Bigfoot: The Patterson Gimlin Film - Part 5

[AlaskaBushPilot]

I haven't looked at Bigfoot videos in years and I enjoyed the Ken's Karpentry drone video. I enjoy this kind of good natured fun....

https://youtu.be/vhnb4SXRqco

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I understand you. I watched it.

I think we'll just agree to disagree what is a social menace. Fentanyl is a social menace. Bigfoot belief is very far down the stack of things menacing society today, and if it makes you go camping and poke around the woods, win win, I think.

Fallacy of relative privation.

A person can put anything to bad use. Alcohol can be a vital food source and have health benefits when used properly... and it can also kill millions.

With respect, our differences have to do with our very different lives and values.

We live in remote rural Alaska and feed ourselves with salmon and game, I have shot five bears over the years trying to do me in, mostly charging to chase me off my moose kill but also trying to break into the cabin.

A city person is going to look at things very differently from someone who lives in the outdoors. What good can bigfoot have to people who are concerned with actual monsters?

I wholeheartedly agree. I own a children's school. It's been a long time since I've shown them anything related to Bigfoot. We tend to get carried away with dinosaurs and black holes. But it's a wonderful topic to get young minds to think about things, what is objectively real, etc.

And we're homeschool teachers that got our first son into college on a full scholarship in what would have been his 7th grade year, age 13. The second starts college in January, he'll still be 12. Also on full scholarship. So we're pretty serious educators.

We study science and the scientific method so the approach we take to this subject is James Randi's - exposing the con men. The applicable science is that of personality disorders and the tactics they use like selective attention, lying by omission, outright lying, shaming, playing the victim, playing the servant role, playing dumb, etc.

You were not here during the long development of the BLAARGing model. I do agree there are some who harmlessly play the live action alternate reality game. But a lot of low characters self-select into this arena and try to make money and fund their recreation with fraudulent charitable organization tax status. Those are crimes.

We can argue about how silly it looks and I'll agree every point that is silly about it, but nevertheless Patterson did achieve quite the three-pointer by making a film that has been discussed so long.

Should kids try to be like Patterson or stay in school? Who cares? Bigfoot is not sucking anyone out of school. My hat's off to Patterson for his bit of theatre that has lasted so long.

This we will have to disagree on. Ted Bundy is a lot more famous than Patterson. He's discussed more than any other Serial Killer and will outlast Patterson by a century or more in that regard. These are not measures of social good.

Patterson screwed a lot of people over for a lot of money. His co-conspirators, old people, electric and phone companies, little kids who sent him money for things he did not deliver, investors... it is a long list.

Instead of overlooking that core consistent criminal behavior, it should be seen as integral to the PGF. The PGF was a criminal fraud. They lied to everyone about what they were showing in this film, and got over a million dollars out of it. That's $30 million in 2023 dollars.

I'm far from perfect, my God. But I am not going to applaud a personality disordered multi million dollar criminal for his success at screwing people.