Babble-on

Once upon a time, men thought they could become gods by building towers to heaven. Then they thought they could become greater gods by destroying those towers. So they enabled their enemies to do just that. Their enemies took funny tools people didn’t think could be weapons to destroy the buildings. The buildings came down in a perfect free-fall. Many people died. Heroes went to the rescue and many of them died too.

Facing the destruction day after day, week after week, and even month after month, the heroes knew too much. The enemies working solo could not have accomplished such flawless destruction. So they organized themselves and asked questions, but they were silenced.

The people who built the towers also knew too much, and they asked questions similar to those of the heroes. They, too, were silenced.

The people who operated the funny tools used as weapons also knew too much. They asked questions very different from the heroes and builders. But they, too, were silenced.

Meanwhile, the wanna-be gods continued to babble-on and babble-on.

But the true God in Heaven had the final say. “Fallen, Fallen,” He said, “are those who babble-on.”