emmelinemay: (Leviticus)
emmelinemay ([personal profile] emmelinemay) wrote2007-10-12 12:35 pm

[identity profile] sera-squeak.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
hehehe.
I want a dragon.

[identity profile] emmelinemay.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
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...

[identity profile] jaketherat.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
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...

[identity profile] emmelinemay.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] blu-matt.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
Welcome to The Wonderful World of Magical Thinking Jack Chick, lying for Jebus since 1984.

[identity profile] sera-squeak.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
I remember once being told that dinosaur bones/fossils were there because "God had a sense of humour"...

[identity profile] mark13.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
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'.

[identity profile] flavius-m.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 12:10 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] unclesatan.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 12:12 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] preachermuaddib.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] jaketherat.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
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?

[identity profile] sera-squeak.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] emmelinemay.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] jaketherat.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
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...

[identity profile] emmelinemay.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
oooh. Sekrits!!

[identity profile] blu-matt.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
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...

[identity profile] mark13.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] seamus666.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Dragons did exist, I ve got the proof on dvd,
It's called dragon heart, they did they did they did.