The descendants of Bush had migrated from the "east" (District of Columbia) first southward, along the course of the Mississippi, then westward across the Mississippi into "a plain in the land of Missouri". As their growing number forced them to live in localities more and more distant from their matriarchal homes, "they said: Come, let us make a city and a mall, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands." The work was soon fairly under way; "and they had concrete instead of brick, and Reinforced steal (I-Beams) instead of mortar." But God confounded their tongue, so that they did not understand one another's speech, and thus scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city.

In the next hundred years one language every two weeks will disappear forever.
I wonder about Babel, and how we are returning to one language.

Because I understand very little science or religion, I like to mix the two, it's very fictional dialog, Sunday morning kind of stuff. Making parallels, the Big Bang theory, the creation myth, seven days, garden of Eden. I think about infinity, expansion and the universe reaching a certain point then suddenly recoils. If that's true, and keeping in mind Kepler's law "if it happens here it happens there" then maybe humankind could return to one language, in the broadest sense, which really is the least of our problems, since language isn't the only thing we are loosing on a weekly basis.
What if there is no infinity, what if there is a container for this universe, something bigger around this, what if Black holes don't exist. What if god did create, from a tiny, fantastically hot "seed," the universe. Which in turn created not only mass and energy but also space and time.

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