None, the expalnation is false. There is no etymological relationship between 'Human' and some god named 'Hu'. It actually refers to 'man' in a terrestrial sense; anything but 'god-like' or 'god-man'.

Human: from Latin humanus "of man, human," also "humane, philanthropic, kind, gentle, polite; learned, refined, civilized," related to homo (genitive hominis) "man," and to humus "earth," on notion of "earthly beings," as opposed to the gods.

There you go, injecting reality into a thread where it does not exist! This thread should be plastic coated for protection and sent to the beings in the extra dimensional realms of existence so that they may see how the human mind works. It would surely cause them to send us some of their finest candy or, at least, to hang a "beware" sign on the door.

I was wondering since the non-end-of-the-world hype is over, has anyone come to change their way of thinking, in terms of actual science? Don't get me wrong, I enjoy good ghost stories and thrillers and generally getting the crap scared out of myself, but I do have both feet planted in reality.

now your a vet? cows die, whether healthy or not... humans are the only species that die being healthy?... like i said, common sense and logic are a few miles over your head...

What can I say? I abhor a vacuum.

Okay I will draw you a picture. The cattle rancher that moved from Texas to the four corners ranch in the book "Hunt for the skin walker" raised top notch Black Angus cattle. He had no problems with his cattle "dying" for no reason in Texas. However, the new ranch had all kinds of strange phenomenon going on. He lost a lot of his prize cows and two ranch dogs were zapped dead, burned to a crisp. If you prefer to believe these cattle mutilations were "natural causes" that's your business. I don't believe that for a second.

P.S. Humans and animals don't just die for no reason.

I am not defining "Human." I am defining "Hu"

And saying "...some God named "Hu" is like saying "..some Hu named "God."

As far as the meaning of Hu, I got that from Wikipedia. You can agree to disagree with them if you like.

In Sufism Hu or Huwa is the pronoun used with Allah or God, and is used as a name of God. Allah Hu means "God, Just He!" In Arabic Allah means God and with Hu, as an intensive added to Allah, means "God himself." Hu is also found in the Islamic credo La Ilaha Ila Allah Hu: "There is no God but Allah," or in Sufi interpretation "There is no reality, except God",

Hu = There is no reality, except God"

just because you don't know the reason doesn't mean there is no reason... there's that logic and common sense thing again...

And I'm demonstrating that it has no relationship as a prefix to the word 'man'.



Hu was a minor deity in the Egyptian pantheon.



I'm not disagreeing with the Sufi pronoun or the existence of Hu in the Egyptian pantheon. I'm demonstrating that there is no relationship between 'Human' and 'Hu'.

I'll elaborate:

The Egyptian language and the Sufi dialects have semitic roots linguistically, whereas, Latin is Indo-Eurpoean. There is no liguistic correlation between the two words in any etymological sense.

Those who deny that mysterious phenomena and the paranormal exist in "reality," should probably not waste their time trolling in this thread especially if they can't discuss the topic intelligently or respectfully.

Sounds like your opinion to me.

I disagree.

Everything is connected to everything else. To say that there is no liguistic correlation between two words is just guess work, opinion and speculation.

So, you have no idea and are just making this up, as proven by the Latin dictionary? Well, I knew that already.

There is always a reason. You are the one who suggested that people and animals can "just die." They suggest that insects ate all the soft tissue, but I didn't hear any explanation of how they skinned the head leaving a pure white skull with no brains or sign of blood anywhere.

These investigators are just guessing and they ignore anything they can't explain.

Read the book: "Hunt for the Skinwalker."


A team of scientists based in Las Vegas has been conducting a study that may be different from anything that's ever been tried. The research is focused on a ranch in rural Utah where, for 50 years or more, paranormal activity has been reported, including UFOs, Bigfoot, mutilated animals and poltergeists. Some call the place Skinwalker Ranch, and George Knapp of the I-Team is the only journalist allowed to visit the property.

Oil executive Gregory Todd is one of the hundreds, if not thousands of northeastern Utah residents who've seen weird objects -- call them UFOs -- over their homes in the past 50 years. The Utah basin has also been a hotbed of other strange activity including Bigfoot encounters and mutilated animals.

In a basin known for an array of unexplained phenomena, the epicenter of high strangeness seems to be a picturesque spread known to many as Skinwalker Ranch. Native Americans who live near the property advise members to steer clear because, they say, this is the path of the skinwalker, an evil force.

The last family to live on this spread lasted only 20 months. From the first day back in 1994, they were terrorized by an unseen intelligence that played mind games with them, shadowy figures inside their house, objects that moved on their own, disembodied voices and bad things happening to their animals beginning with cattle and bulls that disappeared and others that were carved up with surgical precision in broad daylight. A gigantic wolf that attacked one of their calves was tracked through the mud, but the tracks simply stopped as if the animal had evaporated into thin air. Three dogs were vaporized after while chasing blue orbs of light in a pasture.

In 1995, the ranch came to the attention of NIDS, the National Institute for Discovery Science based in Las Vegas. NIDS bought the property and began an unprecedented scientific study. Observation posts were built. Video cameras were installed and operated. Scientific personnel and former lawmen were on the property 24-7 for 8 straight years. Dr. Colm Kelleher headed up the NIDS study.

Dr. Colm Kelleher said, "We probably have, if you count all the pre-NIDS and post-NIDS incidents, close to 100 different incidents. If you look at all of them, the one thing that jumps out is how unreproducible they are."

In other words, nothing ever happened the same. The scientists would spend all night out in the darkness and witnessed dozens of UFOs and odd balls of light. They also encountered large unknown animals, including ones that emerged from tunnels of light in the fields. Whatever it was proved elusive. The cameras that were installed atop telephone poles were attacked and dismantled, but whatever did it was invisible.

Dr. Colm Kelleher said, "We checked the time stamps on this pole versus this pole. We looked at when the camera lost power and nothing was on the tape. There should have been something visible because the range of these things is pretty good."

NIDS still owns the ranch, but it appears the phenomena have gone underground, as if weary of being hunted. As yet, the mystery of Skinwalker Ranch remains unsolved. Kelleher said, "If anything, it has created more questions that I had when I came into this thing."

The ranch remains off limits to outsiders. Visitors -- from this world anyway -- are not welcome.

George Knapp and Colm Kelleher have co-written a book about the ranch. It's called Hunt For The Skinwalker .

maybe so, but just because you think they are ignoring evidence, that may not be the case... if a scientist doesn't have any evidence to suggest a theory, most will not resort to wild speculations and made up guesses...once there is some evidence to make a theory, then they publish what they have found out. i haven't seen any evidence of UFO's cutting up cows...

i do not disbelieve this, but there is only hearsay evidence of this... i have of read of other things happening there, but only what the people said happened, no real evidence

When dealing with a belief system, evidence is of little importance. We see that here repeatedly.

As one reviewer summed up the book:

"Biochemist Kelleher tells the story of the team's experiences on the ranch as "an ambitious if unconventional example of what science is supposed to do--explore the unknown." Unfortunately, after a few intriguing observations, the phenomena ceased and the scientists were left to speculate about shamanic and interdimensional realities intersecting with our own. An interesting and sometimes frightening narrative of events, though ultimately short on final answers.

..."scientists were left to speculate about shamanic and interdimensional realities intersecting with our own."

So, no frikkin' idea then?

It sounds like this ranch is a veritable theme park for UFO 'enthusiasts', with many attractions including its very own Sasquatch!

http://www.ovni.ch/guest/bourdais6.htm

Oh right, a theme part where no one is allowed to enter. Yes that makes sense.

I understand science just fine. I recognize its boundaries.