silver1 wrote:The pics are cool but kind of hard to believe,now don't get me wrong...i do believe that shapeshifting is possible i'm just not sure about the whole physical shapeshifting thing. I'm not saying that the above pics aren't real,just that they are a bit hard to believe. Awesome pics by the way i would like to see a better version of them.
Ahh thank you, thank you, I know they're awesome photos and yet hard to believe, but they're 100% genuine. As for better versions of them, I'm still trying to figure out how to make my camera record video, I'd have made a video with running commentary of how I feel during my shapeshifting, and it may yet happen.
Joking aside, I watched the recent Freeborn panel thing on youtube, which I think mentions this thread, or at least some discussion about the question of "do werewolves exist?", for anybody who didn't get the joke of my previous post, I was royally sending the whole idea up, thye pictures were a joke I was going to post somewhere else a while ago, but never managed to figure out how to present to the website.
Since the topic has swung that way, I'll throw my honest coinage in. I believe the human animal is, in its own right, an extremely hardened and robust entity from a physical stand point, bones will resist changing their shape, it's what they do, that's their function, same with teeth and fingernails (or claws for that matter), these are the tools of an animal's trade and it didn't get this way by chance, it earned it, it's been tested to destruction this way in humans AND I might add wolves (along with any species) for tens of thousands of years and more, and before that its evolutionary ancestors (if you believe such a thing), the testing and refinement that resulted in this robustness never ever let up. Whatever is necessary to make a physical shifting possible, it's going to have to either toss out that hard earned resistance to change somehow (risky), or work with it (difficult), you can't fight it, to do so will kill the organism almost as surely as a bullet to the brain.
*EDIT* As a little follow on from this, the resistance is genetically ingrained, this in itself is the strongest argument I can see for a genetic component in the whole shapeshifting equation.
Do I think shapeshifting can happen in the future? Yes, but someone will have to find a way to make it happen, because so far all of nature has it integrated the kind of biological "technology" as a one way ticket from juvenile state to adult state, or flat out killed it (evolution/natural selection point of view). Evidence people have pointed to in things like Pyramid paintings can be adequately explained away as a guy in a head mask or a fertile imagination. There may be other things regarding this topic still lurking the recesses of my mind, but I can't recall them now, so I'll end there.
*EDIT* I just remembered this, from a discussion about shapeshifting on another forum, people point out things things like energy expenditure, which it is estimated would be astronimical for a werewolf transforming in seconds or minutes, the point I made at the time is we don't need that, once we throw more time at it all those problems go away, boom, shapeshifting suddenly seems more possible/attainable, although not as sexy to fantasize about. Secondly other people like to make the tadpoles analogy, while in the general case that's a one way ticket, there is I think one species that can revert to juvenile state, the axolotl can do it if I recall correctly. But still, that's a far cry from making a human being do something where it sprouts features of an entirely different species and back again.
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