Summary

Two Oregon men, aged 59 and 37, were found dead from exposure in Washington State’s Gifford Pinchot National Forest after failing to return from a Christmas Eve trip to search for Sasquatch.

The Skamania County Sheriff’s Office attributed their deaths to harsh weather and lack of preparedness.

A family member reported them missing early Christmas Day, prompting a three-day search involving 60 volunteers, drones, canines, and Coast Guard infrared technology.

  • Flying Squid
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    -17 days ago

    “Do not promote mythology or ideology as reality” implies that you’re saying it should be stopped.

    That is not true. Stop lying about what I am saying. Repeatedly insisting I am saying it should be stopped doesn’t make it true.

    Do you really think any time anyone says “don’t,” they mean “this person needs to be stopped?” If I say to someone, “don’t watch that movie, it’s awful,” am I saying they should be stopped from watching it? You really think that’s what is being implied?

    • @Thrillhouse
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      27 days ago

      My interpretation isn’t unreasonable. Saying ‘Do not promote mythology or ideology as reality’ sounds prescriptive, as though you’re making a strong recommendation about what people should or shouldn’t do, especially in the context of your initial comment (discouraging spending money on a Bigfoot convention). Thank you for clarifying that is not what you meant.

      I think we’re still at an impasse in how we define scam, but that is ok.

      • Flying Squid
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        07 days ago

        I literally said in that initial comment:

        Some of my wife’s family are Bigfoot believers and she has a masters in folklore, so she went with them to a Bigfoot convention earlier this year. I don’t tell her what to do by any means, but I did tell her I was really against the idea

        You were just picking a fight with something you imagined I implied where I very clearly showed that I was not even trying to stop my wife paying money to those people.

        • @Thrillhouse
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          7 days ago

          Yeah perhaps it is a good example of how people get their back up when their beliefs are criticized. I like Bigfoot and the paranormal and I don’t much appreciate it being called a scam. But I still don’t think you’re interpreting your comments and part in all of this as charitably as I have been on my side.

          • @[email protected]
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            27 days ago

            You won’t get far with this guy, he loves getting into arguments with people for no reason at all.

          • Flying Squid
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            7 days ago

            The correct response here would have been, “I’m sorry for lying and putting words in your mouth.”

            and I don’t much appreciate it being called a scam.

            Based on your assumptions about what I said, I should assume this means you want to stop me, correct?