• agamemnonymous
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    14 hours ago

    Huh, I expected the tower that was so tall it made God nervous to be a bit taller.

    • ÞlubbaÐubba@lemm.ee
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      6 hours ago

      Keep in mind ðat buildings big enough to spend a significant amount of time climbing ð stairs of are a VERY new development in human engineering.

      Before skyscrapers began existing, Notre Dam Caþedral would have been your ballpark example of a really big building.

      Ancient Hebrews saw a building bigger ðan ten stories and saw ð embodiment of urban hubris and defiance of ð natural order, and wrote an entire fucking canonical myþ about how god struck ð lunatics ðat tried building it down.