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MEHERCVLE! (lemmy.world)
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[–] [S] 52 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Explanation: In Biblical mythology, the Tower of Babel was a construction made with the intention of reaching the heavens - which so angered the Jewish God YHWH that he cursed mankind with different languages, so no one could understand each other and construction could not efficiently continue.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    YHWH seems to run into that problem often. Make a creation, give it a conscious, give it free choice, give it absolutely no instructions, directions or guidance (other than a few vague appearances) ..... then blame his creation for all their bad choices and burn them all to hell for an eternity for a few decades of bad behavior.

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Bad design on his part, really.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Maybe it was by design .... after all, what do you do with eternity? after a billion years of day in day out just existing? Maybe we're the millionth iteration of his creations and after making a dozen 'perfect' worlds, it got boring so they decided to mix things up by creating this messed up reality for shits and giggles.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've actually considered that exact scenario. In which case the Christian interpretation is dickish, but I get a deist interpretation without the addition of hell. How many fascinating stories do we create as YHWH's little ant farm? In which case I understand it, but it's also definitely not an omnibenevolent thing to do lmao

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I like playing Minecraft to just relax once in a while ... create a random world, start from scratch and build it up until you got nothing left to do. Hit save, forget about it and start again. I've got dozens of saved worlds now.

    Maybe this reality is just another game save that this teenaged eternal being created and forgot about.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Christians, and I guess Muslims too, believe in the same myth of the Babel Tower.

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