why are there no dragons any more?

[emmelinemay]

Did the dinosaurs REALLY die when a giant comet hit the earth? NO! That's a story told by people who don't trust god.

And dragons were renamed dinosaurs in 1841.

I went to school with a girl that really believed that.

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[sera-squeak.livejournal.com]

hehehe.
I want a dragon.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

i think the overiding message of that is that dinosaurs dies because they believed if they can't see us, we can't see them...

[sera-squeak.livejournal.com]

I remember once being told that dinosaur bones/fossils were there because "God had a sense of humour"...

[preachermuaddib.livejournal.com]

I think that was in "Good omens" where it was stated that "Dinoisaurs were just a huge practial joke that no-one had got yet"

I also like the theory the dinosaurs were a practical joke that just got WAY out of hand

[sera-squeak.livejournal.com]

If I remember rightly I was once told this by my (very Christian) mother. Ttheory does still amuse me though and I laughed my socks off when I came across it in Good Omens.

[jaketherat.livejournal.com]

Tat would be vastly entertaining if it weren't for the fact that people actually take it seriously. Can we start an 'Eat Jack Chick' movement, please? I reckon he'd have a flavr...

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

tastes like dragons!

Seriously, I went to a school with a girl that really truly believed it.

She believed that god had deliberately made the bones seem older to test people's faith.

[jaketherat.livejournal.com]

Yes I've encountered that particular loonacy before as well, it's depressing.

Hey, can I ask you a favr? (see what I did there?) I need to find out as much as possible about professional charity fundraising (not chugging, more like fundraising officer level) and I wondered if you knew anything, or had anyone at work who you could easily ask about which books/online resources/whatever would be a good place to start?

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

I've no idea, sorry! We don't do direct fund-raising ourselves, as we're funded mainly buy the government/LSC/ESF etc, or by events in the pre-schools themselves. Every now and then they'll hire a fundraiser, and they never last long!

[jaketherat.livejournal.com]

I see. I just thought "Emmy works for a charidee, she'll know" but never mind! Hopefully all will become clear but I don't want to say too much at this point...

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

oooh. Sekrits!!

[blu-matt.livejournal.com]

Welcome to The Wonderful World of Magical Thinking Jack Chick, lying for Jebus since 1984.

[mark13.livejournal.com]

I've always been rather curious about the dragons/dinosaurs thing - logic says there's likely to be some sort of link between one big scaly lizard and another.
I've always wondered if dragons came about partly because ancient people discovered dinosaur bones, theorised what a live one of these creatures would look like, and assumed that if there were bones around, maybe there were living versions of the creatures around in parts of the world as yet unexplored - hence 'Here Be Dragons'.

[unclesatan.livejournal.com]

I saw this great documentary on Mythical creatures linking them to fossil finds in the Classical world.

It's amazing how the image of a griffin fits with the bones of a Proto-triceritops.

[blu-matt.livejournal.com]

Like finding an elephant skull, and then presuming it must have belonged to a one-eyed giant, say, like a cyclops?

Nah, that'd never happen...

[mark13.livejournal.com]

Or of course sailors mistaking seals and similar swimming things for desirable young ladies beckoning them onto rocks.

Although that says as much about sailors willingness to shag anything with a pulse after months at sea as it does for folklore.

[flavius-m.livejournal.com]

It would be very funny if it weren't that large numbers of people believe that, particularly in the most powerful nation on Earth now, and their quain beliefs influence electoral promises and policy making which affect the rest of us who don't have a say in who gets elected for office 'over there'.

Oh, ok, it is funny.

[seamus666.livejournal.com]

Dragons did exist, I ve got the proof on dvd,
It's called dragon heart, they did they did they did.