Merged Bigfoot follies

[Macgyver1968]

I joined, but only made a handful of posts. I thought their 2 posts a day only/all posts must be approved by an admin just too restrictive...plus in some cases it took 24 hours to get a post approved, and by then the discussion was on a whole new page.

Even the nutters at DIF weren't that restrictive.

 

[Resume]

It's a good place to check up on the latest bigfoot BS, and that's about it.

 

[Correa Neto]

On top of the blue cooler were two black cases. Though cervelo likely remembers them now after his memory was jogged.

So, tell me, how can you be sure there were ghost hunting gizmos and gadgets inside those black boxes over a blue cooler? And exactly what might be the ghost hunting gear inside the cases? How can you be sure their contents were not NSA equipment? And these supposed NSA agents ghostbustershunters were with a small kind and a stroller… So, during your bigfoot hunting expedition/trek in to the wild rough pristine forests you found a couple with a small kid and a stroller… Hunting ghosts. Yeah… Fishy....

So, don't ring my line and then complain if I say "hello". To do so is quite unbalanced. According to a review of your posts, you are incapable of having an educated conversation about the subject.

OK, that’s one of your claims – you reviewed my posts and found I am incapable of having an educated conversation about the subject. Prove it. Since I am a member since 2003 and probably posted at most bigfoot threads, there’s plenty of material to prove your point. Unless, of course, your evaluation was made along lines similar to the one which resulted in that “ghost hunting gear in boxes” conclusion…

Anyway, building educated conversations over tall tales... You really want me to lend any shred of credence to tales like the ones you are bringing here?

If you wish to trade witty put downs and clever comebacks we can do that, but it'll likely end up in AAH or some other nonproductive thread. I will not however violate the rules of the forum as I have no intention of banishment. You'll have to try another route. Chris B.

And yet another example of your fantasy-ridden thinking processes you just claimed I have evil plans to get you banished. OK smart tough big boy, put or shut up. The mods would certainly like to hear about such alleged acts and take the proper actions. Tell them, show them the evidence. Unless your evidence are like anecdotes about black boxes with ghost hunting devices inside.

 

[carlitos]

I joined, but only made a handful of posts. I thought their 2 posts a day only/all posts must be approved by an admin just too restrictive...plus in some cases it took 24 hours to get a post approved, and by then the discussion was on a whole new page.

Even the nutters at DIF weren't that restrictive.

I have you guys all beat. Chris from Kentucky banned me there and I never even joined. Must be a fantastic forum.

 

[Gilbert Syndrome]

That is why I left the BFF. I had an attack of conscience. I had already realized the futility of arguing with folks like DWA. So what was left? To rain on their bigfoot parade at a bigfoot forum? What kind of A-hole does that make me, then? So I left.

I was banned in less than 24hrs... I couldn't have been more proud of myself. I essentially went there, got into about 2 conversations which ended in me laughing at someone, probably DWA, and that was all she wrote. Fin.

 

[HarryHenderson]

So the way to test a hypothesis about bigfoot proponents posting on this forum is to look at nonmembers who are non-proponents.

You need to apply to the FDA so that you can start testing drug efficacy by making sure nobody in the experiment actually takes the drug.

I know that you don't believe this yourself. It was just gaming. So thanks for playing.

So f'n funny!

What search? A French priest goes to China and collects a bunch of things for the Parisian elite. It's not even clear if he had heard of pandas or ever tried to find one himself. All we know is that a local guy handed him a pelt in or before 1869. That's it - panda proven.

But since he didn't know what he had, he didn't know we wouldn't know who it was that knew what it was even though he didn't know. And thus Bigfoot!

...This is an obvious and purposeful affront to the only reliable system we have of determining truth. The system for which this entire forum exists. That is the source for the negativity to your posts, your actions, not your being part of some made-up minority.

Without any derogatory intent at all, I'm at a loss to figure out when everyone else here will finally "get it" as to what Chris is up to. This. Is. Just. A. Game. He's. Playing. There's no looking for Bigfoot, no "trekking" to find Bigfoot or actual Bigfoot "expeditions". Heck, he's not even in "Bigfoot country" really (seriously, KY?). For better or worse, Bigfoot has evolved from lighthearted hobbyist folklore (most of us belong to this group actually) into an actual win-lose game made up of real players on different sides (and I don't mean skeptics), with ground rules and even the way you can win (and it's not showing up with a dead Bigfoot since they all know that's impossible). Chris is going for the win.

I have you guys all beat. Chris from Kentucky banned me there and I never even joined. Must be a fantastic forum.

I'm thinking we need to bring in Randi on this one. You know for the million dollar thingy. Chris is so adept he went straight past clairvoyance and right into retribution voodoo. He's good, he's real good.

 

[ChrisBFRPKY]

"I would have to unsee several different creatures that were present and witnessed on multiple occasions by multiple people present (they would likewise have to unsee the creatures witnessed). I would have to not find and not have investigated and not casted the trackways from some of those encounters.

I would have to unhear the sounds they made, and unsmell the odors that were present during some of the encounters. I'd also have to unexperience a fluttering sensation in one ear during one of these encounters. That with some unobservation of the creatures eating and doing other things as a family group would probably put me back on the fence of debating their existence again. Chris B."


It's severely unfortunate that despite all of these amazingly rare encounters with the rarest of the most rare creatures on earth, you never managed to get any evidence at all. I mean, that's like seeing your numbers come up on the lottery several times and each time realizing you forgot to even put it on. Is it possible to unsmell bullcrap?

I agree, that would be unfortunate. Chris B.

 

[ChrisBFRPKY]

The simple aspect of your inclusion to a minority doesn't play into my or anyone's opinion here, so it is high time to give up the victim routine. This is a skeptical forum, which you well know. And as such, it includes a rich assortment of individuals belonging to and often representing various racial, non-religious, sexual, and/or other cultural minorities, whose unchosen inclusion to said minorities can and often does result in inescapable permanence that can actually have have explicit, real-world impacts. In short, nobody feels bad for someone chasing the magic monkey man. It's not that heavy a cross to bear in the scheme of things.

The one critical and binding characteristic bringing these people together here is an intellectually-driven demand to see past the BS, and to interpret the world as it really is. It's that simple. If someone makes a claim, it is the function of this community to examine it. You have made many claims. But thematically, you have also been extremely careful not to divulge enough detail to have any of these claims examined to any extent. This is an obvious and purposeful affront to the only reliable system we have of determining truth. The system for which this entire forum exists. That is the source for the negativity to your posts, your actions, not your being part of some made-up minority.

I have no problem conversing with those of a different opinion than myself. I think everyone should be civil and polite in discussion. But don't punch me in the nose and expect nothing back. Chris B.

 

[ChrisBFRPKY]

What creatures? Bigfoot creatures? If that's what you mean, why not just say it?

William Parcher asked specifically about "Bigfoot", why would you think I was referring to anything else in my reply to his post?

Or is the word "creatures" another word skeptics don't like to be used when discussing Bigfoot? I'll put it on the list:
1. Expedition
2. Trek
3. Creatures

Myogenic tinnitus (and related phenomena) explain your ear fluttering; why add an unnecessary entity to the conversation?

My ear wasn't ringing. I experienced this sensation at the exact same time another individual did. He actually swatted at his ear. In both cases, the ear that had the fluttering sensation was the one facing the Bigfoot family group.
The third witness is deaf in the ear that was facing the Bigfoot family group and so he felt no sensation at all. I don't know what it was, but it wasn't a normal sensation. It seemed kind of odd that both witnesses had the exact same fluttering sensation only in the ear that was towards the Bigfoot group. The ear on the opposite side had no odd sensation at all.
Chris B.

 

[barehl]

Or is the word "creatures" another word skeptics don't like to be used when discussing Bigfoot? I'll put it on the list:
1. Expedition
2. Trek
3. Creatures

I have my own list of words that Footies avoid like the plague:

1. Evidence
2. DNA
3. Pictures
4. Video
5. Biology
6. Anatomy
7. Fossils
8. Habitats
9. Statistics

I suspect it is much longer.

 

[John Nowak]

I have my own list of words that Footies avoid like the plague:

"Autofocus" and "Image Stabilization," although I suppose that's more "learn to use" than "avoid."

 

[LTC8K6]

Why isn't this park warning the public about bigfoot?

I'd want to know if my children were camping in the vicinity of bigfoot, just as I'd want to know if bears or cougars, or coyotes were in the area.

Millions of families are apparently in danger from a very stealthy large meat eater.

Yet we have no warnings. Not even from footers.

Did Chris warn that "ghost hunting" family about bigfoot lurking in the woods?

 

[RayG]

Or is the word "creatures" another word skeptics don't like to be used when discussing Bigfoot?

Naw, we just prefer that whatever words are used they match the circumstances and activities they describe.

It's the embellishments we don't like.

RayG

 

[Drewbot]

I have my own list of words that Footies avoid like the plague:

1. Evidence
2. DNA
3. Pictures
4. Video
5. Biology
6. Anatomy
7. Fossils
8. Habitats
9. Statistics

I suspect it is much longer.

10. History

 

[carlitos]

My ear wasn't ringing. I experienced this sensation at the exact same time another individual did. He actually swatted at his ear. In both cases, the ear that had the fluttering sensation was the one facing the Bigfoot family group.
The third witness is deaf in the ear that was facing the Bigfoot family group and so he felt no sensation at all. I don't know what it was, but it wasn't a normal sensation. It seemed kind of odd that both witnesses had the exact same fluttering sensation only in the ear that was towards the Bigfoot group. The ear on the opposite side had no odd sensation at all.
Chris B.

I'm not familiar with all of the bigfoot lore. Is this a thing? Bigfoot sonic superpowers? I always figured they would sound like Chewbacca.

 

[rockinkt]

I'm not familiar with all of the bigfoot lore. Is this a thing? Bigfoot sonic superpowers? I always figured they would sound like Chewbacca.

Some proponents believe squatches emit subsonic sounds that temporarily disorientate or scare humans as an avoidance/escape mechanism.
This is a relatively recent "discovery".

 

[Correa Neto]

Guess this made-up BravoSierra retcon "discovery" is indeed younger than the "discovery" of the repelling effects of their "stench" and pherormones...

That's, BTW, the sort of stuff footers want us to discuss seriously... That's it folks, we should not be making fun of if, so they say...

Because...
[place theremin sound here]
They saw it!

 

[Drewbot]

Some proponents believe squatches emit subsonic sounds that temporarily disorientate or scare humans as an avoidance/escape mechanism.
This is a relatively recent "discovery".

Yes. There are first hand accounts of researchers being so scared, because Bigfoot was close. So scared, that they lose voluntary muscle control, and collapse fully conscious, unable to move for a short while. This is attributed by Bigfooters as Infrasound attack waves.

However, the description also closely matches the medical terminology for a Cataplectic attack due to Narcolepsy.

Cataplexy is an episodic condition featuring loss of muscle function, ranging from slight weakness such as limpness at the neck or knees, sagging facial muscles,[22] weakness at the knees (often referred to as "knee buckling"),[23] or inability to speak clearly, to a complete body collapse.[22] Episodes may be triggered by sudden emotional reactions such as laughter, anger, surprise, or fear, and may last from a few seconds to several minutes. The person remains conscious throughout the episode. In some cases, cataplexy may resemble epileptic seizures.[22] Usually speech is slurred and vision is impaired (double vision, inability to focus), but hearing and awareness remain normal. Cataplexy also has a severe emotional impact on narcoleptics, as it can cause extreme anxiety, fear, and avoidance of people or situations that might elicit an attack

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

Of course, no good Bigfooter would ever admit to having a relatively common Neurological disorder.

I think that Bigfootry attracts people with such disorders. It gives them an ability to rationalize their disorder, by attributing to Bigfoot. It puts them in close proximity of others who have the same experiences, and a built-in support system where each can help the other rationalize their disorder in what, to them is a reasonable explanation. Far more reasonable (to them) than having to admit that they are in the grasp of a Neurological disorder. The disorder is never mentioned among Bigfooters, it is another form of gaming to them. They can hang out, share their Narcoleptic stories, without the harsh tag of having to mention anything about Narcolepsy.

'Dude, I felt something pressing on my chest last night and couldn't move'
'Really? I saw a Bigfoot while I was going out of my tent, and he blasted me with Infrasound, and I collapsed."

 

[carlitos]

Well that's ridiculous, but it explains why they can't use a camera I guess.

 

[Correa Neto]

Well, yes, but being just a made-up tall tale can also apply.
Problem is, how can we separate a "real" experience (narcolepsy, night terrors, hallucinations, etc.) from a fantasy?