Extreme churchgoers curse me as being a werewolf, for I have yellow coloured eyes. (≧艸≦*)

[quote]We all know the werewolf. It is a popular creature in both ancient and modern mythology. But why do we see it as horrible? As frightful and ravenous?[/quote] Because they're constructed for the purposes of telling a story. Do you question why we attribute magic to made up swords? We are not applying these concepts to an actual being. You're essentially asking why we portray villains as villains. And the answer is simple, because every story needs an antagonist. [quote]As a species fluid individual and self identified bear, I believe I can shed some light on the question of werewolf symbology. Forgive the essay response format, but this is an intellectual question that has occupied my mind for sometime.[/quote] While I appreciate the idea you're bringing up, but this is not essay response format. I will not comment on other matters you mentioned above. [quote]Why do we perceive the Werewolf as evil?[/quote] Because we created it as a villain in stories, much like vampires, orcs, or goblins. It also arose during a time when people were generally less safe in day to day life, and more vulnerable to animal attacks. Realistically, wolves rarely attack humans, however their presence is undeniably intimidating. [quote]All humans are animals. Unbiased science verifies this. People know it if they look into themselves.[/quote] This is true. Humans are indeed of the kingdom anamalia. However, saying "humans are animals" doesn't prove anything, as it is a gross over simplification. Animals fall under this kingdom, as a method of classification of their phylogenetic traits, which resulted from divergent events, and speciation (allopatric, sympatric, etc.), and the non-synonamous substitutions which became fixed over time. To say man is animal is to say iron is a metal. Yes, it's true, but that doesn't make iron the same as lead. Just as man being an animal does not make him a bear. To further this point, we all belong to the domain eukarya. Applying the logic you are currently using, that makes us plants, because plants also fall under that domain. But that isn't how it works. Trillions of biological differences occurring over millions of years of evolution have differentiated every species. Falling under the same umbrella term does not equate to being the same. [quote]We are all part of nature's unitary collection of organisms.[/quote] Again, the statement isn't incorrect, but lacks the nuance and context appropriate for its representation. S [quote]However, evolution has led man along an unfortunate path of development. Somewhere along his development mankind developed arrogance. He came to believe his instincts, which he termed "reason", made his self awareness implicitly better than the self awareness of other creatures. [/quote] Arrogance is not a heritable trait. Please stop trying to speak about biological matters. And if arrogance were a heritable trait, guess what? It would be due to nature, not man, as variance must exist in order for selection to occur, meaning nature had to, through mutation, create the variance for arrogance. You define things as separation effects between us and nature, without realizing we are this way due to nature's forces of evolution effecting us. We evolve with it, not apart from it. Also, implicitly is not the correct word choice. You are looking for inherently. As for our self awareness, we see it as greater because we are aware of our self awareness and the lack thereof in other species. We create concepts, and then manufacture visuals and mathematic equations to prove them. Hell, one of us mapped the movement of the planets with only mathematical equations. So yes, you will have to excuse me for knowing that level of sentience to be of greater volume than a snail's. [quote]As man learned to speak, his awareness shifted farther and farther from other instinctual modes of animal awareness, and centered solely on speech.[/quote] Because it's distinctly more productive than growling, and pissing on everything. As for awareness, humans have always, as [i]Homo sapiens[/i] lacked great instincts. Our eyesight is great (and remember, the majority of communication between humans is body language, interpreted through the eyes), while our hearing, and smelling are quite pitiful. Our advantage is our reasoning, and our ability to speak. Much like a bear's advantage is its claws, teeth, and strength. Yet you decide humanity is inherently bad because you're a myopic misanthrope, who desperately wants to stand out. [quote]By this time, the divide between man and nature was complete. In his mind, man was god: Lord of nature and all things. [/quote] Except it isn't. Anything man makes is due to his nature, a nature developed within the confines of nature itself. Man is God in so far as nature has made him so. Man has not resisted nature, but in fact been subjected to it. Everything about humanity is due to how nature shaped us. We are not responsible for that. I grow so tired of this argument of [i]le naturel est absente dans les humains[/i]. It is a tired, and poorly constructed argument made up by people who barely passed grade school biology, yet think they are knowledgable on the subject. You reading a blog on tumblr does not enlighten you. Before you make another banal argument, I recommend you research biology. Your utter negligence and simplification of biology is an insult to the majesty that is life. [quote]But still, the injustice of this separation lingers in the deepest recesses of every persona subconscious. It's why we feel drawn to the beauty of a spring day, and feel an inchoate thrill from a breeze laden with freshness. Within ourselves, we also fear ourselves, because we know the cruelty our arrogance justifies.[/quote] You will never know the true beauty of the world if you see it superficially. And again, there is no separation. We are as nature fashioned us, you despiser of humans. You despiser of the body. You only lacerate yourself with these projections of arrogance and cruelty. Because what could be more arrogant than preaching on topics one doesn't understand, but feels entitled to preach on for the sole reason that they exist as themself? And what could be more cruel than denying nature its own achievements for the sake of propping yourself up? It is not use who defies the beauty of nature; if is you. You refuse to bask in its warm sunset, and instead decry it for not suiting your ideals. [quote]We are the Werewolf: neither animal and neither man. [/quote] A werewolf would most certainly be an animal. This is pretty clear. The term you meant to use was savage, but that wouldn't function well with your narrative. [quote]A thing trapped between two antithetical modes of existence. On one side is the animal, on the other the Man. One is at harmony with nature, the other in disharmony. One lives in accord with the precepts of nature, the other tramples upon them. [/quote] How fitting that you see yourself as a cross-breed then, as you fit this description perfectly. You refuse nature and its progression. Your hatred and wish to be un-human demonstrates that you lack any form of harmony within yourself. Man is not as you have defined him. You are as you defined yourself. And this has proven to be nothing more than an exercise in projection. [quote]Man is the evil in the wolf. Humanity is the aberration which the Werewolf embodies. It is the symbol of our pride, arrogance, and destruction. It devours nature. Insofar as we are human, we are all of us werewolves. Creatures torn between nature's essential good, and humanity's imaginary glory. Mankind is the beast...[/quote] No. We are nature. We are all nature. Our progression is nature. Every cell which constitutes our form, every DNA strand forming chromatids, every essence of our being is nature. Stop trying to make us long for that which we already have. You create only false dichotomies to ease your own discord. You who belittle nature's importance in some vain attempt to make it seem feeble, as though everything progressing now, every force acting upon us is not of nature; as if we are not the product of nature. You who preach the death of humans, and subseqeuntly the death of nature. I hope some day you will remove yourself from the veil of ignorance, and realize your misanthropic nature is the result of pettiness and arrogance. A refusal to acknowledge what is clearly shown. We are not bears, but at the same instant, we are no more estranged from nature due to our humanity. Tl;dr: humanity is as much a part of nature as every other species and all that we build is a byproduct of nature. Stop trying to belittle humanity, and nature. Also, stop speaking on biological or philosophical topics when you can not currently grasp either.

Why not werebears?

No. A perfect example of what a werewolf is to man would be what Mr. Hyde is to Dr. Jekyll. The werewolf is our basic instincts to survive, it has no morals and doesn't think twice about doing whatever it takes to survive.

Can you please explain to me why you think you are a bear? It doesn’t make sense to me that you, as a human, who evolved to have human characteristics and was created inside of a human woman and popped out of her vagina, think of yourself as a bear.

This troll is still going? Commitment

Fun fact: Werewolves we're the result of a group a gentlemen in england hallucinating vividly from moldy bread.

... No actually evolution has worked as intended, the strongest survive and continue to get stronger, in effect, man IS God over all the animals, we can change the light and darkness, we can level mountains, and delete millions of lives with the flip of a switch, we have a handheld device that can kill almost anything, as long as the bullet is big enough, it's not arrogance, it's simple observation, man IS above other animals, because of how evolution has worked, you can't be a bear because you are so far beyond it that you can't go back, no matter how hard you try... [spoiler]not a knockoff[/spoiler]

Give it a rest man

Nevermind werewolves, vampires are the real victims. Fight for vampire equality!

This one isn’t giving me AIDS. Keep it up man :)