in Chinatown

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Mysterious substance.   Probably good for whatever ails you...



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Chinatown version of a condiment caddy.



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Well, according to my Sunday School teacher, there were these people who decided they would build a tall tower that would reach Heaven.   Evidently they were making great progress until God threw a monkey-wrench into the project and made everybody start speaking different languages.   Utter confusion among the workers was the result and construction was stopped.   And as my Sunday School teacher explained -- that's how we came to have so many languages in this world.   And if you believe that -- I'd like to tell you a little story about a man named Jonah and a big fish...

Don't believe me?   I lifted the following from Wikipedia:
According to the biblical account, a united humanity, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, took part in the building after the Great Flood; Babel was also called the "beginning" of Nimrod's kingdom. The people decided their city should have a tower so immense that it would have "its top in the heavens."(וְרֹאשׁוֹ בַשָּׁמַיִם) However, the Tower of Babel was not built for the worship and praise of God, but was dedicated to the glory of man, with a motive of making a 'name' for the builders: "Then they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'" (Genesis 11:4). God, seeing what the people were doing, confounded their languages and scattered the people throughout the earth. It had been God's original purpose for mankind to grow and fill the earth.



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