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Furry Chat => Therian and Otherkin => Topic started by: Thagrahn on June 21, 2010, 09:03:37 PM
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I try to find the real difference between the two, but it's had to define. :3
Therian is suppose to be an animal spirit trapped in a human body, but a furry is a human that wants to dress as or be an animal.
How can you tell the difference? :?
I know I am a Jaguar, but is it because I just feel a strong connection, or should I go be the fact that in most of my dreams I run on all four paws?
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I'm supposing that furryness is only a hobby, like otakus wanting to dress up as their favorite charater.
Therins have a spiritual connection to their animal. Furryness in of itself dosn't mandate you have any spiritual beleifs about your animal.
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Therianthropy is just a spiritual belief tied to animals, being furry is just a hobby, furries just like anthros.
Some furries want to be there fursona and some therians act furrier to feel more connected to the animals, so they do have crossing paths but in general definition they are unrelated.
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a furry is a human that wants to dress as or be an animal.
Like righteousbro kind of said, this is incorrect. Furries are simply people who like anthropomorphic animals.
Therians feel spiritually connected to animals whereas furries: (http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg272/Dessum13/Bestthingever2gif.gif)
You can easily be both :P
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I am therian. I suspect that is why wolves don't attack me...and other dog races...and usually dogs in general. I am also furry. It also explains why it feels like I have ears on my head. sometimes, I can hear things too..or was that a dream... :S I can't tell
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Same as Wolfeh
I am both, Therein and furry.
That probably why my dog follow's me EVERYWHERE
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I am both as well. Since the difenition of therian is someone who IS the animal inside and feels no need to pretend to be one. That is is just there. The wolf side of me. And a furry is someone who wants to be an animal and enjoys pretending to be one. That would be my feline side. So ehem... I am both wolf and cat inside.
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And a furry is someone who wants to be an animal and enjoys pretending to be one.
Incorrect :P
This is the correct definition of a furry:
Furries are simply people who like anthropomorphic animals.(http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg272/Dessum13/Bestthingever2gif.gif)
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Same as Wolfeh
I am both, Therein and furry.
That probably why my dog follow's me EVERYWHERE
I'm also both.
XD Crevan.
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iam both i guess i like anthro and i bealive that as animals ( yes i just said hummans are animals) that all animals have or can take any from they want not there phyiscal body but there sperit body and once you die you can chose a different form if you want... thats why i fell like i have a strong connection with other animals and iam good with them because i might be an older spirit that for some resion has chosen a human body for this life but it might not be the same for the next
when i was smaller i allway wanted to have a wolf pack and all was and still do love meat esp chicken and fish. although i allways liked beening a lone or with a few friends ( the lone wolf) i all-ways liked night and the moon and every know and then i howl at it ( when no one is around)
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iam both i guess i like anthro and i bealive that as animals ( yes i just said hummans are animals) that all animals have or can take any from they want not there phyiscal body but there sperit body and once you die you can chose a different form if you want... thats why i fell like i have a strong connection with other animals and iam good with them because i might be an older spirit that for some resion has chosen a human body for this life but it might not be the same for the next
man, this much is true for me too, i also think their is a different paradise for each of us, and its exactly like you want it to be, you choose your form and spirit and hop! here you go for an eternity of happiness.
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i've always thinked like this. so i really try to earn this paradise of mine.
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iam both i guess i like anthro and i bealive that as animals ( yes i just said hummans are animals) that all animals have or can take any from they want not there phyiscal body but there sperit body and once you die you can chose a different form if you want... thats why i fell like i have a strong connection with other animals and iam good with them because i might be an older spirit that for some resion has chosen a human body for this life but it might not be the same for the next
man, this much is true for me too, i also think their is a different paradise for each of us, and its exactly like you want it to be, you choose your form and spirit and hop! here you go for an eternity of happiness.
well how about family friends and pets? the way i see it is that we will all be together but we will also have our own Paradise like for example ppl that you have meet on the internet but cant in RL becuase of where they live you will also be able to meet them there
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well how about family friends and pets? the way i see it is that we will all be together but we will also have our own Paradise like for example ppl that you have meet on the internet but cant in RL becuase of where they live you will also be able to meet them there
depending on what you want to have like paradise, this is possible too. I mean, its heaven, what you can possibly hope is their, only if you earned it ^^
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yep i agree - sry mods for going off topic here
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Ren is both ^^
A Therian is someone who feels a close tie with a animal.
A Furry is someone who likes anthropomorphic art.
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I'm honestly not sure if I'm therian or not.
I'm some sort of cat if I am. I have a strong connection to them, and have acted out traits when I was little. To this day, I love raw fish, sleep during the day when able to, and if I could, I would go outside to play in our small "forest" next to my complex. Well.. maybe. The delinquents have kinda broken glass in there and stuff, and I prefer no shoes. =P
When I was younger I loved chasing frogs (among other things), and was always attracted to objects that... you know, waved. Like the grandmother clock pendulum at my grandparents house- I STILL have to watch it. Just want to grab it and play with it! To bad I know better.
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I'm honestly not sure if I'm therian or not.
I'm some sort of cat if I am. I have a strong connection to them, and have acted out traits when I was little. To this day, I love raw fish, sleep during the day when able to, and if I could, I would go outside to play in our small "forest" next to my complex. Well.. maybe. The delinquents have kinda broken glass in there and stuff, and I prefer no shoes. =P
When I was younger I loved chasing frogs (among other things), and was always attracted to objects that... you know, waved. Like the grandmother clock pendulum at my grandparents house- I STILL have to watch it. Just want to grab it and play with it! To bad I know better.
i guess u would be a Therine
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Im a Therian and alot of Therian and otherkin look down on Furries but not me :3 this is were i started before knowing what i was was xArTiCx ThErIAn is my xbox Gamertag
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too bad i don't have an Xbox :(
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You know, this Therian thing is kind of interesting to me. I've known I was a furry for a while (years), but over the last year or so, I've started to feel different bits of my fursona as though they are actually part of my physical body. The tail, wings, and mouth primarily. My sense of smell has seemed to get more sensitive too, and my sense of hearing has been abnormally sensitive my whole life. To the point that sounds that merely annoy other people actually hurt me. x_x
For lack of a better phrasing, does this make me a Therian? And does anyone have any thoughts/insight about this? :?
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yes i guess it would ... i have a strong sense of smell and hearing as well. some times i feel like i can feel parts of my fursona as well ( tale , ears face ) ... i guess some of us are more in tune with it then others
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You know, this Therian thing is kind of interesting to me. I've known I was a furry for a while (years), but over the last year or so, I've started to feel different bits of my fursona as though they are actually part of my physical body. The tail, wings, and mouth primarily. My sense of smell has seemed to get more sensitive too, and my sense of hearing has been abnormally sensitive my whole life. To the point that sounds that merely annoy other people actually hurt me. x_x
For lack of a better phrasing, does this make me a Therian? And does anyone have any thoughts/insight about this? :?
you and icy are sooo dam lucky! i can't smell a things...or at least, nothing that isn't ''explosive'' in odours...i can't see too good...not far at least..BUT i run a dam fast and i have good reflexes... and, if you ask me, to me it sounds like you really suit your fursonna. so, yea, i guess, you are a therrian.
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You know, this Therian thing is kind of interesting to me. I've known I was a furry for a while (years), but over the last year or so, I've started to feel different bits of my fursona as though they are actually part of my physical body. The tail, wings, and mouth primarily. My sense of smell has seemed to get more sensitive too, and my sense of hearing has been abnormally sensitive my whole life. To the point that sounds that merely annoy other people actually hurt me.
For lack of a better phrasing, does this make me a Therian? And does anyone have any thoughts/insight about this? :?
you and icy are sooo dam lucky! i can't smell a things...or at least, nothing that isn't ''explosive'' in odours...i can't see too good...not far at least..BUT i run a dam fast and i have good reflexes... and, if you ask me, to me it sounds like you really suit your fursonna. so, yea, i guess, you are a therrian.
True story: Somone called me Neo because of my reflexes once. :P
It was my Freshman year of high school. He'd been sitting within a foot of me, chewing on his pen, just within the field of my peripheral vision. Then all of the sudden the pen shoots out of his mouth and straight for my eye! Without even thinking about it, I jerk my head back out of the way and turn to him to find this bug eyed wide mouthed expression of shock on his face. When he recovered, he said: "Dude, you are Neo!" That was a good day. B)
I'd never considered myself lucky that I can feel these things before. It's nice not being alone anymore. :) I tell you this though. I'd never believed physical shifting was possible before. Most of what I'd heard about it seemed...fabricated to me. But now I'm not so sure. Sometimes I wonder if the only thing stopping me is a deep and powerful subconscious fear of it actually happening. I'm a big fan of the band Disturbed (even got my floor ticket to their new concert), and their song "The Animal" definitely gets my blood pumping. The first line of the chorus is "For the animal's soul is mine!" and not only can I not resist singing that line when I listen to the song, every time I do, I can feel my fursona's entire body like it's my own. Wings, claws, tail, jaws, everything. And many times it's like that body is the one trying to get free.
Kinda makes me a little apprehensive about really letting myself go during the concert like I planned to.
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You know, this Therian thing is kind of interesting to me. I've known I was a furry for a while (years), but over the last year or so, I've started to feel different bits of my fursona as though they are actually part of my physical body. The tail, wings, and mouth primarily. My sense of smell has seemed to get more sensitive too, and my sense of hearing has been abnormally sensitive my whole life. To the point that sounds that merely annoy other people actually hurt me. x_x
For lack of a better phrasing, does this make me a Therian? And does anyone have any thoughts/insight about this? :?
you and icy are sooo dam lucky! i can't smell a things...or at least, nothing that isn't ''explosive'' in odours...i can't see too good...not far at least..BUT i run a dam fast and i have good reflexes... and, if you ask me, to me it sounds like you really suit your fursonna. so, yea, i guess, you are a therrian.
that could also be a thrian maybe a cat lol .... no humman or thrain can smell explosives its imposable
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not impossible, improbable! nothing is impossible XD nah, i'm joking, but this might makes sense in a way.
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lmto thats true :D
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sniffing out bombs wow XD
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* snifs * i smell explosives
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I think i might be a therian. I like sticking my head out of windows, i get irresistible urges to howl at the moon, i can really speed through a chicken but i have a hard tome eating much else... yeah i think im a therian, or just insane :|
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i love meat and like to howl at the moon as well some times when iam mad i growl but i try to keep it to a low so people dont think iam crazy XD
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idk how i can be christian and therian at the sametime so ill try to make it work :)
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iam a christian as well ... a thrian is not a religion its just a way that you feel / think i read the bible doesn't say you cant feel like you are an anaimle spirit . in a human body
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my religion is furry! Nah, i'm kiddin' i don't have any religion. i made my own :3
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iam a christian as well ... a thrian is not a religion its just a way that you feel / think i read the bible doesn't say you cant feel like you are an anaimle spirit . in a human body
I dont have heavy therian beliefs its just sort of like i believe that i have a very strong connection with animals, maybe its the native american in me :3
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with me a feel very strongly that iam a wolf or k9 spirit . people get un conferable when i tell em for some resin
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I wonder why, i mean its your beliefs.
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yeah, i guess, society says that crazy or something like that but i dont think so.
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i have no God i worship the moon for it gives me such happyness : D
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i have no God i worship the moon for it gives me such happyness : D
Heeeey! thats part of my stuff as well :3
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are you a druid ? they worship nature
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are you a druid ? they worship nature
no i just do my normal thing when the full moon comes out stay out all night and basicly train
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cool if i could do that i would i like night
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