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The Tower of Babel
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RE: The Tower of Babel
August 15, 2018 at 7:11 pm (This post was last modified: August 15, 2018 at 7:13 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(August 15, 2018 at 7:08 pm)Khemikal Wrote: As simple as moving rocks with cranes and tractors...or....?

I dunno, the source you posted states "his methods continue to baffle engineers and scientists"...

You contradicting yourself?
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RE: The Tower of Babel
August 15, 2018 at 7:13 pm (This post was last modified: August 15, 2018 at 7:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The tourist attraction ad copy theory of truth. I would usually contend that no one was this stupid..but I'm willing to let you make me a believer.
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RE: The Tower of Babel
August 15, 2018 at 7:14 pm (This post was last modified: August 15, 2018 at 7:19 pm by Huggy Bear.)
Ok so you are backpedaling off your own source...
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RE: The Tower of Babel
August 15, 2018 at 7:21 pm
Sure Huggy..that's exactly what's happening.  Is there anything else you'd like to say?
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RE: The Tower of Babel
August 16, 2018 at 1:08 am
This is painful. Someone please put Huggy out of his misery.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: The Tower of Babel
August 16, 2018 at 1:44 am
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That should do it and Huggy should be honored.
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RE: The Tower of Babel
August 16, 2018 at 1:46 am (This post was last modified: August 16, 2018 at 1:47 am by robvalue.)
I'm struggling to understand what the alternative is here. The guy who built it is a sorcerer or something? This is the best use he could think of for his powers; and then he retired them?

Or God decided this fucking castle was more important than curing AIDS?
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RE: The Tower of Babel
August 16, 2018 at 2:55 am (This post was last modified: August 16, 2018 at 2:56 am by Cyberman.)
Best I can figure, this bloke rediscovered the ancient tech that was used to build the Great Pyramid and the Babel tower, and decided to use it to build a huge folly/theme park instead of for the good of mankind; and as a cover-up, he did it with mundane old trucks and levers when anyone was watching.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: The Tower of Babel
August 16, 2018 at 3:05 am
That sounds like a sensible null hypothesis.
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RE: The Tower of Babel
August 16, 2018 at 3:21 am
I remember watching documentaries that showed how Egyptians built pyramids including some earlier pyramids where they messed up and stopped building them and used that for teaching themelves.

Like this BBC documentary that was made in collaboration with historians and archaeologists, but I guess producers should have gone to Huggy instead



teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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