I don't really expect Lyndon/carcharodon to come to the table and engage the issue with sincerity but nevertheless, this is an appeal and invitation to do so.
With regards to ol' Snitch, it's a case of (by his own admission) going to other bigfoot boards to lurk and see what the proponents are saying about something he believes doesn't exist so he can come back here to scoftic heaven and snigger about them.
You don't find that strange behavior?? You don't find that pretty sad and pathetic???
How do you work that one out? The proponent is still arguing about something he/she is sure exists, so therefore not really wasting his/her time.
You know why I don't encamp myself in Alien abduction boards?? Because I don't believe in wasting my time arguing about something I don't really think happens in the first place. Got better things to do with my time.
You won't be getting me sitting around any blanket where there's a Snitch. The others are fine (even Diogenes) but I'd rather if Snitch was left in the car thank you. He's liable to get a marmite sarnie smacked into his gob, and I'd haste to waste sarnies.
As a precursor I would first like to ask Lyndon if he has any interest in making a case for me being a 'scoftic' or that in highlighting the SGF thread I was 'sniggering'. I will say that the purpose was to draw attention to a flaw that arises when arguing for bigfoot belief and it's correspondent giganto origin theory in regards to the yowie factor.
I think what's at the core of Lyndon's issue is that he has a problem with people skeptical of bigfoot's existence keeping an active interest in the subject. To paraphrase him, he's basically saying 'if you don't believe, fine. Drop it and leave it to the dreamers'. Here is a BFF thread that I have linked before on the issue of skepticism and continued interest in the subject in which Lyndon shares some of his thoughts:
Polling All Skeptics.
I linked it before as I found it an interesting conversation and at the time Lyndon's remarks were inconsequential. At the end of page 2 he makes two posts, the first basically saying that he doesn't get why skeptics would keep an interest and in the second, after considering some comments by skeptics, that the above post should be disregarded. Later he goes on to outline that he's fine with skepticism but 'scofticism' is what really bothers him. I thought at the time when I first read it that the last page 2 post was a rather redeeming moment for Lyndon, albeit short lived. Indeed, when among 'the dreamers', if I can borrow his term, he can often be quite cordial. I elsewhere once stated another redeemable quality of Lyndon was that he didn't choose to pursue our pointless exchange in Flame Wars.
Unfortunately, what led to that exchange and Lyndon's current pronounced animosity towards me was my reporting him for vulgar and aggressive language. As he well knows it is the only time I have ever reported anyone but being especially wounded by it and indignant I now enjoy his term of endearment 'ol Snitch'. It does cause me to wonder it any of his forum mates have elsewhere done similar and escaped such attention.
Regardless, it is here and now that Lyndon chooses to ignore my history with the subject and return to his efforts to cast skeptical involvement in bigfootery in an abnormal behaviour light. I think he truly knows in his heart that such line of thinking is ridiculous. It is almost as if it's some kind of knee-jerk reaction to try resist consistent critical examination of the phenomenom and how it perpetuates itself.
In the end, all I can ask of Lyndon is to drop the front and realize that my current involvement in the subject is essentially not very different from that of RayG (to whom he's much more understanding).
Now I will make an effort to appeal to Lyndon to drop his trollish behaviour and gain a better understanding of the JREF.
Honour doesn't appear to exist here on JREF. Nobody has ever apologised for falsely accusing me of things I haven't said or haven't done. I've realised that if you want to post on JREF you must join the crowd and twist everything your adversary says in order to try and score silly points and get 'one over' them. Er, that's why I rarely come here now, and only then when I get a tip off.
I don't know how LAL sticks it out here. I really don't.
Lyndon, this may only serve to further your animosity towards me but in an effort to appeal to the better part of your nature I'm here going to provide a link to your profile page at the SFB forum in which you list some of your interests. This page is not protected and easily viewable for anyone interested:
http://searchforbigfoot.org/index.php?showuser=9
I will now provide some links to some ongoing discussions across the JREF that I think you would find of interest. The first one is an area where you have clashed with other members before but the rest I think you would be quite happy to join:
Phantom cats in Scotland. This one was actually recently started by Big Les keeping in mind the issue you raised in the somewhat recent Loch Ness monster thread.
What If: Germany and co won WWII?
Rock n' Roll - R.I.P. (Try a Led Zep thread search.)
Current last page of
What's the last movie you watched? Tons of great film threads in this section.
Current last page of
What book is everyone reading at the moment? Tons of great literature threads in this section.
Permanent football (or soccer if you will) thread. (Try a Liverpool F.C. search.)
Just a small selection of places for you to join in and discover that the JREF is not an infestation of 'scoftics' and that if you drop the self righteous front you may actually truly enjoy yourself here.
