i'd like to get my 2 cents in here but by time i'm done it will be closer to 25 cents
Andy, if you're stlll reading this thread i do have to put in a bit of a disclaimer to my post
the biggest reason why i joined this forum was because one of the moderator's is christopher o'brien, i am quite a fan boy of his in that i ate up his stalking the tricksters book and i must have listened to over 40+ various podcasts he did in his follow up of the book, i have no problems admitting this.
If there is any one aspect of the paranormal that i could sink my teeth into it is the concept of synchronicity, as this plays itself out nearly every day in my life i've read (or more acurately tried to understand) much of Jung's writings on this and on the field of collective (un)consciousness and archtypes and symbols, which lead me off into joseph campbell but that's another story
to that end the reason why i think i jumped onto Chris's bandwagon was his very forward thinking (and as of yet unproven) theory about the trickster phenomona. As with any theory it may have a few holes and can't really be verified (has anybody out there ever seen a string as in string theory, if so i'd like to hear about it) but that's the cool and risky thing about theories, that somebody is willing to stick their neck out and let the chips fall where they may. there's a lot of merit in that as even if a theory may falter someone else can always come along and plug up some of the holes
From what i've seen and heard about you Andy ,you are very much in that realm and so it was with great anticipation i was listening to the show. I have your recent C2C appearence on my to do list and i've yet to hear the greg bishop one but that's also on the list
Now let me say right here, neither myself or for that matter, anyone on this board are in a position to judge you or pretend to know your life's circumstances but i have to honestly say when i heard your show my PERCEPTION was that you were maybe unconsciously trying too hard, that is, you were trying to find an answer in many places to where there was no question. As i said i whole heartedly accept synchronicity without question, i have on my cellphone a wallpaper of fox mulder's "I want to believe" poster as i not only want to believe, i do 100%, at least in time dilation and meaningful coincidences no matter who brings them about be it God, mothman, the trickster energy or Lady Gaga. but even i have a point where i stop and say "wait a minute sometimes things happen because they happen, nothing more, nothing less.
i can honestly say i could not hold a candle to either you or chris when it comes to researching but i have heard of many cases where investigators let this phenom get the best of them and they get sucked down into the rabbit hole and they're goners, i have a friend who is a self described p/t investigator and i can see him getting all caught up in it and i am concerned for him as he seems to think there's a spook behind evrey tree, and it was in this frame of mind i was when i posted my thoughts on your appearence
On forums such as these, everyone has a role to play and personalites really do start to come through, no matter how much we may try to restrain ourselves. The role i've taken upon myself is to be the smart-a** believer, i'll give the 'skepts a listen but i have no issues with defending my beliefs with gusto. i do tend to fancy myself a wit and it's all too easy to cross the line into snarkiness and upon reviewing my post i have to admit i crossed into that territory and for that i apologize. theres constructive criticism and then there's just plain meaness and when it comes to quips and as such i do get caught up in it , i'm like a shark who smells blood in the water
I'm still a nkotb around here and it took me only 3-4 posts to get on someone's nerves, it was not my intention but as the thread dragged on it turned out that i made the right call after all and imho the offending post was some of my best work and i think, a real beaut. but it did call attention to behaving responsibly here and it's doesn't take a lot for me to loose my focus. in my defense i have a VERY self depricating sense of humor but that transaltes into a very andy depricating or bill depricating sense of humor as well (i'm sure you get the point) so at least i'm an equal oppurtunity depricator...if such a thing exists.
So, in summary, i'm sorry, please come back on the really big shoe again (with moderation) , and welcome to the boards and sorry about the initial run on paragraphs