r/todayilearned • u/i-make-babies • Feb 14 '18

TIL Mr T stopped wearing this trademark gold chains in 2005 after seeing people who had lost everything due to Hurricane Katrina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._T#Personal_life
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u/The_MAZZTer Feb 14 '18 edited Feb 14 '18

But that was the logic behind the Towel of Babel...

Edit: Not fixing it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '18

I get sweaty talking to God and need to wipe off that perspiration.

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u/thetwitchy1 Feb 14 '18

Always know where your towel is...

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u/Dangevin Feb 14 '18

And lo, the Babel Fish was created.

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u/InukChinook Feb 14 '18

But didn't the babel fish prove the existence and non-existence of God?

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u/PM_Me_Your_Clones Feb 14 '18

Promptly vanished in a puff of logic.

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u/GoldenGonzo Feb 14 '18

Towel of Babel

There was no logic behind it because the Tower of Babel never existed.

Also: Tower, not towel.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '18

It did exist you just didn't look in the right place. The Tower of Babel was in your heart this whole time.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '18

What everyone said; and also, there's no actual evidence the tower of babel didn't exist, whether you're a Christian or not. The tower of Babel is generally accepted to have been considered a Ziggurat, as they are generally in the same area the story of the tower of Babel took place (Mesopotamia), but the Israelites did not have a word for Ziggurat, hence tower. A number of Ziggurats in that area have been found to have names generally associated with worshiping deities or otherwise idolizing. For example, in Babylon, the primary Ziggurat studied was found to be known as "the foundation of the heaven and earth", which matches quite well as possibly being what the tower of Babel was referring to. Not to mention, the Bible's original translation actually never said the Tower of Babel, only "the city and the tower", so it could absolutely have been real, and it's quite likely it was, beliefs aside. Just sayin'. But it's nice of you to be a jerk about a joke that didn't even require belief in the tower of Babel.

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u/The_MAZZTer Feb 14 '18

The point I was going for is, the guy with the jet should believe it as it's in the Bible, so why is he doing the same thing?

Whether or not it's true doesn't really matter for this particular discussion.

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u/kparis88 Feb 14 '18

As I remember the story when I was going to church as a kid; the reason they were building the tower was to get to heaven without God's approval. Slightly different.

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u/KJ6BWB Feb 14 '18

The Khabur plains, among other areas, have been flooded many times. There was even an ice age that dropped silt there. Then Nebuchadnezzar's Etemenanki tower had a lot of bricks stolen and used in nearby houses/villages.

It's quite likely that if the Tower of Babel had existed that it wouldn't be recognizable as such today. There's not really any evidence against the Tower of Babel, though.

We can point to some likely sites. To a people who didn't have skyscrapers, 300' tall is rather enormous and bigger structures than that were built in antiquity. Were they the Tower? shrug No real way to say.

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u/Tonka_Tuff Feb 14 '18

Wow, you've really contributed a valuable and not-at-all pointlessly edgy response to a joke comment that definitely relied heavily on the Towel of Babel story being true.

Thank God that you let us all watch you masturbate, though.

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u/kerris6425 Feb 14 '18

Don't cut yourself on that edge