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as we've touched on in the gifting thread, imo, a lot of questioning arises from avoiding "BF Burn" IOW, any of us that's into this for a while have waded through the same bull excrement in one form or the other. this field of interest has way more than its share of BS factor with all the hoaxers and attention seekers over the years. so whether just another cool story or the latest build up to a let down (DNA anyone? ) eventually its easy to become jaded to a degree. perhaps wishing to avoid getting burned (yet again) generates a lot of the questions / evidence requests not only from skeptics but proponents as well , especially when things start sounding all too familiar .... so, how much does BF Burn influence the questioning here? and discuss any ideas on how to avoid or deal with it.....have fun.

It's not bigfoot that's taking these people. At least not bigfoot as understood and accepted here.

DWA, are you "certain" mainstream science is at fault for not accepting bigfoot existence nor being more proactive in conducting evidential searching for the creature? It seems to me, from your scores or hundreds of postings regarding precisely such, that you might be overly certain of that dam (sic) conjecture. Looking forward to many, many more postings from you, each a mirror image/nearly identical point, about your imagined issue with the scientific community.

No burn. First, don't over-invest your ego in any aspect of this. Don't put more of your personal credibility on the line than you can afford to have questioned. Second, pace yourself. Keep your overall priorities in mind when choosing how much time / money / effort you put into "bigfoot stuff." Don't rob your family of YOU. We can all look around and see the slightly unbalanced personalities bigfooting attracts disproportionally. I'd suggest it's not just those other folks, it's us, it's ME, too. Denial doesn't change it. This means we're like alcoholics working in a bar or gambling addicts working at a casino, we're always on the hairy edge of letting temptation drag us one step too far. We HAVE to self monitor if we're going to participate without taking that one step too far. IMHO anyway. MIB

No burn. Only deliberate curiosity. If you take this approach, and keep your expectations in check, you do not make yourself vulnerable at all. I keep my eyeballs peeled when I am out of doors anyway, always. If I spot something that fits my understanding of what this animal is, I will have chalked up another experience of the kind I hope to have plenty of by the time I croak. If I don't, I'll still have lots to reflect on that is pretty special too. I think we call this outcome a "win-win", am I right? No timetable. Low expectations. Look for consistencies in the evidence and follow it. Do that, and you're playing the long, smart game, I believe. I"m astounded at all the mind-blowing discoveries that have been made in my short life. None (Repeat: NONE) of those were my due, or anyone else's. They could just have easily not happened. I'm just grateful to my fellow humans that they expended the calories to make them, or were paying attention when those were dropped in their laps, and had the presence to document them when they did. I'm thankful for all those adults and teachers who steered me right as a kid to pay attention to that kind of knowledge, and who stoked my energy to stay curious, to this day. Life would be a pretty grim undertaking without that... for me at least. I try to find a down-side to this field of inquiry, and I'm frankly unable to ever see any.