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DizzasterJuice
1st Jun 2015, 3:10 AM

I posted a new "thank you" page on the TWC vote button.

A new episode of "Downtime" is up for you tier 2+ Patreon supporters.

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princess_lom
1st Jun 2015, 7:14 AM

yeye, brave :P

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DizzasterJuice
2nd Jun 2015, 8:15 AM

Brave or she made it all up.

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princess_lom
3rd Jun 2015, 6:59 PM

I think she made it up, she looks like someone like that who is lying all the tme to impress others :<!

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xpacetrue
1st Jun 2015, 7:17 AM

I like your text in the last panel: "Every myth is based on some amount of truth."

Of course, as tales get retold and embellished they loose accuracy. Perhaps many don't even have a basis in our waking reality. But I think that many were inspired by something more than just imagination.

Whose to say that all cryptoid sightings ever reported are bunk? The oceans are extremely deep and vast. And there are still a few wild areas of the world as yet untamed by man. There are billions of different species on Earth, with new ones being discovered all the time.

Consider the unicorn: Modern scholars say it was most likely inspired by tales of the rhinoceros, retold to other cultures. It's a big, hooved animal with a single horn.

With over an (estimated) million UFO sightings over decades and centuries (over a hundred thousand official reports in the last 50 years), how can all that be nothing but imagination? Could every sighting be either a cry for attention or swamp gas, weather balloons, or the planet Venus?

For that matter, some urban legends have been inspired by true stories or have a connection to real events. Heck, as ridiculous as most of them are, even a few superstitions have a historical or factual basis.

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DizzasterJuice
2nd Jun 2015, 8:59 AM

One of my favorite cryptid stories is that of Orang Pendek. Debbie Martyr, who heads the Sumatran Tiger conservation project in the national park in Sumatra, says she has never seen a tiger there but knows they exist based on a few footprints found. She has personally seen the Orang Pendek twice and cast several footprints. She believes it may be Homo floresiensis or a close relative.

I'm pretty sure the queen has embellished the facts about what she really found, and claimed to "drive it off" so as not to have to provide proof. But whatever the real problem was, she dealt with it and earned the crown.

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