Spirit Ape Posted October 1, 2008 I read once that old china and people like Lao Tzu even buddha could shape shift? Could these old dragons be of reptiling race? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAGTJErVNBU Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Yoda Posted October 1, 2008 Actually, now that you say that, I think I remember somewhere Lao tzu being called a dragon. (?) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cameron Posted October 2, 2008 I think in the east "dragon" is also a term used for a wise being, a sage or enlightened being. They have dragon symbols all over the place supposed to be symbols of wisdom and good luck. So it's not necissarilly a reference to "shapeshifting reptillians". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Smile Posted October 2, 2008 So it's not necissarilly a reference to "shapeshifting reptillians". Of course, it is. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taomeow Posted October 2, 2008 Of course, it is. And Celestial Teachers were ETs, obviously. And Sons of Reflected Light, the legendary proto-taoist teachers, were higher-dimentional beings. And Emperor Yu turned into a snake whenever he was up to it. And "we are the people of the dragon" was always heard as a metaphoric line by outsiders (and their educational clones of any citizenship of course), but metaphors are funny in that insiders seldom use them any other way but literally. Every totemic animal of every tribe was the bona fide ancestor to the members of the tribe, and turned into a metaphor only in the mind of the outside "researcher." Because the outsider couldn't tap into the ancestral DNA and the tribesmen could, he always assumed they're making things up. The number of realities that existed as realities to us humans for the whole of our history till about 150 years ago that have been relegated to the ignoble realms of "mind projections," "metaphors" and "superstitions" is simply staggering. It shouldn't surprise anyone if some of these realities start making a comeback. We lived with them for so very long before we were forced to start living without them that a less than a geological-second-long glitch in our way to perceive reality might self-correct any second now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hagar Posted October 2, 2008 "...What has come over me? What is reality? Tell me What's going on? by the time I'd figured it out It'll be gone.." h Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thelerner Posted October 2, 2008 "...What has come over me? What is reality? Tell me What's going on? by the time I'd figured it out It'll be gone.." h It's astounding, time is fleeting Madness takes its toll But listen closely, not for very much longer I've got to keep control I remember doing the TIme Warp Drinking those moments when The blackness would hit me and the void would be calling Let's do the time warp again... Let's do the time warp again! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Birch Posted October 3, 2008 It's astounding, time is fleeting Madness takes its toll But listen closely, not for very much longer I've got to keep control I remember doing the TIme Warp Drinking those moments when The blackness would hit me and the void would be calling Let's do the time warp again... Let's do the time warp again! Seriously! ...you didn't happen to be at school with me, did you? Dammit! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites