The word “temple” comes from the Greek “templum/temenos” – “to cut away with a scythe”; reminiscent of Chronos, the Titan God of Time brandishing his scythe, later morphed into the incarnation of death.
The temple is literally the place to put time apart from reflection away from it all. Glorification of the human condition reflects in relation to its “other”. Whether we named that other “God”, “Nature”, “The Devas” or whatever is immaterial, a personal journey.
Reflection breeds education; to look into oneself and into how the self relates to the world breeds education.
Ironic that it is being overshadowed by a monument to empty profits to fill that hole we fill in relating.
Coincidental and poetic that this is being carried out at the same instance that funding is being pulled from institutions of research.
Coincidental and poetic that this is coming from a public display as to how we relate with the world around us.
I wonder what it says about us as a people?
Typical Topical 
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