Comment on Tower of Babel
promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 months ago“Employees speak new languages.” Is what translate gives me, but I would translate it more as “The ones working speak new languages” or “Those who have employment speak new languages”. I still dont get the meme though, so the context might matter more and my translation could be off
Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
In the story of the Tower of Babel, they tried to build a tower to reach the heavens; God took affront to this, and confounded their language, so that they would not be able to effectively work together
Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 months ago
Right the workers and the rich architects could no longer understand each other, the city collapsed as suddenly there was vastly different lives being lived by those doing the work and those planning the work…
Totally God’s fault, cause that like never happens.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
This God person sounds like an asshole
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 months ago
He really is in the old testament, and his cognate deities in other semitic cultures is pretty fucked up too IIRC.
Let’s just say there’s a reason why one such semitic deity shares their name with the D&D 5th edition god of murder slaughter and betrayal and who’s main worshiper in their primary setting believes a righteous act of devotion is to impregnate your own daughter for the explicit purpose of murdering the incestuous offspring, and only going back on that because the girl got her mom first.