pronounced "babel" incorrectly... not sure i wanna waste the next 3:39 of my life here...
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Grothesk (Long Spike)
Well, it's the Smithsonian, so I assume they know what they're talking about.
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sato (Old Spike)
i suppose it could be just their cheap narrator not doing his homework... ok i'll give it a shot.
ludicrous though really if it's from a proper institution. anyone who's completed school will know how to pronounce "Babylon" and "babble" (ie with an 'a' as in 'apple') which are both rooted in "Babel".
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Fullauto223cal (Old Spike)
That tower looks like dog shit.
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Grothesk (Long Spike)
It blows the ever-living shit out of your fuckin' shit garbage tower.
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Fullauto223cal (Old Spike)
I have great towers. I know towers. I have the best towers. Bigly.
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sato (Old Spike)
pretty flimsy evidence, and where none is really needed. people of ancient civilizations built towers, and at least one of them was built in babylon, is that really so earth-shattering?
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Grothesk (Long Spike)
I mostly agree, but it is kind of nice to think that a myth that has persisted for thousands of years has some ancient collaborating "evidence". Most people are going to see this information and simply respond with, "NEAT" because it doesn't change anything or offer any ground breaking revelations.
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skeptoid (Old Spike)
All it does is confirm once again that ancient religious writings often have surprising correlation to real events. Religious texts had to serve all functions at once - one of them was actually recording shit that happened. So it's cool to see an artifact where real truths blend into the mythical truths that underpin civilizations. And Peterson would argue such truths are real - he calls them hyper-real if I'm not mistaken.
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(Old Spike)
pronounced "babel" incorrectly... not sure i wanna waste the next 3:39 of my life here...
(Long Spike)
Well, it's the Smithsonian, so I assume they know what they're talking about.
(Old Spike)
i suppose it could be just their cheap narrator not doing his homework... ok i'll give it a shot.
ludicrous though really if it's from a proper institution. anyone who's completed school will know how to pronounce "Babylon" and "babble" (ie with an 'a' as in 'apple') which are both rooted in "Babel".
(Old Spike)
That tower looks like dog shit.
(Long Spike)
It blows the ever-living shit out of your fuckin' shit garbage tower.
(Old Spike)
I have great towers. I know towers. I have the best towers. Bigly.
(Old Spike)
pretty flimsy evidence, and where none is really needed. people of ancient civilizations built towers, and at least one of them was built in babylon, is that really so earth-shattering?
(Long Spike)
I mostly agree, but it is kind of nice to think that a myth that has persisted for thousands of years has some ancient collaborating "evidence". Most people are going to see this information and simply respond with, "NEAT" because it doesn't change anything or offer any ground breaking revelations.
(Old Spike)
All it does is confirm once again that ancient religious writings often have surprising correlation to real events. Religious texts had to serve all functions at once - one of them was actually recording shit that happened. So it's cool to see an artifact where real truths blend into the mythical truths that underpin civilizations. And Peterson would argue such truths are real - he calls them hyper-real if I'm not mistaken.