That anyone would believe themselves to be a dragon is, the more I think about it, hardly surprising. What is surprising is that anyone ever believes themselves to be human.
For what is this form but a transitionary one?; what are we all but beings caught between falling angel and rising ape, not a thing in our own right but full of the characteristics of both?
Well then, what is anything with a physical form, but this blob of divineness caught between that state and the material? Isn't any physical form transitory in a cosmic spiritual sense, albeit some last longer than others?
(It seems no coincidence that human, in games, is usually the race with no particular outstanding traits. Because we are not an endpoint, a species in our own right, but a step on the road, not beginning or end but intermediate. Homo erectus and his ilk came closely before us. Spiritual evolutions will closely succeed us.)
Hopefully spiritual evolutions will succeed any race - certainly physical ones will, else extinction. Is any species an "endpoint"? And if they are, doesn't "endpoint" imply "(eventually) dead end"?
They say dragon myths are based on dinosaurs.
Which is an odd idea, since dinos and even the most primitive hominids never coexisted, as far as I know. Possibly millions of years elapsed between dinosaur extinction and the earliest tree-dwelling primates, never mind Cro-Magnon man, from whom I imagine our oldest mythic motifs might derive. It would have to be extremely ancient genetic memory of an almost absurd scale. If the meaning is fossils, how many of those were really discovered even in the centuries of history before modern archaeology, never mind the 35,000 years ago of Cro-Magnon times?
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For what is this form but a transitionary one?; what are we all but beings caught between falling angel and rising ape, not a thing in our own right but full of the characteristics of both?
Well then, what is anything with a physical form, but this blob of divineness caught between that state and the material? Isn't any physical form transitory in a cosmic spiritual sense, albeit some last longer than others?
(It seems no coincidence that human, in games, is usually the race with no particular outstanding traits. Because we are not an endpoint, a species in our own right, but a step on the road, not beginning or end but intermediate. Homo erectus and his ilk came closely before us. Spiritual evolutions will closely succeed us.)
Hopefully spiritual evolutions will succeed any race - certainly physical ones will, else extinction. Is any species an "endpoint"? And if they are, doesn't "endpoint" imply "(eventually) dead end"?
They say dragon myths are based on dinosaurs.
Which is an odd idea, since dinos and even the most primitive hominids never coexisted, as far as I know. Possibly millions of years elapsed between dinosaur extinction and the earliest tree-dwelling primates, never mind Cro-Magnon man, from whom I imagine our oldest mythic motifs might derive. It would have to be extremely ancient genetic memory of an almost absurd scale. If the meaning is fossils, how many of those were really discovered even in the centuries of history before modern archaeology, never mind the 35,000 years ago of Cro-Magnon times?