04-17-2012, 05:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-17-2012, 05:07 PM by godwide_void.)
I got that email. I, for one, welcome our new lizard overlords, for they too are aspects of the Creator. Just cold-blooded and scaly, but overall harmless. Velociraptors can be cuddly creatures, y'know. 
But in all seriousness, I both don't really subscribe to the whole 'malevolent reptilian enslaving us' scenario that a few spout, but on the other hand the notion that perhaps over that entire SEVERAL MILLION YEAR PERIOD I'm certain that dinosaurs had quite enough time to evolve their consciousnesses and enhance their intelligence. How long did it take us to evolve to the point we are now? Who knows? Maybe when the meteor was about to impact a bunch of dinosaurs had the capability to mass text each other "lol, disaster" from their scaly mobile devices. Now that I think about it, it is pretty hard to believe that in all that time they held dominion over this planet they were limited to nothing but primitive animalistic behavior, and if they somehow did reach a point of intelligence and inevitably developed advanced technology, perhaps they found a way to populate other planets? Or perhaps other planets across the solar system do act as home to similar species/remnants of the dinosaur civilization?
On a twist on Terrence McKenna's "Stoned Ape" theory that postulates that the only reason early human beings' consciousnesses evolved is because of the accidental ingestion of Psilocybin/magic mushrooms which incited abstract thought and formation of concepts, I've never once heard anybody entertain the idea that perhaps a similar scenario might have happened to dinosaurs? It's not unlikely that at least ONE dinosaur decided to munch on a huge dose of Psilocybin mushrooms, Peyote cactus, or Morning Glory seeds and suddenly became self-aware and able of highly sentient thought processing. At the very least it is a fascinating possibility.

But in all seriousness, I both don't really subscribe to the whole 'malevolent reptilian enslaving us' scenario that a few spout, but on the other hand the notion that perhaps over that entire SEVERAL MILLION YEAR PERIOD I'm certain that dinosaurs had quite enough time to evolve their consciousnesses and enhance their intelligence. How long did it take us to evolve to the point we are now? Who knows? Maybe when the meteor was about to impact a bunch of dinosaurs had the capability to mass text each other "lol, disaster" from their scaly mobile devices. Now that I think about it, it is pretty hard to believe that in all that time they held dominion over this planet they were limited to nothing but primitive animalistic behavior, and if they somehow did reach a point of intelligence and inevitably developed advanced technology, perhaps they found a way to populate other planets? Or perhaps other planets across the solar system do act as home to similar species/remnants of the dinosaur civilization?
On a twist on Terrence McKenna's "Stoned Ape" theory that postulates that the only reason early human beings' consciousnesses evolved is because of the accidental ingestion of Psilocybin/magic mushrooms which incited abstract thought and formation of concepts, I've never once heard anybody entertain the idea that perhaps a similar scenario might have happened to dinosaurs? It's not unlikely that at least ONE dinosaur decided to munch on a huge dose of Psilocybin mushrooms, Peyote cactus, or Morning Glory seeds and suddenly became self-aware and able of highly sentient thought processing. At the very least it is a fascinating possibility.