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Eric Sofer
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| Posted: 07 February 2018 at 9:37am | IP Logged | 1
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And don't get me wrong; I have ghost stories. (I do theatre, and it seems that a lot of theatre people see ghosts, or their effects.)
I won't conclude it's a returned spirit; I will conclude that it's something that was experienced that's unusual circumstances with an unexpected cause.
I'll say that I've never seen anything that looked like a person wearing a sheet with holes in it... except when it really WAS. But I try to keep an open mind while insisting on the scientific method to describe what was experienced. Can it be reproduced? Can it be described?
The world is full of fantastic and fascinating things. But it doesn't seem that Bigfoot is one of them. It seems that there are too many hoaxes associated with a sasquatch to ever verify one's existence... with all due respect to Mr. Langowski. ;)
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Bill Collins
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| Posted: 07 February 2018 at 9:44am | IP Logged | 2
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Robbie,have you ever watched `Most Haunted`? A right
load of old b******s, people running round in the dark
with night vision cameras, screaming at nothing a lot,
as far as i know they haven`t seen/filmed a ghost yet!
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Robbie Parry
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| Posted: 07 February 2018 at 10:35am | IP Logged | 3
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I am familiar with it, Bill. And I agree. Perhaps they'll find a ghost during a season finale.
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Trevor Smith
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| Posted: 08 February 2018 at 4:46am | IP Logged | 4
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"Fairly simple:
• No such thing as ghosts
• No such thing as flying saucers/visiting aliens
• No such thing as the Loch Ness Monster (or any of
its cousins)
• No such thing as Sasquatch (or any of its cousins)
• No such thing as angels
Etc etc etc etc etc..."
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You're *destroying* childhood me here! Well,
excepting the angels part. It's strange, as much as I
was all over the UFOs and Nessies and the like as a
kid, I never got into "mysteries of the bible" stuff.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 08 February 2018 at 9:01am | IP Logged | 5
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You're *destroying* childhood me here! Well, excepting the angels part. It's strange, as much as I was all over the UFOs and Nessies and the like as a kid, I never got into "mysteries of the bible" stuff.•• Young John was fully immersed in most of the prevalent fantasies, religions excepted. I bought the Bermuda Triangle in full, and felt like a damn fool when I started to learn more of the real story. Having seen no less than three fully convincing UFOs, I rode that train for a long time, until logic prevailed. It was STAR TREK that set me on the path to reading more serious, straight science -- and ironically demonstrated to me that ST was itself a load of folderol, no matter how important it was (and is) is my life. One by one the fantasies fell away, to be replaced by real things that were even more amazing!
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Robbie Parry
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| Posted: 08 February 2018 at 9:28am | IP Logged | 6
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John Byrne wrote:
| One by one the fantasies fell away, to be replaced by real things that were even more amazing! |
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I feel that way. When one reads about the origin of the universe, and how life forms, it's far, far more enjoyable than creation myths which amount to "God spoke..."
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John Byrne
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Yes, I often say I prefer billions of years of evolution to "SHAZAM!!"
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Doug Centers
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| Posted: 08 February 2018 at 9:56am | IP Logged | 8
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I remember waiting for Jimmy Carter to release all information regarding UFO's once he became President, like he had promised.
Of course he didn't stating "national security concerns"
My young self was very disappointed, another promise from a President not kept :-)
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Eric Sofer
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| Posted: 08 February 2018 at 11:01am | IP Logged | 9
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JB: "Yes, I often say I prefer billions of years of evolution to "SHAZAM!!""
The next DC/Marvel crossover, by John Byrne: Dr. Strange vs. the Marvel Family... for the existence of Eternity!
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Trevor Smith
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"One by one the fantasies fell away, to be replaced by
real things that were even more amazing!"
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Well said! You'd think you wrote for a living or
something...
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Robbie Parry
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I decided to watch the first episode of FINDING BIGFOOT (2011) tonight, where the team went to Georgia.
Sceptical scientist Ranae Holland was refreshing, but the guys (three of them) had made their mind up that Bigfoot existed in Georgia. In the woods at night, with night-vision goggles, every sound to them led to a, "It's definitely Sasquatch. We have a Sasquatch in these woods." Holland would dismiss that, though.
Fact is, those noises could have been anything. They are choosing the narrative, the sounds must fit their preconceived notions rather than going where the evidence leads. I presume there are lots of kinds of creatures in the Georgian woodlands?
There was dashcam footage (state trooper's car) of something moving quickly across the road. Not a bear or wolf by the look of it. But who knows? Man in a suit? Something else? I don't know what to think, but I feel there has to be a logical explanation. But, no, blurred footage, footprints and woodland noises all equated to Sasquatch somehow.
Anyway, the show ran for 90 episodes (I have no idea if any more episodes are planned) - and I presume they didn't find it otherwise we'd have seen it on every major newspaper front page. ;-)
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Bill Collins
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| Posted: 09 February 2018 at 8:11am | IP Logged | 12
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Robbie, how often do we get `Big Cat On The Loose`
headlines here in the U.K. then it turns out to either
be a large Moggie or a hoax!
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