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Topic: Welcome to Babylon
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dafremen
Knowflake Posts: 1142
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Registered: Nov 2002
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posted September 20, 2006 02:56 PM
 
And why shouldn't I scrutinize my every word? Not for the purpose of editing, no not those words, but MY words with their raw and wounded ways. How better to know the nature of my starving soul? How better to know what this twisted conditioning has me becoming than to read the self-justified slide down the throat of the Beast that is my own succumbing to this sleep-walking madness that surrounds me. Welcome to Lindaland. Look around. Read your own words first. Welcome to Babylon...and on...and on... IP: Logged |
dafremen
Knowflake Posts: 1142
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Registered: Nov 2002
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posted September 20, 2006 02:57 PM
It was the ultimate achievement of human will forced upon it's environment at the time. The mighty Tower of Babel was raised as a monument to a race that still enjoyed unity as a race, but had chosen together to walk off the Path that had kept them united. Then came the fall of Babylon. The scattering of it's people into their many races and tongues. But the story isn't about a jealous God, nor is it just a mythological attempt at explaining the differences in race and language. No, the story of the Tower of Babel is also a story of division and human ego. The "tongues" are the wills of the people. At one time, the people were of one will, they understood harmony, cooperation and they worked in unison. It's all they knew, it is the nature of the Word/Path/Way. It is the synchronicity with which the trees change colors and the geese fly off, without a squabble in perfect "V" formation. But the ego is of the dirt. It is matter and matter consumes. And so the ego was not satisfied with the comparison of man to God. A comparision was also necessary between men. Divided one against they other, they proudly promoted their own tongues, their own customs, their own ways and railed against those that differed, deepening divisions. "Division" from the Creation, to a "divided" society, "divided" tribes and "divided" families. The fall of Babylon, the scattering of its people to the four winds came about not because of the wrath of God, but because of the pride of human egos. Love, daf IP: Logged |
lotusheartone
Knowflake Posts: 7573
From: piopolis, quebec canada
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted September 20, 2006 09:14 PM
Great Work Dafremen..glad to see you posting!IP: Logged |
mysticaldream
Knowflake Posts: 601
From: bowling green, ky
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted September 20, 2006 11:26 PM
I agree but often wonder, is there hope of going back to being united? Or since I always believe in hope, HOW do you think this will happen?IP: Logged |
Petron
Knowflake Posts: 2581
From: Paradise
Registered: Mar 2004
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posted September 21, 2006 02:59 AM
"where there is one religion, there is oppression....where there are two religions, there is open warfare......where there are thirty religions, there is peace and harmony...."---paraphrasing voltaireIP: Logged |
mysticaldream
Knowflake Posts: 601
From: bowling green, ky
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted September 21, 2006 07:44 AM
Hmmm......Petron, I like that!IP: Logged | |
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