Sharon Hill
Complicated biological machine
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- Dec 16, 2014
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- Pennsylvania, USA
Belief is a powerful thing. Those who have livelihoods or are otherwise emotionally invested in Bigfoot cannot readily let it go (nor can they fairly weigh the opposing position - same with any subject area). This is why I think Dahinden was my favorite 'footer, he seemed to be cognizant of this.To be honest, I’m a bit surprised at the response and level of blind belief in this thing here. Are you for the idea of a Moon Landing Hoax? Are you wary of Vampire attack? Fearful of what creature a full moon may present? Have you ever posted a viewpoint contrary to such beliefs?
This is a discussion on the film and having looked through the evidence and followed the money, I have to say ‘fake’. That is not to say that somewhere out there such a thing doesn’t exist, I’m just of the opinion a bunch of desperate cowboys actually promoting Bigfoot as their potential moneyspinner got a clip bang on cue. It just doesn’t hold up.
As a Fortean, of course I have an interest but also, as a Fortean, I have an interest in how the human mind can delude itself. I was never fooled by The Cumberland Spaceman. The Surgeon’s Photo looked wrong to me from the outset. Yet people believed in these pictures, held them up as proof and couldn’t get over their original self-imposed visual interpretation and belief they’d conjured around them enough to see them with fresh eyes in a new light.
As Howard Devoto sang...
My mind
It ain't so open
That anything
Could crawl right in