And with the wisdom of a philosopher, you reply, “Dude, I need to sleep.”
And the meaning of life strikes again, that sacred cosmic oneness, how strange it is to be anything at all-but just for a second. Spilled soda on the counter and cashed bowls on the kitchen table it’s the witching hour, and some guy in an Neff beanie is asking if you have any Xanax. Atoms don’t touch they just brush electrons the sky magnifies the sun onto the anthills of man. Making a fool of yourself drunk won’t get a rise from fate and sobriety gives a hangover too. Why did you think your reductionism was original? Even your doodles are boring. Wolfram plays coy. Not to mention the next twenty-three hundred years of middlebrow philosophy you somehow missed. Like, you could have right-clicked that guy’s papyrus for synonyms. “Um, yeah,” annoyed, “I thought that was obvious.”Īh, surprise surprise, turns out your inch and footnoted masterpiece was predicted by the Greek philosopher Fuchylus in 380 B.C.E. “Though existence has no inherent meaning,” you tell your ex over chamomile, “in the end, all we have is each other.” Reply: something about how all behavior is an expression of the ancestral Art that is shared by our collective unconscious. Time is a flat circle, space is a mobius strip, morality is aesthetics and aesthetics is quantifiable. Big Bang and billiard balls of 1s and 0s colliding and uncolliding on loop. Determinism except for the quantum stuff. Turning the post-acid feeling of cosmic oneness into a fridge-note to-do list is harder than expected, but whatever man, MWF pass/no pass. We’re talking late teens and early twenties, when work is too easy and finding better work too hard. But if I’m reading the tone correctly, He did this because He was scared.īut it’s alright, Ma, it’s life and life only.Įveryone deserves to figure out the meaning of life at least once or twice. “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language and this is what they begin to do.” God didn’t punish Homo sapiens sapiens for hubris, he launched a pre-emptive strike. “ Now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.” Far be it from me to psychoanalyze God. And the house always wins at the second law of thermodynamics.
But just as Nyx preceded Zeus, that means the darkness was already there. You should see what He did to the guys with the golden calf. God said, “Let there will be light,” and there was light. Even so, His omnipotence is not uncontested. The Judeo-Christian capital G-o-d, robed, bearded, opinionated, deadlifts, thematically male, is the avatar of civilization, just check the year. 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language and this is what they begin to do and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.’ When God descends to Earth, His complaint is, The tower is merely a tip-off that something is awry. It was supposed to bring people together.Īnd accordingly, the LORD doesn’t care about the tower, doesn’t even mention it by name. He wanted to “make a name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” The tower was symbolic, decorative, a community service project. In Sunday School or Illustrated Classics, we are taught that God punished humanity for hubris, for daring to disobey Mesopotamian zoning laws. That’s not what it says here.īiblical man didn’t build a tower to sneak into Heaven’s happy hour without ID. Hey man there’s a hole in my head where information goes I.ġ And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.Ģ And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they dwelt there.ģ And they said one to another: ‘Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.’ And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.Ĥ And they said: 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.’ĥ And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.Ħ And the LORD said: 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language and this is what they begin to do and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.ħ Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.’Ĩ So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth and they left off to build the city.ĩ Therefore was the name of it called Babel because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
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