[dukey]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Biblical tower of Babel was built in rebellion to God. Man like Lucifer wanting to be free of God and be like Him: "And they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." (Gen 11:4) Rebellion effectively becomes "freedom"! Freedom as defined by F. Nietzsche's "God is dead" – long live the Human, is the mantra of European Voice! The consequences of this "freedom" is enormous and to oppose this, qualifies you to be extremist, fanatic, radical dogmatic, intolerant fascist.

[Bas]

interesting, I never thought of the Strasbourg parliament building in relation to the tower of Bable. There is talk to abandon that parliament and hold sessions only in the Brussels parliament building, Strasbourg has always had a minor ,symbolic role compared to Brussels: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament

Do you think this is "proof" of some mason conspiracy Dukey? We still don't have a common language....

[dukey]

masons or not i dont know
but it's pretty clear that it was modelled after the tower of babel.

There is more interesting stuff though.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')Revelation 17 depicts a great harlot riding on a beast.

[Twilight]

I thought the beast was supposed to have seven heads and ten horns? Presumably at least one head has multiple horns? The guy with the stars is supposed to be someone completely different anyway.

Although Revelations 8:1 does prove that heaven has a unionised workforce too. They clocked off for a brew, innit?

[mercurygirl]

See this: Europa

Where's Golem when we need him?

But seriously, that's quite a collection of images. Myth lives on.
I would think that it greatly predates the writing of Revelation, but maybe there's a connection.

[Armageddon]

When John saw the visions in revelation and wrote them, he said, " 5 world powers have fallen ( asyria, greece, babylon, medo-persia, and dang, cant think of the 5th ), he also said one is ( rome, since that was his time period ), and he said one more will arrive ( anglo/american world power which is the US and great britain ). pretty interesting, he didnt mention any other world powers before the end times.

[Plantagenet]

The pictures of a lady on a bull are based on Greek mythology and nothing to do with the book of revelations.

In Greek Mythology Zeus transformed himself into a bull to kidnap the lady Europa.

[Harlequin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'W')hen John saw the visions in revelation and wrote them, he said, " 5 world powers have fallen ( asyria, greece, babylon, medo-persia, and dang, cant think of the 5th ), he also said one is ( rome, since that was his time period ), and he said one more will arrive ( anglo/american world power which is the US and great britain ). pretty interesting, he didnt mention any other world powers before the end times.

[Bas]

The French and the Spanish were both world powers, and I bet that John never heard of China which was certainly as power as Rome at the time that he lived, and it is again regaining that status. IMO that book of revelations is BS

[Armageddon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bas', 'T')he French and the Spanish were both world powers, and I bet that John never heard of China which was certainly as power as Rome at the time that he lived, and it is again regaining that status. IMO that book of revelations is BS

[Bas]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bas', 'T')he French and the Spanish were both world powers, and I bet that John never heard of China which was certainly as power as Rome at the time that he lived, and it is again regaining that status. IMO that book of revelations is BS

[Plantagenet]

The Dutch also deserve some "credit" as world colonizers.

The Dutch fought off the Spanish in Europe, and also established a worldwide colonial empire, with colonies in North America (New Amsterdam/New York), the Caribbean, South America, South Africa, and the far east. The Dutch were initially highly successful at the world conquest game, but the Brits took their best colonies in America and South Africa away from them. The largest Dutch colony was in South Africa, and the million+ white Boers found in South Africa today are mainly descendants of the early Dutch settlers in this African Dutch colony..

[Bas]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'T')he Dutch also deserve some "credit" as world colonizers.

[Plantagenet]

Two Asian countries also got into the "conquest and colony" game. The Japanese invaded Korea, Taiwan, and China prior to WWII, and then briefly spread the Japanese empire across Asia before the US defeated them in WWII. The other Asian colonizer would be China, which invaded Tibet in the middle of the 20th century. Today, the Chinese are still in Tibet. They currently are encouraging the movement and settlement of ethnic Han Chinese in Lhasa and other areas of Tibet to administer and consolidate their control over this wonderfully exotic country.

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dukey', '(')...)
I am not especially religous .. but the symbolism is interesting. The woman, I think is meant to represent the antichrist. Why the EU would chose this to stick on all their coins etc, god only knows.

I'll leave you to figure it out.