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Topic Options #809 - 03/21/00 10:39 AM Tower of Babble bob stranger Registered: 03/14/00 Posts: 1 Loc: Spokane, WA USA It strikes me as odd that a doomsday cult has not sprung up around this reference from Genesis: "Now the whole world had one language and a common speech." Then later, "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 to them.'" This was in reference to the Tower of Babel, and the similarity to the Internet should alarm those thus inclined..... Have a nice day! Bob Top #810 - 03/21/00 05:43 PM Re: Tower of Babble blue stranger Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 5 Good one Bob! I'll have to bring this up to my mother, who is inclined to... Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 7250 Members 16 Forums 12807 Topics 189588 Posts Max Online: 853 @ 10/23/07 11:39 AM Who's Online 0 registered (), 8 Guests and 20 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Newest Members Mim, applebart, walknotrun, MaRcX, Aps 7250 Registered Users Top Posters wwh 13858 Faldage 12522 Jackie 10392 tsuwm 9568 Buffalo Shrdlu 6688 AnnaStrophic 6489 Wordwind 6296 of troy 5400 maverick 4683 WhitmanO'Neill 4187 March Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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