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Post by Wunderkind on Jul 18, 2008 14:01:50 GMT -5
As an add-on, if you were to go on an otherkin or therian board and use the term lycan, you'd be very unwelcome.
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Post by stonerwolf on Jul 18, 2008 20:09:07 GMT -5
i have that whole group fiction thing going on, and describe lycanthropies as humanoid supremacy. For example, a werehuman is a lycanthropy superior human. a wereogre would be a superior ogre. any other non-humanoid creature becomes humanoid whence lycan effect is applied; werebat, weremonkey, werewolf, etc. all being humanoid creatures of their respective nature. Werespiders are hella cool, just think about it Furthermore theirs is a genetic condition that *can* be passed on kind of like an STD... LOL Through bite, sex, or other bodily fluid exchanges. the EFFECTS on a "made" lycan are different, however, thereby implementing the lunar schedule to transform under the light of a full moon. Those born lycan, however, do not shape shift between human(oid) to lycan, they are permanently lycanthropies. A wolf bitten by a werespider would become a were-wolfspider or something hahaha
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Post by Wunderkind on Jul 19, 2008 13:09:50 GMT -5
Haha, I sooo put this in the wrong thread.
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Post by dania on Jul 19, 2008 14:47:41 GMT -5
o.O Where did you get this? An RPG?
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Post by lordazurath on Jul 22, 2008 23:22:26 GMT -5
i am writing these things down from experiences since i have been gone. i traveled around trying to grow stronger, to hone abilities, and these creatures i have come in contact with.
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Post by Irathray on Apr 3, 2009 21:51:03 GMT -5
I know this is an old thread, but I just felt like posting anyway. ^_^ If I were a Therian, I don't think I would take much offense at the term "Lycan". It just depends how it's used. It's just a shortened version of the word "Lycanthrope", which basically is a fancy term for a werewolf. Right? I suppose the word "Lycan" is just frowned upon because of the images/ideas/beliefs/movies associated with it. *cough*Underworld*cough* Yep.
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Post by dania on Apr 5, 2009 16:37:21 GMT -5
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Post by Irathray on Apr 5, 2009 21:48:24 GMT -5
Ah, I see the difference now. :c There's that whole "delusional" term being passed around in the Lycanthrope stuff. Hmm, and here I thought that people just didn't like it because it might've been given a bad name from movies and whatnot. Thanks for helping me sort this out! Really appreciate it.
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Post by KG on Apr 5, 2009 22:23:50 GMT -5
These are excelent articles. Very thought provoking. Thanks Dania. Of course I like the Therianthropy one better. I think the POV of the articles definitely varies considerably, and expresses the two conclusions one can come to if one percieves anything outside of ordinary material existance.
The first is that something magical is truely happening to us, and that we are indeed special to have such a perception, and the other posibility is of course that we are just crazy.
I think all visionaries and practitioners probably struggle with this as an inner debate. I know I have. LOL One conclusion I came up with after an internal struggle was... "What is a man with eyesight, called in a vilage of blind men?" answer: "Delusional"
If we look at history we see an evolution in thinking. In primitive cultures, belief in visions, transformations, and other supernatural occurances were accepted as normal, even a sign of giftedness. The Christian era however brought with it predjudices against all practices... which Christ never intended since he was a practitioner of healing arts himself. In the insanity which insued witch hunts killed off most of us. but of course we came back. Then in the 1700's man came into the "age of reason"
Now prior to the age of reason there was no doubt in anyone's mind that the supernatural was real. It was just a matter of whether it was a good idea to participate in it or not, considering your crazy neighbors would burn you as a witch if you did. Suddenly with the age of reason, belief is any sort of magic was dismissed as silly superstition.
The Science of Tangible evidence has ruled, and though it was highly contested by many great minds, including Carl Jung, matter was considered the only reality. Jung believed that many things were real that were not material and therefore could not be measured. Still, by definition, science was sorely limited in that it requires physical, tangibile, measurable proof, and therefore excludes the non tangible, immeasurable forces like God, Love, and psychic energy. WE are still condsidered quasi science at best.
In other words mankind knew about magic for thousands of years, but then in the last few hundred he determined that it was not real. He also started to suppose that all religion was just made up to make us feel better. For more than two centuries everything non tangible, was deemed a waste of time. Mankind became more and more infatuated with his own brain, and with his material creations, while his heart and soul were denied relivance. There were some decentors of course. During the 1890's there was spiritualism, and then during the sixties, there was a rekindled interest in the occult. Now in the 21st century there is an increasing interest in many diverse areas, which was spawned by the internet. People are able to speak freely, and without fear on the net. They don't have to worry about being ridiculed by their neighbors. They can speak about their inner most ideas. Since then our ideologies and our knowledge have grown immeasurably.
Yet somewhere in the back of all our minds still lays. "Am I crazy?" In my case probably so, but mostly because I entertained that question a bit too long. LOL Most normies don't think about it that much... and the real materialist, those who take pride in their grasp of reality, the skeptics and the atheists, hold on to their concept of the material world with a death grip. I have to ask them, "What are they afraid of?" and I think the answer is clear.
I have experienced exactly what they are afraid of... they are right to be afraid of the slippery slope that I slide around on... constantly questioning each thing... is this real? Is that my POV or the truth? How much of my vision is effected by what I already know or believe? How much of this is me trying to feel special, and how much of this is me being me? How much of this is universal truth, and how much is just about me?
I once said that reality is like solid ground, and my experiences are like a kite in a powerful wind, but the kite string is too short, for where I want it to go. Currently I am standing on a precarious stack of chairs which represents my understandings and explainations for what I experience on a daily basis. I am always having to re-arange the chairs, so that they will stretch high enough that I won't have to limit the heights of my kite... yet those limits are still there, because my string isn't long enough. My explainations will only go so far though, and that kite string is pretty long, just not quite long enoug. I keep stacking chairs, and making my theories, only to find that those theories do not hold... and one day I am going to fall off and crack my head open. LOL
I have thought about it though, and I would honestly be very likely to suicide if I thought there was nothing past matter. If there were not God, no devil, no fairies, and no unicorns. I can think of nothing more miserable than the idea that there is nothing beyond this material plain. I would rather live in a straight jacket and keep my perceptions, than to loose sight of anything beyond the material plain.
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Post by dania on Apr 6, 2009 15:36:14 GMT -5
Oh you're welcome! Those are Wikipedia articles, and I'm sure there are better ones out there, but they give a good overview at least. I often wonder if I'm crazy. LOL
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Post by KilKid on Sept 27, 2009 21:01:21 GMT -5
lol. according to the ungifted(which vastly outnumber the gifted) those who are gifted are severely delusional. I think its because they don't want to be wrong. They don't see it, and they think they're right, so they want to maintain their "reality" and label everyone else as psychotic.
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