The Tower of Babel was not a tower

Fossilmaiden · 2016-01-26 20:49:10

"Towers" as a concept are defined by our modern modes of production for buildings.

Odradek · 2016-01-26 20:57:21

Okay I guess I'm just a fucking idiot then

glennmagusharvey · 2016-01-26 21:08:38

but the tower of bab-il is a tower

Tatterhood · 2016-01-26 23:26:34

This was a plot point in Snow Crash iirc.

Tachyon · 2016-01-27 01:08:57

straw man fallacy

*blows whistle*

Salix Babylonika · 2016-01-27 01:14:48

:slam dunks tachyon:

Klinotaxis · 2016-01-27 01:19:18

dunk fallacy

*blows whistle*

Fossilmaiden · 2016-01-27 01:27:37

Fallacy fallacy

-1000000000000000 points

Tachyon · 2016-01-27 01:42:26

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Haven · 2016-01-27 01:49:12

towers can be phallus-y

glennmagusharvey · 2016-01-27 01:55:49

Haven said:
towers can be phallus-y

you have a point

Tachyon · 2016-01-27 01:56:55

there was a weird controversy during which Jacques Derrida was accused of coining the phrase "logical phallusy" and denied ever having used the term

Odradek · 2016-01-27 02:16:58

People make fallacies because logic is hard.

You know what else is hard?

Klinotaxis · 2016-01-27 02:18:10

destroyin the patriarchy

Imipolex G · 2016-01-27 02:47:33

hard rock

Obā-san · 2016-01-27 02:47:53

Baldanders said:
People make fallacies because logic is hard.

You know what else is hard?

tower

MetaFour · 2016-01-27 03:41:54

Ziggurat.

Imipolex G · 2016-01-27 03:43:25

Ziggurat Stardust.

Odradek · 2016-01-27 03:59:53

Imipolex G said:
Ziggurat Stardust.

And the Spires from Mars

Imipolex G · 2016-01-27 04:00:39

I approve

The Tower of Babel was not a tower

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