In the Bible (Tower of Babel), What Were They Climbing Too?

[Mike_D202]

Is the Tower of Babel real?

I did a google image search. The only picture that even resembles the remains of an ancient tower was this:

Everything else was just mountains and hills that photographers nicknamed "Tower of Babel". Iraq's new "tower of babel" is very new.

 

[AznBABYBANDIT]

I dun care bout christianity... But it will NEVER fade away

 

[maxwell's demon]

After re-reading it, God didn't say 'they would be like us,' but something to a kind of equal effect, 'nothing will be impossible for them.'

As for heaven, it's unclear whether they were referring to the sky or 'heaven' where God dwells. I'm kinda thinking nothing was visible, but I'm still having trouble with the 'nothing would be impossible' which seems to imply that they could indeed reach their goal of being their own God's. However, due to my own beliefs, I have trouble with that. But in our modern day, we do so much more than they did back then with our technology and God isn't coming down doing anything (yet, anyway). So, how could God seem worried of them but not us?

who says the 'sky' hasn't moved since the time of Babel?

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

The question posed is an interesting one.
Another thing I was wondering. We know that the gaze of Medusa could turn men into stone. Some things I've wondered:


1) How exactly did the effect work? If, you just caught a glimpse, like for a split second, would only parts of your body turn to stone?, or was a glimpse enough to completely turn you?

2) We know she had serpents for hair. What I've wondered is, only half of the snakes would be externally visible. Did the snakes have normal snake physiology, meaning, did their snake tails extend through her skull and into her brain?
If they did, wouldn't the motion of the tails cause severe brain damage? Or did she have a hard, rocky brain possibly. It's curious.

3) A lot of the statues from antiquity are remarkably lifelike, almost too lifelike (considering the technology available at the time). Could, it be...that in the world's great museums, right now, the remains of Medusa's victims are ON DISPLAY?

 

[Danalys]

i go with it being a metaphore for the effect of developing language on humans.

 

[maxwell's demon]

yathink?

(science is the new babel)

 

[The Lizard]

The question posed is an interesting one.
Another thing I was wondering. We know that the gaze of Medusa could turn men into stone. Some things I've wondered:


1) How exactly did the effect work? If, you just caught a glimpse, like for a split second, would only parts of your body turn to stone?, or was a glimpse enough to completely turn you?

All I know is that when Medusa is depicted as being a hot sexy woman, it can turn a certain part of me to stone.

 

[Danalys]

yathink?

(science is the new babel)

genesis is a sex scene. good way to start a book.

 

[maxwell's demon]

The question posed is an interesting one.
Another thing I was wondering. We know that the gaze of Medusa could turn men into stone. Some things I've wondered:


1) How exactly did the effect work? If, you just caught a glimpse, like for a split second, would only parts of your body turn to stone?, or was a glimpse enough to completely turn you?

2) We know she had serpents for hair. What I've wondered is, only half of the snakes would be externally visible. Did the snakes have normal snake physiology, meaning, did their snake tails extend through her skull and into her brain?
If they did, wouldn't the motion of the tails cause severe brain damage? Or did she have a hard, rocky brain possibly. It's curious.

3) A lot of the statues from antiquity are remarkably lifelike, almost too lifelike (considering the technology available at the time). Could, it be...that in the world's great museums, right now, the remains of Medusa's victims are ON DISPLAY?

i would think the effect would be sort of like a quick acting, visually tramsmitted poison. even a quick glimpse would travel through your optic nerve and started sending out its paralytic and ossificative effects, and the transformation would speed up once it was able to spread cellularly as opposed to visually.

the snakes were a wig- but really, don't tell. its embarassing.

 

[maxwell's demon]

All I know is that when Medusa is depicted as being a hot sexy woman, it can turn a certain part of me to stone.

 

[Danalys]

or she just had wavy hair and could stop men in their tracks

 

[maxwell's demon]

genesis is a sex scene. good way to start a book.

bob guccione should do for the bible what he did for ancient Rome with caligula

 

[The Lizard]

 

[Duende Verde]

They were trying to reach Brad Pitt's upcoming movie, "Babel".

 

[Danalys]

i'm sure i've seen similar done already.

 

[Killgore]

Another reason for Nimrod's building of the tower was in direct defiance of God. He was building a city to prevent the people from being scattered.

Gen 11:4 -- And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

This was in direct defiance of God's commission to both Adam and Noah to fill the earth.

Gen 9:7 -- And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

bob guccione should do for the bible what he did for ancient Rome with caligula

Except he took the existing story and then added a bunch of gratuitous sex and violence. The Bible comes with it's own.

I have been saddened though, at how impossible it would be to get investors to build a up a budget big enough to make a really slick movie of the Old Testament featuring all of the deranged, sick, perverted stuff it boasts.

'Cause it would be so funny, since most Christians haven't read the Bible, there would be an outrage, "Blasphemy!"...such as the psycho part where God commands the people to eat dung, or where the fat guy gets stabbed and it goes into detail about how he was so fat that the fat enveloped the hilt of the dagger ( that's so Troma ), or just show all the hundreds of times where God commanded his people to kill babies (which is funny, I remember how outraged all good Christians are about abortion, lol)and then you could go on the talk shows and show them every book, chapter and verse.

 

[maxwell's demon]

Except he took the existing story and then added a bunch of gratuitous sex and violence. The Bible comes with it's own.

I have been saddened though, at how impossible it would be to get investors to build a up a budget big enough to make a really slick movie of the Old Testament featuring all of the deranged, sick, perverted stuff it boasts.

'Cause it would be so funny, since most Christians haven't read the Bible, there would be an outrage, "Blasphemy!"...such as the psycho part where God commands the people to eat dung, or where the fat guy gets stabbed at it goes into detail about how he was so fat that the fat enveloped the hilt of the dagger ( that's so Troma ), and then you could go on the talk shows and show them every book, chapter and verse.

well yeah, that's what i'm sayin'

 

[Darren Daring]

Except he took the existing story and then added a bunch of gratuitous sex and violence. The Bible comes with it's own.

I have been saddened though, at how impossible it would be to get investors to build a up a budget big enough to make a really slick movie of the Old Testament featuring all of the deranged, sick, perverted stuff it boasts.

'Cause it would be so funny, since most Christians haven't read the Bible, there would be an outrage, "Blasphemy!"...such as the psycho part where God commands the people to eat dung, or where the fat guy gets stabbed and it goes into detail about how he was so fat that the fat enveloped the hilt of the dagger ( that's so Troma ), or just show all the hundreds of times where God commanded his people to kill babies (which is funny, I remember how outraged all good Christians are about abortion, lol)and then you could go on the talk shows and show them every book, chapter and verse.

let's make it Wil! You, me and amx! Road trip to Vancouver!

 

[roach]

All I know is that when Medusa is depicted as being a hot sexy woman, it can turn a certain part of me to stone.

hmmmm all of a sudden I am stiff,hard and rock-like too....lol

 

[maxwell's demon]

hmmmm all of a sudden I am stiff,hard and rock-like too....lol

and apparently in possession of a thesaurus.

 

[Darren Daring]

hmmmm all of a sudden I am stiff,hard and rock-like too....lol

The Lizard just made that joke. You quoted the post where he made it. What the hell?

 

[maxwell's demon]

Hey guys, in the Bible (Tower of Babel), what were they trying climbing, clamber up, and ascend to?

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

let's make it Wil! You, me and amx! Road trip to Vancouver!

I wish, but I've got 4 or 5 low budget films on my plate right now, and I swore that if I ever get those completed, I'd go right into "Little Richard! Little Richard! Little Richard!" since he'll probably die soon.

 

[Killgore]

You actually making some films Willy? I'd like to hear more...