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freedom13 · Nov 14, 2007, 12:13 am

Mermaid: A legendary sea creature having the head and upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish. Do you believe mermaid and merman existed once upon a time? I believe it maybe just a legendary superstition, but who knows what others believe. If you have any wild stories about mermaids that you like to share here, feel free to do so.

Mermaid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

freedom13 · Nov 14, 2007, 03:39 am

freedom13 · Dec 28, 2007, 10:44 am

Are Mermaids Real?

Mermaids are real!

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There is a real mystery about the mythology of mermaids. No self-respecting zoologist would ever contemplate the possibility of creature with the upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish. Yet mermaids have been reported all over the world for the last few thousand years. There are mermaid myths and sightings from America, Asia, Africa and Europe. There are very few cultures living on the coast that do not have mermaid stories. The mermaid myth goes right back ancient Greece and to the Middle East where archaeologists have found bronze mouldings of mermaids that are 3,000 years old.

ZNFYRH · Dec 28, 2007, 10:53 am

Could be a natural joining of the two predominantly sexual symbols of the human psyche.

Nemiroff · Dec 28, 2007, 10:58 am

Fish are sex symbols?

Most likely its a combination of the sex starved sailor's need of women and the only thing aroung them, fish.

ZNFYRH · Dec 28, 2007, 11:30 am

Water and women.

Nemiroff · Dec 28, 2007, 11:52 am

never heard of water being a sexual symbol, and their not half water half women, which would be like a female water spirit, their half fish. which have scales and are the farthest thing from sexy. sailors dont have too many choices, the fish/water part wasn't meant to be sexy, just to explain why they would appear in the water where the sailors are stuck in for months if not longer

another day · Dec 28, 2007, 01:14 pm

of course they don't exist, that's fantasy. Just like the existance of dragons in many different cultures and eras, we can chalk it up the human psychology. We tend to combine different things to produce similar fantasies. A dragon is a combination of a few different animals. A mermaid is a combination of a man/woman and something least like them - fish.

ZNFYRH · Dec 28, 2007, 01:22 pm

Nemiroff

Psychologically speaking, water is frequently associated with sex. From dream interpretation to chain e-mails, it has proliferated much of history as representing copulation of some kind.

The mermaid was originally the same as the siren. Both lured you to your death in the sea.

Conceptually, in a place where you were surrounded by something sensual (ocean, lake, river, etc.), the object of sexual release appears to you.

To link the women to the water at a time when the idea of "water spirits" was too vague, the women were thought to be fish of some kind.

Zhavric · Dec 28, 2007, 03:23 pm

Let's see a woman whose got the lower body of a fish. Yup. That's a stretch all right. Never would hav associated those two things together...

Nemiroff · Dec 28, 2007, 04:12 pm

"The mermaid was originally the same as the siren. Both lured you to your death in the sea."

I don't know about the rest of your post as far as the water being sexual, personally I never heard of such a thing, and although the sirens did lead sailors to their death, the mermaids were rumored to actually save sailors who fell overboard. They were like mythological good guys... Most of the time. I'm sure there are a few stories of mermaid attacks, almost sounds funny, but the vast majority of the famous ones are of them helping sailors.

Also I saw a discovery episode about dragons that kinda made sense, too off topic, I'll just start another post on that.

Ken Carman · Dec 28, 2007, 04:36 pm

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Quote by: freedom13

Mermaid: A legendary sea creature having the head and upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish. Do you believe mermaid and merman existed once upon a time? I believe it maybe just a legendary superstition, but who knows what others believe. If you have any wild stories about mermaids that you like to share here, feel free to do so.

Mermaid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

No, I don't believe they ever existed. They are about as senseless a myth as vampires. How about a short story made up by request? It's a sad tale... tail? ... for sure...

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Sea-ing Still Isn't Believing
by Ken Carman

Once upon a millennia a human like sea creature discovered a bible at the bottom of the sea in an old sunken wreck. She believed the story of Jesus and just knew that he would also be sent to save other human like sea creatures like her.

No one knows where these human like creatures came from. Some believe they were accidentally made when God created Adam and Eve, but he used the wrong ending incantation, saying, "SEE creature?" Not knowing the difference between the two words simply by sound the Holy Ghost Terraforming and Wrecking Company, Inc created mermaids: creatures who never die.

Why "never die?" Well, have you ever found the corpse of a mermaid? A merman? If so, it would have been a mericle, because they never die. Didn't I already tell you that?

Well, this lonely she-creature decided to clean up the place because many sailors had been lost at sea attempting to deliver the rest of the gift one Wiseman brought the baby, oh, so long ago. It was a hard job. It took a long time. When she thought she had finally finished...

Poof! Jesus appeared and started to preach to the unsaved mermaids. But they wouldn't let our poor hero see Jesus.

"Why? Why won't you let me be saved too, or at least speak with Jesus?"

Their response?

"Because you're so unclean from cleaning the remains of the gift of that old shipwreck we no longer consider you a mermaid."

She asked, "Then what AM I?"

"A MYRRH-maid. Now go do you job. You missed a few spots."

Of course the pun was totally lost on them, or Jesus, since as far as we know even he couldn't breath underwater, and there is no such thing as a mer... or a myrrh-maid.

Don't you know that?

freedom13 · Dec 28, 2007, 11:39 pm

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No, I don't believe they ever existed. They are about as senseless a myth as vampires. How about a short story made up by request? It's a sad tale... tail? ... for sure...

I like your little mermaid tale, but here some more entertainment.....

mermaid.malaysia - Mermaid found in Teluk Bahang, Malaysia

another day · Dec 28, 2007, 11:51 pm

lol...looks like a bad movie prop.

Compugasm · Dec 29, 2007, 06:00 am

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lol...looks like a bad movie prop.

It looks like the character Pilot, from Farscape.

Milton Bradley · Dec 29, 2007, 05:56 pm

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of course they don't exist, that's fantasy. Just like the existance of dragons in many different cultures and eras, we can chalk it up the human psychology. We tend to combine different things to produce similar fantasies. A dragon is a combination of a few different animals. A mermaid is a combination of a man/woman and something least like them - fish.

Actually, dragons are quite real. They exist in extreme Southeast Asia.

The fire breathing brand may be legendary, but after seeing the flying dragons, and tree climbing, meat eating kangaroos in extreme Northern Australia, I'm willing to give the geologists a little more time to determine if that creature is mythical, or not.

Jokerjdude · Dec 29, 2007, 06:41 pm

........... LOOK, I have seen the little mermaid that's all the proof you need. I didn't believe in talking crabs either but after the government released the footage of the little mermaid in 100% convinced!!!

freedom13 · Dec 31, 2007, 10:45 am

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It looks like the character Pilot, from Farscape.

That's cute! Maybe the Pilot can swim too!

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Photos of a 'merman' has been circulating on the Internet recently. It was supposedly caught by a fisherman in Teluk Bahang beach in Penang. The 6 photos of the creature, taken from various angles, were attached to an email titled "Teluk Bahang Fisherman Found This! Newspaper Not Allowed To Publish?" When a reader forwarded the email to a local Chinese newspaper, the Department of Fisheries was contacted to find out more about the creature. An official from the department said that they had not received any reports about the odd catch, nor had they ever heard anything about such a creature. He requested that the photos of the creature's body be forwarded to his department so they could verify the incident.

The creature is vaguely humanoid in shape, its body is roughly the length of an adult man, with two long fins that resemble large ears on its head. It also has two arm-like projections, and is covered in gleaming scales. Did this creature really turn up in Teluk Bahang, or is this just a clever hoax? The photos certainly look real. If they are fakes, then a lot of skill and effort must have gone into making them.

40ana: 'Merman' found in Teluk Bahang

freedom13 · Jan 28, 2008, 06:35 pm

Here's another wild crazy story on mermaid.

The Mermaid of Chennai Hoax

Century 25 · Jan 28, 2008, 07:15 pm

Yo ho, Here's a tale...

That's fair and dear to the hearts of those that sail
'Bout a lighthouse keeper and his bare faced wife
Who joined together for a different life
Yo ho, The winds and water tell the tale

My father was the keeper of the Eddystone light
He married a mermaid one fine night
From this union there came three
A porpoise and a porgy and the other one me!

Yo ho ho, the wind blows free,
Oh, for the life on the rolling sea!

Late one night, I was a-trimming of the glim
While singing a verse from the evening hymn
A voice on the starboard shouted 'Ahoy!'
And there was my mother, a-sitting on a buoy.

Yo ho ho, the wind blows free,
Oh, for the life on the rolling sea!

'Tell me what has become of my children three?'
My mother she did asked of me.
One was exhibited as a talking fish
The other was served on a chafing dish.

Yo ho ho, the wind blows free,
Oh, for the life on the rolling sea!

Then the phosphorous flashed in her seaweed hair.
I looked again, and me mother wasn't there
A voice came echoing out from the night
'To Hell with the keeper of the Eddystone Light!'

Yo ho ho, the wind blows free,
Oh, for the life on the rolling sea!

Yo ho, Yo ho
Yo ho, Yo ho, Yo ho...

Nov 14, 2007, 12:13 am	#1 (permalink) (top)
freedom13 Igneous Magma Posts: 493	Tell me a Mermaid Story Mermaid: A legendary sea creature having the head and upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish. Do you believe mermaid and merman existed once upon a time? I believe it maybe just a legendary superstition, but who knows what others believe. If you have any wild stories about mermaids that you like to share here, feel free to do so. Mermaid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dec 28, 2007, 10:53 am	#4 (permalink) (top)
ZNFYRH Volcanic Erupter Posts: 4,375	Could be a natural joining of the two predominantly sexual symbols of the human psyche. IT'S A BOY!!

Dec 28, 2007, 11:30 am	#6 (permalink) (top)
ZNFYRH Volcanic Erupter Posts: 4,375	Water and women. IT'S A BOY!!

Dec 28, 2007, 01:14 pm	#8 (permalink) (top)
another day Knower of Nothing Posts: 1,583	of course they don't exist, that's fantasy. Just like the existance of dragons in many different cultures and eras, we can chalk it up the human psychology. We tend to combine different things to produce similar fantasies. A dragon is a combination of a few different animals. A mermaid is a combination of a man/woman and something least like them - fish. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither..

Dec 28, 2007, 01:22 pm	#9 (permalink) (top)
ZNFYRH Volcanic Erupter Posts: 4,375	Nemiroff Psychologically speaking, water is frequently associated with sex. From dream interpretation to chain e-mails, it has proliferated much of history as representing copulation of some kind. The mermaid was originally the same as the siren. Both lured you to your death in the sea. Conceptually, in a place where you were surrounded by something sensual (ocean, lake, river, etc.), the object of sexual release appears to you. To link the women to the water at a time when the idea of "water spirits" was too vague, the women were thought to be fish of some kind. IT'S A BOY!!

Nov 14, 2007, 03:39 am	#2 (permalink) (top)
freedom13 Igneous Magma Posts: 493

Dec 28, 2007, 10:58 am	#5 (permalink) (top)
Nemiroff Igneous Magma Posts: 354	Fish are sex symbols? Most likely its a combination of the sex starved sailor's need of women and the only thing aroung them, fish.

Dec 28, 2007, 11:52 am	#7 (permalink) (top)
Nemiroff Igneous Magma Posts: 354	never heard of water being a sexual symbol, and their not half water half women, which would be like a female water spirit, their half fish. which have scales and are the farthest thing from sexy. sailors dont have too many choices, the fish/water part wasn't meant to be sexy, just to explain why they would appear in the water where the sailors are stuck in for months if not longer

Dec 28, 2007, 03:23 pm	#10 (permalink) (top)
Zhavric Made of pure win. Posts: 3,463	Let's see a woman whose got the lower body of a fish. Yup. That's a stretch all right. Never would hav associated those two things together... Theists: supplying volconvo with lose since 2004.

Dec 28, 2007, 04:12 pm	#11 (permalink) (top)
Nemiroff Igneous Magma Posts: 354	"The mermaid was originally the same as the siren. Both lured you to your death in the sea." I don't know about the rest of your post as far as the water being sexual, personally I never heard of such a thing, and although the sirens did lead sailors to their death, the mermaids were rumored to actually save sailors who fell overboard. They were like mythological good guys... Most of the time. I'm sure there are a few stories of mermaid attacks, almost sounds funny, but the vast majority of the famous ones are of them helping sailors. Also I saw a discovery episode about dragons that kinda made sense, too off topic, I'll just start another post on that.

Dec 28, 2007, 11:51 pm	#14 (permalink) (top)
another day Knower of Nothing Posts: 1,583	lol...looks like a bad movie prop. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither..

Dec 29, 2007, 06:41 pm	#17 (permalink) (top)
Jokerjdude Sedimentary Rock Posts: 7	........... LOOK, I have seen the little mermaid that's all the proof you need. I didn't believe in talking crabs either but after the government released the footage of the little mermaid in 100% convinced!!!

Jan 28, 2008, 06:35 pm	#19 (permalink) (top)
freedom13 Igneous Magma Posts: 493	Here's another wild crazy story on mermaid. The Mermaid of Chennai Hoax

Jan 28, 2008, 07:15 pm	#20 (permalink) (top)
Century 25 Igneous Magma Posts: 516	Yo ho, Here's a tale... That's fair and dear to the hearts of those that sail 'Bout a lighthouse keeper and his bare faced wife Who joined together for a different life Yo ho, The winds and water tell the tale My father was the keeper of the Eddystone light He married a mermaid one fine night From this union there came three A porpoise and a porgy and the other one me! Yo ho ho, the wind blows free, Oh, for the life on the rolling sea! Late one night, I was a-trimming of the glim While singing a verse from the evening hymn A voice on the starboard shouted 'Ahoy!' And there was my mother, a-sitting on a buoy. Yo ho ho, the wind blows free, Oh, for the life on the rolling sea! 'Tell me what has become of my children three?' My mother she did asked of me. One was exhibited as a talking fish The other was served on a chafing dish. Yo ho ho, the wind blows free, Oh, for the life on the rolling sea! Then the phosphorous flashed in her seaweed hair. I looked again, and me mother wasn't there A voice came echoing out from the night 'To Hell with the keeper of the Eddystone Light!' Yo ho ho, the wind blows free, Oh, for the life on the rolling sea! Yo ho, Yo ho Yo ho, Yo ho, Yo ho...