Why exactly is it that people who speak different languages can't build a Tower together ?

Question

My girlfriend and I don't speak the same language, but we can even make a new human being together. A tower can't be that difficult to build.

Answer 1

you and your girlfriend learned the love alphabet thats something completly diffrent and you 2 guys should learn other people on this world that language!

Answer 2

This is a pretty ridiculous parallel you make. Making a baby is simple. Too simple. Insert this into that, move a bit. Pow. There you go.

Making a tower takes planning, coordination, measurements, logistics, etc. Trying to do that while speaking different languages would be darn dificult.

Are you thinking of the Tower of Babel story? Everyone building that tower spoke the same language. They were actually very successful in building the tower. Too successful. When they tried to raise the tower higher than heaven, God got all kinds of angry and laid the smack-down on the tower. He scattered the people all over the world and made them speak different languages so they couldn't pull that crap again. He's very protective of his Cloud Mansion and he doesn't want people tracking mud through it.

Answer 3

It is certain that you and your gf can have your own baby and build a happy family, but what that sentence means is that ppl who speak different languages are from different backgrounds. they have different opinions, religions, cultural experiences, etc.
It is rather difficult when you two have different ideas on how to build a tower (i'd say a happy family tower here). Even ppl who speak the same language find it hard to build a tower together, no need to say ppl who speak diff. languages.

However, it doesn't mean that it would never work out on you two. It just requires more giving and taking, communicatiions and stuff when it comes to important cases, such as the way you're going to raise your child, what language should you teach the baby first, and so forth.

Answer 4

I think the real question here is "why would God be angry that humans were building a tower anyway?"

If the answer is because they wanted to reach heaven with the tower, well that seems silly doesn't it. I mean if you were to build a tower that reached past the clouds, you would just eventually build into space. And space isn't heaven, its just stars and planets and the moon, so yeah, you can't build a tower that high and you would never reach heaven with it, so the whole Bible's explanation of language doesn't make sense in the slightest.

Answer 5

postpone! it truly is the beginning of the branch of languages. earlier the tower of bable, each and every person in the international spoke a similar language. Emagion your self coming up a huge project with a huge crew of human beings. It changed into then that all of sudden, human beings spoke jibberish. there have been no translators, no longer some thing. What do you imagine might want to take position? no it truly is easy to take administration of the mess, because no man or woman might want to keep in mind that man or woman. it might want to take a miracle for some thing to get performed, even as each and every person has different positions, and they can't co-op in any respect. construction a tower is hard sufficient once you do talk a similar language. No it isn't any only laying bricks. someone has to steer rooms, passages, actutecture, it is going on and on. no man or woman talking an unknown language and lead. As on your female friend, you obveoustly have atleast some theory of one yet another's language. How else might want to at least one recommend?

Answer 6

my question is rather more basic... it's not why couldn't people who speak different languages build a tower, it's why couldn't they communicate?
take some natives out of the deepest jungles you can find and plant them on a rich desert island. they don't speak each other's languages, but that doesn't stop them from communicating... they can point, gesture, mimick, draw what they want in the sand... any number of ways. i'd bet 10 years of my life that in less than no time, they are not only communicating very efficiently, but making some progress in learning some of each other's language and developing a sort of common language all can speak.
communication and a tower would have been a piece of cake.

Answer 7

Ah, but you have resources to learn each other's languages.

I'm sure there were many people who loved each other deeply who could no longer understand each other. And there were no resources to help them learn to understand each other.

It must've been like living in a weird twilight zone episode. Haven't you ever had those dreams where you are speaking perfectly normally and no one understand a word you say?

I think Babel is a powerful metaphor for what is happening today. We have such great technologies, but the languages are so specific, we have trouble understanding each other. Each field of study is seeking it's own definition. It's own terms and boundaries. There is no mediation. And most of the reason is that we are more concerned with greatness, greed and fame than in service. (This is why those in Babel built the tower in the first place.)

Your desire to bring a life into the world flows from love. Much loftier motivation.

Answer 8

i think you are missing the point...according to the Bible, people used to all speak the same language, and a lot of them got together and tried to build a tower to reach Heaven. God did not like this...I am assuming because He is the one who is supposed to decide when and if we get there. So he caused them all to speak in different tongues and they could no longer communicate and they split up and gave up the project. of course, now, we have had time that lots of us have learned languages of others, but thousands of years later we still haven't learned to really Communicate and Cooperate with each other, so just imagine how upsetting and shocking it would have been back them to have every one around you 'babbling' in a different tongue, when five minutes before you understood what each other were saying? Wonder what God would do this time to stop it?

Answer 9

No doubt you are referring to the Tower of Babel, described in Genesis. This was an attempt to create a structure high enough to reach up to "the heavens", which He apparently found offensive. He caused all of the workers to immediately begin speaking different languages from each other, which put a quick halt to the project.

You and your girlfriend are involved in a project that can be accomplished purely by physical communication. Having been involved in the construction of multi-story buildings, I can assure you that it is impossible to proceed without extensive verbal communication and a clear understanding of what each worker
is doing.

One interesting thing one can glean from this story: In our clamor to obtain unity with one another, remember that when people begin to operate of one mind, with a singular purpose (remember the Nazis?) it's not always a good thing, and God might have something to say about the matter.

Answer 10

Because building the Tower of Babylon requires communication for logistics and sound physics. Besides, it was metaphorical. attributing to the origin of diff languages. Where as sex only requires instincts and human nature ;no special skills required to make a baby . Even the lower forms in the animal king dom can do it. Don't the pyramids in Egypt blow your mind.

Answer 11

I think you are referring to the tower of Babel in Genesis. When working together it is best if you can communicate what you want to do to others, if you can't speak the same language, it is difficult to do this short of demonstrating what you want. It would just take way too mcuh time.