Monsters

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:02 am

Nothing extra terrestrial. Things like Yetis, Chupacabras and Drop Bears. I guess this could include supernatural stuff as well (but not ghosts).

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 8:24 am

Wow, a lot of "Do you believe in x" threads going on here.
My answer to your question is no. I think that people believe in these monsters only because of mass hysteria.

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 6:06 am

Wow, a lot of "Do you believe in x" threads going on here.
My answer to your question is no. I think that people believe in these monsters only because of mass hysteria.

How narrow-minded. The only reason, huh?

I don't believe in Bigfoot because it's just not plausible anymore. 200 years ago, then sure. Not impossible to think, seeing as Murrica was a big wilderness except for the populated north-eastern coast.

Chupacabras... There is a LOT of evidence that suggests that it is a cross-breed of a coyote and a dog/wolf. Nothing more.

Sea monsters... I'm certain of their existence. We know virtually nothing about the oceans compared to the rest of the world.

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 9:07 am

Wow, a lot of "Do you believe in x" threads going on here.

do you believe in life after love!

As for the OP, no not really I just haven't seen the evidence.

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 10:34 am

I once dated a deathclaw... does that count?

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 1:29 pm

I once dated a deathclaw... does that count?

me too! Except it ended up kissing the end of my Hunting shotgun

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 2:43 pm

There are monsters, but you can't tell apart from humans until it's too late. Fortunately they are quite rare.

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 2:28 am

Yes I do.

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 2:15 am

Hate to be a jerk, but shouldn't we get a consolidated thread for "Do you believe in...." so the forum isn't innundated with 50 threads asking Do you believe in happiness, Money, Power, the afterlife, etc...?

Anyways, Do I believe in Monsters? There are new species being discovered each and every day, so it is quite plausible they exist.

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:33 am

Sea monsters... I'm certain of their existence. We know virtually nothing about the oceans compared to the rest of the world.

We know nothing, therefore I know with certainty. Sounds about right.

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 4:56 am

Depends on what counts as monsters really.
Myths like bigfoot, loch ness, vampires, chupacabra? No.
But there are creatures in the world that are so foreign that they could be considered monsters depending on the perspective.
So no to anything that has a huge myth to it, so far that it's become a legend of sort.
But yes, there are creatures that is nothing short of monsters because of how foreign they are.

No: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll
Yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprey

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 8:12 am

How narrow-minded. The only reason, huh?

Sorry, bad choice of words. There are many other reasons people believe in monsters, it's just my theory that most people believe in them because of mass hysteria.

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 2:29 pm

People didn't believe in giant squid until a dead one washed up :shrug:

I think there's usually a rational explanation (Mulder), though - for example, the Loch Ness Monster being a shoal of fish that looks like one big creature, or perhaps a throwback like a Coelecanth.

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:25 am

Wow, a lot of "Do you believe in x" threads going on here.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking this.

As for the question.

I am a monster.

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 8:18 am

The thread isn't very aptly named.

Some people may think "monsters" as in, the monsters "under your bed" type monsters. Of course "monsters" exist, but it depends on what you consider a monster to be. If you consider a squid or jellyfish to be a monster, then it's a monster. If you consider sharks to be monsters, then they're monsters. There is no uniform set basis for "monsters" in our world. We don't all think of the same thing when we think of monsters, the way we do when we think of ghosts or fish.

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 3:48 am

A normal person doesn't believe in things like Bigfoot or Loch Ness Monster.

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 1:46 am

Coming from Norway, we have a long tradition of telling stories and myths about monsters, trolls and other scary creatures you don't want to meet. There are no way monsters, yetis, bigfoot and chupacabras are real. There are many actual non-supernatural creatures I'd consider monsters, but that's not what this thread is about.

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 1:21 am

I believe what I see. Guys filming themselves walking around in Bigfoot costumes in the woods doesn't count.

There could very well be some "monsters" that we still haven't discovered, most likely in the oceans, but there no more monsters than any other kind of fish.

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 1:44 pm

Yes. I see them all the time. They're horrible creatures. They usually stand between 4 to 7 feet tall on two legs, have two arms, each of which have five miniature tentacles. They have this ugly scaleless, featherless, and (mostly) hairless flesh. And the voices...oh God, the voices! They open their mouths and from their pits of darkness come terrible, terrible words! They talk about football, boys, hot girls they want to bang, what they saw on TV, and the weather!

I try to tell everyone about them, how they've flooded the world, how we have to stop them before it's too late. But nobody believes me. NOBODY!

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:27 pm

I believe we are monsters, hence my signature :thumbsup:

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 7:30 am

There are no way monsters, yetis, bigfoot and chupacabras are real. There are many actual non-supernatural creatures I'd consider monsters, but that's not what this thread is about.

To be fair, the people who search for Bigfoot aren't looking for a supernatural creature. They are looking for what they believe to be a surviving species of a prehistoric hominid. With a sustaining population etc. Its not really a "boogeyman" story in that sense, which makes it at least a bit more credible.

However, given that no real evidence of the species exists despite numerous searches. Its highly unlikely to be real. And gets so with each passing year that no physical evidence (e.g. a body) is found.

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 9:37 am

I don't explicitly believe in their existence, but I do not deny the plausibility of then as well. Once there is sufficient information supporting the claims that such creatures do exist, I will change my mind. Until then, I deny their existence. Just because someone has a fuzzy photo of a humanoid-like figure walking does not mean it is a monster.

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 4:21 pm

I once saw a man made of string just cartwheeling along a woodland path. It was the eeriest thing I'd ever seen until I realised it was a nearby dandelion seed dancing on the air, made to look like a bigger thing further away by a trick of the light.

or perhaps a throwback like a Coelecanth.

Coelacanth isn't a throwback, it's just a fish that never went extinct in the first place.

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:14 am

We know nothing, therefore I know with certainty. Sounds about right.

I'm talking statistically...

It's like space. I'm certain that their is intelligent life, because there is just so much that we can't see into to deny their existence. Same applies for the ocean.

» Mon Feb 25, 2013 9:01 am

I'm talking statistically...

It's like space. I'm certain that their is intelligent life, because there is just so much that we can't see into to deny their existence. Same applies for the ocean.

Statistics plays no real role in it. If you view the universe as an infinite body, which we believe not to be true, then there is an arbitrarily small chance of being proven wrong.
The ocean is constant as well. Sea monsters as we know from mythology have little chance of being fact. We have found giant squid before, but nowhere near as giant as they would call the sea creatures. You can roll numbers all day, but there is no real certainty.

Monsters - fact or fiction