8/24/2023 0 Comments Picture of tower of babel today![]() Hopefully this Babel will be better than the last one, not dominated by humanism, but by redemption. We are being re-united in a dangerous and potentially incredible collective intelligence of world peace and global advancement. Today we are seeing the re-convergence of a massive Babel-like community, with little to no language barriers, ideas being shared at rapid speeds, and societal barriers crumbling. We really need centralization for this to truly occur, however, and I doubt that this kind of centralization is going to occur in the near future without a big push. Skype and audio-visual technologies are connecting people everywhere and the internet is becoming a giant think-tank. ![]() The sheer scale of human language diversity indicates that this divergence in dialects began to occur a very very long time ago, not as recently as the purported tower of Babel.įebruary 24, sounds kind of scary, but I can see how the internet is causing this to happen. Languages evolved from onomatopoeia used by early humans, which probably evolved from earlier animal noises of communication. This was the second attempt by Bruegel to paint the Tower, as his first painting was a miniature version which today is sadly lost. I find the theory that all languages suddenly sprang out of this single event to be highly improbable. There could have been a literal tower of Babel, but it is more likely that the language shifts were more gradual, and began to slowly fragment the world. The Tower of Babel and its connection to the 'confounding of language' thus refers to the separation of man from man due to the arising ego / false identity.įebruary 27, many tales in the Bible, I think that this one is meant to be taken metaphorically, not literally. The more knowledge and mental capacity he acquired, the more he considered himself separate from others and God. the fragmented state in which 'modern' humans co-exist. This process of mental evolution caused a 'rift' between himself and other fellow humans, i.e. They are made available for free download under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. ![]() false identity of man as his mental faculties developed rapidly through evolution. Download story: The Tower of Babel The original illustrations are the copyright of Sweet Publishing and these digitally adjusted compilations of them the copyright of FreeBibleimages. The Tower of Babel is a metaphor which refers to the growing ego, i.e.
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