Post by Aqua on Jan 31, 2018 22:52:13 GMT -5
I was thinking about the Biblical story of the tower of Babel: You can read it here or in the spoiler below (and about it on this wiki article)
My thought is that it is an archetype for the Type phenomenon: One undifferentiated approach to reality among humans branches out into 4, 8, 16, and possibly more approaches, all this creating the ever-present potential for misunderstanding and conflict.
I think it's also a metaphor or caution for Te or Je ambition as humans went about conquering and colonizing the planet.
It may also be told from a Je perspective that sees the human inability to coordinate and co-operate towards great Je ambitions as a punishment/curse.
The Tower of Babel
11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[c]—because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[c]—because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
My thought is that it is an archetype for the Type phenomenon: One undifferentiated approach to reality among humans branches out into 4, 8, 16, and possibly more approaches, all this creating the ever-present potential for misunderstanding and conflict.
I think it's also a metaphor or caution for Te or Je ambition as humans went about conquering and colonizing the planet.
It may also be told from a Je perspective that sees the human inability to coordinate and co-operate towards great Je ambitions as a punishment/curse.
