The tower

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>>>>> "William" == William S Alek <wsalek@intalek.com> writes:

    William> Question, is there any mention of an unusual man-made
    William> tower (symbolic of course) in Tyre? I think that is a key
    William> issue. None that I know of.

    William> Another issue is the destruction of Tyre. Since Tyre was
    William> destroyed, would that result in a confounding of
    William> language? I don't think so. A difference in language can
    William> only occur with geographical relocation. And in this
    William> case, continental drift that is more like continents
    William> rapidly moving apart. As described in the Bible, this
    William> tower reached to Heaven. The idea of a really tall sky
    William> scraper is absolutely absurd. Although, considering the
    William> taboo surrounding tall buildings up until a few centuries
    William> ago, the concept of tall buildings was obviously consumed
    William> by myth and superstition. I think the confounding of
    William> language can only occur with a rapidly changing
    William> geography.

    William> Regarding the tower. A tower that can reach Heaven is
    William> obviously not a conventional tower, but a tower that had
    William> a physics beyond what we know today. The question is
    William> "What did the ancients know?" Was this knowledge lost?
    William> Since the tower had the capablity of reaching Heaven,
    William> does that mean it can instantly reach any point in the
    William> universe at will (man's will of course). Is the unknown
    William> physics a hyperdimensional physics? Was the tower a
    William> hyperdimensional machine that can reach anywhere in the
    William> universe. It could only be described as a tower that
    William> reached Heaven.

    William> I think there is something very very profound going on
    William> here.

You are right, of course, about Tyre not having a tower of any sort.

This discussion is getting so interesting that I would like to gateway
it to the higher-fire mailing list.  We can all be cc-ed on it so we
get everything, but I would like some additional opinions about these
ideas.

I know that the hyperdimensional concept is one that you favor, as do
I myself.  I had never thought of the tower of Babel as being a means
to cross between hyperspaces before.  

Have you read any of the writings of Alice Baily (not a Christian by
any means!), especially "The Externalization of the Heirarchy", who
discusses various "spiritual planes" in great depth.

Also, Robert Heinlein, in "Stranger in a Strange Land", talks of
Michael, the leading character, being able to get rid of someone by
"twisting" them, apparently into another dimension.  

P. Abbot's "Flatland" is certainly the seminal fictional book on the
subject of transdimensional spaces, as well as a political and social
satire.

I also read a sci-fi short story a long time ago, whose title and
author escape me, where a device was constructed to bridge
transdimensional spaces.  The inventor would throw tennis balls into
its window of acceptance.  He would listen and try to track them to
learn more about "the other side".  Ocassionally, a tennis ball would
bounce back into the original space, but when this happened, the ball
was everted -- its inside and outside surfaces would be reversed.  The
author did some hand-waving about conservation of parity.

Do you suppose that the reason for the whirlwind when Elijah was taken
up in the feiry chariot was a vortex formed by the rushing of
atmospheric gases from our space into the space that Elijah was
translated into?  This assumes a small aperture where 2 spaces could
intermix.  Very interesting...

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