Why do both western and eastern have dragons?

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  1. Semon Howdy, hi and hello. Registered Senior Member

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    Is it just occasional?
     
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  3. redarmy11 Registered Senior Member

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    What - like the table?






    He's clearly mental - humour him..
     
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  5. Absane Rocket Surgeon Valued Senior Member

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    I like cats. Cats can be just as mean as dragons.



    ok!
     
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  7. redarmy11 Registered Senior Member

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    You're right. So if cats and dragons were the same size, which do you reckon would win in a fight? I reckon the cats would win hands down.





    Ask him what he's on about...
     
  8. domesticated om Stickler for details Valued Senior Member

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    Is this the same argument as why seperate unrelated cultres created pyramids?
     
  9. Oli Heute der Enteteich... Registered Senior Member

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    They don't, in short.
    In Western cultures dragons are reptilian monsters (actual creatures) to be killed and in Chinese mythology they tend to be spirits that are revered, it's just that the translations done from Chinese use the word "dragon" because of superficial similarities. No wings for a start on Chinese "dragons".
    PS. Cats everytime. But they don't need to be any larger, just let the dragon be in the cat's favourite spot for catching the sun...
     
  10. Zephyr Humans are ONE Registered Senior Member

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    Cats can't fly or breathe fire. Death from above!




    It's one of those candid commercials, I'll wager.
     
  11. Oli Heute der Enteteich... Registered Senior Member

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    Cats sit on top the freezer, just waiting for victims. Equal death from above.... (Okay, most freezers don't reach the same altitude as dragons, but cats can jump).
    Fire? They just stretch out and bask in the heat.
     
  12. DJ Erock Resident Skeptic Registered Senior Member

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    because there really were dragons, and they went around to people forcing them to make drawings, figurines, shirts for nerds, swords with them on the hilt, and costumes of them, as well as write stories of their greatness and fire breathing, which of course they could not do. They also made people claim they could fly, which was absurd, as they were all a bunch of fat bastards. Eventually people got tired of drawing and carving dragons, and rebelled, tearing down the sweatshops and propaganda machine that the dragons had created. Then one day a blind kid was chucking rocks at a river, and discovered the whole 'one plate that you can stab us in to kill us' thing that the dragons had hidden from people for so long. So the people of the world used telegraphs, you know, like in independence day, and rallied all the blind kids they could find to chuck rocks and kill the dragons. Now, the dragons only remain as a fond myth that people use to remind us how we earned our freedom and humanity.
     
  13. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    Ancient people east and west found fossils and explained them as dragons.
     
  14. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    Read Joseph Campbell or any popularizer of Jung. The dragon is one of a great many "archetypes" -- myths or symbols that arise in most human cultures in most eras. It's like the eerie congruence between the set of gods of the Egyptians and Greeks, two peoples whose ancestors had no communication for tens of thousands of years.

    It's part of what Jung calls the "collective unconscious." A fatalist would say it's the result of a random organization of synapses that happened to be coded into a successful gene and got passed down to an entire species. A behaviorist would say it's an instinct that evolved at some point and happened to boost survivability because of the conditions, and only the individuals who had it survived to breed. A spiritualist would say the goddess breathes it into us on the way out the birth canal.

    Whatever, it's there.

    It's interesting that the dragon, a symbol from man's possibly oldest belief system, is revered by the Asians, who respect their past and their ancestors. Whereas Christianity, with its compulsive dismissal of old ways in favor of an oversimplified binary good-versus-evil paradigm, could not stop us from imagining dragons but managed to turn them into evil creatures.
     
  15. Sgal Principessa Registered Senior Member

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    dinosaur bones were found. There were huge ones as well as ones with wings so the theory of dragons developed.
    Either that or there really were dragons!
     
  16. domesticated om Stickler for details Valued Senior Member

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    Ancient culture was influenced by the sudden appearance of the burninator.....and was forever changed

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  17. Killjoy Propelling The Farce!! Valued Senior Member

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    The "burning" question is whether the beast has one brawny, stump-fingered arm, or some sort of gnarled, prehensile "dorsal penis"...
    :bugeye:
     
  18. The Devil Inside Banned Banned

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    i wish i had one. SWEET!!
     
  19. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    Really? How can you see yourself stroking your little pet snake if it is dorsal?
     
  20. The Devil Inside Banned Banned

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    i have learned alot from happeh.
    i suppose such a practice would help me to stand up straight?
     
  21. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    Brilliant.

    We had a dorsal penis which made us walk upright. And then we lost it when we evolved to be dumb fucks.
     
  22. The Devil Inside Banned Banned

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    speak for yourself...im not a dumb fuck.....im as dumb as a bag full of hammers.

    that is one notch below a dumb fuck.
    BEING STUPID IS COOL!!!
     
  23. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    Being stupid is the new 'thang'.

    Event the president of a superpower can be stupid and popular. (Hint for americans - And it is not Putin.)



    Ps. The hint was not aimed at americans living in Belgium.
     

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