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Topic: Babel

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 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite website(s):IMDb - Internet Movie Database
Most admires:Che Guevara,  Nostradamus
Favorite possession(s):Dictionary
Bad point(s):Boastful
Personality:Rebellious
Religion(s):Jewish
Favorite book(s):The Bible
The Koran
Favorite religious figure(s):Jesus Christ
Favorite great leader(s):Primo de Rivera
Favorite great thinker(s):Arthur C Clarke
Interest(s):French
Listens to:Guns N Roses
Favorite destination(s):Spain,  Baghdad
Ultimate fantasy(s):Destroying Civilization
Favorite quote(s):"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
 
 
 Expert Talk
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster

The tower Babel lay ahead ghastly ghostly and silent …The ravens were hurrying with straw…hurrying and flurrying for the young.
Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

Soviet agents have been ordered by the Russian government to search the ruins of the fabled Tower of Babel for an ancient machine that could unlock a legendary inter-dimensional gate.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

Since it is inconceivable that we could have advanced cultures in various parts of the world before the dispersion of the nations from the Tower of Babel, then the ascertaining of this date would provide us an outer limit for the dating of archeological finds.
The Tower of Babel, with its multitude of displaced people, symbolized not only a confusion of languages but, more important, a clash of religions that bound families and social groups together under distinctive auras of factuality.
Babel II concerns a boy who receives formidable psychic powers from the ancient Tower of Babel, and as a result finds himself battling a megalomaniac who wants to use that power to rule the world.
Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

He has taken an industry which at times uses the Tower of Babel as its unofficial world headquarters and helped create a universal standard of consistent communication along with an event which has become an invaluable trading floor of global sports business expertise.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

We began this presentation with Tussman's reference to the tower of Babel that can occur when faculty from various disciplines try to teach together.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

In one of our books Bruegel's Tower of Babel fills a virtual screen several times the size of most computer monitors.
Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver

The ungodly attempt to unify all mankind at the tower of Babel is thwarted by God in Genesis 11.
Mark Harris,
Priest

Tower of Babel (natural religions) in this chapter the men of the earth try to reach to the heavens of their own doing whereas in the very next chapter God seeks out man in the story of the call of Abraham.
Babylon is merely the Greek name for Babel, and the "mystery Babylon" which shows up again and again in Scripture is indeed a continuation of this theme that began with Nimrod's rebellion and the Tower of Babel.
It was a form of reversal of the Tower of Babel - in that all men there heard the message in their own tongues -- the Holy Spirit overcame the language and cultural barriers.
 
 
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