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honestly nothing for me will top the energy of BTS photos/videos of horror movie monsters/demons/creatures/etc in full makeup just hanging out… like
energy….
I’ve got some favorites from Pan’s Labyrinth to add
And some misc ones
I am not the divine masculine or the divine feminine I am the divine comedy and you will address me as such
pronouns: hee/hee
it actually pisses me off that tanuki/raccoon dogs aren't widely appreciated on here fuck you what more do you want
does anybody care about him
Take me the transsexual taco bell and baha blast my dick off.
Kontent
Theres no fukin betterer way zum flyen.
the desire to be in a relationship only comes around when you’re about to sleep, on the journey home alone, sundays, after the club, when it’s raining, winter, at the cafe, today, tomorrow and yesterday
i’ve literally been here the whole time
I’m a man now
"kill them with kindness" wrong. SAW TRAP 🪚⛓️🩸⚙️⛓️꩜🔪🩸🪚⛓️🩸꩜⚙️🔪🩸🩸🪚꩜🪚⛓️⚙️⛓️🩸🔪꩜🩸⛓️⚙️🩸⚙️🪚⛓️🩸꩜🔪꩜🪚🪚⚙️🩸🩸🪚⛓️🩸⚙️⛓️꩜🔪🩸🪚⛓️🩸꩜⚙️🔪🩸🩸🪚꩜🪚⛓️⚙️⛓️🩸🔪꩜🩸⛓️⚙️🩸⚙️🪚⛓️🩸꩜🔪꩜🪚🪚⚙️🩸🩸🪚⛓️🩸⚙️⛓️꩜🔪🩸🪚⛓️🩸꩜⚙️🔪🩸🩸🪚꩜🪚⛓️⚙️⛓️🩸🔪꩜🩸⛓️⚙️🩸⚙️🪚⛓️🩸꩜🔪꩜🪚
you actually don't have to go on dating apps to find girlfriends. many beautiful women are waiting for you on rocks out at sea
another day in god’s humiliation ritual
I just realized that homeschooled evangelical christian kids aren't allowed to have a dinosaur phase and made myself sad
Oh no, they are. They very much are. The stories I could tell you...
Oh no...please do!!!
Buckle up.
So most creationists aren't what you see in Arrested Development where they think dinosaur fossils are fakes planted by Jews. Those freaks do exist, but they're a wacky fringe even among creationists. The flat earth kind that other creationists write whole articles distancing themselves from.
The majority of creationists, the ones who sell books and open theme parks, love dinosaurs. It's an obsession. They see them everywhere. Weird vaguely described creature in the Bible? Dinosaur. Dragon legends around the world? Also dinosaurs. Grendel? Dinosaur. Any ambiguous literary reference or ancient carving that could conceivablly be compared to a dinosaur is taken as evidence that non-avian dinosaurs lived much more recently than They want you to believe. It's not uncommon for them to think they're still out there, in fact. Most dinosaur or pterosaur cryptids are perpetuated by creationists. They go on missions to Central Africa to spread the gospel and hunt for living sauropods. Missions plural. They keep doing this. They bring dinosaur books as well as Bibles and have the local villagers point out which ones they recognize.
Of course, there's a racist element to this part because an African villager pointing out a dinosaur is only remarkable if you assume they're ignorant of paleontology or the pop culture around it. But they're not. They have TV and internet. They've seen Jurassic Park. But they know the weird white people go apeshit when they draw a sauropod with a stick in the mud for their camera crew.
They've created a whole mythology for dinosaurs with entire museums devoted to their lore. I remember a traveling exhibit I saw as a kid that speculated about how dinosaurs were brought on Noah's ark as babies to save space. They had a replica based on supposed eyewitness accounts of the ark on Mt Ararat. How a wooden structure survived for thousands of years, I don't know, but that's the least of their worries.
That's nowhere near the most elaborate example either. There's a whole Ark Encounter theme park where you can go inside a life-sized model of the ark and see museum quality dinosaur models in pens accompanied by completely made-up info about how Noah cared for each animal. They also have dioramas of dinosaurs fighting giants in an arena because we all remember that part of the Bible.
The guy who created this masterpiece is Ken Ham, who was also responsible for Genesis 3D, which was, as the name suggests, going to be a 3D animated retelling of the book of Genesis. Whether or not they planned on including the story of Onan is unclear, but they had people crowdfund individual scenes, and one of them was "Adam meets the Apatosaurus."
Ken Ham is a rock star in the creationist world, most famous for debating Bill Nye. Other greats include Ray Comfort of "behold the atheist's nightmare" fame, Duane Gish after whom the "Gish gallop" debate tactic was named, and Kent Hovind, AKA "Dr Dino" who believes peach pits cure cancer and was arrested for tax evasion. I'm not as familiar with him, but @gailyinthedark could probably fill you in. All of these people have devoted most of their careers to imaginatively reconciling the existence of dinosaurs with young earth creationist ideology.
TL,DR: most homeschooled evangelical kids are allowed and even encouraged to have dinosaur phase, if not a lifelong dinosaur obsession, it's just going to be way weirder than most people's.
I forgot an important piece of lore: the Chinese fake fossil trade.
See, the earliest known examples of feathered dinosaurs (except Archaeopteryx but we'll circle back to that) were discovered in China, hence their names like Sinosauropteryx, Sinornithosaurus, Dilong, etc. So creationists don't like that because they've been cheerfully maintaining for years that there is no connection between dinosaurs and birds because no dinosaur fossil up to that point has preserved any trace of a feather. So naturally, they deny these fossils are genuine. Conveniently for them, there are shady fossil peddlers in China who have sold fakes. In reality, paleontologists are very aware of this and are highly skeptical of any Chinese fossil that wasn't directly dug out of the ground. But that ambiguity is enough for the creationists to spin a narrative that the "evolutionists" are conspiring with the evil Chinese fake fossil mafia, like how they use the Piltdown man (another famous hoax that was never widely accepted) against human evolution but probably more racist. I'm not sure how this narrative developed after feathered dinosaurs started turning up elsewhere like in Madagascar and North America. In any case, they still deny dinosaurs had feathers and the Ark Encounter's dromaeosaurids are notably naked.
They have two schools of thought regarding Archaeopteryx: one holds that it's a fake made by adding feathers to a Compsognathus fossil (despite the only superficial resemblance between the two), while the other accepts its existence but denies any relation to dinosaurs and chalks all saurian characteristics up to coincidence. It's a just a bird, guys. God gave it a recognizably deinonychosaurian skeleton for the aesthetic.
Given the blatant contradictory nature of these two "theories," this is a highly divisive issue within the creationists community with some online creationist book stores refusing to carry books that perpetuate the hoax model. I haven't followed creationist theory in some time by now, but I'm curious as to how they're handling the dinosaur-bird thing in light of more recent evidence.
Did not expect this level of tea in paleontology
I.......wow
If you've never seen the arena diorama, here's a photo.
Objectively an awesome piece of art. Historically complete gibberish, of course, but as an art installation? Stellar.
Ok I'm not gonna lie that's the sickest thing I've ever seen
wheres seasons greasons
its that time of year again
It doesn’t have to be
its not optional
sun tzu also once said: "you have to let your friends hit it from behind, for that is the best way to strengthen your warrior's bond"
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