The Dreamer's Dreams

Ah, dreams...dreams are nothing, fantasies that waste our time and lead us astray.

Our society glorifies "dreamers" but it's only the winners you hear about, and most of those were not so much dreamers as hard workers. Thomas A. Edison may be the prime example -- called "The Wizard of Menlo Park," but his own comment on his success was that it was 1% inpsiration and 99% perspiration.

But you didn't come here for a lecture, did you? And while I'm not proud of it, I am a dreamer, and while I'm (against my nature) telling the world about myself, I might as well be honest and show the bad and the ugly as well as the good.

Among my latest dreams: I've dreamed up some make-believe heroes.

Art: (click on the partial thumbnail images or text links for full images)

Remember, I've only claimed to be a dreamer, not an artist.

Here is a scan of an oil painting I did, entitled "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" after the music which inspired it. I had no idea at the time that it was the theme music for a movie, let alone what the movie was about.  The figure in the "doorway" is about to set off on a long journey, away from a sheltered place, drawn toward the light that is mirrored in its own heart.  There are dark clouds building on the left, impassable cliffs on the right, and nothing but flat, choppy ocean ahead for as far as the eye can see, but the journey must be made...

Now, here's another bit of art, what I might call a nightmare, or simply,"Test."

This simple picture was mainly an attempt to learn to give texture to the painting, but it has the rather grandiose title of "The Flame of Creativity."

This is just a small photo of a painting I did, nothing to click on because I don't have a larger size. I'm not much "into" dragons, I just felt like painting one. Growl.

What's a Furry?

Okay, you came this far, you asked for it, here it is.
A "Furry" is just anyone who, for example, sometimes daydreams about being one of those humanoid talking animal-like beings that appear in so many stories, movies, videogames and cartoons. There are variations. Some people take it WAY too far, and there is a very wicked element within the fandom, too. Just stay far away from any Furry stuff, that's my advice. The one web site I keep visiting is the Clean Furry Art Archive (yerf.com), but last I checked the Vicki Fox website was still up and producing decent material.
Even news reports and one TV show I saw that were about Furries showed more of the dark side than they should have. But Furriness isn't ALL bad.

Here's my favorite Furry Quote, and it goes along with my interest in Creation Science, too!
"... and why are women, but not cats, born without the sleek tails that would make them even more alluring than they already are?"
The Deniable Darwin
 Author: David Berlinski
COMMENTARY, VOL. 101, June 1996 No. 6
copyright holder, Commentary magazine.

I think the classic Christian fiction series, The Chronicles of Narniaby C.S. Lewis, is a good example of Christian Furry literature. There's some in his science fiction books, and Perelandra, too  I also saw a very nice little children's story about a bee named Rigel that was a good example (yes, bees are furry), but I can't find or remember any information about it now. There are talking animals in the Patch the Pirate tapes and some Christian cartoon videos.

Could there be a Furry episode in the BIBLE? Judge for yourself: In some mythologies, there are all sorts of talking animals. From the naturalistic viewpoint animals could never have talked like humans. In the Bible, just one time God gave a donkey the ability to speak to her master (Numbers 22:21-33, esp. vv. 28-30).

Hmmm, come to think of it, the temptation of Eve (Gen. 3:1ff) is sort of an Evil Furry event -- yes, even non-furry animals are considered Furries when they're intelligent.

And at the other end of the Bible, we see Christ appearing (at least symbolically) as a Lamb in the book of Revelation (5:6 and others), as well as Satan pictured as a dragon(12:3+) and of course the antichrist as the beast who "had two horns like a lamb,and he spake as a dragon."(13:11)

I think this prophecy of the future world is rather Furry, too: Isa 11:6  The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

Favorite Furry Activities:
Eating berries right off of trees or bushes without using my hands.
Rubbing my beard on my cat's head.
Stretching.
Breathing deeply and being glad just to be alive.

If you want to write to me about your dreams, or to let me know you could bear looking at more of my "art," you'll have to figure out my e-mail address: add @att.net to the end of david.bump -- sorry, I'm not using an automatic link because of the programs that search the web and use them for bad things like sending me spam.

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