Ten and a half years ago, my boyfriend could see the smoke from a park in Queens. Last week, we drove past that same park, and now we can see the tower. :)
They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 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.”
But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 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. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel — because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
I'm sure this building will have a grand opening ceremony some day. And I bet George W Bush (whose administration presided over the greatest intelligence failure in the history of the United States) will be there to celebrate. That will not be a good day.
I find the memorial garden thingie horribly offensive. The bad architecture of the tower isn't that big a deal; the main urban purpose of it is as a direction-finder elsewhere in the city, for when you come up out of the subway.
@11: Well sure. I did not necessarily want them to make sure the building had the same exact rust spots inside, or the same level of dust on the I-beams either.
And the buildings were jet-proof. They held up admirably through the impact, and would not have fallen if not for the flames. If only steel was heat resistant, and the building was not full of petroleum-based plastics with high rates of heat release.
Is that the fire escape ladder on the side?
But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 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. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel — because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
I find the memorial garden thingie horribly offensive. The bad architecture of the tower isn't that big a deal; the main urban purpose of it is as a direction-finder elsewhere in the city, for when you come up out of the subway.
What better statement to make to those who wish to destroy our nation and kill our people?
And the buildings were jet-proof. They held up admirably through the impact, and would not have fallen if not for the flames. If only steel was heat resistant, and the building was not full of petroleum-based plastics with high rates of heat release.