Namaste and welcome back my friends, family, and fellow knowledge seekers. Today the Quiet Mouse Strikes Back blog has gained over 10,000 blog views from all around the globe. I want to thank each and every person who has taken the time to read my thoughts and ideas. I hope I have opened some minds, touched some hearts, and changed some lives. This blog is for all my squeakers out there, who are quiet mice like me.
Are you a believer in evolution? How about creationism? Have you ever wondered in this world of infinite possibilities if BOTH could be correct? We like to polarize things as humans, often taking sides without even knowing the proper information about the side we claim to represent. Can we put down our own pre-conceived dispositions and biases for a moment and assume for once that both sides are correct... the implications would be astounding. For my blog topic of choice today I want to discuss the idea that it is NOT too difficult to sift through the lies and propaganda and imagine the world of the ancients where dinosaurs and humans lived alongside one another. Come with me on this journey and I might just convince you to change your mind about what you THINK you know.
Close your eyes if you will and imagine a world like the book Dinotopia, by James Gurney, where humans and dinosaurs coexisted. Now following a line of logic, science has proven evolution, and yet the creationists still cling onto the idea that the Earth is only like 8-10 thousand years old. Okay, if this were so, that would emphatically mean that dinosaurs WERE indeed created by the same God that created humans, so by that timeline alone, it is impossible for the ancient reptiles to have lived millions of years before humans. Also, it wasn't until the mid 1800's that the term "dinosaur" was coined. The word dinosaur is translated to "terrible lizard"; this labeling of dinosaurs is often inaccurate as the majority of dinosaurs were actually smaller than a cow, but yet the image of terrifying man-eating lizards emerged and took over leaving the public filling in their imaginations with falsehoods, often propagated by the Catholic church, insisting on this biblical timeline that is a mathematical impossibility, never mind the fossil record or the idea that early cavemen with crude tools built monumental and colossal structures like the pyramids to mathematical precision aligned with the stars, having advanced knowledge of astronomy WAY BEFORE their time... allegedly. If you believe the "official version" of this story... I don't know what to tell you. Open your mind.
Before the modern term of dinosaur, these giant lizards were called DRAGONS for thousands of years and can be recounted in all corners of the globe from the Mezo-Americas to China, Europe, Africa... and many many more open seas encounters with sea-serpent creatures like the Leviathan that resembled the large lizards that were referred to as dragons. I want to recount some of these stories for you briefly so you will understand what I mean.
1) The Greek historian Herodotus, during a visit to Arabia, wrote about seeing giant winged serpents that had ".. the body of a water snake with the wings of a bat."
2) Alexander the Great recounted while in India local villagers worshiping a hissing dragon as a god that lived in a cave. The local villagers would bring the dragon food and offerings. The Indian king Abisarus kept similar serpents that were between 120 and 210 feet long.
3) Beowulf is an epic tale of a legendary heroic dragon slayer that is still read to this day and had a movie made a couple years ago. The hero slayed several dragons in the story, but primarily a nasty lizard called the grendel. This is one of the most important pieces of Anglo-Saxon literature.
4) Saint George, in the town of Silene, Libya beheaded a dragon in the public square after luring it in transfixed on his spear.
5) Marco Polo on his travels through Asia and the island nations of the south Pacific recounted seeing dragons of all sizes and often ones that were menacing and fierce to look at without being in fear.
6) The Aztecs had a god named Quetzalcoatl that was a feathered serpent, worshiped around the first century B.C.
Even in the Bible there are mentions by Job of giant "Behemoths" whose physical description matches those of a dragon or dinosaur. Revelation 12:7-9 accounts Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon, and the dragon and its angels fought back, but in the end the great serpent Satan was hurled back to the Earth and his angels with him.
Isaiah spoke several times in verse about fiery flying serpents that sound a lot like dragons too. Daniel also spoke of the Babylonians worshiping a great dragon.
So what we are told is that dinosaurs lived for around 100 million years and died out somewhere about 65 million years ago. We are also told that dinosaurs were stupid creatures with miniature brains that were dumb and slow. Human beings however have had significantly less time on the planet, but yet we have created art, mathematics, genetic engineering, and unparalleled architectural feats of engineering. Why are we so arrogant to think that we are the pinnacle of evolution?
Think about this, reptiles are the ONLY animals on the entire planet that continue to grow for their entire lifetime. To prove this, just look at the Galapagos turtles. They live for over 200 years and are HUGE, about the size of a bathtub. If that exact same animal lived for another 300 years, let's say, for example, it would be the size of a CAR!! The same could be said about ANY of the other lizards and reptiles on the planet. Look at the komodo dragon.
There are biblical accounts of people living for 500, 600, and even 900 years old, as well as stories of behemoths, dragons, giants, burning bushes, and talking snakes... I mean if you're gonna believe THAT, why can't you believe that the dragons were just the modern ancestors of the later dinosaurs? Is it even so hard to believe that man in his arrogance and fear, like MOST other mythological creatures, probably drove them all to EXTINCTION!! We're doing it daily NOW as we tear down the rain forests, pollute the lakes, rivers, and oceans, and destroy the soil and sky with chemicals....
Also of note, it has been recently discovered near Glen Rose, Texas that there are fossilized remains showing both human AND dinosaur/dragon footprints side by side from the same geological time period.
There are depictions on temples in Cambodia that show humans and dragons/dinosaurs living together and on many a temple in Central American countries like Mexico. One of the well known artifacts they found was a carving of a stegosaurus onto the wall in stone. Here's the thing... I've heard the argument stated that they would have just dug up the fossils and drawn the picture... not likely. Even in today's modern museums, MOST of the bones for the dinosaurs that they have put together and on display are FAKE. People just filled in the dots with imagination trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle without the picture on the box and made the dinosaurs look fearsome and terrible... and the interest was peaked and profits were made... and the truth has been muddled over and lost, but now is re-emerging thanks to archaeologists and paleontologists.
The point I'm making is that without having actually SEEN the creature they would have had NO IDEA of how to make a carving into stone to look EXACTLY the way it was supposed to... but that's just chance, right?
Another thing to consider is the effectiveness of carbon dating and its accuracy. Samples that were once reported to be millions of years old, such as the dinosaur fossils are now being re-tested and found to be only about 16,000 years old rather than millions of years old. Don't believe me... do some research for yourself instead of just taking someone else's word for things.
My opinion is that dragons and dinosaurs are the same evolution, as diverse as their predecessors. I don't deny the idea that they also lived before humans, but the dragons undoubtedly lived DURING the time of humans. Many an epic tale has been told from all corners of the Earth about slaying the dragons and gaining lost hoarded treasures. Whatever you want to believe, as I have said before I encourage you to do your own research and not just be content with the story told to you by the church or political state. You can only learn so much on a public funded education... and they damn sure aren't gonna tell you the truth.
Ladies and gentlemen, this has been the Quiet Mouse.
Peace. Love. Respect. Truth. Acceptance.
Are you a believer in evolution? How about creationism? Have you ever wondered in this world of infinite possibilities if BOTH could be correct? We like to polarize things as humans, often taking sides without even knowing the proper information about the side we claim to represent. Can we put down our own pre-conceived dispositions and biases for a moment and assume for once that both sides are correct... the implications would be astounding. For my blog topic of choice today I want to discuss the idea that it is NOT too difficult to sift through the lies and propaganda and imagine the world of the ancients where dinosaurs and humans lived alongside one another. Come with me on this journey and I might just convince you to change your mind about what you THINK you know.
Close your eyes if you will and imagine a world like the book Dinotopia, by James Gurney, where humans and dinosaurs coexisted. Now following a line of logic, science has proven evolution, and yet the creationists still cling onto the idea that the Earth is only like 8-10 thousand years old. Okay, if this were so, that would emphatically mean that dinosaurs WERE indeed created by the same God that created humans, so by that timeline alone, it is impossible for the ancient reptiles to have lived millions of years before humans. Also, it wasn't until the mid 1800's that the term "dinosaur" was coined. The word dinosaur is translated to "terrible lizard"; this labeling of dinosaurs is often inaccurate as the majority of dinosaurs were actually smaller than a cow, but yet the image of terrifying man-eating lizards emerged and took over leaving the public filling in their imaginations with falsehoods, often propagated by the Catholic church, insisting on this biblical timeline that is a mathematical impossibility, never mind the fossil record or the idea that early cavemen with crude tools built monumental and colossal structures like the pyramids to mathematical precision aligned with the stars, having advanced knowledge of astronomy WAY BEFORE their time... allegedly. If you believe the "official version" of this story... I don't know what to tell you. Open your mind.
Before the modern term of dinosaur, these giant lizards were called DRAGONS for thousands of years and can be recounted in all corners of the globe from the Mezo-Americas to China, Europe, Africa... and many many more open seas encounters with sea-serpent creatures like the Leviathan that resembled the large lizards that were referred to as dragons. I want to recount some of these stories for you briefly so you will understand what I mean.
1) The Greek historian Herodotus, during a visit to Arabia, wrote about seeing giant winged serpents that had ".. the body of a water snake with the wings of a bat."
2) Alexander the Great recounted while in India local villagers worshiping a hissing dragon as a god that lived in a cave. The local villagers would bring the dragon food and offerings. The Indian king Abisarus kept similar serpents that were between 120 and 210 feet long.
3) Beowulf is an epic tale of a legendary heroic dragon slayer that is still read to this day and had a movie made a couple years ago. The hero slayed several dragons in the story, but primarily a nasty lizard called the grendel. This is one of the most important pieces of Anglo-Saxon literature.
4) Saint George, in the town of Silene, Libya beheaded a dragon in the public square after luring it in transfixed on his spear.
5) Marco Polo on his travels through Asia and the island nations of the south Pacific recounted seeing dragons of all sizes and often ones that were menacing and fierce to look at without being in fear.
6) The Aztecs had a god named Quetzalcoatl that was a feathered serpent, worshiped around the first century B.C.
Even in the Bible there are mentions by Job of giant "Behemoths" whose physical description matches those of a dragon or dinosaur. Revelation 12:7-9 accounts Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon, and the dragon and its angels fought back, but in the end the great serpent Satan was hurled back to the Earth and his angels with him.
Isaiah spoke several times in verse about fiery flying serpents that sound a lot like dragons too. Daniel also spoke of the Babylonians worshiping a great dragon.
So what we are told is that dinosaurs lived for around 100 million years and died out somewhere about 65 million years ago. We are also told that dinosaurs were stupid creatures with miniature brains that were dumb and slow. Human beings however have had significantly less time on the planet, but yet we have created art, mathematics, genetic engineering, and unparalleled architectural feats of engineering. Why are we so arrogant to think that we are the pinnacle of evolution?
Think about this, reptiles are the ONLY animals on the entire planet that continue to grow for their entire lifetime. To prove this, just look at the Galapagos turtles. They live for over 200 years and are HUGE, about the size of a bathtub. If that exact same animal lived for another 300 years, let's say, for example, it would be the size of a CAR!! The same could be said about ANY of the other lizards and reptiles on the planet. Look at the komodo dragon.
There are biblical accounts of people living for 500, 600, and even 900 years old, as well as stories of behemoths, dragons, giants, burning bushes, and talking snakes... I mean if you're gonna believe THAT, why can't you believe that the dragons were just the modern ancestors of the later dinosaurs? Is it even so hard to believe that man in his arrogance and fear, like MOST other mythological creatures, probably drove them all to EXTINCTION!! We're doing it daily NOW as we tear down the rain forests, pollute the lakes, rivers, and oceans, and destroy the soil and sky with chemicals....
Also of note, it has been recently discovered near Glen Rose, Texas that there are fossilized remains showing both human AND dinosaur/dragon footprints side by side from the same geological time period.
There are depictions on temples in Cambodia that show humans and dragons/dinosaurs living together and on many a temple in Central American countries like Mexico. One of the well known artifacts they found was a carving of a stegosaurus onto the wall in stone. Here's the thing... I've heard the argument stated that they would have just dug up the fossils and drawn the picture... not likely. Even in today's modern museums, MOST of the bones for the dinosaurs that they have put together and on display are FAKE. People just filled in the dots with imagination trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle without the picture on the box and made the dinosaurs look fearsome and terrible... and the interest was peaked and profits were made... and the truth has been muddled over and lost, but now is re-emerging thanks to archaeologists and paleontologists.
The point I'm making is that without having actually SEEN the creature they would have had NO IDEA of how to make a carving into stone to look EXACTLY the way it was supposed to... but that's just chance, right?
Another thing to consider is the effectiveness of carbon dating and its accuracy. Samples that were once reported to be millions of years old, such as the dinosaur fossils are now being re-tested and found to be only about 16,000 years old rather than millions of years old. Don't believe me... do some research for yourself instead of just taking someone else's word for things.
My opinion is that dragons and dinosaurs are the same evolution, as diverse as their predecessors. I don't deny the idea that they also lived before humans, but the dragons undoubtedly lived DURING the time of humans. Many an epic tale has been told from all corners of the Earth about slaying the dragons and gaining lost hoarded treasures. Whatever you want to believe, as I have said before I encourage you to do your own research and not just be content with the story told to you by the church or political state. You can only learn so much on a public funded education... and they damn sure aren't gonna tell you the truth.
Ladies and gentlemen, this has been the Quiet Mouse.
Peace. Love. Respect. Truth. Acceptance.
bryce
ReplyDeletenice article. I actually agree with you on this. I believe in god and the bible and I also believe in evolution. I don't think evolution proves how anything started. Why can't it be both? Because we all have to fit into one category or another?