A Few Words Concerning Bigfoot At The Half Century Mark

[norseman]

How did the builders in the middle ages build churches in the shape of a cross when seen from above when they had no means to fly?

because the masons understood geometry?????

sorry bud but not getting that analogy. I'll throw you a bone.

If sasquatch does not exist or ever existed in north America? I think the likeliest scenario is that they brought their memory of a like animal in siberia/asia across the land bridge with them. with northwest indians being the late comers with the latest memories unlike say south american indians.

it doesnt explain my experience around 1980, and I think there is more to it but like I said ill throw you a bone here.

[gigantor]

That's a generous gesture Norse....

[Bodhi]

The ignore feature is a wonderful thing.

Oh my goodness, I LOVE the ignore. The Wooo being spewed hourly is overwhelming otherwise.

[Guest DWA]

How did the builders in the middle ages build churches in the shape of a cross when seen from above when they had no means to fly?

How did the Wright Brothers *design an airplane* when they had no means to fly?

 

This is the depth of thinking we're getting from bigfoot skeptics.

[Bodhi]

because the masons understood geometry?????

sorry bud but not getting that analogy. I'll throw you a bone.

If sasquatch does not exist or ever existed in north America? I think the likeliest scenario is that they brought their memory of a like animal in siberia/asia across the land bridge with them. with northwest indians being the late comers with the latest memories unlike say south american indians.

it doesnt explain my experience around 1980, and I think there is more to it but like I said ill throw you a bone here.

Norse,

I have an ebook which goes into detail on the PNW tribe from whom the "sasquatch" myth was taken. The "sasquatch" of the tribe is far, FAR different from the modern "bigfoot". The sasquatch were another tribe which lived in villages, had fire and tools, etc.... 

 

If you have any interest in the book PM and I think I might be able to loan it to electronically. It's fascinating.

[Guest DWA]

The lines of Nazca not visible in true form until seen from above.............please enough about ancient aliens humans are smarter than the pulp fiction woo books allow for.

 

Which explains cathedrals visible from the air as crosses.  Did they really *have to* see them from above to appreciate the symbolism?  Or to pay homage to What in their view could?

 

 

They had science and technology and by then we had the means to travel fast enough consistently via train and early automobile to appreciate the dynamics of air when moving over surfaces.  From that the Wright Bros made the worlds first wind tunnel.  Depth of thinking?  Ahhh yes but the well of foolishness in the opposition to the skeptics goes deeper than the Mairanna Trench.

 

Only when one chooses not to read up...which many do.  The easiest position from which to assault a learned stance is an unlearned one.   You just don't have mainstream scientists kicking you off here after a few hundred...um...questionable posts, because they are in the main among the unlearned when it comes to this.  It's easy to question the very same people I ignore...and ignore the people you can't question.  While we're on trenches.

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Edited July 23, 2015 by DWA

[southernyahoo]

If bigfoot/ and other like creatures were pure myth, I'd give credit to Jonathan Swift in creating it, but it would appear it has manifested physically from those pages of fiction.

http://business.highbeam.com/5799/article-1G1-19226331/swift-boone-and-bigfoot-new-evidence-literary-connection

http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/si_zueffle97.htm

http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2015/05/yeahoh-yahoo-or-bigfoot.html

[Bodhi]

If bigfoot/ and other like creatures were pure myth, I'd give credit to Jonathan Swift in creating it, but it would appear it has manifested physically from those pages of fiction.

http://business.highbeam.com/5799/article-1G1-19226331/swift-boone-and-bigfoot-new-evidence-literary-connection

http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/si_zueffle97.htm

http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2015/05/yeahoh-yahoo-or-bigfoot.html

getting hung up on one word within a post, which wasn't at ALL directed to you, is ridiculous.

[southernyahoo]

It wasn't in response to anything other than the belief that bigfoot is purely a myth. I will comment on that as I wish.

What word are you talking about?

[Bodhi]

Be as ridiculous as you please.

[Guest DWA]

^^^^Says...um...him...?  Come on, gang.  Read up enough to know how ridiculous *you're* being.

[southernyahoo]

Be as ridiculous as you please.

 

You mean like bigfoot being a myth or reality isn't at the heart of all discussions here between skeptics and proponents? 

[norseman]

Norse,

I have an ebook which goes into detail on the PNW tribe from whom the "sasquatch" myth was taken. The "sasquatch" of the tribe is far, FAR different from the modern "bigfoot". The sasquatch were another tribe which lived in villages, had fire and tools, etc.... 

 

If you have any interest in the book PM and I think I might be able to loan it to electronically. It's fascinating.

There wasnt one specific tribe from which the myth was taken.

I always found this 1840's missionary account of the Spokane tribes beliefs to be fairly spot on with modern accounts of the creature.

http://www.bigfootencounters.com/classics/walker.htm

But I love culture and history and would love to read your book.

[WSA]

What I've found in reading the Indian accounts a and descriptions is a thread of congruency, but also embellishments that are similar to what are being constructed to this very day. Humans do that.  Absent concrete information about a mysterious phenomenon, we make crap up.  If it is a story that is especially compelling, we add to it to repertoire and amp it up a little for greater effect. The truth of the original event is still there, only just a little harder to discern.  So there are a few peeps here who have a difficult time discerning what is baseline information and what is probably embellishment.  It pays to know what humans do, when trying to figure out the difference. It also pays to have a firm base of biology, scientific theory and history before you give it a try. 

 

Think of it like listening to a bluegrass standard from the 1920's, say. Maybe it is a murder ballad. Those without the knowledge base just hear a weird tale of unrequited love and and mayhem sung in a keening tenor. Those who know better understand it is based on an actual event from the 16th Century that crossed the Atlantic and mutated before emerging from the isolation of the 19th century Southern mountains when sound recording became possible.  

 

The song remains the same.   

Edited July 24, 2015 by WSA

[Bodhi]

There wasnt one specific tribe from which the myth was taken.

I always found this 1840's missionary account of the Spokane tribes beliefs to be fairly spot on with modern accounts of the creature.

http://www.bigfootencounters.com/classics/walker.htm

But I love culture and history and would love to read your book.

You will love this book! I'll PM you when I get home tonight. I'll be very interested in your thoughts.