Do you believe in Mythical Creatures such as:

[layinback]

Oh, yes, I would be a terrible person for asking for child support. However, I'm not asking him for anything, because, like you, he doesn't have the good sense to come in out of the rain, and I don't want him to rub off on my child.

Do you ever have anything intelligent to say on any topic? If you do, I've certainly never seen it. All you ever do is name call.

HEATHER,you are smart and pretty. you have nuthin to defend. stop dignifying this shit with a response.

 

[MichaelScott]

 

[samoth]

The mountain gorilla and the giant pandas were once considered mythological creatures, too.

We now know that they exist.

The difference is that these creatures existed back then, too. (No, this isn't a temporal paradox.) They were not mythical back then, they existed. If someone considers fact to be myth, they are wrong. The status of something's mythologicalicity (heh) is independent of whether someone thinks that something is myth or fact.

 

[samoth]

can you people start making a difference between mythology and crypto-zoology?

Mythological creatures are dragons, elfs, trolls, fairys, vampires, werewolfs, griffins, meduza, unicorns, Pegasus - the flying horse etc

Crypto-zoological creatures are Yeti, bigfoot, chupacabra, Nessie etc....oh and the creatures that now we know they exist were crypto-zoological, never mythological ones , like the giant squid, the gorilla and so on

"Cryptozoology is the search for animals hypothesized to exist, but for which conclusive proof is missing. The field also includes the search for known animals believed to be extinct."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology

This looks like TCR.

 

[Arabian]

According to scientist, there are a number of unknown creatures, animals etc: that have not been discovered yet hence in the rainforest... It would be funny if someone captured a bigfoot or some other creature....

 

[JumpBallWinner]

Go back to feeding your pet bigfoot, plebe. This world is run by smart-ass closed-minded people, so you better get comfortable with it. Now return to devoting your life to searching for nessie while everyone else moves on with their fucking lives.

Hope that helps.

Great points.

 

[heatherrae]

The difference is that these creatures existed back then, too. (No, this isn't a temporal paradox.) They were not mythical back then, they existed. If someone considers fact to be myth, they are wrong. The status of something's mythologicalicity (heh) is independent of whether someone thinks that something is myth or fact.

You are splitting semantic hairs, now. What is labeled as a "myth" now may be the future discovered species. What was the subject of past ridicule as a "myth" is now our facts. These things that you label as "myth" may turn out to be undiscovered species. These animals are LABELED as myth until such time that someone proves that they exist. I'm not saying that they all will be discovered. I'm just saying that ridiculing those looking for proof seems somewhat to fly in the face of science rather than furthering science.

 

[biteme]

I believe in gnomes.

 

[samoth]

You are splitting semantic hairs, now. What is labeled as a "myth" now may be the future discovered species. What was the subject of past ridicule as a "myth" is now our facts.

I'm sure that argument worked great back in the 15th century. Fortunetly, we've come a long way since then. There is not bigfoot or lockness monster, sorry. But feel free to keep looking in the african rainforests and in the ocean, Captain Ahab.

 

[samoth]

Great points.

After 170 posts, this thread exhausted most non-sarcastic replies, lol.