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Goliath died outside of Jerusalem, too, not Rome. And his people were Greek, not Roman, so it’s not like his remains would be taken back to Rome. And if he really was such a champion, his remains wouldn’t be left in a random forest with no marker or ruins about.

EDIT: No time for the old β€œPhilistines aren’t Greeks,” love, I’ve just come to read the meter.

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I mean, Goliath was called a giant but wasn’t β€œmy skull is the size of a full grown man’s torso” big. He is said to be about 9’-9’9". Which, if there was historical legitimacy to the story, could easily be within the range of a very tall person that had their height exaggerated over time.

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Agreed. Units are hard and for most of history there wasn’t a wiki where you could look up the conversion between cubits, greek feet, roman feet, italian feet, french feet, and english feet to maybe get to some idea of how tall the β€œhuge guy” was.

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Yeah, also, imagine in the bronze age, a shaq sized dude was found and trained to be an elite warrior. I could totally see the men of that era, who encountered him in battle, telling tall tails of a 9 foot giant they had to fight.

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I mean yeah Shaq would wreck shit back then, humans were generally much shorter in the past. Goliath would have seemed a giant if he were 6’3”

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It’s on a random Facebook page, it must be true

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It’s on a random Facebook page and it aligns with what I feel should be true, it must be true.

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Uh, no, the side was smashed in.

edit: all talking about between the eyes, but i learned from that part in religion lessons that the temple is a weak point on our skull.
Difference between european and american version?

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Yeah everyone has it’s own imagination.

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Thw fuck is the image is it Photoshop or ai? Or did someone just berry a fuck off big skull.

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To me, it looks like it’s using perspective. The skull is a normal sized one, but closer to the camera than the guy is. It’s the same trick that Peter Jackson used to shoot Lord of the Rings for all of the size differences between people.

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berry :)

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Beary*

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I can do maths not English

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Oh, you can do math? Name every number

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Math eh?

Does there always exist at least one prime between consecutive perfect squares?

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Bone apple tea

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