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Old 05-19-2013, 09:54 AM
 
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Talk is cheap. I offer up a way to give you quality information. You guys are time wasters
Why don't you take a video camera and post up your sightings on you-tube and then give us a link?

Seems pretty simple and if you get good footage you'll make a ton of money.

Basically, if your claims are true and accurate you are literally passing up the opportunity of a lifetime to share what you are seeing with the world and would make a small fortune at the same time.
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Old 05-19-2013, 10:02 AM
 
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....I WOULDN'T go out in the wilderness. Sorry -- WAY too scary.

But I do know one thing. How many times have you gone into the wilderness and found a dead anything. You rarely find a dead anything.....
For someone that wouldn't go out into the wilderness you have some curiously strong opinions about what you do and don't find out there.

There is a complete and utter lack of verified DNA evidence from fur, scat, a body, skeletal fragments.....nothing. No hunter has ever bagged one either.

Maybe they burst into flames and completely consume themselves like the vampires in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Check out how much this bear would look like a sasquatch if viewed through foliage or dimmer lighting.

three legged bear walking on two feet, bear necessities - YouTube

It gets good around 45secs in.
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Old 05-19-2013, 12:02 PM
 
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For someone that wouldn't go out into the wilderness you have some curiously strong opinions about what you do and don't find out there.

There is a complete and utter lack of verified DNA evidence from fur, scat, a body, skeletal fragments.....nothing. No hunter has ever bagged one either.

Maybe they burst into flames and completely consume themselves like the vampires in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Check out how much this bear would look like a sasquatch if viewed through foliage or dimmer lighting.

three legged bear walking on two feet, bear necessities - YouTube

It gets good around 45secs in.
I won't go out into the wilderness. Woods -- been in lots of woods -- which I define by a small wilderness area where I can't get lost in it. Same thing.

And as Sheldon Cooper said -- I can't see atoms, but I know they are there. So yes -- I have strong opinions. Don't know why you think they are curious.

My honest opinion -- I don't know if there are BigFoots. I like to think there are. I like to think that not all the mysteries have been solved, and I think there might be something to it because it's such an ubiquitous myth across the world.
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Old 05-20-2013, 07:54 AM
 
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You base this off of what evidence? What physical evidence do you have that shows that a bigfoot will eat its dead to the point of not leaving a single trace of it?
I messed up. Should have read for WHAT we know. We don't know squat.
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Old 05-20-2013, 08:53 AM
 
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My honest opinion -- I don't know if there are BigFoots. I like to think there are. I like to think that not all the mysteries have been solved, and I think there might be something to it because it's such an ubiquitous myth across the world.
I don't really disagree with any of that.

I think it's important to note that there are a number of persistant "myths" that have carried down via oral tradition for tens and tens of thousands of years. That would be long enough to encompass a time on this planet where neanderthals still roamed.

The native NewZealanders have oral history re: giant birds that would kill people and eat them. Haasts eagle which went extinct due to the killing of its main prey (by humans) was certainly that bird. 100% real....just not with us anymore.

So, that's something interesting to contemplate....that these myths have an anchor in reality....giant man-eating eagles. You won't find any now but they were very real once upon a time.

So what gets neat is when mythology with real roots (and most of it does) blends with odd occurrences like wildmen, 3-legged bears walking on hind legs, hoaxers etc etc etc.

It's this complex blend of history and modern reality.
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Old 05-20-2013, 03:24 PM
 
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No guts no glory just mouth
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Old 05-21-2013, 09:07 AM
 
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No guts no glory just mouth
Not since highschool have I seen such a reaction when someone made a claim, said they could back it up and when pressed....refused to and started name calling.

It was a kid claiming that he'd been learning how to be a ninja and that he could throw a throwing star through the trunk of a 3 foot oak tree and out the other side.

I guess we will never know if he really could have done it.
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Old 05-21-2013, 01:26 PM
 
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Not since highschool have I seen such a reaction when someone made a claim, said they could back it up and when pressed....refused to and started name calling.

It was a kid claiming that he'd been learning how to be a ninja and that he could throw a throwing star through the trunk of a 3 foot oak tree and out the other side.

I guess we will never know if he really could have done it.
I still think he needs to read up on cultural mythology, think about how the Sasquatch legends fall into place in the modern American mythos. THAT is much more interesting anyway.

As for making the claims and then resorting to name-calling, check out the religion and spirituality section of the forum. The self professed evangelical Christians seem to have perfected that activity.
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Old 05-21-2013, 02:04 PM
 
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....check out the religion and spirituality section of the forum.
I wouldn't touch that forum with a 10foot straight jacket.
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Old 05-23-2013, 09:37 AM
 
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Tell me what you see.





Here is a Black Bear:

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