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Why doesn't bigfoot use tools?

AlaskaBushPilot said:
victim-playing, classic BLAARG tactic.

No, it is the 766 posts, including your response here which fit 100% into the BLAARGing model of never acknowledging the obvious evidence yet again burying bigfoot under the mountain of it.

So instead it is victim-playing, and then repeating exactly the same evasion/diversion tactic:



Thank you for demonstrating selective attention in pretending the very post you quoted didn't mention, as have others, the non-knapping tool use by primates.

Is this a coincidence? Of course not. It is the game. You have all the intelligence to look up tool use in non-primates too. Like sea otters:

[qimg]http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/assets/swf/1/gallery/images/tool-using-animals-03-l.jpg[/qimg]

Using a rock on their belly as a tool to help smash shells is not the only example of tool use amongst sea otters.

I don't mind playing the game with you, but not because I would be so dull as to attempt convincing you of something you already know: that there is no bigfoot.

Instead this is the study of game-playing.
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Using tools and creating them aren't the same.

Also, you can't just accuse someone of victim-playing after you've wrongly accused them of things they didn't do. That doesn't make sense. You talk about how proponents are all manipulative, but perhaps it's time you look in the mirror.
 
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OntarioSquatch said:
Using tools and creating them aren't the same.

Also, you can't just accuse someone of victim-playing after you've wrongly accused them of things they didn't do. That doesn't make sense. You talk about how proponents are all manipulative, but perhaps it's time you look in the mirror.
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No thanks, the last time I looked in a mirror I saw old age coming up fast on the inside.
 
I saw a bigfoot BLAARGing!

I was half asleep at a tree stand while hunting bisons deep within the PNW forests when I saw it. It was using an I-phone to post at a www discussion forum. Its pherormone glands exhaled a foul smell and it used infrasound to create a fear sensation while throwing candy bars at me!
 
Correa Neto said:
I saw a bigfoot BLAARGing!

I was half asleep at a tree stand while hunting bisons deep within the PNW forests when I saw it. It was using an I-phone to post at a www discussion forum. Its pherormone glands exhaled a foul smell and it used infrasound to create a fear sensation while throwing candy bars at me!
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Wait! There's not nearly enough information in there to determine if this is a legitimate account or not.

What kind of candy bars?
 
OntarioSquatch said:
Using tools and creating them aren't the same.
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This tactic is called "invalidation". Attempted invalidation, anyway. It is best posed as the one-line zinger like this because it isn't possible to make it into something that actually makes a coherent point to the argument.

Compactness carries the illusion of elegance and power. "Water is not a solid". Wow, who could argue with that? Powerful bigfoot evidence.

Since the thread title is about tool use, it's pretty pertinent that animals with brains the size of a walnut use tools.

Also, you can't just accuse someone of victim-playing after you've wrongly accused them of things they didn't do. That doesn't make sense. You talk about how proponents are all manipulative, but perhaps it's time you look in the mirror.
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This is called projection, and from the bigfoot platform what you try to do is get skeptics on the defensive, trying to prove to the gamer that they are not doing what the gamer is doing.

The best way to play the projection tactic is with first-mover advantage: accuse the skeptic of being manipulative first. You set them up to look like they are making a childish tit-for-tat retaliatory accusation.

The form you are using it in carries far less power. I have heard it called "occupying the field" too. By being the first to make the accusation, you establish prior right, removing that right from the person who actually can make the claim validly.
 
ABP, would a typical form of the Projection Tactic be in a form such as this; where the Blaarger invalidates your future comment before you comment?


Example of Blaarger projecting in First-Mover mode? said:
"ABP is going use some whacko psychological mumbo jumbo to make me look bad, but I know someone who saw a game cam photo, of a Bigfoot, taking a MASSIVE dump on the porch of a mobile home. But his wife cleaned up the poo and threw it in the dumpster before he could collect it, thus ruining the chain of custody, so it was worthless."
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AlaskaBushPilot said:
This tactic is called "invalidation". Attempted invalidation, anyway. It is best posed as the one-line zinger like this because it isn't possible to make it into something that actually makes a coherent point to the argument.

Compactness carries the illusion of elegance and power. "Water is not a solid". Wow, who could argue with that? Powerful bigfoot evidence.

Since the thread title is about tool use, it's pretty pertinent that animals with brains the size of a walnut use tools.
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The reason I'm trying to keep things short and easy to understand is because you *********** twist things! You're twisting things to be the way you want them. The stuff you post is exactly the very manipulative tactics that you accuse bigfooters of doing. Guess who's really projecting things on others here?

It's obvious to me that you will never admit to being wrong here. Especially if it's a Bigfooter who pointed it out.

brb, gonna find a bunch of psychological terms on the internet I that myself am insecure and guilty of to use against the footers...
 
dmaker said:
If bigfeets don't use tools, then how do they sweep up all of their tracks behind them?
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Their pet phantom panters do it.

Resume said:
And pick up their crap?
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See above.

Mudcat said:
And dispose their dead?
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See above too.

Hellbound said:
Wait! There's not nearly enough information in there to determine if this is a legitimate account or not.

What kind of candy bars?
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Good n' Plenties.

But that's not the red hering in my account. Can any of you "so-called skeptics", so full of yourselves and proud of your knowledge, spot it?
 
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