Magical Realist
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By your reasoning, people wouldn't just make that stuff up, either.
That doesn't follow at all. People have a long history of making up religious stuff. Not so much encounters with Springheel Jack.
By your reasoning, people wouldn't just make that stuff up, either.
The narrator/author himself pointed out that these are not "reported encounters". But nice embellishment, mister dispassionate-reporter-of-facts.Nobody's proven that they "made this stuff up", as in reported encounters with Springheel Jack.
People also have a long history of making up ghost stuff. People also have a long history of making up UFO stuff.People have a long history of making up religious stuff.
Exactly my point. Your argument that "people wouldn't just make stuff up" is a non-starter. It's a lousy reason to believe in woo. It's lousy because it's an assumption that is contradicted by long experience. Moreover, even it turns out they didn't just make it up out of whole cloth, there's still no good reason to believe it's a true and complete account of something that actually happened.That doesn't follow at all.
Exactly my point. Your argument that "people wouldn't just make stuff up" is a non-starter. It's a lousy reason to believe in woo. It's lousy because it's an assumption that is contradicted by long experience. Moreover, even it turns out they didn't just make it up out of whole cloth, there's still no good reason to believe it's a true and complete account of something that actually happened.
You know this how?It happens to be true.
You know this how?People wouldn't make up accounts of a terrifying creature haunting the streets of London.
No, they’re really not.The accounts are all consistent enough to prove the creature actually existed,
I find your lack of healthy skepticism to be the most mysterious thing, to be honest.Just one of those mysteries of reality we'll never figure out.
It happens to be true. People wouldn't make up accounts of a terrifying creature haunting the streets of London.
The video commentator explicitly confirms multiple times that these are stories told to him by his grandmother. And then tells us what books of his we could buy to read more stories.
Dude, we know you're not serious about this. You're like a graffiti vandal. You come here and spray your nonsense on the walls, knowing we have little choice but to keep scrubbing your silliness of our walls, lest property values suffer. This is your form of revenge against a site that has called you out.
And that was all fine.You're the only ones making a big deal out of this. I just posted somethiug about a mysterious creature for Halloween in the monsters subforum.
Then you asserted that what you posted was true. And then you confirmed you were asserting it was true. When it is demonstrably, explicitly fiction.
You're not fooling anyone. :gets out his graffiti scrubber:
Somebody needs some time in the corner to calm down...So fucking what? Get over it whiner.
So you are a God-fearing man after all...I'll believe whatever has multiple eyewitness accounts to back it up.
So you are a God-fearing man after all...
LOL! There's probably trillions!Don't recall any multiple eyewitnesses of God. What was their description of him?
For one thing, He has a long white beard. People wouldn't just make up stuff like that.Don't recall any multiple eyewitnesses of God. What was their description of him?
For one thing, He has a long white beard. People wouldn't just make up stuff like that.
You are willing to "believe" Springheel Jack on nothing more thanWho saw him? When did it happen? What was God doing? Dreams and visions don't count.
You are willing to "believe" Springheel Jack on nothing more than
- a YouTube video - from an author selling his books
- recounting acknowledged apocryphal stories
- told to him by his grandmother
- in his childhood
- about nameless, anonymous people's recountings of legends.
This not a blog. You can't just say anything you want here without any expectation of it being questioned and having to defend it.