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Black Chinese Dragon
Volume 2 Issue 5
June 22, 2002

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Green Elephant Scott gives us this link for the live action version of 'The Last Unicorn.' Terratek lost in a light saber duel with Nargus StreamWarrior. Louhikärmes posted Dragon.jpg to alt.binaries.pictures.misc. Sonarrat Citalis begins a new job, limiting his time. Dragonpearl informs residents that pink elephants are best driven off with pink elephant guns.

Definition of the Week
by Arcaton Anvilbane
Book Anthropomorphic usually means the head is of animal with animal traits, ie. colourblindness for canids. Torso & Body are humanoid although covered with fur. Sexual characteristics are humanoid, ie. furry female has two breasts rather than canine 6 nipples. Legs of will definitely be humanoid but feet will follow digitigrade/plantigrade pattern of animal original.

Black Cat A typical furry is bipedal and forepaws will resemble hands with opposable thumbs. Animals with cloven feet or clawed paws will typically have hands of which the third joint of the finger is a claw/talon. Furry will have tail in line with animal original in proportion to the body, ie. vulpines, even anthro vulpines, will sport a luxuriant brush. Furries seem to be compatible across species.

Quote of the Week -by Arcaton    
There are some out there whose goodness shines about them like a halo, it radiates from them like the heat from a 3kW electric fire.

Alfandria's Newest Name Alfandria: Land of Frequent Subject Changes by ByrneWyng

Forty-Two
Compass Eredien says that she thinks that we're all meant to seek and find our own meaning in life. She also thinks that the depression comes when not only we don't know what our meaning is anymore, when we've lost sight of it, or perhaps the meaning is changing and we haven't realized it, but also when we aren't actively searching out a new meaning or looking at how the old one changed, when we're not only confused, but stagnant.

Yin Yang Symbol Resijinth says that life is an end in itself, and not a means to some other end. Life would have no meaning whatsoever except to serve another end, eventually either going to an infinite regress, an impossibility, a circular loop, which is rediculous, or to another end, and that end would have to be an end unto itself. But, life is the best thing to be taken to an ends in itself. This means, then, that no person can simply be obligated to another person, for this would be a travesty, and in fact would actually trivialize the meaning of life itself. This would make us be obliged to something which is meaningless. Then, obligation would be meaningless, and we couldn't say one's life was an obligation on another life.



Editorial
Digital Dragon, responded to Awellyth on the subject of weird happenings: A: Actually, it's not just me, judging from all the replies I've gotten. I still haven't figured out exactly just what's happening, though.

D: Its usually like that thought. I've seen it happen too many times. Somebody, like yourself, will ask if anyone else is feeling wierd thing going on and a bunch of others will say yes, but those others tend to be just adding conversation, or imagining something, or trying to "play along" or something along those lines. Perhaps if you were to ask if someone else is feeling asomething odd and what they are feeling then the picture may become clearer :)


Arizona by Mondariloth s'te Carenoth

Greetings one and all!
I just flew in from Arizona, and boy, are my wings tired! Arizona was wierd. Besides the sheer unadulterated brain-twisting crest-banging wierdness of interacting with my grandparents. There's this set of fossil footprints on a reservation down there, mostly dinosaur, I think. Anyway, I was walking over them, and I felt something. I'm not sure how to describe it. Kind of like kin-ship but not quite.

In the car, driving home, I started day-dreaming, and I had this vivid reliving of something. I was definitely in my trueform, but I was only about 7ft tall, and I was with a human. We were chasing some kind of deer-like creature. I don't remember much else. It kind of faded as soon as we stopped for gas.

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