Theos-Talk Archives (June 2003 Message tt00167)

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From: "Bart Lidofsky" <bartl@sprynet.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: Theos-World "THE RETURN OF THE GIANTS"


> wry wrote:
> >> Because this subject is being discussed here, I hope that many
> >> readers, especially newcomers to theosophy, will find this very
> >> interesting and important scientific article about "Giants" in
> >> THEOSOPHY magazine to be very informative and useful;
> >
> > Wry: Important? Useful? Oh yeah.
>
> The importance is that Blavatsky described humans of the 4th Root
Race
> as being from 4 to 40 feet tall (or long, depending on how you look
at
> it). Therefore, these finds would seem to verify Blavatsky's words,
or,
> more precisely, a bunch of people's INTERPRETATIONS of Blavatsky's
words
> (nowhere, for example, did she ever state that the 4th Root Race had
a
> humanoid physical body, nor is there any good reason to assume that
it
> did).
>
> This flies in the face of known physics, where if a human body gets
to
> 8 feet or so, the structure cannot hold itself. And this is not
> conjecture; this has been very well proven by all sorts of
> experimentation, not to mention actual cases of humans who grow
beyond a
> certain height. For example, Andre Roussimoff, aka Andre the Giant,
was
> "only" 7' 4", and quite physically able, but died at an early age
> because his circulatory system couldn't handle his size.

Was his death from his size, or did he have some disease at the time?

Aren't there some modern Basket-ball players approaching that size,
and not dying at an early age, but instead being quite physically fit,
and apparently healthy well into middle age, and beyond? and capable
of vigorous exercise well past an early age?


Dennis