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human
Ok makes sense, thank you.
I will admit that I often get frustrated with the 'true believers' as well. Although if most people believe that bigfoot is poppycock it's a rather slim majority, I just don't see many people IRL deny it hands down.
I know and accept that by no means does bigfoot have to exist I'm just open too it. I just see that to believe something has to be fake in the lack of current evidence unless it something like unicorns to be extreme, especially when so many reports being made up too this day.
If anything I just want to know what makes people at least think they had seen the same thing throught cultures and time periods and levels of technological development. This is what makes these enigmas in the first place.

Also the worst thing is the pathetic people not looking at things critically and pseudoscientificly that make any serious inquiry a joke before launch, and i think even you can recognize the equal pseudo intellectual and dogmatic leanings of the debunking side as well.

There is zero physical evidence for bigfoot. Period.
True, but this divide and discussion is what makes this so entertaining and interesting to me, thank you for the discussion.

Out of curiosity, is their anything 'paranormal' you hold any kind of stock in?
gpt
I think from an anthropological standpoint is it very interesting, that different cultures have similar legends. But there are Western and Chinese dragons, and I hope to God nobody believes in dragons. I am also very open to in. In fact, I WANT it to be real. I think it's so cool, but I have to realize that the videos are amateur at best. I've gotten very good sniffing out fake videos growing up with youtube and all, and the fact that people can't see what I see is frustrating. 
As far as paranormalities that I believe in, I would say spirits/ghosts and the like. I understand there is no evidence for it regardless of what some people on here may say. I have had no experiences to support my belief save for one encounter at five years of age - which I and my family still remember. I believe there are 'planes of existence' so-to-speak, where different types of energy exist on top of the material world. For example, we can only see a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum but know the rest is there. With this spirit plane, we cannot sense this energy with manmade tools, but know they are there when they leak out to our plane. Usually places of great trauma are hotspots for activity.
human
>I've gotten very good sniffing out fake videos growing up with youtube and all, and the fact that people can't see what I see is frustrating. 
Same here, grew up with alien footage countdowns, used to scare me when I was little.
>I think from an anthropological standpoint is it very interesting
That's the best part to me, even if the subject is not real seeing how the lore develops and the people involved is already great.
Although I wish to research and find the origins of these common myths someday, there is always some truth to legends anyways.
Just saying something is fake is not enough for me, I what to know why people see the same things, over and over again thought history and cultures, that will be my contribution to science and if any of these creatures are real, even better.

Personally I have had some strange paranormal experiences and may write some green texts someday based on them.
I agree on the trauma aspect of the paranormal as well, poltergeists and other events center around high stress.
Personally I believe it a combo of quantum or other exotic physics and willpower/mental strain.
gpt
>Personally I believe it a combo of quantum or other exotic physics and willpower/mental strain.
That's interesting, I'll look into that.
I wonder how many cultural myths in fact DON'T overlap, how many are completely unique to a tribe. We have a few examples of common myths, but I wonder if those are the exception and not the rule. We tend to remember and emphasize the interesting, but forget the common. 'Man bites dog' so to speak. Either way, it's a cool story.
human

All cultures/regions have unique local myths an tales, these are interesting in their own right.
It is obvious that peoples living continents apart and centuries away from each other have variation, but across these you see the same themes, symbols, creation myths. There is something we all unconsciously share. Some odd specifics like hairy bipeds in legends are just a part of something greater perhaps. Maybe some genetic memory or holdover from a past age. Either way, something is causing this and I am searching for it.

Either way I wish others here can think critically and not just believe or deny everything they see here.