So I've been to the weird side of YouTube, again, and now I'm wondering whether we could be living inside a crystal ball.

The Tower of Babel

11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward,[a] they found a plain in Shinar[b] and settled there.

3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 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.”

5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 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. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[c]—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 don't generally like to make mention of biblical books unless I am criticizing them, and I can find plenty of way to criticize this story, this is one of the first times I remember questioning the goodness of a god that would keep us from understanding each other.

Why shouldn't we be able to do our will? Don't we have free will after all? I was very confused by this story to say the least, I couldn't and to this day can't find a positive message to it.

I try my best not to get too distracted speculating because I enjoy it so I can easily become obsessed for a little while, it's just problem solving the way I see it. But you can waste a ton of time in your mind, neglect other things if you are not careful.

The flat earth videos keep coming up recommended so I've watched a few more of them and now I'm at the dome speculation point. I never gave this one much importance because I don't know that knowing my landscape limits would encourage me much to do anything.

I was born in an island with heavy limitations when it comes to traveling and I can't swim all that well yet. I know a thing or two about claustrophobia, not because I can't be in a small place a long time, I'm actually good at surviving confined spaces. I know about claustrophobia because I could probably ride a bicycle across the island where I was supposed to make my whole word in less than a day.

Who knows what would had happened if I hadn't seen the movie Jaws as a kid? Maybe I would had become better at swimming and taken my chances out of my mental prison by sea.

There's people out there that think we've never left this planet because we can't, I grew up to the idea of astronauts and speculating about other worlds, what if I had spent my time into something else? It's those kinds of questions that make me figure maybe it wouldn't be such a great idea others knew there is nowhere else to go to.

What if there really was a collective effort to reach the top and we actually did? What if we already built a stairway to heaven and realized there's a roof instead?

Maybe the biblical story was true after all. We manage to get up there making great efforts, years of construction, you may have sacrificed a couple of your own children over this mission. When you get there you realize you should had stopped a long time ago, you can either accept you were wrong or turn the blame to others.

It could be that finding the dome up there messed up with our psychology so much that we had to take a walk, haha. Maybe that's how why we started to migrate in a big scale and that's how languages would later develop differently.

But living in a dome doesn't necessarily mean there aren't other domes, a way out of it or somewhere else. So believing in a dome is not necessarily believing there is nowhere else to live. Thinking the sky is a crystal roof is also not believing in the Bible or any Jewish books since apparently there are other spiritual paths that make stronger suggestions about earth looking like this and are unrelated to Abrahamism or monotheism.

Entertaining the possibility of a dome is not entertaining the possibility of a creator or creators. It doesn't have to be a religious argument or prelude to a conspiracy involving alien reptiles. One doesn't even have to believe there's a crystal roof, just some barrier.

Believing in anything but the spherical earth though, that does mean one would have to believe we have been systematically lied to, but very few people believe they are being told the whole truth.

I've been thinking about what I would do if I found out we live in a dome and as much as I love truth, transparency, disclosure, I don't know that I would tell people.

Suppose I can get others to believe me, why would I want that? What is there to gain in telling people we live in a snowball?

There are those out there who think beyond this roof there's water, why would I then risk people feeling trapped and wanting to open the borders letting the water in? What if we break it and can't seal it back?

I'd go to the end of the world for the truth, but would I share it once found? Would you?

While thinking about ways to prove whether there's a dome, I figured we could launch a couple rockets which would explode upon contact. These rockets would release paint when exploding and that would hopefully attach to the roof letting us see it from the ground.

Too much YouTube? Let me know your thoughts!

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