(10-11-2020, 07:15 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: I'm glad the one I saw was cloaked. At 10 years old, if I had seen that thing uncloaked, I would have fainted right then and there! It was all I could do to get my legs to carry me out of there as it was.
I always hesitate to tell people how young I was when I saw the creature because I'm sure they will chalk it up to a "child's imagination", but I assure you nothing about my experience was my imagination.
The first bear I ever saw was when I was about 9 years old, and I still recall it to this day. It was about 30 yards from where I am sitting right now, in a blackberry patch. Folks thought I was just being jerked around by my imagination then, too, but I wasn't. Now there are bears all over the place here, and no one doubts any more - but back then they were unheard of in this area. Therefore, I can understand your reluctance.
Now you may understand my reluctance to shoot the bigfoot I saw. Not only did it look relatively human, but it was big enough that I feared that a shot might piss it off enough to eat me, and it looked like it could get mean enough to do it if irritated...
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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.’