"It is a tokoloshe"

Then you read this at the bottom of the article;

The photos where shown to some animal experts and the most plausible explanation is that the animal is a thick-tailed bushbaby. These are fairly endangered - Editor

21st century, not 1258.
 
thestaggy said:
Then you read this at the bottom of the article;

The photos where shown to some animal experts and the most plausible explanation is that the animal is a thick-tailed bushbaby. These are fairly endangered - Editor

21st century, not 1258.
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Again, these people did not know what the animal was. Before this threads turns into the subject of white priviledge with some of us having the education and means to know what a bush baby is, we cannot take for granted the fact they perhaps they may have never encountered a bush baby before and it matched up to the description of a tokoloshe.

how many educated people on this forum actually believe in aliens, ghosts, angels and demons?

i agree that should not be able to vote, but come on, at least understand why
 
MightyQuin said:
Because Christians, Muslims, Hindus etc, also see a monkey on the roof and call it "an evil spirit" and immedialtely kill it?

:wtf: are you talking about?
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No, but they do go to church, mosque etc. to pray to an invisible being. A group believing in an invisible being or a group believing in tokoloshes. Just because one belief seems a bit strange and makes the news because it is not the accepted norm does not make it any more/less absurd than the other.
 
smalltownsky said:
Again, these people did not know what the animal was. Before this threads turns into the subject of white priviledge with some of us having the education and means to know what a bush baby is, we cannot take for granted the fact they perhaps they may have never encountered a bush baby before and it matched up to the description of a tokoloshe.

how many educated people on this forum actually believe in aliens, ghosts, angels and demons?

i agree that should not be able to vote, but come on, at least understand why
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Hmmmm...phylum Chordata , subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Primates, family Lorisidae OR evil spirit / tokolosh. Damn, I should have finished my Matric on that milk crate underneath that tree. Or just stupidly called it a monkey....;)
 
MightyQuin said:
Oh look: a straw...

monkey vs. primate...at least I didn't think it was a tokolosh or an evil spirit.
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Nope. You with all your modern information and technology thought that a bushbaby was a monkey.
They with no knowledge or access to information, thought it was a creature out of folklore.

Not much difference. Infact they have more of an excuse than you do.
 
MightyQuin said:
Hmmmm...phylum Chordata , subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Primates, family Lorisidae OR evil spirit / tokolosh. Damn, I should have finished my Matric on that milk crate underneath that tree. Or just stupidly called it a monkey....;)
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SOMEBODY has access to wikipedia :D

/spoiler: it isn't the people living in the shack :p
 
abzo said:
Nope. You with all your modern information and technology thought that a bushbaby was a monkey.
They with no knowledge or access to information, thought it was a creature out of folklore.

Not much difference. Infact they have more of an excuse than you do.
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LOL...what? Are you comparing me calling a bushbaby a monkey to somone calling it a tokolosh, killing it and throwing it in a river? How desperate can you be to try and defend this primitive kind of behaviour? Just 'cos they couldn't Google it, it's fine to immediately jump to the tokolosh explanation? Why did they not also just call it a monkey. They are still stuck in the stone age with this kind of reasoning, and by splitting hairs with me calling a bushbaby a monkey instead of a primate, will not change that fact.
 
smalltownsky said:
Again, these people did not know what the animal was. Before this threads turns into the subject of white priviledge with some of us having the education and means to know what a bush baby is, we cannot take for granted the fact they perhaps they may have never encountered a bush baby before and it matched up to the description of a tokoloshe.

how many educated people on this forum actually believe in aliens, ghosts, angels and demons?

i agree that should not be able to vote, but come on, at least understand why
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It doesn't matter whether they recognised what species it was. I didn't even recognise it at first glance but I sure as heck knew it isn't anything sinister. What does matter is this is the 21st century. Spooks, the boogeyman and Santa Claus don't exist.

Yes, maybe I am saying that from a priviledged perspective, but I can only respond in a logical manner and deduce that that animal wasn't anything mythological.
 
thestaggy said:
It doesn't matter whether they recognised what species it was. I didn't even recognise it at first glance but I sure as heck knew it isn't anything sinister. What does matter is this is the 21st century. Spooks, the boogeyman and Santa Claus don't exist.

Yes, maybe I am saying that from a priviledged perspective, but I can only respond in a logical manner and deduce that that animal wasn't anything mythological.
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that is because you come from a privilidged perspective and have been given the chance to use and develop logic. these are the same guys who burn buses and toilets because it is the only way they get noticed. with the failing education system and the spread of tradition you will get slightly less educated people. there are even uneducated white people who believe in demons and lizardmen, who HAVE gone to school and are capable of thinking. it's all indoctrination.

i'm not defending the guy either, he could be an ******* and killed the animal, but we're discussing why he thought it was the tokoloshe. he had never seen a tokoloshe before, how was he supposed to know what to look out for? maybe he was excited to kill the animal because it represented something he was supposed to be afraid of. the point is, he is uneducated
 
thestaggy said:
It doesn't matter whether they recognised what species it was. I didn't even recognise it at first glance but I sure as heck knew it isn't anything sinister. What does matter is this is the 21st century. Spooks, the boogeyman and Santa Claus don't exist.

Yes, maybe I am saying that from a priviledged perspective, but I can only respond in a logical manner and deduce that that animal wasn't anything mythological.
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And yet many seemingly privileged persons across the globe continue to believe in the existence of such imaginary creatures.
 
MightyQuin said:
LOL...what? Are you comparing me calling a bushbaby a monkey to somone calling it a tokolosh, killing it and throwing it in a river? How desperate can you be to try and defend this primitive kind of behaviour? Just 'cos they couldn't Google it, it's fine to immediately jump to the tokolosh explanation? Why did they not also just call it a monkey. They are still stuck in the stone age with this kind of reasoning, and by splitting hairs with me calling a bushbaby a monkey instead of a primate, will not change that fact.
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Pretty much. You both assumed it was something that it was not, except you should have known better.

Imagine you were one of them. Hearing about tokoloshes throughout your life then encountering an unknown creature that matched it's description? Yeah, you wouldn't have wikipedia to be able to look it up.
 
MightyQuin said:
LOL...what? Are you comparing me calling a bushbaby a monkey to somone calling it a tokolosh, killing it and throwing it in a river? How desperate can you be to try and defend this primitive kind of behaviour? Just 'cos they couldn't Google it, it's fine to immediately jump to the tokolosh explanation? Why did they not also just call it a monkey. They are still stuck in the stone age with this kind of reasoning, and by splitting hairs with me calling a bushbaby a monkey instead of a primate, will not change that fact.
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there was a gentleman on the forum the other day who was terrified when a user suggested that he would mention his username to the big brothers in banking somewhere because they were part of the Illuminati.

we cannot set standards for people who do not have the luxuries or the life we have
 
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