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Nimrod built the Tower of Babel to challenge God. It was hubris. It sounds like we have many Nimrod's running around lately (Bezos, Musk, Buffet). Where do you

Nimrod built the Tower of Babel to challenge God. It was hubris. It sounds like we have many Nimrod's running around lately (Bezos, Musk, Buffet). Where do you get your happiness? Amazon or your tribe? You know that this partisanship we are experiences, sounds like people are talking another language sometimes, yes? For completeness: --- Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God. He was the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah, a bold man, and of great strength of hand. He persuaded them not to ascribe it to God, as if it were through his means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own courage which procured that happiness. He also gradually changed the government into tyranny, seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence on his power. He also said he would be revenged on God, if he should have a mind to drown the world again; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters to reach. And that he would avenge himself on God for destroying their forefathers. Now the multitude were very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod, and to esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God; and they built a tower, neither sparing any pains, nor being in any degree negligent about the work: and, by reason of the multitude of hands employed in it, it grew very high, sooner than any one could expect; but the thickness of it was so great, and it was so strongly built, that thereby its great height seemed, upon the view, to be less than it really was. It was built of burnt brick, cemented together with mortar, made of bitumen, that it might not be liable to admit water. When God saw that they acted so madly, he did not resolve to destroy them utterly, since they were not grown wiser by the destruction of the former sinners; but he caused a tumult among them, by producing in them diverse languages, and causing that, through the multitude of those languages, they should not be able to understand one another. The place wherein they built the tower is now called Babylon, because of the confusion of that language which they readily understood before; for the Hebrews mean by the word Babel, confusion ...

zackmorris 5y ago
Thank you, out of all of the comments, I think yours is the best model for what is happening. The anti-woke sentiment coming from the rich is about keeping the members of the working class from discovering their own divinity. Specifically, that the miracle of creation and their own consciousness dwarfs any material value. That misalignment in perception is what lets people be ok with profiting from another's labor, or hurting people for material gain, or having more wealth than a thousand/million/billion people. Pure free will, intelligence without wisdom or empathy for oneself on another timeline, is the stuff of nightmares. The relevance of this is that we're doomed to keep reliving these timelines over and over, stuff like JKF's assassination, 9/11, pandemic, etc, until we wake up and realize that feeding our ego feeds these systems of control. Which separate us further from the divinity of the universe/creation/aliens/god or whatever name we want to assign to the source of meaning (love).

zackmorris 5y ago

Thank you, out of all of the comments, I think yours is the best model for what is happening. The anti-woke sentiment coming from the rich is about keeping the members of the working class from discovering their own divinity. Specifically, that the miracle of creation and their own consciousness dwarfs any material value. That misalignment in perception is what lets people be ok with profiting from another's labor, or hurting people for material gain, or having more wealth than a thousand/million/billion people. Pure free will, intelligence without wisdom or empathy for oneself on another timeline, is the stuff of nightmares. The relevance of this is that we're doomed to keep reliving these timelines over and over, stuff like JKF's assassination, 9/11, pandemic, etc, until we wake up and realize that feeding our ego feeds these systems of control. Which separate us further from the divinity of the universe/creation/aliens/god or whatever name we want to assign to the source of meaning (love).