1. Mother Nature doesn’t need “saving.” Once she’s gotten rid of us, everything else will come back, better than ever.

2. For those of us who pretty much know Man’s Doom Is Sealed (or at least the fun’s gonna be over soon), the only slim slim hope we hold is that discoveries like this might alert a critical mass of people to revolt against the high-speed overconsumption that’s eating up Mother Nature, Current Version.

In other words, this is bigger than sending money to Malays to lick envelopes. The sooner the cryptids start coming out of the woodwork…well, the sooner we’ll see whether it makes any difference.

Sorry, but there’s yer Reality Factor.

Although those of you who think it will work, lick away.

It’s just that, with crypto being dissed just about everywhere else, a crypto site doesn’t seem the place to do that. Too much. Enlightened skepticism is welcome, indeed essential. I’d have a real problem with anyone saying that Peter’s illustrations (as great as they are), or the blurry OR “sas shot,” are proof, or even compelling evidence, of anything new under the sun.

Chymo, search Yahoo! or CNN. Nothing about this there. (Very little about the abundant actual scientific discoveries going on in places like New Guinea.) There’s almost nothing anywhere in the mainstream press. But it’s a breaking story! and one with more smoke (as in, indicative of fire) than normal, and with huge ramifications for the way we humans look at the world if it pans out. Peter’s bulletins remind us of that. And it is of much greater importance to the world at large than who’s survived to the next round of “Idol.”

Skepticism I get. But cynicism, well, not really, not here. Save THAT for CNN.

I totally support Cryptomundo & your work, Loren. I have followed the subject since I was very young, & have you on my shelves as I speak. I’m also absolutely dedicated to rationality. If I’m ever critical, I try to make my criticisms salient.

It just strikes me that there are *a lot* of posts about the Malaysian animals & the book. To my mind the situation looks poor. Why is it getting so much airtime?

Thanks, DWA!! That made my day ‘Hopeless’ romantics, aren’t we?

As far as setting rules on what I should post here on the Malaysia Mawas and related drama, I wish people would save their energy in that regard.
I’ll probably just start deleting those messages as off-topic.

Those of us who want to be titillated get to continue to be! Isn’t that what this site is about? Isn’t that what an interest in this subject is about? The what-if?

I can’t get over how many commentators here sound, for all the world, like Linus in the pumpkin patch, after the Great Pumpkin has let him down, yet again. Or like the grownup who still hasn’t gotten over that long-ago day when he found out there was no Santa Claus.

Have some fun with this stuff! Keep those artists’ conceptions coming, Pete! We love ‘em! This is Cryptomundo, not Mope-o-Mundo….!

SHEESH!