#old creature

[johnnodwarf]

Old Creature + the whatever I made beneath it

[daxite]

we’ve had dude for like 6/7 years but neither me or kee know how old he exactly is lol, he either turns 9 or 10 this november

[ligit-squid]

This ancient shark with a snake head and 300 teeth is why we should just say nope to the ocean

By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. 

November 12, 2017 at 1:22 PM EST

It has been a good few millennia, sure, but our love affair may have been a little rushed. After all, what do we really know about the ocean? Roughly 95 percent of it remains unexplored, and it seems as if every other day we’re finding out something new and unsettling.

In this photo released by Awashima Marine Park, a 1.6-meter-long frilled shark swims in a tank after being found by a fisherman in a bay at

Numazu, Japan, in 2007. This shark usually lives in waters of a depth of 600 meters. Its body shape and the number of gills are similar to

fossils of sharks that lived 350 million years ago. Photo from Awashima Marine Park/Getty Images

Maybe it’s time we Homo sapiens reevaluated our relationship with the oceans of the world.

Old emotions can die hard. So for the unconvinced holdouts, here's a little push:

That sea-dwelling, serpentine conglomeration of nightmare fuel is the frilled shark, one of the oldest — and in the running for the creepiest — living species on the planet.

Its prehistoric contemporaries, such as Tyrannosaurus rex and triceratops, died out long ago, but the frilled shark is still swimming around deep below the surface of the world’s oceans, scientists say.

They know that because of an accident that sounds vaguely like the plot of a straight-to-video horror movie. Some European Union scientists were trawling the depths of the Atlantic Ocean this month, trying to figure out a way to “minimize unwanted catches in commercial fishing,” according to the BBC.

Instead, they ended up capturing one of the rarest and most ancient creatures on the planet, one that may have inspired 19th-century tales of “sea serpents.”

What those sailors didn’t know was that the frilled shark has looked pretty much the same since the breakup of Pangea. Mainly, that look is horrifying.

The largest can grow six feet long. The shark is named after its gills, which have frilly, fluffy edges, but the cuddly factor ends abruptly there.

Australian scientists went looking for deep sea creatures and pulled up your nightmares instead

Inside its short-snouted head are 300 more reasons to never go farther than the beach: hundreds of needle-sharp teeth, neatly lined in 25 rows.

It uses quick lunges to sink those teeth into other sharks, fish, octopuses and squid.

Humans know very little about the frilled shark because it lives deep in the ocean, off the coasts of Japan, New Zealand and Australia.

In its 80 million years on the planet, it has rarely come into contact with humans or been seen or filmed in its natural habitat. Those clearly freaked-out 19th-century sailors were the first to write about it.

The frilled fish has a remarkably simple anatomy, probably because of a lack of nutrients in its aquatic environment. But there’s no definitive answer about why it outlived its Cretaceous contemporaries.

I love sharks, lmao.

[buggie-hagen]

Our old human should be understood to refer to our previous life which we led in sins and whose end and destruction, so to speak, we fashioned when we received the faith of the cross of Christ, through which the body of sin is destroyed in such a way that our members which were enslaved to sin should no longer serve it but God.

Origen, “Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans” in The Fathers of the Church, Vol. 103, 361.

[thejourneybacktogod]

Day 213 - Fresh New Spots

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. - II Corinthians 5:17-19

We have all heard the saying how a leopard cannot change its spots meaning that people cannot change, they all remain the same. A thief will always be a thief, a murderer cannot stop killing and a sinner cannot stop sinning. This is the world's view but it contradicts what Paul is sharing within this passage. Paul explains to us that any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. What was there before is all gone. Two things are happening when a person becomes a Christian. Firstly the old nature and habit is going away and then secondly the new nature and habit is now being expressed.

In simple terms, once a person has come into contact with Christ it does result in the changing of spots. Paul is a prime example of this spots changing experience. He was initially a persecutor of the Christians and a devoted Pharisee. He came in contact with Christ and this resulted in him becoming an apostle of God, spreading the gospel to both the Jews and Gentiles of his day. If that is not a leopard changing its spots then I do not know what is. Time and time again, we are reminded by the devil through individuals of our past practices and habits, and this can act as discouragement to press on to the mark and higher calling God has set out for us. However, this passage can serve as a reminder that the past is exactly what it is -- the past. We are going through a process of change as the old man is being rid of and the new man is becoming more evident. The passage did not stipulate a time frame as to the process, however we can all attest that since accepting the gift of salvation we have gone through changes immediately and some has happened over time. Let this devotional serve as a reminder that we are all are getting new spots each day by doing and living according to the word of God. So feel good about yourself in that new skin of yours.

[worth-quoting]

...but the best of people can be tricked and misused.

Old Creature as Raz Warlo

Darren Shan, The Demonata: Dark Calling (2009) A Warning, page 118

[worth-quoting]

Life asks questions of us all. We don't always know the answers. Most times we have to guess.

Old Creature as Raz Warlo

Darren Shan, The Demonata: Dark Calling (2009) A Warning, page 115

[worth-quoting]

Consider the angles. Heed your instinct. Decide. If you are wrong, at least you will have been true to yourself.

Old Creature as Raz Warlo

Darren Shan, The Demonata: Dark Calling (2009) A Warning, page 115