Father Heathen
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From a brief time we had a member who claimed to be a dragon.
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"Mythical" Creatures Believers
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Too bad Bruce died.
Yeah, I miss that guy. Whatever happened to him, get called back to Mordor?
Little Jackie Paper bought the farm and Puff went into a deep blue funk (actually, theory is that Little Jackie Paper grew up and left Puff flat).
A dragon lives forever but not so little boys
Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys
One grey night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more
And Puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar
His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain
Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane
Without his life-long friend, Puff could not be brave
So Puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave, oh!
Father Heathen
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He was driven away by the dracophobic environment.
So sad. I actually shed a tear.
It is kind of sad. But of course, I'm a moosh. I cried when I hit the deer last month. A 218 lb polar bear crying, 'tis not a pretty sight.
Women they have some magic potion they can work on men with. I am lucky I have one that absolutely doesnt She's magikal though. .
You hit a deer? Hope you weren't injured. I have assisted two motorists in the last week who hit deer. Deer are natures Kamikaze animals.
Actually, he hit me. I was doing about 25 and all of a sudden he (it was a he because it had spikes) came flying out of nowhere. He clipped the front of my truck, but he fell and I ran over him. I think his back was broken. The cops and I watched him die. They couldn't shoot him because he was thrashing so much trying to get up, but he couldn't. I did get jostled around and was sore for a few days. Truck was OK, but he definitely got the worst of it.
That was the second one in three years. Then last week another one ran across the road in front of me. I was lucky to have seen her (a doe... no spikes or antlers). They're beautiful and sweet animals, but ye gods, they're stupid!
Actually, he hit me. I was doing about 25 and all of a sudden he (it was a he because it had spikes) came flying out of nowhere. He clipped the front of my truck, but he fell and I ran over him. I think his back was broken. The cops and I watched him die. They couldn't shoot him because he was thrashing so much trying to get up, but he couldn't. I did get jostled around and was sore for a few days. Truck was OK, but he definitely got the worst of it.
Something about headlights make them want to get in front of them.
Like moths to a flame. I think they'd be easier to avoid hitting, at least you could see 'em. These guys and gals came flying out of the woods across my nose. And you know at the times they're active, everything is grayish-brown, including them. I hope the rut ends soon, or is ended.
I've hit a couple of deer, and many other animals, over the years. But I can't beat my stepson. Just our our drive, he had to slam on the brakes as three does ran across the road, barely missing them. He came to a complete stop when a very large buck ran headlong into the driver's door, causing a very large and deep dent. Unperturbed, the buck rebounded and leaped over the hood of the car, apparently none the worse for wear, to continue his pursuit...
I narrowly missed a buck last night. I drive on about 15 miles of country dirt roads every night to get home. During the rut it's nearly an obstacle course. Been lucky this year so far.
In the spirit of this thread title, if you hit a bigfoot , you could recover the cost of the collision.
Ha! Not sure insurance would cover it.In the spirit of this thread title, if you hit a bigfoot , you could recover the cost of the collision.
Funny thing is, our neighborhood as been featured on a couple of the bigfoot hunting shows...we live just outside a 13,000 person town, which is adjacent to a 120,000 person city...we are 'in the country,' but there is really very little habitat around here to support a large predator...or even a large herbivore...and yet, they set up cameras, etc., in a small cemetery a few hundred feet down the road from our house...
Forget the insurance, sell the bigfoot body! That would be worth millions!
What are you going on about? My notions of what "should be" have nothing to do with anything. I accept what I have evidence of. I acknowledge the existence of any creature I have reasonable evidence of, no matter how odd. I even accept quantum mechanics.
If a population of large animals existed in a populous area there would likely be some physical and eyewitness evidence of them, so the reasonable position would be to withhold belief till such evidence materializes.
Panthers? Sure there are panthers, though it's not a specific species. "Panther" can apply to leopards, jaguars or cougars.
How did medieval bestiaries come up? What do they have to do with anything?
No, I don't believe in, say, the yeti, because there are better explanations. In the the yeti, the hair collected has been from bears.
Yes, many species of cat have black variants that we call panthers.
And I don't give any credence to the reports of monopod humans either.
No, I think there are a number of different reasons for the mythical beasts. Some are due to telephone descriptions. Some are due to fabrications told to travelers and reported back home. Some are due to the discovery of dinosaur bones and attributed to living species.
So, if the unicorn is a distorted description of a rhino, then do unicorns exist? In one sense, yes: they are rhinos. But an equine with a single horn from the frontal bone has no evidence for it.
Not at all. But what about manticores or harpies or wyverns? Which actual species do the reports originate from? I'm certainly willing to believe that dinosaur bones were the origination of the dragons. I can even point to a quote from Herodotus that makes me think that his description of dragon bones were actually pterosaurs.
But don't forget that most people 1000 years ago didn't travel more than a few miles from their birth spot. So those telephone lines got very long and convoluted. The end result is probably not a very good description of whatever was originally seen. And, yes, I do think some of the descriptions were just made-up to entertain and were then put into the bestiaries.
The only exceptions to this seem to be the panther and the walrus, two mythical animals who we acknowledge that the people of the past were partially correct on, while being also partially incorrect. Panthers and walruses, the only beings of myth that we are permitted to have a nuanced belief of.
Oh, I am more than willing to think that, say, dragons were originally described because people found dinosaur bones. The yeti seems to be a mistaken type of bear.
Do you have plausible origins for manticores, griffins, or harpies?
some believe in the existence of interdimensional portals, these beings/creatures use these portals/doorways to come into our world in their physical forms, and when exiting our world through these portals, to us it looks like they simply disappeared
this may explain why according to some ufo reports, the ufo simply disappears from radar, or it may counter the argument that " if these beings existed they would've been discovered by now"
there are places in the world considered to be paranormal hotspots, could be there are portals in these areas enabling these beings to enter/exit making them briefly perceiveable by us
this may explain why according to some ufo reports, the ufo simply disappears from radar, or it may counter the argument that " if these beings existed they would've been discovered by now"
there are places in the world considered to be paranormal hotspots, could be there are portals in these areas enabling these beings to enter/exit making them briefly perceiveable by us