by flipper 97 Replies latest jw friends
Hi Funky,
Good point. I guess I'm at the point in my life that I don't need to "prove" my experiences. I do enjoy talking about it to ones that don't become offensive. I even enjoy talking to ones that are skeptics as long as it doesn't become a name calling match.
Oh, I do have a question for the skeptics...what "hard" proof do you guys have to say these experiences did not happen? This is more for the ones that feel it's ok to say it never did happen and that we (believers) are "crazy"?
Yah I just saw sasquatch myself . In the movie , pick of destiny , that is. Had me ROTFLMAO .................
HUM...mmmmm
This video taken in Manitoba proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that funnyderek is truly funnyderek AND I AM WHO I AM.....lol
www.metacafe.com/watch/461944/bigfoot_sasquatch_sasquach_sighting/
FreedomFrog:
Good point. I guess I'm at the point in my life that I don't need to "prove" my experiences.
That's fine. Just don't expect other people to believe them.
Oh, I do have a question for the skeptics...what "hard" proof do you guys have to say these experiences did not happen? This is more for the ones that feel it's ok to say it never did happen and that we (believers) are "crazy"?
Nobody can have hard proof that an event did not happen. The fact that such events would be extraordinary and there is no evidence for them is what causes people not to believe. The fact that there are thousands and thousands of such claims and none of them have any evidence attached strongly suggests that the experiences are not real. What I mean is that of all the thousands of people who claim to have seen Bigfoot not a single one has managed to take a decent photograph or video. In a country where children are practically born with a video camera in their hand, that's quite extraordinary.
As regards Flipper's claim of abundant scientific evidence for Bigfoot, here's a quote from the topic in Wikipedia:
"Mainstream scientists and academics overwhelmingly "discount the existence of Bigfoot because the evidence supporting belief in the survival of a prehistoric, bipedal, apelike creature of such dimensions is scant".[5]. In addition to the lack of evidence, they cite the fact that while Bigfoot is alleged to live in regions unusual for a large, nonhuman primate, i.e., temperate latitudes in the northern hemisphere, all other recognized nonhuman apes are found in the tropics, Africa, continental Asia or nearby islands. The great apes have never been found in the fossil record in the Americas, and no Bigfoot bones or bodies have been found."
The most Bigfoot has going for it is that a few scientists are "sympathetic" toward the idea that there might be such a thing.
Sorry - the evidence just isn't there, and I don't think someone taking a skeptic for a stroll through the wilderness will make a difference. If it was that easy, we'd have all the Bigfoot evidence we'd need.
S4
Here is another plausible theory on the subject of what people are seeing, when a bear happens to stumble into an area of people the first thing it does is stand up on it's hind legs
the reason it does this is to get a better grasp of what it is that it's looking at and also to make an announcement that it is there in case of a predator situation. Now randomly think if this
situation was to occur in a densely treed forest where it is naturally at times is dark and the sighting had occurred at dusk. All the viewer would see was a tall fury beast with dark eyes and
a face that is similar to a mans, fright occurs and the person quickly runs away only to tell his story to family and friends. This what I believe what started the Bigfoot legend and many
animal experts support that theory also.
Another thought I will throw in which comes to mind is why has there never been any tangible evidence of a dead carcass ever found outside of the already known species ?
Were the Bigfoot carefully burring their dead and then immediately saying the Lords Prayer afterwords.
The human imagination can play tricks into are own sub-conscientious can it not.
I guess it's possible they are canibols .... LOL personally I think the whole thing got started whenever that film maker was so desperate to get famous and films that cheezy video . Possibly from camp fire stories as well .
i posted the following on another thread, but might as well post it here.
dear god
if i believe in you, am i more likely to believe in bigfoot?
Here's a "sympathetic" scientist....
www.bigfootbiologist.org/index.html
John Bindernagel, B.S.A., MS, Ph.D.
I am a 60 year-old professional wildlife biologist who is seriously studying the sasquatch or bigfoot in North America. My interest in this animal began in 1963 when, as a third-year-student in wildlife management at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, I was laughed at for raising the report of an animal described as an "ape-man" for possible discussion. My field work began in 1975 when our family moved to British Columbia, partly in order for me to begin field work on this species. In 1988, my wife and I found several sasquatch tracks in good condition in the mountains not far from our home on Vancouver Island. Plaster casts which we made from these tracks provided the first tangible evidence I encountered for the existence of the sasquatch. Wildlife biologists such as myself regularly depend on tracks and other wildlife sign as evidence for the presence of bears, deer, wolves, and other mammals, recognizing that tracks constitute a more reliable and persistent record of the presence of a mammal species in an area than a fleeting glimpse of the animal itself. Although I now have no doubt regarding the existence of the sasquatch, this was not always the case. However now that I am satisfied that the sasquatch is a real animal, subject to study
(The Author and Jane Goodall )
and examination like any other large ammal, I am much more concerned with addressing ecological questions such as how it overwinters in the colder regions of North America, than with dwelling on the controversy of whether it does or does not exist. I remain aware, however, that many people are not aware of the large volume of information that exists about this species and I understand why others are less ready than I am to treat it as a real animal.
Author's e-mail address: [email protected]
