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Nephilim skeletons, writer’s strike offspring, Munchkin goes to work

11 January, 2008 (00:31) | BLOGS, Nephilim Skeletons, FAMILY, PODCASTS, MY WEEK, BOARD GAMES, THE SIMPSONS NEWS | By: Luis

THE SIMPSONS NEWS
I heard the deadline for the Universal Studios Simpsons ride is the twenty fifth of January. So now I know what the potential day of my layoff is. I’m glad that I have this job even though I’m really reaching burn out. I’m making quite a bit of overtime money which will help once I haven’t got a job. I’d much rather be able to pay off debts or put the money in savings though.

I overheard a conversation at the office the other day about the writer’s strike and how it effects the animation industry. Animation writers are not part of the Writer’s Union. They are part of the Animation Union. This means that writers other than the ones on The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and Family Guy (who are part of the Writer’s Union) can still work. In other words, writers at Cartoon Network, and other studios that are part of the Animation Union are NOT on strike. They still have work. This means it’s possible for me to find work in another studio.

BLOGS
So I thought I’d go on the internet and find studios that I might be able to work for and I stumbled on a fire storm that I didn’t even know was going on by my fellow Animation Union members about how they want to get residuals for the work we do. If you’re interested in this, click here. It’s crazy. Some of these guys are saying pretty much what many of us are thinking. I just didn’t know how complicated things were. Here’s a small taste of what is said on the post:

At 11/08/2007 07:27:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

Some artists talked about taking action to get residuals like the writers.

I think that’s something that should be address too. Artist have been creating shows from zero scripts in tv and feature. Where’s the piece of pie for them?

FAMILY
Brought my wife and the Munchkin to work last Friday. We got there at six o’clock a.m. They both had doctors appointments one after the other in Pasadena in the afternoon and it was the only way that I could take them and not lose too much work time. Since my wife is on medical bed rest and that entails not driving, I had to take them.

Munchkin had a great time. She sat on my lap most of the morning as I worked. We have these giant, life size, wooden cutouts of the Simpsons family on the wall and she loved to look at them. Especially Maggie who was exactly the same hight she was. She kept staring at her and pointing.

We brought a portable playpen with us and when it was time for her nap, we put it and her in Lance and Tommy’s office. They where out on vacation so they weren’t using it. She was having so much fun that she didn’t want to be put in the crib and started to cry. She only cried for about thirty seconds before she realized she was too tired to continue and fell asleep. Unfortunately she was only able to sleep for about an hour before I had to take her out so we could go to the doctor’s office.

At the doctors office, my wife was told (again) that the baby is still in breach position, which means she’s gonna get a C-section. The doctor told her that the baby would be coming in two to three weeks (around the time of my layoff). Meanwhile the Munchkin got a flu shot at the pediatrician. She was on my lap when it happened and before it happened I covered her eyes. She didn’t see it happen but she felt it and cried for about fifteen seconds before I “rescued her” and made her feel better. It couldn’t have gone better.

Afterwards, I took them back home, and drove an hour back to work. I got back at three o’clock and worked till seven. I actually managed to work my eight hours that day, in spite of all the driving around I did.

BOARD GAMES
Played Age of Empires III: Age of Discovery board game this weekend with my brother and his wife Deborah. This time we played with the correct rules (I really messed them up the last time). It was awesome! We had so much fun with that game. It definitely plays better when you know the rules and don’t have to constantly be looking them up. We played it for a bit over three hours. Don’t know why it took us so long. I guess I need to take into account the fact that it was a learning game for my brother and Deborah. In any case we had a lot of fun. They told me that we should play it again sometime soon. I don’t know when since it’s a long game but we’ll see. I still have a few longer games that I want to try that I haven’t gotten around to.

PODCASTS

I got mentioned a few times on Geeklabel radio podcast #67. Man, that podcast cracks me up. I still need to send them some things I owe them. Man, I need more time.

MY WEEK
So a friend of mine at work had gotten all apocalyptic on me. He was telling me how, in four years a planetoid called Nibiru is going to pass by the earth and wreck havoc on the planet. He then proceeded to show me a You Tube video about it. It was very interesting but it was also very typical of the apocalyptic videos that where making the rounds in 1999 except that this one combines biblical passages, and UFOs. It would make a great Sci-fi movie. It took him a few days to realize how much misinformation and hog wash was in the video. I will not put it up on my site because it’s just silly.

The thing that struck me about this video though is that they talked a lot of about the Nephilim. You know, the off spring of the sons of God and human women in the book of Genesis 6: 1-4.

4 Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown. (Gen 6:4)

Well, the thing is that the video showed pictures of people sitting next to excavated skeletons of GIANTS. The pictures had me wondering if the photos where real or if they where just doctored photographs. Where they really the excavated remains of the Nephilim? If they where, how come no one ever talks about them? I thought they must be fake because if scientists made such a big deal out of the “hobbit” skeleton, they would go nuts over skeletons of giants. Here are the pictures:

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big_nephilim01.jpg

nephilim-skeleton.jpg

Pretty creepy looking, huh? So I went on the internet and found a few places that explain all the photos but one. The first one is obviously just a forced perspective trick. It’s one of the ways they made the Hobbits in the Lord of the Rings movies look short. The skeletons are close to the camera and the men are down in a ditch farther away. Here is another picture that was taken of the same two guys:

http://www.egiptologia.pl/gal3/12sakd.jpg

The second…I don’t know, the lighting on the man doesn’t match the lighting on the skeleton so the photo seems doctored.

The third is a digitally doctored photograph. [EDIT: I’ve just been informed that the third photo was made specifically for a Photoshop contest. It won third place. This is the site for the contest: Worth1000.com. They’ve got other weird Photoshoped photos there. Check them out.] One of the original pictures used in this photo is this one I put below:

Sure would have been cool if they were real. Just imagine if you were to go to a Museum who had some…

Nephilim Museum exhibit

Of course, Genesis 6:4 may have a deeper symbolic interpretation than just a literal one. The New Advent website puts forth this commentary to the DOUAY-RHEIMS version of this passage:

Giants… It is likely the generality of men before the flood were of a gigantic stature in comparison with what men now are. But these here spoken of are called giants, as being not only tall in stature, but violent and savage in their dispositions, and mere monsters of cruelty and lust.

For more on this topic see my other post:Nephilim Skeletons again, Superhero geekness.


 

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Comments

Comment from Bill Ho
Time: February 3, 2008, 1:44 pm

Wow, it would be too cool if there were such men walking the earth back in ancient times. In fact the Númenóreans in J. R. R. Tolkien’s books sound suspiciously like the Nephilim. Well given his academic background and being highly religious, his writings didn’t stray too far from the two sources he draws the most from: his own personal experiences from WWI and biblical text.

Comment from Brian Dodson
Time: February 16, 2008, 12:57 pm

YES THE GUY WITH THE SHOVEL,PART OF THE SHOVEL IS MISSING! I KINDA FIRURED THAT THESE ARE FAKED!

Comment from Luis
Time: February 16, 2008, 2:12 pm

Wow, hadn’t even noticed that, thanks.

Comment from Baal
Time: March 9, 2008, 5:45 pm

Actually the Cornell University image was poorly done look at the wooden plank at the upper right, notice the shadow? It does not line with the shadowing in the rest of the pic. Its shadow goes southeast the others follow southwest. This is only going to have conspirators wondering more now as was the original of the skeleton still possibly creditable material? And more importantly is it trying to be debunked in a coverup by someone to trick people into the notion its a joke. I read ARAMCO oil company was responsible for its finding in Saudi Arabia then military supposedly took over the dig site. I dont know the truth here just giving some thoughts.

Comment from Luis
Time: March 9, 2008, 6:19 pm

Baal (as in the demon?),
Wow, I hate to admit it, but you’re right! The shadow on that plank is not going in the same direction. Not only that but I think that the guy’s missing shovel piece is actually there but it’s just hard to see because he’s holding it at an angle and it’s a dark color.

Comment from Jeff
Time: March 19, 2008, 12:43 pm

Bullsh*t, the third picture down is real. They want you to believe it’s fake, but in the coming weeks and months, you will start to hear about these mysterious findings. Even in our own backyard. Stay tuned to Lou Dobbs on CNN!!!

Comment from Luis
Time: March 20, 2008, 5:46 am

Thanks for the passionate comment Jeff, If you’ve read my last comment here I’m thinking that you might be right but I can’t be sure. If you know something I don’t then so much the better. I for one would like this to be true but I’m not sure for the reasons I wrote on my post.

Comment from Luis
Time: March 20, 2008, 6:55 pm

After looking at the pictures again, I’m convinced that the third picture is fake and the Cornel University image is real. I’ll elaborate more on this on on my post: Nephilim Skeletons again, Superhero geekness.

Comment from Cerberus
Time: April 13, 2008, 3:20 am

someone is pulling your leg… most off you guys will have heard about the truth about 9.11 someone is obviously trying to cover up some crazy ass shit that they believe we can’t handle, not just 1 nation should rise up it should be the whole population of the world should be getting angry that the governments of the world are hiding information that could awaken many people into not being lead by a whip. and its the governments are doing the whipping. The whip being fear 9.11, moon landing, nephilim, aliens, Titanic and all other bits of crap that are being kept hidden from the general population should be out…. OUT I SAY!!! rise up and let your voices be heard all off you even those who dont believe should shout out to give other people a chance to choose. THE TIME OF AWAKENING IS UPON US THE STARSEED ARE HERE ALREADY JUST WATCH AND SEE……….

Comment from Paloma
Time: May 7, 2008, 8:49 am

porfavooorr… que las imagenes no los engañen, pruebas eficientes que demuestren la existencia de estos seres no existiran fotografiadas

puede que algunos links de informacion les ayude
http://chilecero.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/los-dioses-del-eden-the-gods-of-eden/#more-33

Comment from Luis
Time: May 7, 2008, 9:15 am

Gracias por el comento,
Yo tengo un amigo Argentino en el trabajo que también cree en lo mismo que usted puso en su link. Pero yo solo quería decir que usando la tecnología nueva, es muy fácil de manipular fotos para que se vea algo que no es.

Comment from bahaa hamdan
Time: June 13, 2008, 3:54 am

a nephilim is a half human half angle

Comment from Alias
Time: July 15, 2008, 2:22 pm

luis you made a great job by explaning us that the third photo have many mistakes , but you said that ground behind man who is diging near head of nephilim is fake..strainge thing is that evrything is ok on it and someone is trying to fake that the groud is made by photoshop…look more carefull or you made that ground by your self that explanes evrything - do not manipulate people…And something in my head says that thoes shadows is made to fool us too

Comment from Luis
Time: July 15, 2008, 7:36 pm

Alias, thank you for the comment. I wasn’t quite sure what you were trying to say here, but I think I’ve finally understood what you are saying and I see that there is a bit of a misunderstanding about what I meant in my post: Nephilim Skeletons again, Superhero geekness. I wasn’t saying the ground was fake, I was saying that the TRANSITION from the ground in the original photo and the sandy rocky ground it becomes, was poorly done.

Comment from Crowley
Time: September 9, 2008, 12:45 pm

could you please explain more about why you think the second picture is fake? I can not follow your “wrong light” argument - to mee this picture seems rather authentic.

Comment from Luis
Time: September 9, 2008, 8:30 pm

Crowley, I meant, the man seems to be in all shadow while the skeleton in almost all in light. That seems a bit inconsistent. To be honest, that picture looks very authentic to me also. I’m not sure I can explain that one away except for the inconsistency I just pointed out.

Comment from pyzar
Time: September 20, 2008, 7:41 am

why in many history book the ancient people are small like astraulephitecus and many others

Comment from Luis
Time: September 28, 2008, 11:52 am

Pyzar, are you asking me a question? If you are then I can only say that I can’t answer it. I’m not an archeologist, a biologist, anthropologist,nor a historian. The only thing that qualifies me to write about this at all, is my knowledge of photo manipulation (and the programs used to do so) and my understanding of light and shadow.

Comment from igno
Time: January 20, 2009, 5:58 pm

the cornell picture is the fake, study multiple religions all things lead to some ruler of man, not hard to believe that we revolted and were freed for a short time but I guess we shall see in june of 2009

Comment from connie
Time: May 7, 2009, 10:21 am

ihave to say that i do agree with one man on here that said that the goverments are all hideing something from us, actually i believe there hiding a lot from us. way too many thing have happened, from people finding thing’s. to unexplained photo’s, the govements know a whole lot more than they are telling. we should have the right to know everything that’s going on, it’s up to us to bellieve it or not.i think these photo’s are real for my part. and there’s another point also… the bible hasn’t been proven it to be false. so far everything that’s written in it , most have been proven to be true, i’ve never replyed to anything from the web, but i just had to agree with that man, and also do believe those pictures are real. i just wounder why hasn’t anything else hasn’t been wrote about them.? that’s kinda strange, don’t ya think?

Comment from Luis
Time: May 7, 2009, 10:43 am

Connie,
Thank you for your comment. I understand where you’re coming from. Yes, I’m sure governments hide things from us. Yes, I personally believe the historical books of the Bible are true, but there is a such thing as photo manipulation. If you go to my post: Nephilim Skeletons again, Superhero geekness. you will see how one of the above photos shows obvious signs of that manipulation. Also, look again at the photo above with the skeletons in the foreground. It’s obviously an optical effect. One also used in the Lord of the Rings movies to make some of the actors look bigger than others in order to make the Hobbits look small. If these photos are fake is doesn’t disprove the Bible. The Bible is God breathes whether there is photographic “proof” or not. I’m sorry but, the photos are fake.

Comment from jeanroberts
Time: June 4, 2009, 4:50 pm

I dont know if these pictures are real, but I do know such things do exist as evident in the Bible, more specifically Genesis chapter 6

Comment from Luis
Time: June 4, 2009, 5:22 pm

I’m not arguing that the Bible talks about Nephilim, just that you shouldn’t use the pictures above to try and prove their existence since they are fake.

Comment from bill
Time: June 10, 2009, 3:28 pm

apparentley nephilim are babys of human women that were raped by renegade angels
and they wee said to be evil also i heard that god flloded the world to dispose of them if you know what i meen and this makes us think of noahs ark to start up the world again

Comment from bill
Time: June 10, 2009, 3:33 pm

i found a curious pic i dont get it mentions nephilim in a stupid place where can i show you it

Comment from darwin
Time: June 20, 2009, 12:56 am

it would be really cool if it was true..

Comment from Baal
Time: July 31, 2009, 8:19 am

Sad sad sad, you still dismiss this and fail to see this is in FACT a coverup. I have in my possession another photo from a different angle with more to be seen of photo 2. With no people in the picture. And it was after they had completely dug it up. Fascinating diagnonsense I must say how you explained the nature of the light effects. You sir FAIL you have no credibility in my eyes you are quite possibly an agent here to debunk this.

Comment from Baal
Time: July 31, 2009, 8:24 am

Wonder who paid off Cornell University to showboat this shit off as the real deal.

Comment from Luis
Time: July 31, 2009, 8:44 am

May Saint Michael and all the angels, with the power of God, watch over you and protect you B.

Pax Christi.

Comment from James
Time: August 3, 2009, 6:14 am

Baal, how can the 2nd picture down be real? If this was a real digging of the skeleton, the man would not be standing on the ribs, he would be standing on the side whilst digging the skeleton up. And there would also be markings on the ground of places you shouldn’t step in, and also more tools than just a brush next to him, and judging by the distance of how far the brush is, he isnt even using it. Therefore this is not a real dig because the man is stepping on the undug-up bones, no evidence of professionality and lack of every thing that is needed to make it real.

Comment from D Randolph Brehms
Time: November 4, 2009, 9:32 pm

I find it fascinating, the pictures and skeletons of these Nephelim that have been discovered would certainly cause problems for evolution that suggests that all of the natural world is going from the simple to the complex which it appears at the very least this begs this interpretation. It would seem that nature has devolved, rather than evolved. I find the whole subject interesting, and of course if you can’t fit this whole thing into your naturalistic port folio you have to extrapolate that this had to be visitors from another planet in order to explain such a large and obviously complex super human in size and who knows what size IQ given the structure of the bones, and the skull.

Comment from Luis
Time: November 4, 2009, 9:40 pm

I would agree 100% if the pictures were real. But they’re not.

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