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Add to FavoritesNow, front row and center stage we introduce Peter Pan!
Come on people, where have your life light gone. Of coarse fantasy, creatures exist. The reason that we do not see them is because we have grown up. We have gotten in the mode of taking life too serious, and with seriousness we do not see what we as adults call fantasy. Fantasy creatures, in my opinion, do exit physically. Nevertheless, they are more common mentally. However, if we say that mental creatures are not real, then are we not saying that the mind is not real? If there are angels, ghosts, demons and imps, why can there not be fairies, unicorns and pixies.
I think that the creatures of fantasy are like most things, which we believe no longer exist. I think what has happen is that God seen how abusive man can be with some things, so he begun to hide some of His good things out of clear view. Can you imagine the destruction that would take place if there were a herd of unicorns with golden horns? Today's man would put the animal through so much pain in order to figure how to remove the horn of gold and to see if it would grow back. If man cannot figure out the reason then he will just start killing the unicorn for their golden horns. Moreover, poor Tinkerbelle would not stand a change out in the open in our society!
There are many wonderful things, which God has chosen to hide from us. God knows the heart of man and the thoughts of his mind. This is why as adults, some of us do not see Peter Pan and Captain Hook, because God has blocked such things from our heart and mind. When we are not looking for these creatures, they can be right in front of us and we will not see them. If you were to look in the every day news, you will see the supposedly new finds of new creatures or the supposedly find of creatures that were thought to be extinct.
I think that this is happening because God is seeing a little compassion starting to peep out from under the heart of man. I think that God is still hiding the fantasy creatures, but He is allowing some of them to pop up in different forms to see if man is really trying to open his heart and mind. I have notice that more children are starting back to have imaginary friends and talk of things which us adults call foolishness, but is this foolishness and imaginary subjects are just things that we serious adults cannot see.
I have seen a unicorn and Tinkerbelle have whispered secrets in my ear. Does this mean that I need to be lock up and place on drugs that I cannot pronounce? No, what this mean is that I still have an open heart.
Do fantasy creatures really exist? Yes, if by chance they do not exist physically, they will exist mentally as long as humans of open hearts and minds exist.
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The fact that so many articles are offering the "yes" answer to this question proves that they do not, in fact, exist. The reasoning behind my claim calls upon the definition of the word "fantasy." Fantasy is reality in most senses of the word that matter. We hold many and multifarious fantasies in our everyday lives. Examples: The terrorist threat is a result of "a clash of civilizations" when, in fact, Islam has often co-existed in peace with Christianity. In fact, Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, despite what our culture of fantasy would have us believe. We generate this fantasy to exonerate ourselves from our support of Bin Laden against Russia during the Cold War. Our gender roles are also a fantasy of sorts; they are culturally constructed-there is no reason why women should need their car doors opened for them, and many women do not find men who perform this action to be pleasing.
It is no wonder, then, that fantasy creatures are fashionable objects of belief. We want to believe in the improbable, the beautiful, whatever it is that makes our lives seem more virtuous and less arbitrary and culpable. If Unicorns existed, the emblems on our daughters' lunchboxes would ensure that they would always remain pure and undefiled. If elves and fairies existed, there would be always a place we could go to with the possibility of escaping our material realities, where we could embark on mythic quests and discover the nature of godhood and virtue.
Sadly, deluding ourselves is part of being human. If we are to believe Jean-Paul Sartre, one of the most comforting aspects of human existence is that no one feels like what they label themselves as. A movie star does not feel like we would expect a movie star feels, and a famous author feels like little more than a fan of literature. A famous band (like Metallica) feels like a group composed of fans themselves. Yet, collectively, we apply to them the status of the Real Thing, never questioning the status because it has been collectively determined. Similarly, we collectively assert that there is something out there beyond our everyday mundane experiences. This is not a negative tendency, but if we cling too strongly to these beliefs, we risk hurting others with our reality-denying zeal.
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