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General Discussion / Re: Is there evidence for outsiders?
« Last post by GlennM on May 17, 2024, 09:07:55 PM »"But the absence of living witnesses provides the “researcher” with opportunities for fantasy, and only the unbridledness of our imagination + the inability to put ourselves in the place of someone whose actions you are trying to understand is our main problem and the main obstacle to the truth.:"
I have done the mental exercise of putting myself in their place, but when it comes to getting me (as them) out of the tent and hiking a mile down slope, any number of logical explanations advanced by the forum would suffice. My particular preference is the suffocation hazard posed by a snow covered tent owing to a localized slab slip. On the other hand , I have a more diffucult time imagining why 3 people who come out of a crushed tent in the forest would want to climb uphill only to freeze from expoure. If I wanted to signal aircraft, I make smoke, not waving my snow covered arms on a snow covered slope.
As much as some imaginations are pretty far out there ( think flying saucers), probably telling more about the one who posts than the issue itself, our inability always goes back to the why of things. WinterLea points out the cascade of small errors culminating in tragedy. She could be right.
I have done the mental exercise of putting myself in their place, but when it comes to getting me (as them) out of the tent and hiking a mile down slope, any number of logical explanations advanced by the forum would suffice. My particular preference is the suffocation hazard posed by a snow covered tent owing to a localized slab slip. On the other hand , I have a more diffucult time imagining why 3 people who come out of a crushed tent in the forest would want to climb uphill only to freeze from expoure. If I wanted to signal aircraft, I make smoke, not waving my snow covered arms on a snow covered slope.
As much as some imaginations are pretty far out there ( think flying saucers), probably telling more about the one who posts than the issue itself, our inability always goes back to the why of things. WinterLea points out the cascade of small errors culminating in tragedy. She could be right.