@churro
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The pro-vax v. anti-vax dilemma is a false one. I don’t get the flu shot. If you understand how they determine which virus strains MIGHT be active that year, you’d realize it is just a gamble of sorts. I do, however, get a tetanus shot every 5 years or so.
If you think a COVID 19 vaccine will actually combat the strain that is active, you need to do some research. A simple study done last month China differentiated 11 strains from people already with one being over 200% more virulent than the others. Vaccine research and application in times like that are a moving target. I would never get the vaccine. Never. Why?
Lastly, I’d challenge you to look up Dr. Erickson COVID 19 briefing, parts 1 and 2 on Youtube. From someone on the front line and someone who actually understands science and statistics. You will see A LOT of this is media hype and an outright distortion of the facts. Why would I get a vaccine when the numbers simply don’t warrant it? I wouldn’t.
Don’t watch it with a hangover…LOL…it was like Blair Witch Project. Motion sick.
One of the reviews I read was spot on. This film could have been 30 minutes and then it would have been 10 minutes too long.
The tracks were interesting as was the FLIR footage. But after that, it was just there.
I live in the Norco/Corona area, my house backs up to the Santa Ana River Basin. I’ve never seen anything nor have my neighbors. But I can tell you this. There is ample food there. We have a problem with feral pigs. My neighbor shot 40 in one year. Last year we had on going rains and I think it killed quite a bit of the population though. We have mountain lions, bobcats, coyotes, and other critters too.
There was a report in Corona in the 80s, but that is on the mountain side, not the river basin side.
IF truth is relative, then it loses its meaning. Either a statement corresponds to the world or not, that is not subject to interpretation under normal circumstances. If someone is color blind, that is not normal, for instance.
Either his statements correspond to the world or not. Only he knows if that is true or not. But that does not make truth relative. He either sat in a room with two creatures or not. He either visited the old lady or not. There is fact of what he witnessed or not in terms of color, shape, number and size. Now if you think that is subject to interpretation, you have no basis for understanding reality. We all experience in space and time, and with virtually the same perceptual mechanisms. If anyone wants to go down the road of truth is subjective, then “proving” anything is impossible, as there are no criterion for proof!
Also, for those who think you can’t detect deception linguistically, I would suggest reading some of Marc McClish’s work on statement analysis and other measures of linguistic deception detection.
Having been trained in statement analysis (and forensic linguistics), and listening to this guy, I think he believes (most of) the story he is telling. That may or may not correspond to reality though, as in the case of people with delusions, mental illness, drug use, and other factors. Is his story true if it doesn’t correspond with reality? No, no more than fiction is true in an objective assessment. The California Bigfoot lady, who filed the lawsuit, her story has many problems with it, and if I had to testify in court, I could point out at least five major problems with it indicating deception.
We need to be very careful with statements like truth and fact have no correlation. A fact by definition is objective or pragmatically agreed upon. One does not create their own truth any more than one creates their own facts. It is misuse of the words. What someone is doing is stating their opinion, which is a subjective measure of assessment. For instance,
Opinion: Metallica is the best metal band of all time.
Fact: Metallica has sold more albums than any other metal band.Opinion: I think that was a Sasquatch.
Fact: There was something over 7 feet tall and brown walking upright in the woods that did not have the gait of a bear on two hind legs.The fact is not subject to interpretation like the opinion. There is no fact about Sasquatch at this point, as it hasn’t been proven by the scientific community. The fact corresponds to the world or not, the opinion does not have to.
You can believe what you want about reality, but that does not make reality that way.
Not a moderator, but I agree with Knobby and Gum. If your “research” is so stellar start your own site…seriously. I might even contribute if it is good. The fact is you come in this thread thinking your “experience” contains certain privileges and rank–when it doesn’t. Wes is darn specific about “researchers” and it shows you probably do not listen to Wes very much or get the spirit of this forum. I’ll happily refer someone to replace you.
@ben_h. If you understand how government “really” works, the leader does not have the power that some believe. It is the entrenched people who don’t vary from administration to administration who hold on to it. Bush Sr. even admitted in an interview he knew much about UFO’s, and then tried to backtrack. He was also former CIA, so he was probably the best shot.
If you want disclosure about Bigfoot and other strange phenomena, I suspect you will be waiting a long time. The societal ramifications are great—how long did our government lie to us? Why did they? What did they benefit from it? The fact is that no sitting government could withstand that kind of scandal.
@StevenB, who is the “they” you are referring to? That is something that has not been demonstrated to be true. You are assuming what you are trying to prove. Once again, if they actually talked to her it would be different.
She may very well have a confirmation bias, looking for things that existed before, but she didn’t recognize and now attributes them to something that fits her situation. Do you know if she has other issues with the government? Do you know if there is any OTHER reason she may have people coming to her door? No.
From her own account numerous people have had this experience on that trail. Are they being harassed to? Where does it stop? This harassment is because she filed a lawsuit, that will likely get dismissed….
There is a little too much of this conspiracy angle being promoted without facts that she is actually being harassed. When that proof comes in, then I’ll believe it. Until then, given the totality of her situation, it looks suspect.
My problem with this kind of thing is that it detracts from legitimate encounters and possible proof. If we are serious about getting to the bottom of this, then only a particular set of encounters will fit that bill and should be supported. I think the “community” shoots itself in the foot believing this encounter, as the person making it suffers credibility issues.
One final thing. She’s had at least three encounters by her own admission going to back 1997, then another in 2014, and one in 2017, which predates the GoFundMe. Interesting how Sasquatch finds her in two different states some 20 years apart. Buyer beware.
Be strong Shirley. We prayed my mother had Hodgkins instead of her late state lung cancer. So, I understand.
Just to point out the obvious, she lives in a National Forest in Crestline. So government plates prove little. Unless she speaks to the people, it is not clear they are harassing her or anything else. The mind seeks to explain from a paradigm and her current paradigm is one of harassment. Now, if they start asking her about stuff, that is different.
I do think, though there might be a credibility problem with her. She has the money and time to file a lawsuit, but is asking for money on GoFundMe due to a debilitating illness, https://www.gofundme.com/claudiasasquatch
I don’t see anything in the video that indicates any particular animal. I’ve also been asking around, I know many people who hike in the very area, and not a single one has any kind of experience–and while that doesn’t prove anything, neither does her video. I’ve lived in the general area most of my life and have spent a lot of time up there, in particular I owned a house in Big Bear.
Something strikes me as fishy about all of this, but to each their own.
I don’t think that is a new one because there is more than a 3 volume set at this point. These are scammers making money off of Paulides older work .
I always find it interesting that so many people believe the NRA has superpowers. They have been utterly ineffective in California, where we have terrible gun laws. Their last fight was over the No Fly list, rightly so, as the Feds couldn’t give a rationale who ends up on that list and who does not. Ted Kennedy was on it!
The NRA actually agreed that bumpstocks need additional regulation. So, people need to read what the NRA actually supports and what it does not.
In California, we have a waiting period and we are limited on what firearms we can buy. Didn’t stop the San Berdo shooting at all. Per FBI stats, handguns are the most often used weapon in mass shootings, usually with high cap mags. You are much more likely to die from being beaten to death by someone’s fists than being shot by an assault rifle. Once again FBI stats on that….
Having said that, Cruz was a known problem and the authorities were unable to handle him. He was identified by both local and Federal authorities. He was reported for an open threat to schools to the FBI by one of his friends. Yet, they did nothing. The whole mantra, “See something, say something” being put out is BS because people did in this case and nothing was done.
The solution to school shootings is fairly simple. You have to meet the shooter at the school as early as possible in the incident and that requires trained security at every school willing to engage someone who wants to do students and faculty harm. The school in Florida had a police officer but the campus was so large. Metal detectors, closed campuses, and behavioral profiling would largely eliminate these shootings. But that costs money and we know that no matter what President is in, military spending and social programs will prosper while our kids potentially suffer.
Qanon is ripe stuff….and if you’ve followed it recently, it appeared to predict the Florida shooting or a similar even to come.
Just to add one thing, Dennis Prager once said that the current generation knows no true suffering like previous ones. So they manufacture it–race issues, gender issues, and even school shootings. Their notion of suffering isn’t being hungry or living in squalor, it is when someone doesn’t like their Instagram post. Social media has made the youth narcissistic and nihilistic–a dangerous combo when SSRI drugs and the like are thrown in.
Here are a few of the problems:
1) Mental illness
2) Wide spread use of SSRI drugs that lower inhibitions.
3) Social media–increases alienation and fosters false images.
4) Lack of parenting
5) Lack of legislation to address troubled youths–39 times the sheriff came to his house.
6) Video games
7) Lack of discipline in schools and respect for education.
8) Not enforcing existing laws on the books.Thank God for the NRA, which is anathema to those outside of the USA. We have a right and they protect us against politicians who have no conscience and think that guns are the SOLE problem. Yes, they can be part of the problem. But so can cars, trucks, ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, pipe bombs, etc…
The cold hard fact is that IF someone wants to harm someone else, they will. You cannot stop it in all instances. Nice France, 9/11, Khobar Towers, NYC truck attack, China–53 people stabbed by one man…..guns can be used but they are not the sole problem.
