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Discovery Of Vast Prehistoric Works Built By Giants?
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| 2-24-2008
| David E. Flynn
Posted on 02/28/2008 4:25:52 PM PST by blam
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To: Renfield
Now read Daniel and the Revelations and find out the end or should I say your near future.
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posted on
02/29/2008 4:36:09 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(I am the watchman on the tower sounding the alarm.)
To: Apple Blossom
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posted on
02/29/2008 4:59:10 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(I am the watchman on the tower sounding the alarm.)
To: bmwcyle
REvelations was written about ancient Rome. That time has come and gone.
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posted on
02/29/2008 5:45:18 AM PST
by
Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
To: Renfield
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posted on
02/29/2008 5:50:40 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(I am the watchman on the tower sounding the alarm.)
To: Lijahsbubbe
1 Samuel 17:4 Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.Deuteronomy 3:11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was ... nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it.
A cubit equals approximately 1.5' and a span about 4", so King Og's bed was about 13.5' long and 6' wide, and Goliath was about 9'-4" tall.
There is a man now living in Russia who is well over 8' tall. He was recently interviewed on TV by an American reporter, although he generally avoids publicity and refuses to grant interviews. Unlike the very awkward appearance of most modern "giants" I have seen, he is fairly well proportioned and relatively normal in appearance except for his size.
People like him and mentions of giants in ancient literature make you wonder whether these modern day giants are somehow genetically linked to an extinct race of ancient giant humans, or are just examples of an occasional genetic accident. But it's hard to imagine that even a crew of 9' giants could have moved a 400 ton cut stone over 200 miles of roadless, mountainous terrain as the article states. I'm not saying that it didn't happen, but I think that such a feat would be virtually impossible or at least extremely difficult even today with our heavy earthmoving equipment.
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posted on
02/29/2008 5:52:35 AM PST
by
epow
To: blam
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posted on
02/29/2008 7:12:18 AM PST
by
RikaStrom
(The number one rule of the Kama Sutra is that you both be on the same page.../Exeter 051705)
To: epow
Stephen Quayle and others have written extensively about this.
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posted on
02/29/2008 7:19:11 AM PST
by
BGHater
($2300 is the limit of your Free Speech.)
To: Partisan Gunslinger
The article says that skulls with craniums 3 times the size of ours were found here. It's odd that they didn't include a photo of such an unprecedented find, don't you think?
Looks like we'll have to wait for the forthcoming scientific papers...
To: blam
Strange but very interesting.
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posted on
02/29/2008 7:28:05 AM PST
by
Dustbunny
((Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. The Gipper)
If the carvings are giant 'land quipus,' wouldn't it stand to reason that they were made by the ancestors of the Inca/Andean peoples?
The way the article is written makes it 'sound' as though there was an advanced people who were wiped out and then modern humans came and built cultures and (in the case of some) civilizations in the same area. How then did the Inca learn how to read and 'write' quipus if the people who invented the system had long disappeared?
- The geoglyphs could be natural formations. Or agricultural mounds--contrary to the article. As opposed to the Nazca lines, these are not in recognizable shapes/images.
- If the lines are people-made, then why couldn't they have been built by ordinary humans over many generations (as with the Nazca lines, most of these lines don't seem particularly deep and rely on there not being much rain).
- If the builders had craniums three times that of modern humans, but body sizes roughly that of humans (the article only mentions the cranial capacity, and while 'giants' are used, Biblical giants weren't three times the height of modern man), how would they be born? By cesarean? Hip width is already pushing the max. Add onto that the intelligence (which is what they seem to be getting at) among species is supposed to be a ratio of brain to body size: fish have a small ratio, reptiles a larger one, mammals higher, and humans higher still. If the giants were thrice the size of humans and had thrice the brain size (so they could be naturally born), they might be about as intelligent as humans--or might not; there's more to intelligence than mere brain size. Whales have much larger brains than humans, but have a body even more immense, so their ratio is lower than humans'.
- The Flood was global, and the universe is only a few thousand Earth years old. (just to get in a little Creationist point).
Still, of the opinion that mainstream archeology and history may be selling short ancient Amerindian civilizations. Though this seems to be changing.
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posted on
02/29/2008 9:15:58 AM PST
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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posted on
02/29/2008 9:20:49 AM PST
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: bmwcyle; Renfield
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posted on
02/29/2008 9:58:01 AM PST
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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posted on
02/29/2008 10:12:38 AM PST
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: mysterio
see “the cardiff giant” in cooperstown, NY.;-)
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posted on
02/29/2008 11:28:16 AM PST
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: blam
Giants? I’m not so sure... heck, the pyramids were built by ordinary-sized humans, proving that people don’t have to be big in order to move big rocks.
My best guess would be that the lines are something like irrigation canals, or maybe roads and streets in some sort of city where the buildings were made of non-permanent stuff like wood or maybe even tents...
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posted on
02/29/2008 12:14:36 PM PST
by
Hyzenthlay
(I aim to misbehave.)
To: blam
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posted on
02/29/2008 1:13:20 PM PST
by
happygrl
To: blam
....."More significantly, the knotted and colored patterns of ropes that formed the quipus seems to be represented in stone among some of the more ancient geoglyphs on the Alti Plano"..... Do they know the codes that are embedded in the quipus? Maybe they are communicating things in their own codes or language. If so, it would be interesting to understand what they are saying.
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posted on
03/01/2008 10:49:23 PM PST
by
Bellflower
(A Brand New Day Is Coming!)
To: happygrl
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posted on
03/02/2008 7:11:50 AM PST
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
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posted on
03/02/2008 10:02:45 PM PST
by
wafflehouse
(How many boards would the Mongols horde if the Mongol hordes got bored?)
To: BGHater
Stephen Quayle? wiki fails me
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posted on
03/02/2008 10:12:31 PM PST
by
wafflehouse
(How many boards would the Mongols horde if the Mongol hordes got bored?)
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