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12-28-2008, 05:38 AM | #151 |
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who cares about giants?
I definitely don't. what I do care about is the immorality of genocide and specieside, if such a word exists. No-one is happy for mankind to exterminate either another species or another tribe. Thanks to Raphael Lemkin, pbuh, we now have (weak) international laws outlawing it. Its so ironic that a Jew should instigate this law, since the Jews gave us the first strong written justification for genocide. We also prohibit human sacrifice to gods real or imagined. So stop this nonsense, get back to the point!
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The page you gave the link to was absolutly full of easily debunked paranormal claims that, in some cases, have had well known explanations for more than three decades. It starts with a page that has the usual stuff. A picture of a rotting pilot whale is a dead dinosaur. Some mummies in China have blond hair (which isn't surprising since many condidtions that mummies are exposed to are well known to cause their hair to bleach and turn blond, a fact that the Nazi's were never able to aquiesque too after they claimed to have found Atlantis with blond mummies (again witht he bleached hair). Then theirs the discussion about modern genetically altered foods causing sickness. The fact that naturaly modified plants like potatoes have caused illnesses that their wild counterparts didn't (they cause other problems) never seems to phase people who make claims about GM. Then theres the whole under water rocks that look like ancient monuments off the cost of Japan bull. That's been going around for a while, the only thing that I caould imagine might be true about these claims would be the concesion that the ancient Jomon could have fooled around with them when they were partially exposed by lower sea levels before about ten thousand years ago. Not that I find that likely though, plenty of visual analysis have shown little evidence of them having anthropic qualities, they are instead more likely just an example of a somewhat uncomom but otherwise well known type of rock. I honestly don't know what the author of the website means when she says that their is no known way that the giant rock in one of the pictures couldn't have been moved by ancient people or even by modern man. Plenty of known methods alowed ancient people to move enourmous objects. Believe it or not cranes are not the only way to move shit. Although I see no evidence that this is anything more a than a big square (again well known formation) lying in a gully. Yet another link on the site showed some generic pictures of ancient monsters and shouted "Dinosaurs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Wow a monster with long necks. Ancients could have never thought that up with out those things existing in real spacetime along with them. It just goes on like that. I won't even start on the cultish totaly batshit theology this site advertises. Not because it isn't insipid and evil, but because I am sure that everyone who has ever dealt with religous or political cults probably already know how people in these things think and act. |
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. . . or the archaelogical evidence of the name of Goliath? The “Goliath Inscription” from Tell es-Safi/Gath |
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Oh I know that Goliath! Isn't he in the same storybook that has a whale eat a drowning man and then vomit him up alive days later? Do you have a picture of that somewhere?
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If there had just been an inscription with the name of Goliath, we'd settle knowing someone with a name like that existed in that region.
But now that we've seen that picture, I think we can all agree that's pretty irrefutable proof that he was a giant, and that things went down exactly as the OT describes it. |
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