The Book Of THoTH

By Gaiaguerrilla

“BUT WHAT ABOUT THAT??”

There's a fairly choppy account of strangeness throughout the world. Whatever the public knows of the big mysteries doesn't seem very organized. The culprit could be human tendency to jumble up our absurdly assumed with our vastly understudied. We believe perhaps the first explanation we hear, and avoid the alternatives. It makes our lives convenient . . . after all we can't be doddling the mysteries of the universe when there's a roast to cook. Surely we can't all go out and measure the data for ourselves, but do we really need one person developing the acceptable theory from the data? Unless there's something big to hide, they may as well stick a webcam in any laboratory, any satellite, any dig that researchers may find themselves in. Let the public see in realtime.

I wholeheartedly admit that some people are desperate for a fantastical explanation- just because they're desperate for insight on something that may turn around their own mundane and stressful problems. Easily: We all know that hoaxers often stand to gain money, and sometimes the hoaxers believe the hoax themselves, out of perhaps their own same sort of desperation to spice their lives or make sense of things.

Silly beliefs can be quite damaging. But lest we forget, argument of a claim must remain on the concepts of the claim, not the speaker, the audience, or any facet where the claim is carried out. The fact is, stupid people occasionally believe smart things. And great discoveries appear in strange places.

Which brings me to an opposite extreme to this spectrum. Smart people can believe stupid things, too. When some mystery arises that we have trouble explaining, well the “scholars” may take a cheap way of explanation in order to preserve their careers (or for secrets, marketing tactics , sidetracking, their dark conspiracy lord Sauron, I don't know).

As we call many things a phenomena, the study of “Phenomenology” oddly enough has nothing to do with it. Phenomenology is all about population trends. Well I always thought that people were a bit of a phenomena in their thinking, but . . . surely there are more mysteries in the universe than what people are doing? More interesting ones, at times, to say the least.

So to back up the scholars when they seem to be getting cheap . . . we then have “skeptics.” These are not necessarily people that know all-well what they're talking about- but they are people willing to question things. That's a good start. Unfortunately, some people think they're skeptical when they're actually just ignorant. They're not “questioning” anything so much as ignoring the alternative views.

Phenomena and real skeptics should go hand in hand. A healthy skeptic doesn't like to have one quick answer. They will grill you until it all seems to make perfect sense, whether the answer is mundane or fantastical.

One can put aside the research bombardment of whistle blowers, UFO sightings, crop circle phenomena that can't be explained with a rope and plank (draining a cell phone battery the moment you step inside?), and strange documents that seem buried under other strange documents. The fact is- there's plenty of food for thought already if you still can't explain giant fossils and stone structures staring our satellites in the face. So this is a free country. I can speculate to you that meatballs are secretly jelly beans if I want to. I'll exercise that freedom of speech like we all should do. Let's consider a conspiracy.

So here is how you hide the truth . . . or inadvertently drop the truth down a drain and swallow a cheap fabrication. (1) Get a guy who's a few days to retirement and tell him he has to explain this mystery pronto. (2) Put it on an “objective” debate for the public eye to see, like Fox or CNN. (3) Find a guy as your “skeptic” to tell everyone they're full of crap. (4) Find a bunch twinkly-eye morons whom will come up with any answer at all to convince you that the mystery is Lord Zoltron that likes to eat your children late at night . . . and why you should buy their book. (5) Get an anchor who sits in on this debate as the neutral grounding judge (because he doesn't know anything about the subject) and (6) close with something completely unrelated like sports and commercials. Once this process of debate is complete, you can tell everyone that the issue is resolved. Stop asking.

But conspiracy or not- it should come as no surprise that big media and compulsory education are far from the cream of intelligent media. Maybe we're just sloppy. It's difficult to get the “smart stuff” public, because they won't make money in the schools and on the news, and thus the researchers won't get their funding.

We seem to adopt attitudes that developing personal conclusions is a dangerous thing . . . well, yes if you're wielding a nuclear arsenal and you believe that god tells you where to use it . . . (sound familiar?) But explaining the universe is the great human collective adventure! You don't get out of the responsibility so easily. Authorities exist so that Bob in the bar gets a quiet rest by himself if he wants to start a fistfight over the losing soccer team. Authorities are not there to explain the entire universe to you without question.

Conventional wisdom and spook theories aren't the only target of blame. Sometimes there are those that seem very much onto the truth . . . and they use this extensive research to support an agenda, rather than just get the truth as it is. Fact is: If you're not on the payroll for truth, or you're not materialistically motivated in some way to find the answer, then the secret is still in the wrong hands. Here's the typical type of reasoning I mean: “We found a mystery stone that no one can explain. This is why you need to trust in Jesus and support our church.”

Therein is the great global fallacy which Logical Positivism was intended to prevent. A philosophy developed by the leading minds of the early twentieth century, including Einstein. It basically says that in order to prove something, you have to explain why it's one thing, and not likely any of the alternative. And if you can't do that, then the mystery you wanted to explain remains a mystery.

So as a skeptic (yes, a skeptic), I would try to ask the scientific explanations of phenomena for more detail by saying “what about that alternative?” I'm not stern to jump to conclusions based on the phenomena . . . but if one can't solve the mystery, why bother stating their speculation as fact?

With that in mind, please think of this as a big giant question mark, or a scholarly slap on the forehead, to throw on top of your conventional “rational” schooling of the world. It's not about “what the bleep do we know.” It's more about “what the bleep are we on the verge of figuring out if we get it together?”

So wherever I would find an explanation a little oversimplified and fairly dubious, I wouldn't hesitate to find an argument, and say . . . “But what about that?”

BUT WHAT ABOUT . . . GIANTS

The largest human being ever on record is 8'11”(1) That's all fine and good. But there are accounts on human fossils and historical measures for humans as large as thirty-six foot . . . That's something you would need a few train cars just to carry. So is this real? Did they all run out of their Lithium, or what?

There's an irish legend of a man named Finn Maccool and his bout with a giant named Benandonner. The story is too fairly cartoonish to recount here in detail. Supposedly Finn fools the giant into believing he's powerful by sharing sandwiches with Benandonner containing rocks. “If he can eat sandwiches made of rocks,” Benandonner thinks, “he must be powerful indeed” and leaves Finn Maccool alone. (This story is an oversimplification). Sounds stupid, despite its cuteness. But . . . what about these facts here?

The London and North-Western Railway Company's Broadstreet Goods depot is supposedly packing a little more than a giant railway. An article by Strand Magazine on December 1895, entitled “Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland” (I guess “big giant discovered” wouldn't have been too believable?), gives an account by a Mr. Dyer.

Mr. Dyer was prospecting for Iron Ore in County Antrim, and reported this strange find of a giant coffin to Strand Magazine. The article is written by W.G. Woodmartin.

“The principal measurements are: entire length, 12ft. 2in.; girth of chest, 6ft. 6in.; and length of arms, 4ft. 6in. There are six toes on the right foot. The gross weight is 2 tons 15cwt.; so that it took half a dozen men and a powerful crane to place this article of lost property in position for the Strand magazine artist.”

Lost property? How? When?

“Dyer, after showing the giant in Dublin, came to England with his queer find and exhibited it in Liverpool and Manchester at sixpence, sixpence a head, attracting scientific men as well as gaping sightseers".

Oddly enough, the location of County Antrim where this coffin was found is called “The Giant's Causeway” (right)

“The Causeway proper is a mass of basalt columns packed tightly together. The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Altogether there are 40,000 of these stone columns, mostly hexagonal but some with four, five, seven and eight

sides. The tallest are about 40 feet high, and the solidified lava in the cliffs is 90 feet thick in places.” (2

In retrospect that we find hexagonal stepping stones 40 feet high in addition to an archeological record of a giant found in the area, the government of Northern Antrim explains this geological find in the following way.

“The fascinating pattern that we see in the causeway stones formed as a result of rock crystallization under conditions of accelerated cooling, this usually occurs when molten lava comes into immediate contact with water.” (3)

It seems a little confusing how a perfectly natural system of cooling molten causes nicely cut geometric shapes that make perfect stepping stones . . . could we perhaps use that natural process to save our own construction companies from all the expenses?

So perhaps . . . Ireland is a coincidence of strange claims pooling into one odd isolated legend? How about a trip to the southern deserts of North America. Apparently there's more than dinosaur fossils to dispute.

The Mt. Blanco Museum in Crosbyton texas has a human femur standing roughly up to your chin. (120 cm). That's at least a 14 foot human in anatomy to scale . . . and there's no mistaking a human femur with another animal . . . unless there's another biped around.

So this femur was discovered 1950 in the Euphrates Valley south-east Turkey, near Bashan, during road construction- amongst many other giant skelotons there; where popular legend tells of a king Og, measuring 14 feet. (Deuteronomy 3:11). Oddly enough, Bashan has giant cities as well. (4) So what about findings in recent times?

After the India Tsunami of 2004, a fossil of a giant skeleton was reported by Rupa Sridharam on an India news channel, describing its vicinity near the city of Mahabalipuram (now known as Mamallapuram). Wouldn't you know it, there's some pretty giant architecture there too. The giant Pagoda Tamil Nadu is only the surface of a legend, in which there are seven pagodas below the sea.

Well, some would tell that giants are a hoax. No doubt there is not a single one of these images that couldn't have been photoshopped . . . (tourists say the buildings are real . . . aren't they?) And there is not a single one of these news stories that couldn't have been hoaxed in some videographer's guile.

National Geographic tells of a picture that they have no discovery of, and profess that this picture is a result of a photoshop contest.(5) Admittedly, it's been a difficult find to use all of these pictures. Some of them float around the internet without any description, any cause to their origin.

One principal which science would not dispute is that there have been specimens of insects and mammals (and obviously reptiles) all around the world which have been documented in ancient times to have massive proportion compared to their progeny, and many much larger than any human. So it suggests that a giant “anything,” nevermind just a giant human, could exist in nature- and that the account of what actually existed before contemporary formal documentation are shotty at best- lost to myth, legend, and fascist states destroying what records we had.

For those hoping to have a more rational worldview, sticking to what the scholars tell us, all of these pictures can, with any luck, all be traced to such a hoax.

FOOTNOTES

1: World's Tallest Man, Guinness world record

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/human_body/extreme_bodies/tallest_man.aspx

2: Geographia, Ireland tourism.

Http://www.geographia.com/northern-ireland/ukiant01.htm

3: Northern Antrim Causeway guide.

Http://www.northantrim.com/causewayguide.htm

4: “The Giant Cities of Bashan and Syria's Holy Places” by Rev. J.L. Porter D.D., 1877

http://home.att.net/~warplover/index3.html

5: National Geographic Giant Skeloton Hoax

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071214-giant-skeleton.html

 

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