Comments on: Hunting for Bigfoot in the Santa Cruz Mountains

By: fuzzy

fuzzy — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:38:06 +0000

PoeticsOfBigfoot: Perhaps a phone interview with the young lady would be a good way to investigate this discussion?

By: LobsterBoy

LobsterBoy — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:26:41 +0000

Argument is of course a presentation of viewpoints in an effort to persuade, so this is all in good fun. I respectfully apologize if I offended you.
I don’t have a problem with faith at all, which I would say you deduced from my prior posting, which in fact contains no such statement. That is another assumption. Of course, I did not provide you with any context for my conversations, so any conclusions you draw there are your own. I did not say the conversations were about Bigfoot. In fact we travel in the same social circle, and I only recently learned she is interested in Bigfoot.
In any event, I submit that faith is not a necessary ingredient for spending ones time in pursuit of Sasquatch as any number of motives will suffice. My only point was that you cannot know for certain that much about a person based on uninformed observation.I offer this with no rancor or I’ll will.

By: PoeticsOfBigfoot

PoeticsOfBigfoot — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:49:32 +0000

Yes, you are mistaken. Do you not agree that you need faith in what you’re doing to keep at it? Otherwise, why do it? And I don’t think it’s a stretch to think someone with a tattoo of one of the most divine figures in Western civilization might be interested in and have an affinity for strongly-held beliefs. Again, what’s wrong with that? Since you’ve talked to her “a couple of times” do you presume to know she isn’t a person of faith? And, finally, what is it about faith that you disagree with?

By: LobsterBoy

LobsterBoy — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:23:09 +0000

Well, when you make a statement that, based on someone’s physical appearance “faith must be important” to them, then an assumption is being made. Furthermore, you make the statement that it most likely requires “quite a bit” of faith to hunt for Bigfoot “day after day”. Since you have virtually no information about this person, I am questioning how you arrived at your deductions.I could be wrong here, and please forgive me if I am, but your tone strikes me as critical. What motivates a person cannot be decided on the basis of a picture.

By: PoeticsOfBigfoot

PoeticsOfBigfoot — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:47:12 +0000

Umm, I don’t think I questioned anyone’s goodness or whether they’re nice or not. I merely observed that she has a tattoo of an image associated with faith, and faith is needed to continue looking for Bigfoot for so long. What’s wrong with that?

By: myakkad

myakkad — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:56:36 +0000

I’ve been to the museum and it was a great experience! I had some great conversation with this gentlemen and he even showed my wife and I some of the footage he has. I would be so stoked if he was a part of finding some important evidence that supports the existence of Bigfoot. If you’re near Santa Cruz check it out for sure.

By: DWA

DWA — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:16:20 +0000

LobsterBoy:

Indeed. As blogs and comments on this site seem to point out on a regular basis, questioning assumptions is somethng of which a whole lot of “skeptical” people – scientists prime among them, but “skeptics” generally – need to do a whole lot more.

By: LobsterBoy

LobsterBoy — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:37:36 +0000

Hey there- I’ve talked to Ashlee a couple of times, she’s a nice girl. I don’t know why anyone would make an assumption about someone’s tattoo. I personally have a lot of them, some of them inspired by Tibetan Buddhism. I am not a Tibetan Buddhist, I just like the way they look. I met a person recently who declared “I knew you must be cool since you’re wearing a Giants cap”. I couldn’t care less about sports, let alone the Giants. I bought the cap to cover a bad haircut! Please question your assumptions, especially regarding people you have never met.

By: PoeticsOfBigfoot

PoeticsOfBigfoot — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:59:41 +0000

One interesting observation is that Membree has a tattoo of the Virgin Mary on her arm; faith is obviously important to her, and I wonder how much faith it takes to stay on the hunt day after day. Quite a bit, I reckon.