Nice! I was unaware of that series. Is it any good?
Huh...so, you're defining "kook" as someone who's beliefs are not the same as yours? Sounds kind of close minded to me. No, wait - us kooks are the closed-minded ones. My bad.
Huh...so, you're defining "kook" as someone who's beliefs are not the same as yours? Sounds kind of close minded to me. No, wait - us kooks are the closed-minded ones. My bad.
Thanks, nice reference. It's nice to know where that came from. Note that the Baruch is considered pseudepicgraphical.
Reference plz? I have never heard that aspect of it before.
I think you're making a logical leap that is unfounded. It could be that either the king is taking credit for something that was already built, or that the scholars are wrong about it being the original tower. I do agree with you about the timing of the original tower, though.
Are those the same scholars that told you the account was a women's right issue?
You got me dude...you've uncovered a vast conspiracy between me and that hotbed of right wing propaganda - The Discovery Channel! BTW, if you had managed to read the article, they also allude to this reference as well. Because it's relevant.
Need to do a bit more reading, my friend. The account doesn't have anything to do with women performing manual labor:
"(The Babylonians) said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. 6The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
8So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9That is why it was called Babelc—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth."
So, it had nothing to do with labor practices. Many scholars think the tower was some sort of astrological artifact, and that the scrambling of the languages had to do with dispersing the population of the earth. That is, according to the scripture.
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.