Help! WTF is a "babylon?"

[rickenvox]

I keep running across this in ancient manuscripts, the Book of Revelations, and Bob Marley songs. WTF is it?

 

[335clone]

It's where incorrectly formatted images rot for eternity

 

[rickenvox]

It's where incorrectly formatted images rot for eternity

Stupid Tapatalk. If I were at my laptop this thread would be magnificent, or at least have pictures


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[Jbird]

 

[Mark Wein]

It’s where my gig is tonight.

 

[DdBob]

We refuse to be
What you wanted us to be
We are what we are
That's the way it's going to be, if you don't know
You can't educate I
For no equal opportunity (talkin' 'bout my freedom)
Talkin' 'bout my freedom
People freedom and liberty!
Yeah, we've been trodding on the winepress much too long
Rebel, rebel!
Yes, we've been trodding on the winepress much too long
Rebel, rebel!
Babylon system is the vampire, yea! (vampire)
Suckin' the children day by day, yeah!
Me say de Babylon system is the vampire, falling empire,
Suckin' the blood of the sufferers, yeah!
Building church and university, wooh, yeah!
Deceiving the people continually, yeah!
Me say them graduatin' thieves and murderers
Look out now they suckin' the blood of the sufferers (sufferers)
Yea! (sufferers)

 

[VoidTerraFirma]

We refuse to be
What you wanted us to be
We are what we are
That's the way it's going to be, if you don't know
You can't educate I
For no equal opportunity (talkin' 'bout my freedom)
Talkin' 'bout my freedom
People freedom and liberty!
Yeah, we've been trodding on the winepress much too long
Rebel, rebel!
Yes, we've been trodding on the winepress much too long
Rebel, rebel!
Babylon system is the vampire, yea! (vampire)
Suckin' the children day by day, yeah!
Me say de Babylon system is the vampire, falling empire,
Suckin' the blood of the sufferers, yeah!
Building church and university, wooh, yeah!
Deceiving the people continually, yeah!
Me say them graduatin' thieves and murderers
Look out now they suckin' the blood of the sufferers (sufferers)
Yea! (sufferers)

The correct answer.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

Long Island.

 

[yabba]

 

[GDSmithTX]

Suckin' the children day by day, yeah!

There's gotta be another way to say that.

Also:

 

[335clone]

 

[Highernoon]

Old-school Iraq, like a low-brow version of Mesopotamia.

 

[rickenvox]

It’s where my gig is tonight.

in orange county? We have a babylon in pasadena.

 

[tiger roach]

 

[VoidTerraFirma]

 

[Highernoon]

 

[baimun]

Ancient city that geographically is located in today's Iraq.

In art history we discussed how it was where several rivers intersected and was home of the "Hanging Gardens of Babylon" which was one of the ancient 7 wonders of the world.