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  • Feb 7, 2008, 12:36 AM
    simoneaugie
    [QUOTE=firmbeliever]I think legends are mostly elaborated and dramatised tales to fascinate(sometimes scare) the people of the time...

    Dragons. Religion is elaborated and dramatized tales to fascinate (sometimes scare) the people of any time. Scared people are easier to control. Spiritual people are harder to scare. The myths of dragons are sometimes extremely scary.
  • Feb 16, 2008, 03:45 PM
    11casandra
    Dragons are real they are advanced and leaned how to turn invisible that why they are no longer seen but some of you are part dragon like me I have learned how to tranced formed but only in my sleep :)
  • Feb 18, 2008, 05:46 PM
    Da Bigchamp
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by 11casandra
    dragons are real they are advanced and leaned how to turn invisible that why they are no longer seen but some of you are part dragon like me i have learned how to tranced formed but only in my sleep :)

    What in the hell are you smokin'?
  • May 7, 2008, 01:25 AM
    Ribbonic Plague
    ^hahaha I think she was being sarcastic

    Anyway, dragons are real, if you count the Komodo Dragon as a dragon ;)
  • May 7, 2008, 10:58 AM
    Da Bigchamp
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Ribbonic Plague
    ^hahaha I think she was being sarcastic

    I hope so.
  • May 30, 2008, 08:21 AM
    retsoksirhc
    I saw a documentary that included dragons once... somthing like "Several cultures have legends of the same thing, that weren't in contact with each other"

    It ended up being a bust. Psychologically, dragons are a combination of early predators, and that's why early humans were scared of them. It was snakes, birds, and something else I can't remember...
  • Jun 6, 2008, 05:07 AM
    James Clough
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Varoth
    Does anyone believe they might of existed? its strange because there are legends of them everywhere, including places that never came into contact. And as fanciful as it sounds don't you think that it might be possible?


    although, there is the wizard's first rule: People will believe anything they want to believe, or fear to believe. -Zedd

    I believe in dragons because I was watching a documentury and they found a dead dragon body in a cave and egg shells
  • Jun 30, 2008, 11:01 AM
    positivefanatic
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Varoth
    Does anyone believe they might of existed? its strange because there are legends of them everywhere, including places that never came into contact. And as fanciful as it sounds don't you think that it might be possible?


    although, there is the wizard's first rule: People will believe anything they want to believe, or fear to believe. -Zedd

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  • Aug 1, 2008, 06:30 AM
    sassy lioness
    OK there are dragon legends but it would be based on fact aka dinosaurs and beared dragons which are alive today
  • Oct 1, 2008, 11:17 AM
    70541

    If you look closely in the bible... and I'm not a very good christian so I don't know the psalm however on the state meant of the apocolypse it talks about something similar to one
  • Oct 1, 2008, 03:28 PM
    Ribbonic Plague
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by 70541 View Post
    if you look closely in the bible ....and im not a very good christian so i dont know the psalm however on the state ment of the apocolypse it talks about somthing similar to one

    I believe the dragon in the apocalypse as mention there was meant to symbolize Satan, not an actual creature
  • Mar 15, 2010, 07:53 PM
    amccun
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Da Bigchamp View Post
    The person above me has a valid point, although in the bible the dragon is supposed to represent satan. But I remember an old bible I had does talk of an actual dragon, the bible had some books of the bible that were left out of other bibles. I think it was called The Good News Bible, the name of the book was caled Bel and the Dragon.

    The book of Bel and the Dragon is from the Apocrypha, which is included in the Roman Catholic Bible, but not in the Protestant Bible. (Protestants argue that the Apocrypha is not part of the Old Testament because it was not regarded as Scripture in the Jewish tradition and was not written in Hebrew like the rest of the Old Testament.)

    It is also important to bear in mind that dragons in the Bible may be intended symbolically. Certainly the dragon in Revelation represents Satan, and even the dragon-like Leviathan, which is described in the book of Job along with many real animals, is described in the Psalms (Ps 74:14) as having many heads, which doesn't sound like a literal animal.
  • Mar 15, 2010, 08:01 PM
    amccun
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by James Clough View Post
    I believe in dragons coz i was watching a documentury and they found a dead dragon body in a cave and egg shells

    You are probably thinking of Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real. YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

    This is actually a "what if" documentary: as it says in the introduction, "What if we found a body?" It is fictional, even though it's in the format of a documentary.
  • Mar 15, 2010, 08:05 PM
    amccun

    If dragons did exist, they would just be a particular kind of dinosaur that survived to have contact with humans. So I would think the real question is whether there were ever any winged, fire-breathing dinosaurs.

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