It's a new year… and I want to kick it off with one of my favourite quotes "small minds gather together and talk about people, average minds gather together and talk about events, and great minds gather together and talk about ideas"

That is an amazing quote!  And I try my very best to put it into practice in all areas of my life, and in all interests of my life.

It really strikes me to be the truth, and in the bigfoot community there is way too much small-minded name dropping, and way too little open-minded discussion about ideas.

I could sit here writing "Dyer Dyer Dyer" and in the next paragraph write "RacerX RacerX RacerX" but where is that going to lead? Moreover why do so when there are so many ideas to be discussed…? What's going to benefit this situation more, writing about people or writing about ideas?

So here's an idea, posed as a question: do people in the bigfoot community actually want bigfoot to be proven to be real?

I actually think that answer is "no" one good example of this is that I read a post in the comments section of RacerX's site where someone was actually advocating burning Rick's trailer and the specimen along with it…  To me that just strikes me as someone who is on some level afraid of it actually being real.

Let me put it this way: there is a huge responsibility that comes along with saying "I don't know" I respect anyone who says that with sincerity.  But it is far more often the case that someone says "I don't know" but what they actually mean is "I don't want to know"

If you ask me if the Hank-specimen is real, I can say with sincerity that "I don't know" and let me tell you this with total sincerity: I DO want to know!  And it is Rick Dyer who is the one who has given me the chance to know.  I'm accordingly saying I am grateful to the man for being given that chance.

When I look at the other possibilities, and the other stances I could take on the issue I could have easily said "I don't know" and masqueraded it as not wanting to know.  For me personally that would be a very dangerous place to build assumptions and hateful thoughts from, but there would be zero possibility proof, and no possibility of actually knowing.

Rick has said the whole time that he understands that there are people, (even people on his team), that are looking at this situation from a distance and sincerely saying "I don't know" as far as I have seen he is totally comfortable with that.  And to his credit he HAS shown evidence to people in Team Tracker (myself included) that points to his Sept 6th claim as being absolutely 100% valid.  And because I followed his instructions with the NDA he has extended me something that NO ONE from another part of the bigfoot community has offered.  Soon I will know firsthand.

The fact that I don't know is what brought me to Team Tracker, and the fact that I do want to know is what took me to Toronto in April 2013, and it's what will take me elsewhere in early 2014.

If you want to sit behind your computer and talk about people, feel free, but I'm putting my left foot in front of my right foot.  I've got an idea that bigfoot is real, and moreover I've got an idea that an event took place on Sept 6th 2012 which will prove the existence of bigfoot once and for all.  Those are ideas which I am going to explore thoroughly, and very soon, thanks to Mr. Dyer, I will know firsthand if those ideas are true, and that event was real.  ...What can anyone else in the bigfoot community offer me which can compete with that?