Modern tower of babel11/11/2023 ![]() Our system isn’t really working anymore and who's listening to the STEM priests? The STEM speakers warn us that these languages are misleading us. This wonderful modern system, the STEM, including the communication tower, is being conceived and understood through a whole array of languages, simpler to learn than STEM. We don’t need the intervention of the Lord to confuse our language. Websites will help you believe that the STEM high priests are a bunch of lying, deceitful, greedy manipulators. We have created alternate truths to respond to our individual demands. We have our choice of social networks, newscasts, languages and ideas from thousands if not millions of websites that will confirm to us in clear, real web pages any stupid thing we want to believe. ![]() In fact, it tells us that there is now one website for every four people in the world. We have created a means of communication that can tell us in less than a second how many websites there are that mention the word daredevil. This fascinating language has even developed the equivalent of a priestlike hierarchy of knowledge. It stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. The same language that we speak and have spoken during this construction cycle is appropriately abbreviated as STEM, like the stem of a massive branch of a tree-like structure. This time the tower fable is reflected in the complexities of our internet but includes our whole infrastructure. We have built the fabled tower, not out of brick and tar this time, but as a scientific structure that seems capable of holding its own at the table of the gods. While humility is grudgingly admired, we believe we are clever enough to beat the odds against being put in our place. We aspire to compete with the gods and live beyond our means. What flashed through my mind was the parallels with us today. Another interpretation was as a warning that people should not aspire to compete with the gods but should be humble and know their place. That was the grounds for finding a means to stop the people from building their tower. That might satisfy a child’s question, but the Lord’s reason for destroying the tower was one suggesting fear: 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. A common interpretation of the story suggests that this is an old myth describing why different nations speak different languages. ![]() It seems that this lord was not acting alone either, but They were powerful. Nothing said the Lord cared about the people. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth. 6 The 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.ħ Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”Ĩ So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.ĩ That is why it was called Babel-because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. In the Old Testament, one of the stories is called “The Tower of Babel.” It is Genesis 11:1-9 and is only 200 words long:ġ Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.Ģ As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar, and settled there.ģ They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.Ĥ Then 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 otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”ĥ But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. It reminded me of an insight that has flashed through my mind from time to time. There is lots of information out there – one site not working is no great loss. How could I explain to the young techie why one single URL, one website that he had never heard of, was important to me and to our community? If one doesn’t work, blow it off. A hundred and forty-five million hits for daredevil, but I couldn’t find my mother. Entering the same thing in my search bar today, I got 145,000,000 hits in less than a second. I got less than a dozen hits and several were for her. Anyone who knew her would feel the term described her well. After my mother died, I entered the word “daredevil” into one of the earlier search engines. The community site manager was more persistent and, with cooperation from the company that provides their access to the internet, they stumbled upon the solution. When I looked for technical support from my internet supplier, a young techie said he had never heard of the site. A few years ago, I could not connect to a local community website.
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