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[title] => Challenger
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[hometext] => The recent film Babel inspired this piece the director (Alejandro González Iñárritu) takes one back from different languages threaded by a gun to an original place of awe and silence. In my opinion it was excellent.
[bodytext] => 'To slip the surly bonds...' and speak with God climb and petition the Lord with excellence. "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name for otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth." Year after year, life after life the walls aspire and rise higher than any before; Just enough to beckon His attention as specks of hand blown dust in his image He sees our effort and laments: "Behold, they are one people and they all have the same language (of gestures, vision and wit). And this is what they began to accomplish, now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them..." "Come, let Us go down to tremble and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech." delivering a blow to Himself their worst fears and striving made manifest. In disgust or temperance hath the Lord God wrought His Enemies bidding, surpassing, him by destroying unity? As Moses penned Genesis in the fashion of Egyptian upbringing he had a deep insight as to what was needed. To have a people of rabble and nomad come together in shared identity Khabiru became Hebrew for which One God will follow... Previous to this gods were in such places trees, rocks and idols. Slaves to poverty identity as the downcast the thronging fringe, found brilliant answers that have lasted these last 5 thousand years. Today we think YHWH means 'I am that I am' but as individual identity was still developing the true meaning and impact, glue to survival, was knowing YHWH is 'I am Doing what Needs to Be Done.' The Tower in myth, a pointed symbol magical metaphor of arrogance, broken yet re-made civilizations with clay heads gold tax-payers measured by profits and loss our union displaced, shards in war, just waiting. Re-uniting in abstraction computers and science in languages both binary and mathematics for the same is still true now nothing for which they purpose to do will be impossible for them to reach. AJPIII [comments] => 4 [counter] => 150 [topic] => 41 [informant] => yangdantien [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 15 [ratings] => 3 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => political )
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