Posted on 02/27/2022 11:27:27 AM PST by jonno
One of my kids sent me this video. It purports that there are many (dozens? hundreds?) of historical accounts/reports of giants, tribes or giants, encounters with giants, etc.
The video seems to be well made and plausible. However, I remain skeptical. Supposedly many of the giant skeletal remains made their way to the Smithsonian. There are plenty of snopes articles debunking stories of this sort, but who knows what to believe from snopes?
Like any other topic of this sort their are supporters & detractors. The trick of course is sorting through the BS.
Before I dig further into this, I'm curious if any skeptical Freepers have gone down this particular rabbit hole...
Giant burial sites were dug up all over North America. All you have to do is read eyewitness accounts from local newspapers with pictures. The Smithsonian did indeed send detachments to come and “study” (extricate) the giant skeletons. I wouldn’t doubt they are studying Nephilim DNA as we speak.
Yeah. MacArthur did a good job.
Throughout human history there have been some groups who were taller than others. It’s still that way. There’s the Dinka tribe in Africa on the tall side and North Koreans (due undernourishment) on the short side.
But there’s never been any Gulliver-type giants or Tom Thumb sized tiny people outside of fairytales.
Not really, but I did ponder this...
Succubi are demons.
Demons are fallen angels.
So there might be an angel with all the sex appeal of a succubus that isn’t fallen.
Of course it sounds like angel/human romantic relations are forbidden.
So it doesn’t do me any good. But I did ponder it.
I know strange things like this can make one curious. No harm in that. But I have seen some Christians get deep into esoteric, unknowable things - to the point where it dominates their thought life. Maybe it is intoxicating if one thinks one has special knowledge about some “secret” or other. But it isn’t healthy.
they’re involved wih a couple of sports leagues that are commonly known as the nba and nfl...
I remember seeing him after the Keebler elves.
Also interpreted as giant in fame and glory. May have been good sized too.
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Do you have Q level clearance?
Here’s a seemingly odd fact to help explain some things about the 19th century when a lot of these skeletons were supposed to have been found and subsequently have disappeared.
Christopher Columbus Langdell is said to have in part got the job he was most famous for as Dean of Law at Harvard because he believed in evolution.
What might you ask would being a proponent of evolution have to do with the law? Well, except that the legal positivist (among whom Langdell was a chief) subsequently shoe-horned Darwin’s ideas into law to create legal positivism absolutely nothing. But being in the evolutionist camp was important enough, though unrelated, to give him a leg up in his career.
By this I mean to show that among intellectual elites of the late 19th century the idea that they were not unbiased observers, that they could be able to suppress evidence contrary to their conventional wisdom is not out of sorts.
A modern comparison can be found in the accusation that doctors are reluctant to go against conventional views on Covid because it might harm their careers.
You could even look at attitudes about alien life for comparison, for where once believers in God felt it natural to expect that there would be life everywhere, even intelligent life, it has since morphed into the notion that life out there somehow disproves the creation … talk about moving goalposts.
The naturalist of the 19th century had in their minds just finally escaped the quaint notions of their past and that they were sensitive to anything that might appear to drag society back seems a very real possibility … so since the Bible talks about giants it’s not unbelievable that actual human beings, flawed and all that, might decide there simply can’t be giants.
I guess that settles it then.
“His iron bed is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, measured by a man’s forearm” (Deuteronomy 3:11). A cubit being about 18”
Do you have Q level clearance?
What do Giants have to do with the Department of Energy?
That is my 2¢.
This is from an occultic site.
It’s not Christian and should not be taken seriously.
Dinosaurs started out small, got to be quite gigantic, relatively speaking, and then dwindled in size. Today there are no giant reptiles existent - don’t want to argue about Nessie, although I won’t deny that some holdout from ancient times may be someday found in an unexplored place.
So the same could be true for humans - here evolution and the bible could be singing the same tune.
Lots of critters used to be a lot smaller or larger than their versions that exist today. I guess there are some fossils of fluke worm type animals that were yards and yards long? Haha, I hope those don’t make a comeback.
Some evidence maybe? from Iroquois oral sources matching other sources, other investigative parallel research, and mountain boy amateur archaeology from stomping in the woods for decades ...in my book...with statistical analyses and photos of latter...
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