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Bigfoot Follies: part deux

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William Parcher said:
So when rocks hit the cabin roof at night and he goes outside to check it out he has the big rifle and pistol with him?
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And this is where I start to lean more toward BLAARGing, i.e., these people are not really arming themselves to rush outside every time a June beetle careens into the cabin roof. Can they be that stupid? This has to be embellishment, right?
 
William Parcher said:
So when rocks hit the cabin roof at night and he goes outside to check it out he has the big rifle and pistol with him?
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One would hope not. One would hope that they're telling tall tales. Like the Bowman account where he aims and shoots at the spot he thinks the footie known as Beelzebub will emerge. Spot shooting? Really?
 
The Shrike said:
And this is where I start to lean more toward BLAARGing, i.e., these people are not really arming themselves to rush outside every time a June beetle careens into the cabin roof. Can they be that stupid? This has to be embellishment, right?
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If they really are armed to kill then the rock-throwing hoaxer and the gunman have a mutual understanding. He won't shoot; and he shall not fear being shot.

This is pretend. This is BLAARG. This is LARP. This is pretending for an audience. The audience is the world, and also each other.
 
Another textbook example of hypnopompia/hypnagogia;
http://bigfootforums.com/index.php?/topic/55035-sasquatch-adaptability-and-survival/&page=7
I've seen a hand close up, though I was groggy at the time. I've mentioned that I was wakened by our puppy in 1974. It had pressed up against my head, shivering in fright as a bigfoot was attempting to grab it by reaching into the tent. My first impression was that someone was sticking a large branch with a glove on the end of it inside our tent. The arm was six feet in length. The thumb of the glove cupped inwards, as I recall, rather than forming a plane with the palm. As I woke and spoke to the puppy it began to withdraw it's arm giving me a view of the hand from about twelve inches. The puppy then passed in front of my face, burrowing into my sleeping bag and obstructing my view. When I looked back for the branch and hand it was gone, so I thought I had dreamt it and that the puppy was simply shivering from cold. When I realized that my exposed shoulders weren't cold, adrenalin kicked in and I looked around to find a hulking shadow outside the tent at my feet. After a staring match through the wall of the tent, I decided that the motionless shadow was cast by a boulder from reflected moonlight from the lake and laid back down. As soon as I did, the bigfoot stood up, gave a disgusted "humph" and walked away, passing directly between the full moon and the tent, casting a huge shadow across the top of the tent, which was five feet in height. The hand had black hair fringing it from the back and was lighter tan color on the palm and inner surface of the fingers. It was a full moon with ambient light shining through the roof of the tent.
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William Parcher said:
If they really are armed to kill then the rock-throwing hoaxer and the gunman have a mutual understanding. He won't shoot; and he shall not fear being shot.

This is pretend. This is BLAARG. This is LARP. This is pretending for an audience. The audience is the world, and also each other.
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Yup....some sort of combo of all the above. Some members are in on the truth, some maybe not. Hopefully the ones carrying the guns are in on it.

Just like the PGF, just a peek into the major players backgrounds, tells the story.

Brian Brown former big wig at BFRO, doesn't get enough lime light.....runs off and starts a competing site BFF....no TV show develops from that.....latches on to the NAWACKIES in hopes of the big payday. I wouldn't be suprised if the NAWACKIES story hasn't been peddled to every network out there.
Gold and Glory!!!
 
Resume said:
Another textbook example of hypnopompia/hypnagogia;
http://bigfootforums.com/index.php?/topic/55035-sasquatch-adaptability-and-survival/&page=7
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"Pregnant Female Sighting" from the same guy:
http://bigfootforums.com/index.php?/topic/4989-pregnant-female-sighting/
...Her female chest anatomy was very prominent, did not have any sag and was covered with hair the same length as that on her forearms, which was what gave me the impression that she was wearing a shawl while her forearms were at first parallel with her breasts and motionless. At this point she looked up, made eye contact, and realized that I was staring at her. As I was looking back and asking myself: "Does she have a beard?" (I could now tell that the shadowed area underneath her nose was covered with short dark hair - she was very square-jawed, but her jaw did not protrude), she rose up about a foot and half, partially unflexing her knees, bringing her torso a little more vertical, and lowered her upper arms to her sides. At this point I could see her abdomen and had a clearer view of her chest. She was barrel-shaped. Her ribcage and hips were approximately the same width. Her legs and arms were clearly very well muscled underneath the hair and I wouldn't have considered her at all flabby except that her abdomen protruded an inch or two beyond her ribcage...
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This one is clearly made up.
 
To continue the BLAARGing argument, let's compare the two alternatives (again). Is it agreed Bigfoot "proponents" are in only one of two states, mistaken (i.e. stupid in thinking Bigfoot exists) or lying (i.e. knowing it doesn't but claiming otherwise)? With a noticeable percentage of members here "believing" they're mistaken but not lying?

So the supposed "every man" who typically encounters Bigfoot is more apt to be mistaken about seeing a mythical non-existent beast that they inevitably know beforehand doesn't exist instead of just lying about it? Really? In order to "genuinely believe" in Bigfoot, a lucid intelligent person has to go through a whole series of mental gymnastics to come to any kind of sincere conclusion that Bigfoot lives. Including the necessity of placing far more trust in one's own ability to perceive "reality" anywhere in the universe better than the thousands of (generations of) humans that have preceded them in any one place where they're claiming knowledge. To lie about it takes just a few words.

I'm not saying a person couldn't be genuinely "mistaken" about Bigfoot, of course they could, but a seeming well organized, reasonable, rational and dedicated group of 15-20 self-described "researchers" holding tight for 10+ years in the same 10 acre Oklahoma Wood Ape paradise with the same Wood Ape paradise story and the only "proof" they have so far is in a liquor bottle? They're only "innocently" throwing out all the known science because they're "mistaken"? That makes more sense than their simply "lying" about it? Really?

As for Dandy Don Meldrum, he doesn't get to have it both ways. One of the things a PhD, EdD, JD etc. gives is an implied warranty to the public that this person is trained and educated to the highest of society's standards and is approved to use such knowledge and expertise to the best of their ability and education with strict adherence to the concepts of honesty, integrity, sincerity (to name a few). Yet, Meldrum believing in a religion that is certainly no more dubious than any other religion is enough to prove he's only mistaken (stupid?) and not deliberately lying about anything Bigfoot? Really? Even despite his cash haul from it all? Or his PhD? How does he get to be "mistaken" on Bigfoot despite his designation as one of society's top practitioners of the very science that long ago opined that Bigfoot does not exist because there's no valid scientific evidence to suggest it does? Because he appeared to **** up the god question?

You realize I'm arguing Meldrum isn't "stupid" no matter how many times I've suggested he was. :xtongue
 
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