd like to go sneak into the Logan Utah Temple, that's my favorite. haha
>>422296
My parents got married in the Logan temple.
I'm a sucker for the ones they repurposed from old tabernacle buildings, I think they look great.
>>423095
you have your temple rec yet?
>>422214
Too bad I'll probably never get a chance to be inside one of those again. Legitimately nice architecture.
>>412192
>such a small country
B-but it's the 4th largest European country
>>423152
Its smaller than Texas.
>>419387
Visit Granada and the Alhambra if you enjoyed Cordoba and the muslim achitecture.
>>423161
The USA and in general new world countries are massive though
Does Bubastis still exist?
