Bigfoot Don't Get No Respect
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Bigfoot Don't Get No Respect
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) -- Jeffrey Meldrum holds a Ph.D. in anatomical sciences and is a tenured professor of anatomy at Idaho State University.
He is also one of the world's foremost authorities on Bigfoot, the mythical ape-man of the Northwest woods. And Meldrum firmly believes the lumbering, shaggy brute exists.
That makes him an outcast -- a solitary, Sasquatch-like figure himself -- on the 12,700-student campus, where many scientists are embarrassed by what they call Meldrum's "pseudo-academic" pursuits and have called on the university to review his work with an eye toward revoking his tenure. One physics professor, D.P. Wells, wonders whether Meldrum plans to research Santa Claus, too.
AP article
He is also one of the world's foremost authorities on Bigfoot, the mythical ape-man of the Northwest woods. And Meldrum firmly believes the lumbering, shaggy brute exists.
That makes him an outcast -- a solitary, Sasquatch-like figure himself -- on the 12,700-student campus, where many scientists are embarrassed by what they call Meldrum's "pseudo-academic" pursuits and have called on the university to review his work with an eye toward revoking his tenure. One physics professor, D.P. Wells, wonders whether Meldrum plans to research Santa Claus, too.
AP article
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This is far from the norm. Look at what befell John Mack... He was tenured, as well. And the minute he began believing people were being abducted, and chose to write a paper on it, he was immediately under fire.
Any time someone deviates from what "everyone else" perceives to be normal, he/she is branded a black sheep or an outcast. (For instance, COPERNICUS!)
I've never seen a Sasquatch... here. I don't know if they are native to Earth, or if Earth has been used as a pasture land/breeding ground for them. But I did see one when I was on a ship, and that was 40 years ago. So the minute I saw Leonard Nimoy talking about them on Unsolved Mysteries, I knew they were REAL.
Any time someone deviates from what "everyone else" perceives to be normal, he/she is branded a black sheep or an outcast. (For instance, COPERNICUS!)
I've never seen a Sasquatch... here. I don't know if they are native to Earth, or if Earth has been used as a pasture land/breeding ground for them. But I did see one when I was on a ship, and that was 40 years ago. So the minute I saw Leonard Nimoy talking about them on Unsolved Mysteries, I knew they were REAL.
Call me crazy but here is a theory.
Witnesses seem to see Bigfoot in various parts of the world and it seemingly disappears before a positive ID is made (or is captured).
Could Bigfoot be nothing more than a ghost? If humans are allowed to materialize as ghosts, why not pre-humans? (Would consciousness allow it?) Maybe every Bigfoot sighting is a revisitation by a hominid from the past. Would these hominids have enough consciousness to want to come back?
And are 'ghosts' able to leave tracks?
Witnesses seem to see Bigfoot in various parts of the world and it seemingly disappears before a positive ID is made (or is captured).
Could Bigfoot be nothing more than a ghost? If humans are allowed to materialize as ghosts, why not pre-humans? (Would consciousness allow it?) Maybe every Bigfoot sighting is a revisitation by a hominid from the past. Would these hominids have enough consciousness to want to come back?
And are 'ghosts' able to leave tracks?
Reposted from another forum on this subject...
It’s stories like this one that reveal the Ivory Tower in its true light. Institutional education does not exist in order to teach: if you want to learn something, then you have to learn it for yourself. All that institutional education does is to certify that you have learned what you have learned. But more than that, institutional education certifies only certain kinds of knowledge and then only for certain kinds of purposes. In short, institutional education serves as the socially-designated gatekeeper for a bourgeois mainstream/professional class lifestyle, nothing more. And now that the Bush fascist junta is disintegrating the entire 80-year-old structure of the American middle class, institutional education increasingly has nothing to offer for the repressive restrictions and the exorbitant fees that it levies on its students. And the result is “the crisis of higher education.”
The founders of the scientific world-view in the 17th century were outcasts from the Ivory Tower of their day, obsessed as it was with the study of Aristotle and the learning of Latin. Dr. Meldrum is a worthy heir to these pioneers, and the difficulties that he presently faces --- difficulties that they faced four hundred years ago --- demonstrate that the Ivory Tower is just as repressive and reactionary a social force now as it was then. [The name of the forum where I posted this message], and other Internet forums of its type, do more for the 21st century advancement of learning than the entire Ivy League does!
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The founders of the scientific world-view in the 17th century were outcasts from the Ivory Tower of their day, obsessed as it was with the study of Aristotle and the learning of Latin. Dr. Meldrum is a worthy heir to these pioneers, and the difficulties that he presently faces --- difficulties that they faced four hundred years ago --- demonstrate that the Ivory Tower is just as repressive and reactionary a social force now as it was then. [The name of the forum where I posted this message], and other Internet forums of its type, do more for the 21st century advancement of learning than the entire Ivy League does!
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Re: Bigfoot Don't Get No Respect
Swerdloc wrote: One physics professor, D.P. Wells, wonders whether Meldrum plans to research Santa Claus, too.
What a dick.
yeah, clat, that's a stumper.
i find that people that assume that bigfoot doesn't exist are just following the paradigms that make modern life more, shall we say, digestable to the average human. it parses the univers artificially into small consumable bits that people feel that they can handle. does that mean that it's true? of course not. i've heard several biologist from this area dispute the fact that we could have black panthers or mountain lions in this area. well, some of my family, years ago, started a small community called "pantertown" (pronounced like 'painter-town'). 'panter' is the colloquialism for 'panther' and that IS why the town was named that. i have personally seen one black panther at my 'nanny's' house (yes, that's what we call her) and heard quite a few more. we all know that they're there, and that the scientists are full of crap. that's pretty much how it goes with ANY science. some people just KNOW. science says that they have to see it to believe it. i, personally, have never seen a baby pigeon, but i'm pretty sure that they exist.
joe, that was a very eloquent statement on the perils and pitfalls of modern academia. when you expand upon a previous idea, you have to make many of the same assumptions. paradigms are risky.
i find that people that assume that bigfoot doesn't exist are just following the paradigms that make modern life more, shall we say, digestable to the average human. it parses the univers artificially into small consumable bits that people feel that they can handle. does that mean that it's true? of course not. i've heard several biologist from this area dispute the fact that we could have black panthers or mountain lions in this area. well, some of my family, years ago, started a small community called "pantertown" (pronounced like 'painter-town'). 'panter' is the colloquialism for 'panther' and that IS why the town was named that. i have personally seen one black panther at my 'nanny's' house (yes, that's what we call her) and heard quite a few more. we all know that they're there, and that the scientists are full of crap. that's pretty much how it goes with ANY science. some people just KNOW. science says that they have to see it to believe it. i, personally, have never seen a baby pigeon, but i'm pretty sure that they exist.
joe, that was a very eloquent statement on the perils and pitfalls of modern academia. when you expand upon a previous idea, you have to make many of the same assumptions. paradigms are risky.
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