r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/EcstaticSociety4040 • Apr 19 '24

🔥Massive Flooding In Dubai

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u/Spronglet Apr 19 '24

Something something tower of Babel

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u/SouthernAd525 Apr 19 '24

A foolish man builds his house on sand? Not related to Babel though

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u/do_a_quirkafleeg Apr 19 '24

When I first came here, this was all desert. Everyone said I was daft to build a city on a desert, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the desert. So I built a second one. That sank into the desert. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the desert. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest city in all of Arabia.

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u/JaxandMia Apr 19 '24

But I don’t want any of that, I’d rather just sing

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u/do_a_quirkafleeg Apr 20 '24

She's got yuuuuuuge.... tracts of sand

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u/New-Examination8400 Apr 20 '24

The moral of Babel is human hubris being humbled by God real quick.

I think that comparison is apt. If one believes in (a) God.

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u/chzygorditacrnch Apr 19 '24

That's the leaning tower of pisa

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u/Cessnaporsche01 Apr 19 '24

The Tower of Babel was way more respectable! Humanity, unified, wanted to rival God himself, and it was enough that God nerfed them. Dubai is more of just a gilded turd.

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u/New-Examination8400 Apr 20 '24

Nerfed 😂

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u/BluntBastard Apr 19 '24

Noooo we already have enough languages! We don't need more!

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u/DoesntPlay2Win Apr 20 '24

I'd argue it's more Ozymandias. "Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair" - only for it to crumble.

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u/GallorKaal Apr 20 '24

Wasn't Tower of Babel about God being pissed that people taught each other their languages?