Is the Loch Ness Monster Real?

Dinosaurs, dragons and monsters: The Loch Ness monster is not real

In this debate question, about whether the Lock Ness monster is real, the response is no.

There is a fine line between reality and non-reality and the question of whether or not the Lock Ness monster is real, forces one to discern the difference.

I will argue that until more cryptozoological proof is found, the Loch Ness monster cannot be proven to be real.

Our western world is content to dig up dinosaur bones, re-assemble them, re-build skeletons or re-create dinosaurs, in some way. We consider dinosaurs to be real, but with respect to the time frame of their actual existence, they are understood to be a reality of the past, rather than the present.

Our world is not a world of dragons, which some have considered the Loch Ness monster, Nessie to be. Others prefer to use the word monster or lake monster to describe the Loch Ness monster.

Reality, with its dry bones that are visible, says dinosaurs are real, even if perhaps a bit out-dated. Dragons remain more in the realm of the not-real or fictitious literature of the eastern European world. They are not visible, except to the human mind of someone who states that he or she has seen one.

One might ask if somewhere in-between dinosaurs and dragons, there is another category of animals called lake monsters? These are neither dinosaurs nor dragons as such.

To date, cryptozoology has not proven the reality of lake monsters, or the Loch Ness monster, originally sighted by St. Columba in the year 565 AD. A sighting in 1933, referred to the Loch Ness monster as a dragon, or a pre-historic animal. That could place it in the realm of dinosaurs. The terms monster fish and sea serpent have both been used to describe Nessie.

To see or not to see is the question. But, seeing involves physical sight or non-physical sight. The mind's eye can see, but does it tend to see something as essentially good or evil?

There is the realm of mythology and folklore which acts to whose advantage, in this case? Is it merely a trick or a prank, some kind of a tourist promotion, a make believe fictional creature or some weird or wonderful attempt to control people with fear? Who is really going to benefit from all of this?

Take it just one step further.

Is there one Loch Ness monster, or are there many other Loch Ness monsters too?

Physical propagation, as we understand it in the animal world, requires both male and female animals. That would mean there has to be more than one Loch Ness monster other than Nessie. We will call the second one Ness. Of course, then there would be a whole bunch of baby Lochs, maybe a Nessie Jr. and a Ness Jr. (Beware! There have been reports of other sightings of lake monsters in the world also.)

Imagination does not require male and female propagation. Neither does non-reality.

Photography, with the interplay of light and shadow, can do some fun stuff. It is possible to create dinosaurs, dragons and monsters that way. 

Are there any actual remnants of dinosaurs? Yes, we all know that. Dragons? No. Monsters are still in the realm of mystery, mythology and folklore.

The pictures of the Lock Ness monster reveal an animal with a long neck and a small head poking out of the water. We do have giraffes with long necks but they are on land, not in the water. They also do not have bodies that are thirty feet long.

What is the monster doing with its head poking out of the water? Does it have some sort of perioscopic vision? Does the monster eat people? Is it sitting there looking at us? Maybe it is assessing us. It could be sizing us up and imagining us as dinner. This sounds intensely dramatic and demonic in a frightening way.

I am going to suggest that the Loch Ness monster is not real. Of course, someone might prove me wrong, a hundred years from now, when they find monster bones, or some more definite evidence.

For those who believe that they are real, how about using a gps tracking device to locate them in the meantime?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Ness_Monster