What I don't get so much is what the
regular (most are 'regulars' I'm sure) conference attendees are expecting to 'learn' that they don't already know or have been told 65 times previous? What could Munns or Meldrum possibly tell them that wasn't already
beat to death 5-10-15 years ago?! Is it the camaraderie thing - social networking for weirdos - in being amongst those of your same kind? You know, the folks who never 'grew up' because doing so would have forced them to accept certain universal truths they just can't nor want to deal with.
"Hey let's all meet up and tell Bigfoot stories and reinforce in each that Bigfoot is real." "Yes, let's." I'd bet a large percentage of these folks also had some 'trouble' giving up the whole Santa Clause thing way back too.
What's becoming really obvious is the uncanny parallels to
organized religion. And I know it's been mentioned before that it appears a good majority of 'bleevers' are religious or very religious. The confusing one for me is this undying faith in and devotion to 'the cause' in the face of (mountains of) evidence that
points in every other direction except theirs. Pretty much
everything we humans understand as 'knowledge' says there is NO Bigfoot. Yet there they are standing up on the hilltop behind the Golden Corral restaurant every second Thursday of the month praising his name and yelling to him to 'come out come out wherever you are'
in his own yelling language. That's serious devotion. Or serious mental illness.
And they're not
just praising his name, at the same time they're cussing and condemning
us closed-minded Bigfoot heretics for the unfathomable crime of trying to get them to see it in a more rational, reasonable, intelligent way. Bad us. They also have an abnormal amount of faith that their so-called 'leaders' are always sending them down the right path. They seem to suffer from an ongoing
collective inability to decipher any kind of fact from fiction. If so and so said it and he's a registered Bigfooter, then it
has to be true because, why would he lie?
Yes, of course, how could we be so stupid!
