Why wouldn't bigfoot hunt humans?

[Jodie]

If I bowl a 200, but say that I bowled a 230, I am embellishing a bit. Human nature.

If I tell you that a giant monkey man threw a bowling ball at my camper, I'm indulging in fantasy.

Again, I'm skeptical that you don't see the difference between the two. Things that exist, exist. Pilots, hunters, bears, planes, guns, Alaska, trees.

Things that don't exist -- unicorns, the tooth fairy, Bigfoot, Santa Claus -- those things don't exist. They are fantasy, fiction, stories, folklore. Telling stories about those things is by definition "story telling" and not reality.

Yet if that lying bowler tells his neighbor that he's lying because he says he saw bigfoot......there is no fundamental difference.

 

[Jodie]

Exactly. This is one of the harmful things about University of Bigfoot.

Once you learn how to play the bigfoot game of selective attention, evasion, diversion, denial, lying by omission and by inclusion of extraneous misleading information, guilt-tripping, shaming, playing the victim, projection, etc...

The behavior is too easily transferred to any exchanges with other people. Putting a pretend belief in bigfoot down does not mean giving up all of the tactics you learned.

We make a mistake in thinking this is about convincing people to give up belief in bigfoot. Because the real insight is correcting behavior: to stop using logical fallacies, to stop using emotional attacks, etc. - and that too transfers to all our other relationships as an improvement in our social conduct.

Being a scientist about things actually makes you a nicer person. It is very aggravating to have someone deny a distinction that is so obvious a three year old can understand. That ought to tell you what the motivation is for denying the distinction - it gets under people's skin. When they tell you explicitly that they despise someone, and you see this conduct, then you ought give up trying to convince them to accept the distinction. Because they already know. So yes, you are skeptical about the right thing here.

I think you should have read what he was responding to before you commented.

 

[Jodie]

Both OS and Jodie are pretending that unicorns, bigfoot and bear stories are all the same. Weird. Maybe they could PM me the rules for this game, because in the real world, imaginary things are different from real things.

As I said before, it makes no difference whether you are lying about an imaginary thing, concrete thing, or an action. Pretending there is a difference doesn't make it true anymore than believing in bigfoot makes it real.

 

[Jodie]

Thanks. Jodie's reply to my post was very special. "It was a joke." Ha ha.

Yeah, you asked for bigfoot evidence, bear pelts have been used before, and as fake DNA evidence for bigfoot. I was tying that in with ABP's pic of a bear pelt with a bullet hole in it.

 

[John Nowak]

Yeah, you asked for bigfoot evidence, bear pelts have been used before, and as fake DNA evidence for bigfoot. I was tying that in with ABP's pic of a bear pelt with a bullet hole in it.

Do you have evidence ABP is lying? Or are you simply declaring it?

 

[Agatha]

This thread does not appear to be discussing bigfoot attacks, despite the modbox. I am therefore closing it and I encourage you to take tales of bigfoot encounters to the "evidence" thread.

Posted By: Agatha