(11-05-2022, 01:05 PM)Snarl Wrote: Problem for me is: there has never been a single shred of 'evidence' of the big hairy beast.
Not one tooth
Not one bone
Not one strand of hair
Nothing but stories told.
This is why Göbekli Tepe is such a big damn deal. No one can deny the evidence. I'm sure there are some folks who've held control of the scientific narrative who would like to cover it right back up. But, that cat's out of the bag. And, I do wonder why History has not been re-written as a result. You know ... how the Sphinx pre-dates the last ice age ... which means the pyramids probably do too.
Bigfoot? UFOs toting around living alien beings? Sorry!! Gonna have to present a tangible piece of evidence that can be subjected to intense physical scrutiny.
Exactly!
Kinda like that idiotic notion that atoms exist - I've never seen one, or held one in my hand. I've never hit one with a hammer - Have you? No proof for their existence whatsoever, yet those pesky high priests of Science still insist that we believe in them!
And this "time" thingy - you can't play catch with it, you can't grab it and shake it, or ball it up in a spitball for use when you are bored in a classroom to shoot at the teacher. What proof is there that it is even there? I've never seen it!
And that silly legend of the Vu Quang Ox in Vietnam - no bones, no hair, no nothing.... no, wait, they DID find one of those a couple years ago, so it's "real" now... but it didn't exist before that, I assure you... I mean, if it had existed before that, surely some one of the thousands of hunters in the Vietnamese Highlands would have been able to bring back some evidence, a bone or a hair or SOMETHING, before it magically popped into being, but nooooo. Nothing but silly stories up to that point.
Or gorillas - they didn't exist before about 1880, either. Sure, there were stories of them before that, but those were just being told by superstitious tribesmen who, for all the stories they could tell, could not produce a single hair, bone, or toenail of a gorilla before they suddenly came into being when a white man found one...
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’