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Language and the Tower of Babel

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kuresu
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Message 47 of 95 (427473)
10-11-2007 3:58 PM 		Reply to: Message 46 by EighteenDelta
10-11-2007 3:51 PM

call it what it is. A simple wager.
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Personally, I prefer the kuresu* wager--why believe in god if we don't know?
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*I'm aware that others will have formulated that idea/though well before me.
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10-12-2007 11:18 AM 		Reply to: Message 61 by Vacate
10-12-2007 11:10 AM

Re: Nothing but Babel
Anyone that happened to be settled near Boulder,Colorado would not need a tower, they would have to dig down to find Heaven!
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You know, this might just explain why this place is really quite cool.
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It also makes me wonder why the fundies in the area aren't financing a mining operation. After all, who wouldn't pay to get to heaven earlier?
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Message 65 of 95 (427673)
10-12-2007 11:24 AM 		Reply to: Message 54 by simple
10-12-2007 5:44 AM

Re: Nothing but Babel
2-3000 feet high.
All right.
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Aside from antennae that reach just over 2,000 feet high, we have a new tower being built in Dubai. Here it is:
Burj Khalifa - Wikipedia
Maximum height (including antenna and spire) = 2,684 feet.
Minimum height = 2,111 feet.
There are rumors the building will actually break 700 meters, pushing it ever closer to that 3,000 mark.
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Both would break the potential heaven zone. Will god destroy this tower?
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Edited by kuresu, : added a couple of sentences
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Message 76 of 95 (427821)
10-13-2007 2:53 AM 		Reply to: Message 71 by simple
10-12-2007 11:34 PM

Nothing but Bable
and all sorts of imaginary things to cook up a hot core
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In a planet? A hot core to start with. Little hint for you--we can tell the temperature of the earth's core, and it is slowly cooling.
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In a star? Nuclear fusion. You know, how stars generate light.
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