Book Haven discussion

Do you think that it is really possible for someone to alter their shape like shifters/werewolves do?
Why?

No. cells dont work that way. Nor DNA. But it is fun to imagine

Do you think that technology will ever exist that could make it possible?

I think that (not to sound too deep) God made us the way we are for a purpose and reason. I mean if we were able to mate with animals and ta-da we could have hybrids that would have happened at the beginning. I do think we have not learned to use our brains in the full capacity. So perhaps shifters have managed to do that?

Having the technology won't make it right, only the possibly could be there. If it can't be done in natural it won't survive being man-made.

In the flip=side I love authors that come up with different concepts as to why their shifters exists. I think that is as close as we will ever get to a "living, breathing" shifter. Even skin walkers in Indian folklore has me questioning what is possible. When you say you believe in the supernatural. You know?

I wish I believed in that kind of thing. It would be amazing if science was able to do something like that. Goodness knows they've done so much in the last 50 years, this may eventually be possible.

I think it would have to be supernatural to some degree. It would just require too much strain on the physiology for a lifeform to change so much.

Nope, don't think it could happen. Bones are solid. They can't reshape or morph ... shatter, yeah, that they're good at.

LOL. I think people already are like animals to some degree, i.e. impulsiveness. There's too much of this in people.

On the other hand, they could borrow some things, e.g. less sexual repression. I'm speaking of the generally Victorian majority, not outliers or the minority.

Yes shifting is possible.....

I think physical shifting in literature is merely an artistic way of describing mental shifting, that is going from a "human" mindset to an "animal" one and vice versa.

I've enclosed "human" and "animal" in quotes because I think it insults the animal kingdom when it's said that a person is behaving like an animal. People often act far worse than animals. One definition of the word human is: "Having or showing those positive aspects of nature and character that distinguish human beings from the lower animals: an act of human kindness." When you come right down to it, few people are truly human. And it wasn't the animals that hunted the passenger pigeon, buffalo, dodo bird, whales and what have you to near or total extinction.

well...Fantasy and Reality are somewhere related.... Hope this phenomena is TRUE!!

I don't think it's possible. Not in reality, at least. In imaginations, now...that's a totally different story. I guess it depends on what you define as 'real.'

We cant really say if they exist or not.