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^^^As a Nation (U.S. that is) we might be waking up to the factual vacuum created by the whole idea of false equivalency. This is the pernicious idea that any fact stated is balanced out by the mere statement to the contrary. There is no end to the mischief this creates and it sustains an atmosphere of "anything goes, and nothing matters." If I were to say, "The sun rises in the East, and sets in the West" and your reply is NUH-UHHH!!!, and both "views" are proposed as having equal legitimacy, we are four-square in the upside-down world of the false equivalency. So....to bring it around to the topic at hand...if I say to you , "Look, there are gigantic footprints that were obviously made by something big, with a lot of mass, and with a preternaturally long stride", and your reply on looking at them is: "No they weren't, because the animal you reference is mythical"? One of us has factual issues. It would not be me.

Haha. You have to believe those who would deceive you into believing in mythical beasts .Dismissing the evidence or lack there of in which you have already studied and reached your own conclusions. That in itself is a no no. Just believe. You can do it.

Any first sighting is going to be life-changing in some way. Either it will affirm one's belief, confirm existence for the open-minded, or fundamentally contradict with a skeptic's world view (or at least cause a skeptic to question himself - I, myself, refused to accept that the individual I had encountered was not a man until my second encounter). After that (the "OMG there one is" moment), there is the intensity level of the encounter. Was it a sighting at a distance? Was the sighting close enough to allow interaction? did the bigfoot behave in a evasive, passive, benign, defensive, intimidating, threatening, or aggressive manner? Did the witness feel that they or someone with them was in jeopardy? Did the witness, for example, feel the need to protect a family member if the bigfoot made a move, possibly with the realization that it might be at the cost of their own life? Or worse, did the witness feel helpless to protect a child or spouse? Given the long history of legends and lore regarding bigfoot-like creatures around the world, one must also consider that over the millennia the competition between us and that class of hominids may be ingrained in us at the visceral level as well, as it is with most categories of animals that have preyed on or threatened our species throughout time. We may be hard-wired to respond at the gut instinct level to an encounter with them. I even think that this manifests as the motivation behind the behavior of the most adamant of skeptics. All of these things are potential factors influencing the psychological impact of a sighting or an encounter. One thing is for sure, a sighting or encounter is not likely to be a "so what" moment.

I never mentioned Orangutan separation some 11,000,000 years ago. Not talking chimps 4.5 million years ago. Nor do I trust their aging of these separations at any event. Talking about physical depictions from just a few hundred years ago. I'm talking about Medieval depictions of these things in Europe. They're not organgutans, so it doesn't matter what steams up orangutans. Depictions that show them carrying clubs.

No need to apologize, I'm not offended at all. We all have our points of view, I was just pointing out you left out a few categories in your original post. A dialogue is necessary for the meeting of the minds... and I think we've some progress.

I'm just stating facts...your statement that he should get out into field and away from his computer is a low blow. Here. You can peruse his work to your heart's content. http://bigfootforums.com/index.php?/forum/137-west-virginia-trail-cam-project/

^^^ I don't want to be ignorant, please tell me how I can be enlightened. What should I do to overcome my ignorance. I'm willing to overcome it, please help me!

Maybe it's a problem, maybe it's not. Maybe we're not calling the same thing "night vision." I'm just saying they can see in the dark, I don't care if it's night vision or not. That's based on experience, not theory, not google search. MIB