Photo of real dragon

[Kristoffer]

You be the judge

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-8-7/31030.html
http://img.epochtimes.com/i6/508042900628.jpg
http://img.epochtimes.com/i6/508042832628.jpg

[IronFist]

I don't see it in the last one.

edit - yes I do, lower left hand corner.

[truewrestler]

where's the rest of it?

[IronFist]

Looks like a spine to me.

[Chang Style Novice]

Almost a month late to the party! (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37955)

[SimonM]

You be the judge

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-8-7/31030.html
http://img.epochtimes.com/i6/508042900628.jpg
http://img.epochtimes.com/i6/508042832628.jpg


Blocked in China. :(

[WanderingMonk]

Blocked in China. :(
b/c it is affiliated with FLG

[Willow Palm]

I don't what that really is but it looks way cool.

Warren

[SimonM]

b/c it is affiliated with FLG

Well that would explain it then. :p

[Kristoffer]

I so wanna beleive in dragons. Maybe I'll fake one

[truewrestler]

FLG? What dat

[Ray Pina]

Looks like a cement walk bridge railing or something. I don't see how one sees a dragon any more than a section of the Great Wall of China.

[SimonM]

FLG? What dat

Falun Gong:

A bunch of poor, deluded fools who decided they were big enough to take on the PRC and got royally stomped.

They are basically a personality cult based on equal parts Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity and Alien Worship centered around a dude named Li Hongzhi - a huckster who lives in NYC.

They were getting big in China and tried to start recruiting city leader level party members. The government stomped on their worship priveleges and they took to the street in mass protests. Since then the FLG and the PRC have spent quite a lot of time accusing each other of attrocities.

If Hongzhi would just get arrested for fraud or something the entire thing would probably blow over but he keeps organizing them to prostelatyze about how the "evil communists" are oppressing them all over north america. And of course the fact that the PRC tends to jail members of the FLG as an organization acting against the state keeps things nice and inflamed.

:rolleyes:

[Face2Fist]

Falun Gong:

A bunch of poor, deluded fools who decided they were big enough to take on the PRC and got royally stomped.

They are basically a personality cult based on equal parts Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity and Alien Worship centered around a dude named Li Hongzhi - a huckster who lives in NYC.

They were getting big in China and tried to start recruiting city leader level party members. The government stomped on their worship priveleges and they took to the street in mass protests. Since then the FLG and the PRC have spent quite a lot of time accusing each other of attrocities.

If Hongzhi would just get arrested for fraud or something the entire thing would probably blow over but he keeps organizing them to prostelatyze about how the "evil communists" are oppressing them all over north america. And of course the fact that the PRC tends to jail members of the FLG as an organization acting against the state keeps things nice and inflamed.

:rolleyes:

they hang out in 34th st, nyc and show these pics of people being torture. if they were hot at least i would listen or join them lol!!

[Juna]

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/july-dec99/china_7-30a.html

This link tells sth about the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong.

[Kristoffer]

ok, this is about dragons not falun gong

[cho]

http://venus.walagata.com/w/soritohc/believe.jpg

what?! no picture posting?

[PangQuan]

I have seen this before.

My take: either its glacier trails (formed as a glacier moves across a repeated path)

or its a couple of dragons.

glacier trails look like that though...

[stimulant]

Snakes are the original dragons, according to the bible they lost their wings when god cast them down to crawel on their bellys for allowing themselfs to be used by the devil in tempted eve to eat the forbidden fruit.

[PangQuan]

if they lost their wings after they were used to tempt then why was it the creature used to tempt was a snake with no wings?

were they punished before the crime?

and what about flying dinosaurs? Quetzalcoatlus? average wing span of 39 feet, elongated neck and tail. if you saw one flying you would go OMG a freaking dragon!!

[stimulant]

in genisis after God confronts adam and eve he address the (Gen 3:14) serpant and told it 'on your belly you will go'. Different translations have it slightly differently.

[David Jamieson]

pang- chinese dragons ain't got wings and they don't breath fire. :p ok, maybe one or two of the breath fire, but i haven't read a story about it yet.

It could just as easily be a cirrucumulus cloud trailer.
http://www.cloudman.com/atlas/atlas.htm

anyway! dragons are real...but ...nevermind.

[PangQuan]

ok.

question. does one believe in only asian style dragons and denounce western style dragons?

both beliefs are just as ancient but both dragons are very different.

i bet there were snakes that would make a boa or anaconda look pretty puny back in the day.

so how would a dragon without wings fly? unless magic is real too. and if magic is real then chi is real and if chi is real then i can learn to shoot chi fire balls.

IM SO STOKED NOW!!!

or were asian dragons in capable of flight? SAY IT AINT SO WILBUR!!

i found this:

Yinglong the winged dragon: believed to be a powerful servant of Huang Di, the Yellow emperor, who was later immortalized as a dragon. One legend states that Yinglong helped a man named Yu stop the yellow river from flooding by digging long channels with his tail. The Yinglung is the oldest of all eastern dragons. Once all dragons reach a certain age, they develop wings.

[PangQuan]

more cool chinese dragon stuff

The chinese dragon has four claws as standard, but the imperial dragon has five, this is to identify it above the lesser classes. Anyone other than the emperor using the five claw motif was put to death.

the first dragon appeard to the mythical emeror Fu-Shi, and filled the hole in the sky made by the monster Kung Kung. Its waking, sleeping and breathing determined the day and night. Season and weather.

Many differnces between the classical dragon and the chinese dragon include, ability to fly even without wings (still no explination how), shape shifting abilities, and the benevolen tbehavior to the populace.

the chinese dragon is made up of nine entities. the head of camel, eyes of demon, ears of cow, horns of stag, neck of snake, belly of a clam's, claws of eagle, soles of feet are tiger, and the 117 scales that cover body are of the carp.

very neat stuff.

[gfx]

obviously fake. Easily photoshoped.

Who in this day and age actually still believe in dragons?? :confused:

[PangQuan]

dont make fun of david.

and i dont think its photo shopped. its a natural formation, be it clouds or glacier trails.