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Also, has anyone else noticed the therians tend to haz lotz of Big Powerful Beasties like wolves, big cats, bears, and whatnot, but very few of things like skwrlz, cockroaches, and trees? Come to that, if somebody really ''was'' a wolf in a human body, why in the world would they be on the (freaking) internet in the first place, instead of running around in the woods howling? | Also, has anyone else noticed the therians tend to haz lotz of Big Powerful Beasties like wolves, big cats, bears, and whatnot, but very few of things like skwrlz, cockroaches, and trees? Come to that, if somebody really ''was'' a wolf in a human body, why in the world would they be on the (freaking) internet in the first place, instead of running around in the woods howling? | ||
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M-shifting: taking on the mindset of your therianotype. It is the most common form.<br> | M-shifting: taking on the mindset of your therianotype. It is the most common form.<br> | ||
Ph-shifting (or phantom shifting): involves phantom limbs associated with one's therianotype.<br> | Ph-shifting (or phantom shifting): involves phantom limbs associated with one's therianotype.<br> | ||
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| + | It is likely that theriantrophy is an aspect of an ongoing directed evolution masterplan. As creation science has incontrovertibly established the age of the earth at 6000 years, it is evident that human kind has been under development by a race of technologically advanced Wolf-Cheetahs, using the Earth as an ecological laboratory. Therianotypes are tightly linked to recessive genes, programmed into the human genome. Individuals experiencing therian transformation are testbeds of The Great Unlocking. At an unknown point in the future, but almost certainly at the dawn of a great galactic war with mysterious motives, sensuous space-women, and spectacular special effects, mankind's latent therian instincts will be fully unlocked, instantly creating an army of billions of instinctively trained hybrid-species warriors. | ||
==Close bit not quite== | ==Close bit not quite== | ||
Revision as of 00:19, 27 January 2009
Therian is a word with a clear meaning in science, that was appropriated via a rather convoluted path in the late 1990s to gain a second meaning.
Taxonomy
A therian is a member of the Mammalia subclass Theria, consisting of marsupial and placental mammals.
Subculture
"Therians" are also people who believe themselves to be partly composed of some element of other living creatures' "personalities". This is similar to "otherkin" subcultures.
Both of these terms (therian in the second usage, and otherkin) are very recent, and have been popularised by the internet. In 1996 the term "therianthropy" was just coming into use because some felt lycanthropy was wolf-centric and wanted something to include other species. "Therian" is a shortened version of "therianthropy", a term originally meaning the study of mythological human/animal "hybrids", but appropriated by the therian movement. The term "therian" became popular during the early 21st century.
There is, as of yet, no scientific explanation for how or why the soul of an animal (or any other hypothetical creature) could inhabit the body of a human being, or a human could share a "split-personality" with any other creature. While humans certainly share many of animals' primal instincts, most of the animals that therians claim to resemble have evolved along divergent paths from humanity and so cannot be regarded as having any kind of direct evolutionary influence on human behaviour. Some therians claim that they are perhaps suffering from a brain abnormality that results in multiple personality disorder, although nobody has bothered to investigate this hypothesis.
Also, has anyone else noticed the therians tend to haz lotz of Big Powerful Beasties like wolves, big cats, bears, and whatnot, but very few of things like skwrlz, cockroaches, and trees? Come to that, if somebody really was a wolf in a human body, why in the world would they be on the (freaking) internet in the first place, instead of running around in the woods howling?
Therian Shorthand
P-shifting: shapeshifting. Saying that you do that will only get you either banned or mobbed.
M-shifting: taking on the mindset of your therianotype. It is the most common form.
Ph-shifting (or phantom shifting): involves phantom limbs associated with one's therianotype.
Causation
It is likely that theriantrophy is an aspect of an ongoing directed evolution masterplan. As creation science has incontrovertibly established the age of the earth at 6000 years, it is evident that human kind has been under development by a race of technologically advanced Wolf-Cheetahs, using the Earth as an ecological laboratory. Therianotypes are tightly linked to recessive genes, programmed into the human genome. Individuals experiencing therian transformation are testbeds of The Great Unlocking. At an unknown point in the future, but almost certainly at the dawn of a great galactic war with mysterious motives, sensuous space-women, and spectacular special effects, mankind's latent therian instincts will be fully unlocked, instantly creating an army of billions of instinctively trained hybrid-species warriors.
Close bit not quite
If you move your hand close to a therian, it will emit a high-pitched whining sound. Oh, wait - that's a theremin. Still, it probably happens with some therians too.