Pedantic Thinking...

By mugen shiyo · Nov 5, 2011 · 744 · 8

The dragon is not an agressor but a guardian. If I were to name someone Dragon, he would be a guardian. A terrible defender of some sensitive treasure. Most powerful and reactive. Because a dragon will not only attack his attacker, but track him back to his place of origin and remove it from existence so that there is not another attack again. Vindictive and exacting. In that, it shows foresight and wisdom. An action never of itself, but with purpose.

It seems the beast believes amassing wealth is better than wanton killing. Killing is only used to defend that wealth. But to what purpose does he gather the wealth?
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I disagree with this view on dragons. A dragon may be considered a guardian of sorts but what it guards is the treasure it has stolen from others. Dragons are thieves that take what ever they want wether it be gold or livestock. So if I were to name a character after a dragon it would be for someone greedy, self centered, and a thief.

Question, Nov 5, 2011
I disagree with both of you.

He's neither a guardian, as what he guards is his, nor a thief, as he doesn't "steal" it. What a dragon hoards are the spoils of a was where he alone is one of the armies.

If I were to name a character Dragon, he would be a ruthless warrior.

(brilliant blogpost and response!)

Thanshin, Nov 5, 2011
It was I think Ricardo or perhaps Keynes or possibly Simpson who said that the only thing money can't buy is a dinosaur. Now dragons, give or take, are dinosaurs. Does the monied dragon (dinosaur), therefore, want for nothing? Is he, by definition, the most content of all creatures?

art, Nov 5, 2011
I think I agree with all of you, Thanshin the closest, but I don't think he is a ruthless "warrior". I guess he is aggressive... More like a powerful, aggressive, ruthless hoarder of wealth and in some way obsessed over it.

@ art, wondering on what you said. Does that mean that "you can't buy back the past or what has gone or time"?

mugen shiyo, Nov 7, 2011
Does the monied dragon (dinosaur), therefore, want for nothing? Is he, by definition, the most content of all creatures?
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Or the most afraid, as he's the one who's got the most to lose.

Thanshin, Nov 7, 2011
I can't see afraid, really. Maybe as a comedic thing...a scared dragon whose always having his gold robbed from him or something. Sounds like you might have meant paranoid.

mugen shiyo, Nov 7, 2011
@ art, wondering on what you said. Does that mean that "you can't buy back the past or what has gone or time"?
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The quotation is from Homer Simpson and should be taken literally. Money can buy you love, respect and class but not a large beast that wandered the earth millions of years ago. Such is Homer's shallowness/ respect for money/ lunatic (yet perhaps sagacious) insightfulness.

art, Nov 7, 2011
Gotcha, lol. Now I feel like searching for the episode

mugen shiyo, Nov 9, 2011