Waging A Real War On Christmas/Synchronized Hyperspace Event (S.H.E.)

If you know this already, then this obviously isn't for you. It's for everyone else.

Today you probably ate some Turkey, Turkey contains Tryptophan, maybe not enough to be effective, but it is an example of Trytophan in your diet. You can also find it in Milk. Tryptophan is a structure very similar to Serotonin. Serotonin is what regulates Happiness, Sadness, Excitement, Anger, etc.

Melatonin is very similar to Serotonin and it regulates sleep. There are MANY structures in nature that are related to Serotonin. Another example is 5-HTP which is a supplement people can get at the store. 5-HTP means 5- Hydrotryptophan or Hydroxytryptophan, I forget which one.

If you have ever heard of DMT or Ayahuasca, this is theorized to be what actually causes Dreams directly. DMT is DimethylTryptamine, and it is related to Tryptophan and Serotonin. Mushrooms contain Psilocybin which has the Chemical name of 4-PO-DMT. Here is an example of the change from Tryptophan to 4-PO-DMT that happens inside mushrooms: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Biosynthesis_of_psilocybin.svg

There are also things that are similar to these structures that are made in labs in China and Canada, and they are not illegal. They are known as "Research Chemicals" which means no one has found a medical use for them yet, and there is no known risk of abuse/addiction. Examples of this are DPT, which is Dipropyltryptamine, and 4-Aco-DMT.

People seem to think that God is meant to be some "Super Power" or "Creator" or "Magic Force". And if they don't see that, they will not accept him. But, this is not the way people always thought of God.

A similar line of thought that people have is that Christians are massively distinctive from Jews or Muslims. Christianity, Judaism and Islam are the 3 most SIMILAR religions on the planet. Judaism started with the Old testament law, Moses, Noah, etc. Then Jesus came, this created the new Testament. Then Mohammed came and wrote the Quran to add to that. Just because these people kill each other the most, does not mean they are very different.

Hindu started in the Indus valley when they Vedas were written in 2000 BC, so 4000 years ago. In the Rig Veda, you will find talk of Shiva and Soma. Soma is what comes out of things when you burn them, and Shiva is the feeling you get when you are high or from dancing. Shiva is not a magic man in the sky that gives you these feelings, Shiva is the Sankrit word FOR these feelings. They did not say "I am high right now" they said "I am Shiva right now". Another example of a Vedic God is Agni, Agni is not some magic God in the sky, Agni is fire. Fire itself is what they called Agni. So Agni would burn things, and create Soma (everything has a Soma), some of which make you Shiva. These are just the ancient words because they didn't have a word for "high". And they used the altered states as purposefully as possible. Which is why India was such a center for creativity and trade.

Buddhism comes from Hindu, so these 2 religions are kind of like Christianity and Judaism. The first Buddha's name was Siddhartha, and he wrote a bunch of stuff and "Turned the Wheel of Dharma" creating a new path for Ancient Hindus. This is similar to what Jesus did in relation to Judaism, except Buddhism does not mention God once, and is actually kind of similar to Jesus in that it is about dropping all worldly desire and anger, which is also part of Hindu, Buddha just focused it and took out the Gods.

To the Ancient Egyptians, Gods usually had to do with some form of Education. For Example, "Khepri" was the Dung Beetle God, and his name translates to "The Keeper". In Ancient Egypt, the Dung Beetle basically represented the Clock. Since the Dung beetle uses the Stars and the Moon to Navigate at night, then the Sun to Navigate during the day, the Egyptians were able to copy it and make maps of the sky aka Calendars. Another example is the Egyptians Soul, an Example of which is the Shadow, and another example of which is the Name. Both of these things still exist today, it's not like they were talking about some magic thing.

Then if you look at the Roman Pantheon, they are literally just worshiping the Calendar and the things around it. Google "God Jupiter" and you will see that the Romans worshiped the planet Jupiter. Most Roman and Greek Gods are just Mnemonic practices that remind people of the things that hold society together. For example, the Goddess "Nemesis". Greeks and Romans did not actually believe there was a Woman named Nemesis that would come to get them if they did not make the right offerings, it was just a social construct. Same with Nike, which is the Goddess of Victory. They did not actually think some lady in the sky helped them win the battle, they were just worshiping Victory.

The Jewish people also knew about the planets, they called Mars "The One Who Blushes" in Hebrew because it was Red (Look it up).

The Christians then came through later, and killed everyone who did not accept that God was a magic man in the sky, and now there are even atheists telling people that if God doesn't live in the sky he isn't real.

Police Tactics in a Protest

During a Protest, Police should take the role of an outside presence. They do not need to be involved, and according to training videos from the 60s, they are only supposed to put plain clothes officers in the protest. And if you watch the Yippies and the Hippies in the 60s talking in videos and stuff, they talk about how part of the plan was to get the Police to beat on the Plain clothed officers with them.

Police should not take an offensive position, but they probably will. If they do, what they are going to do is a "Show of Force". This will include loud barking, and possibly banging on shields or stomping feet.

If the Police do this, the best response is to get people to start doing some kind of beat. Like even just clapping and stomping "We will rock you" is sufficient.

If the police move forward, the main protesters should not run at the police to fight them. The main protesters should make their way to the back of the crowd to form a ring. If you hold hands behind the other protesters, they will not be so easy to move back, and you will be able to hold your position without them moving you. Having something to create cohesive units can also help, for example, if you have brooms or something, you could work together against the shields more effectively.

These tactics are meant to be a response to police over action, like in Occupy and the early days of Ferguson, not a way for protesters to initiate action against the police. The best way to initiate action against the police is to read their oath to them, or just elect a new Sheriff.

People like to think that Medicine and Science happen in Sterilized rooms, where everyone wears a lab coat, and everyone knows exactly what the outcome of everything will be. That is not science, it might be a routine test some scientists are doing, but that is not the bulk of how science moves forward in leaps and bounds.

For example, Penicillin was not discovered by someone working for Pfizer in a sterile lab, trying to cure disease. It was discovered by a messy scientist, who was eating in his lab space, and accidentally left a sandwich out. When he came back to the sandwich days later, it had mold growing on it. He put this mold in a Petri dish with other Bacteria, and it ate all the other bacteria. This is how Antibiotics jumped forward.

The first person to invent Vaccines also kind of did so on accident, or at least the guy he copied did. The inventor of Vaccines is Edward Jenner, but 30 years before he invented Vaccines, his friend John Fewster was randomly doing studies where he gave people smallpox on purpose so he could study their reaction, and one time he did it someone didn't react and he questioned them, and it turned out that that person had previously had Cow Pox. So he told people about this and 30 years later Vaccines existed.

Not all science happens like this, but a lot of it does. A more modern example is a spider they found in the Amazon, this spider ha venom that works similar to Viagra. But when it bites you, a guys penis will get so hard it explodes or stops working via ruptured blood vessels or something. So now that some people have died from this (I think you would die, or hope kinda) they are now working on a way to turn this venom in to the new Viagra. So this kind of stuff happens all the time.

I just wanted to point those things out to say, Western Medicine is not the regimented, sterilized, perfect art we think it is. It is just regular people that went through some higher education, and now they are figuring some stuff out. And I told you that because I want to show you where it comes from.

Western Medicine starts in ancient Greece with the worship of the God Asclepius. Asclepius was always identified with snakes, and usually a non-Venomous snake would be kept at his temples, the snakes had free reign inside the temples and were allowed to slither on the floor in rooms where patients slept. The Aesculapian snake is actually a species of snake.

The Temples were known as Asclepeion, and they operated much like Hospitals where people would come from all around to come be healed. The way the Doctors would heal the person is by inducing a dream and interpreting it, then giving the person a prescription based on the dream. This is almost identical to Native American Shamanism, you may have heard people call Ayahuasca "Medicine", this is the context of that. The Shamans are meant to take Ayahuasca and come back to this "realm" with a prescription. And according to legend, the plants themselves actually told the Natives how to make Ayahuasca, since you have to mix 2 specific plants in the jungle. If you want to try to find the ancient Greek writings about this, there is supposedly a book called "Sacred Stories" by Aelius Aristides. He was one of these doctors.

The Rod of Asclepius is a common medical symbol, it is a staff with a snake on it. The doctors themselves were known as Asclepiad, the most famous of which is probably Hippocrates. Hippocrates invented the Hippocratic oath, which Doctors still say today.

Hippocrates is still considered the Father of Western Medicine to this day, he identified a few things that are still named after him sometimes, like Hippocratic Fingers, and Hippocratic Face. He also started the classifications like: Acute, Epidemic and Chronic. He also invented the Hippocratic bench, which was a forerunner to Chiropractor tables and some Torture Devices.

I am not suggesting we go back to the Greek Medical model, I just wanted to point out that the things we take the most serious, sometimes (usually) started as people playing with snakes and interpreting dreams.

abe supercro said:

My neighbors don't have Christmas lights on yet, but one of them keeps something exactly like this in front of their commercial farm on display all year. I now live amongst a nearly homogeneous white area. The iron sculpture seems odd maybe somewhat discriminatory.
What do you think? Has anyone else ever seen these, or does anyone know of their origin? I recall seeing a few as a kid in the 7o's.


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@abe supercro I have seen those too , more in my childhood. I think they are referred to as lawn jockeys. Just looking at them they seem a sort of weird representation of a black person, and I do think it's off putting for a white guy to have that on his lawn and THEN decorate it with lights. I am not sure of the origins of these statues, but I'm pretty certain they represent something negative for sure. I have never seen any in WA state, that's for sure. I saw them as a child in the mid west.

BTW, Abe, why are you posting in the midst of this weird ranty thread ? LOL

Thanks for the replies @Hookabelly @KLITE @lahadaextranjera and @sunni. lawn jockeys... yeah that sounds familiar! i was a lawn jockey at mich state U for a summer, it was a pretty sweet p/t job to daydream at, while mowing, amongst beautiful gardens.

Find it odd that a dozen ppl here have appointed themselves to give shit to Finshaggy; I'd estimate that it says more about them than him, but that's just my opinion.

still working through my role honestly, but if it helps...
I'm a devout contrarian.

Nobody likes to read through a wall of text that they're not interest in, but it doesn't mean that one has to ridicule someone for not pleasing them. They do that for their own pleasure.

Hookabelly said:

I doubt those dozen even read through his many dogmatic posts. I know i got bored after the first few.

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I have heard some Christians say some CRAZY things recently... Like "I don't go outside the Bible" and "I only follow the doctrines of Jesus" which would be fine if they were true statements. But usually they are followed by something that completely discredits the statements. Maybe a lot of Christians are not aware, but I want to point some things out.

Jesus existed around 1 AD. And he preached some Gospel to some people and was crucified. Then Paul, who never met Jesus, saw Jesus in a dream and wrote most of the new Testament and started the Christian church, for example, many Christians look at the letters from Paul to the Galatians as an example of the very first church being handled and Pagans being converted. The earliest dates possibly known for these documents being written is 49 for Galatians and 51 for Paul's Gospel. These are not the words of Jesus, but at least they are in the Bible, so that is not getting out of the Bible... Yet.

A lot of Christians like to say "I only follow the Bible" but then they say "The Word is God". This is known as "Logos Doctrine". It was invented by Justin Martyr, it is not in the Bible, and it started at least 100 years after Jesus died.

Then people will say "Jesus is completely Human and completely God" this is Nestorianism, which started around 400 AD. This is also where Nuns come from. Jesus never talked about having Nuns. Nestorian Nuns also inspired the Islamic female attire.

Christians will say that Islam is completely different from them and they only follow the Bible, even though as you can see they do not only follow the Bible. Muhammad lived around 600 AD and wrote the Quran, which added new things to the Bible, same as all the people before him.

Then a really weird one that should be obvious... Jesus put a Pope in charge, which was Peter, and the Catholics carried on this tradition. So if anyone is the "real church" it's the Catholics or the Eastern Orthodox, since they held on to that. But Martin Luther (not Martin Luther King) was alive around 1500 AD, and he started a "Protest" against the Church. In his protest he nailed new rules for Churches on doors all over a German town, then he translated the Bible in to a language regular people could read. "Protestants" are not Catholic, and they started doing what they do around 1500 AD.

Then some people will say "America is Christian and God wants us this way"... The original Pilgrims who came to America were Anabaptist, and their remaining American ethnic group is the Amish. So unless you are Amish or one of the branches, then you are not "American Christian" you are one of these other kinds of Christians.

Then the funniest one. The most hardcore Bible Humping Christians are the Calvinists, who call themselves Calvinists, and got their Doctrine from John Calvin around 1550.

abe supercro said:

Nobody likes to read through a wall of text that they're not interest in, but it doesn't mean that one has to ridicule someone for not pleasing them. They do that for their own pleasure.
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I wasn't ridiculing FS, I was being honest. You can blame my short attention span for being incapable of reading through 29 pages of ……stuff…..

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I wasn't ridiculing FS, I was being honest. You can blame my short attention span for being incapable of reading through 29 pages of ……stuff…..

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Was referring to Finn's detractor trolls, not you hb. guess i was ambiguous that time.

Leftovers huh.
What's for dinner, besides 'stuff' (LOL) on a stick?

abe supercro said:

Was referring to Finn's detractor trolls, not you hb. guess i was ambiguous that time.

Leftovers huh.
What's for dinner, besides 'stuff' (LOL) on a stick?

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I don't have any leftovers. Ate @ mom's house and left a pumpkin pie for us. I don't much care for most TG food. I know it's weird, but it just isn't my favorite thing. I would love to do a Thai dinner or Italian or something ELSE for TG. Better yet, skip all the gut busting and hike to the top of Mclellan Butte…Then come home and have some really good whiskey and a joint,

Christians like to talk about "Prayer" and things happening, then they pretend that somehow their God is the right God and answers their prayers, but tricking yourself in to being the best you can, or setting up your mind with a community, is not a new trick.

You have probably heard the Anecdote about Cancer patients. When a Doctor tests someone and comes back saying "You probably don't have long to live, there is not much we can do" things like that tend to break people down and make it worse. There are some people who hear that from their doctor and they say "Thanks for the opinion, but you can fuck yourself" and I have heard the story of someone who was told that then living through it. Then there are also the Cancer treatment Hospitals that focus on telling you that you will make it through and that you will "beat this" etc. And according to Anecdote these people do better.

This is not a new idea, it is known as "Placebo" and they have used it as far back as Ancient Egypt. The first Surgeon in Human history is Imhotep, and in his writings he suggests that Medicine does not even work right unless you chant and do rituals for the patients benefit. A modern example of this is when someone comes in to a Psychiatrists office and they prescribe sugar pills, then the person comes back feeling great. It was just the "chanting and the ritual" of the Doctors office mixed with taking a fake tablet that made them feel better.

There is also "Nocebo". The Nocebo effect is when you have not taken anything but think you have, and you think you are getting bad effects. Kind of like when people eat a Marijuana brownie and call for an Ambulance, except this is someone who didn't actually eat anything. Or ate something like a Sugar pill.

Autosuggestion is the idea that once something is in your head it is more likely to happen. For example, if you smoke cigarettes and I started posting about cigarettes, like how I just wrote the word cigarette 3 times, you might want to go smoke a cigarette.

The Thomas Theorem is the idea that if you think a situation is real, you will make real consequences. For example, if you think someone is mad at you, and you treat the situation as if the person is mad at you, the consequences might follow as if they were mad at you, even if they were not mad at you before you thought they were, because you were treating them like they were mad. So even if they aren't mad at you, you can end up getting the same response as if they were. Or you could even possibly make them mad at you.

Pavlov's Dogs is a pretty well known experiment. What he did was feed his dogs, and every time he fed his dogs he would ring a bell. Eventually, the dogs brains connected the bell and the food, so later Pavlov would have empty bowls, and when he ran the bell the Dogs would Salivate. Meaning, the Bell had created a reaction in the Dogs heads that was similar to smelling food. They associated the sound directly with food.

If you look up "Five Monkey Water Spray Experiment" you will find something interesting. There was an experiment where they put some Bananas at the top of a ladder, in a room with 5 monkeys. The monkeys would try to climb the ladder for the bananas, and the scientists would spray ALL the monkeys. Eventually the monkeys stopped going for the Bananas. Then they started introducing new Monkeys in to the room, and when the monkey would go for the bananas, all the other monkeys would attack it.

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I like @Finshaggy

~PEACE~

Thug History

The word Thug actually comes from the word in India "Thuggee". When the British Colonized India, they found that there was a group of people that were not afraid of death, sometimes seeking death in battle or by running off cliffs, and they were known as the "Noose Operators" because they were very good at the art of "Strangulation" which in modern terms would be recognized as "Going for their neck". They would often work as organized Gangs, with district leaders and things like that (Police and Gang structure is pretty much exactly the same if you don't know). They would often split up and line up miles apart on a road way, then they would slowly join a traveling group, each of them pretending to be alone, until they were all together at which time they would lead the people to a killing spot.

The word made its way to America, and Tupac made it popular by inventing "Thug Life", people were already being called and calling themselves Thugs or Gangsters, but 2Pac put it in everyone's face. It originally made its way to America via the Italian Mob, which used their "Thugs" to do leg work.

Tupac realized that his people were afraid of/Believed in the Illuminati, and he wanted to Squash that, and once the president said his name on TV he had the platform to do it. I am not exactly sure who educated Tupac, but he was very inspired by Niccolo Machiavelli, Tupac was even known as "Makaveli". Machiavelli is the founder of Modern Political Science (Called PoliSci by students) and Political Ethics. He grew up in a time when the Pope of Italy would constantly declare war on the Italian city states, and many of the politicians were bought off. A Politician who has been bought off is known as a "Condottieris" or "Contractors", which in Ancient Italy was done openly, not as Bribes or Political Donations.

Machiavellianism is the concept that comes out of Machiavelli's book "The Prince". This book was written as a "Mirror's for Princes" style, which means it was meant to be read by kings and rulers. It is basically a book about how people use political power for personal gain, and it shaped much of the modern western thought as far as "Politicians". If you have ever heard "Politicians lie", that is common knowledge because of Machiavelli's book.

There is something known as "Malevolent Creativity". We all understand normal creativity, where someone uses their imagination to create something, or when someone puts 2 things together and makes something new, or even when someone just does something out of the norm to see if they can. That is normal creativity, Malevolent creativity is different. For example, if someone says "We have a drug problem in our town" and you say "Lock them all up" or "We need to crack down on our people" this is Malevolent creativity, a simply online example, would be if someone was annoying you in a forum, instead of being "creative" and finding a way to ignore them or deal with them, the "Malevolently creative" thing to do would be to Ban them, for being annoying. Most people have the ability to do complex problem solving and be creative, but this other route is taken by people who are more self absorbed aka Low Emotional Intelligence, or No Empathy which could lead to worse, more sociopathic behavior.

Many people think Tupac was trying to hurt people, but he was not. He was trying to teach people about Politics and how bad it was in the streets. If you listen to his music he is never saying like "Go kill people" he is saying "Why are we shooting each other" and "Why are our women getting raped by our men" and "Why do we let ourselves think there is something holding us down". Everyone should listen to "Changes", "Mama" and "Keep Ya Head Up".

And while listening to these songs, remember Tupac lived in and was talking about the early 90s and late 80s. Not the 60s. Since a lot of people like to pretend after the 60s everything was cool with race relations.

Some stuff about Brains and how studies are done

Cognition: A Cog in a machine is the gear part. And when your brain does things, it works similar to a series of machine Cogs. The "wiring" of brain cells in your brain works via Synapses. The Synapses are your brain firing off electro-chemical signals. Ex: If you have ever smoked Marijuana, THC attaches to your brain and fires these, but they are always firing. And like Cogs, one moving will move one next to it. A Dendrite is the branch between Neurons/Brain Cells that tied them together.

Recognition: This is the best way to explain the process of Cognition. For Example, when you see a person you know, you Recognize their face. The word "Recognize" is explaining how the Cognition in your brain is going back to a place in the Synapses where it stored the information of that persons face. And because of how Cognition works, when you Recognize their face, you will automatically remember other things. This is why certain songs remind you of people, and why certain smells remind you of like the first time you did something.

Schema: A Schema is a Cognitive grouping. For Example, the known "Schema" around the word for Marijuana is: 4/20, Bob Marley, Jamaica, Amsterdam etc.

Classical Conditioning: This is what Pavlov's Dogs had done to them, but it happens to all of us. If you need a cup of coffee before you can do anything in the morning, you have conditioned yourself to associate drinking coffee with being awake.

Control Group: If you were going to do an experiment on something, the Control Group would be the group that didn't get whatever the experiment was. For example, if you wanted to see how smoking hash effected someone's ability to do something, you would have a group of people who didn't smoke any hash do the same thing so you could see the difference.

Single Blind: A Single Blind study is like the ones they do in commercials, where they have someone eat like Yogurt or something, and the person giving them the Yogurt knows what brands they are, but the person eating it does not know what brands they are. Sometimes Placebo is used on the control group in Clinical trials, so everyone thinks they took the medicine.

Double Blind: Double blind is where the researchers and the people being researched don't know who is who. For example, you could have people eat hash capsules before doing something. And in 1 groups capsules you would put real hash, in the other groups capsule you would just put something like Vitamin C. Then, you would bring people in to watch them and not tell them which people took which capsules. This way there is 0 bias.

Independent Variable: This is the thing that you are keeping from the controls. If you are testing the effects of stress on something, Stress is the independent Variable. If you are testing the effects of Hash on something, Hash is the Independent variable.

Dependent Variable: This is the things that changes, which would be whatever the test is. For example, if you wanted to test the effects of hash on the heart rate, heart rate would be the dependent variable. The dependent variable is the event studied and expected to change whenever the independent variable is altered.

A Few Mechanisms of Evolution

Environmental Changes, different environments call for different traits. And people like to think of this kind of evolution as "An Organism Evolved with the Right Traits". But that is not how this works. When the Environment changes, it favors mutants. For example, the rabbits with the mutant gene to grow a layer of white fur during winter will get hunted less in the snow and all the other rabbits die, so they do not pass on the "flaw". In the past things would happen like floods, and there is a theory that Humans split from Chimps by crossing a river, because Chimps are not prone to swimming like Humans and Bonobos. And Bonobos are considered to be our closest Relative.

Intergenetic Hybrids.
The Tribes in Papau New Guinea have Denisovan DNA mixed with Homosapien DNA, meaning their genetic go further back than Neanderthals. If someone gets a Denisovan and Native American to fall in love, we will have some evolution starting.
The people in Papau are still living there today
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papuan_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmat_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korowai_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombai_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatmul_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yali_people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dani_people


New Predators can also change a species or genus. This is also something people like to think "The best animal evolves the best traits and wins" but that is wrong again. The thing that survives new predators is the right mutant. If you are a lizard and you live in a forest that has no leaves most of the year, then you are lucky if your the lizard that mutated to never be green. It's not something you would have thought was "better" if you were choosing at the womb, but it turns out you win.

@Atheists
Here is an arguments the Youtube Christians were afraid of for evolution:
Fish do not Gestate, neither do Chickens. These are examples of the oldest kinds of life forms.

Next comes Amphibians, these still fertilize outside the Womb, but they Gestate as Tadpoles. Going from Gilled Creatures to Lunged creatures, all within one lifetime. Fish, Chickens, Tadpoles, Frogs, etc. These are all examples of things that do not gestate.

Then Gestation comes. Eventually the gene for gestation turned on, and the Womb became a central theme for mammals.

Whales did not exist until AFTER land mammals, here is a possibility of where they came from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakicetus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulocetus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodhocetus

Christians will say "But we need evidence of a Dog creature growing arms that are like Fins". But that is not how evolution works all the time, sometimes an animal is pushed in to a new environment, for example the ocean. If a predator or freeze pushed the Dog creature in to the ocean, the best suited survivor would be a MUTANT Dog that had fin like legs, not a transition on land that made it feel like swimming more.

They had no rebuttal but to call me a Mermaid and ask where the half evolved Dog was. Which obviously does not follow.