Simon Richard Clarkstone <s.r.clarkstone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> Lord Flame Stryke wrote:
>> Also, I don't consider dragons to be mythological to begin with.....
> I didn't say "mythological". I said they were *in* myths, which they
> are.
> They are not "out there" in the same way that mundane species are;
> there is no fossils, no Linnaean taxonomy, no stuffed ones in museums.
> From what you lot have told me, you do not believe because of
> experiences that most people have, but because of the experiences
> *you* have. Reading about them in textbooks, seeing them on nature
> do***entaries, watching them in zoos, and other conventional evidence,
> is not what tells you that there are dragons, or that you are dragons.
> "Mythological" is the wrong word here, but treating them as just
> another species seems more insane than this newsgroup usually is.
> I don't *think* I disagreed with you there. What I am denying is
> really very specific and much more oriented in the objectivity
> direction than is usually appropriate for this group, and I think not
> contradicted by what you believe. If not, then either:
> a] I am saying something more general than I mean, or
> b] PIX PLZ :-P
I've said before. A picture of me would show you only what you expected
to see (ie, a human). I expect to see myself as I truly am, therefore
that's what I see. I also see the human, which is what depresses me the
most.
Lord Flame Stryke
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