Moderated Bigfoot- Anybody Seen one?

[Jodie]

Jodie,

I am thinking you might be a prime candidate for a "Forever Lazy Snuggie thing"? and a bowl of popcorn and a movie ? The footies are free for a limited time ?!

Seriously though, resentment issues are never a moot point. That was a long held family belief. These things take time to work their way through.

It makes sense to be mad if they deliberately lied, but I don't think that is the case here.

 

[Jodie]

Hi Jodie,

Please stop answering posts by placing bold into other people's quotes.

If you want to reply to multiple parts of a post, just chop it up manually.

You can copy the QUOTE=Jodie;8352756] part (with the first bracket) and just make a quote bubble by hitting the quote button and replace the plain

with the QUOTE=Jodie;8352756] or whatever. If you can't figure this out, then find where someone else did this successfully, and "forward their post via PM" using the icon at the bottom left. Then you can see exactly how they formatted their post.

Sorry for interrupting.

I'll have to do the later.

 

[kitakaze]

A very happy birthday to you, Jodie.

 

[Jodie]

Thank you Kit! And a belated happy birthday to you too.

 

[LAL]

Happy birthday, Jodie.

 

[Jodie]

LAL!!! I wondered when you would come over. Thanks!!!

 

[Gilbert Syndrome]

Okay, so "Finding Bigfoot" aired in the UK a couple of weeks ago on the Discovery channel. I'd never actually seen the show, although I had seen clips on the internet and got the jist, but I actually decided to sit down and watch it.

From what I can gather, the only difference in the UK version is the voice-over being British.

So, my question was: who in the hell watches that ****** Seriously, it was embarrassing. I've seen some ridiculous Bigfoot-related crap before, but this took the proverbial biscuit.

I know most people here don't take the show as seriously as others, but how can anyone actually sit through 60mins of that bollocks without throwing the t.v. remote at the wall?

 

[DennyT]

... how can anyone actually sit through 60mins of that bollocks without throwing the t.v. remote at the wall?

anyone:

The White Feet On The Creature In The Patterson-Gimlin Film Is Completey Normal

 

[Drewbot]

anyone:

Does he play the rest of that interview when he goes on to say that patty boobeez are really pharyngeal sacs full air?

Lulz.

 

[River]

Maybe that would be where I was holding both skeptics and proponents responsible for proving something to me. It's not exactly bargaining with a deity but a lot of "what if?" questions and "if only" statements that go along with that stage.

With the proponents it was , " Are you really serious? Well if you are why are you doing it like this, or this, and did you ever think of doing it this way? I think you are in this for other reasons" because they refused to deliver.

With the skeptics, I asked for my father's story to be pulled apart. That was the only thing I had a firm belief in regarding bigfoot. All though it may seem harsh, I think it was necessary to have that discussion to tip my perspective in the direction where it was already heading.

 

[Jodie]

This is true.

 

[ScannerHead]

Disbelief can never trump reality. Can it?

 

[Jodie]

And when they drag one dead out of the woods I'll know that it is real.

 

[Gilbert Syndrome]

And when they drag one dead out of the woods I'll know that it is real.

And if they don't drag one out of the woods, when will you stop believing? This is a point I like to bring up when discussing Bigfoot with a believer: when will you finally consider the fact that Bigfoot doesn't exist? If 5 more years go by, and boy, they'll go by! will you then begin to come around to the possibility that they're nowt but legend? Or will you just carry on believing?

Belief has nothing to do with reality, in this case anyway, and in others. People will blindly believe many ridiculous things, no matter how more unlikely they seem as the years go by.

 

[Jodie]

I was responding to the "Disbelief can never trump reality" comment.

I took that to mean that just because you don't believe in something that doesn't mean it isn't real. So my response was appropriate.

 

[Jodie]

And if they don't drag one out of the woods, when will you stop believing? This is a point I like to bring up when discussing Bigfoot with a believer: when will you finally consider the fact that Bigfoot doesn't exist? If 5 more years go by, and boy, they'll go by! will you then begin to come around to the possibility that they're nowt but legend? Or will you just carry on believing?

Belief has nothing to do with reality, in this case anyway, and in others. People will blindly believe many ridiculous things, no matter how more unlikely they seem as the years go by.

You are right, belief has nothing to do with reality. I don't believe in you, you're just a bunch of pixels on my screen. The reality is that someone, possibly you, had to type your response.

 

[Joecool]

And if they don't drag one out of the woods, when will you stop believing? This is a point I like to bring up when discussing Bigfoot with a believer: when will you finally consider the fact that Bigfoot doesn't exist? If 5 more years go by, and boy, they'll go by! will you then begin to come around to the possibility that they're nowt but legend? Or will you just carry on believing?

Belief has nothing to do with reality, in this case anyway, and in others. People will blindly believe many ridiculous things, no matter how more unlikely they seem as the years go by.

I'm not sure how long bigfoot sightings have been going on. Very likely for over 70 years. It seems as if, by the sightings that bigfoot is encroaching areas where people reside. What are the chances of zero bonafide physical evidence of bigfoot's existence? Not a single dead body, no bones, no roadkill, no deadly encounters with a bear. What are the chances of a creature existing but never being found by man?

 

[Jodie]

I would say slim to none.

 

[Gilbert Syndrome]

You are right, belief has nothing to do with reality. I don't believe in you, you're just a bunch of pixels on my screen. The reality is that someone, possibly you, had to type your response.

Thanks for choosing to avoid answering my very valid question, erm, congratulations?

 

[Gilbert Syndrome]

I'm not sure how long bigfoot sightings have been going on. Very likely for over 70 years. It seems as if, by the sightings that bigfoot is encroaching areas where people reside. What are the chances of zero bonafide physical evidence of bigfoot's existence? Not a single dead body, no bones, no roadkill, no deadly encounters with a bear. What are the chances of a creature existing but never being found by man?

Thats the main reason that a belief in Bigfoot, for me anyway, is even more ludicrous now than its ever been, you can sort of forgive a person for believing in the Yeti in the 1950's, but in the year 2012?

The majority of these sightings occur in gerenal areas of human habitat. But the answer you seem to get for the question: "why haven't we found it?" seems to be: because they're realllllly clever. In my humble opinion, its always interesting to hear believers hold Sasquatch in such high-regard when it comes to IQ....

Who knows, maybe Bigfoot lives in the deep ocean, with Caddy and Elvis.