Quote from: RE on Jul 06, 2026, 10:44 PM

Quote from: TDoS on Jul 06, 2026, 05:25 PMWell, once this site had all sorts of folks stopping in, discussing most anything, it was great entertainment. RE's early sites had even more followers. That might have been guru level leader status I suppose..

The reason I had a following was because I Blogged.  I no longer do that, so the people who liked reading my take on history, economics, anthropology, politics, energy, futurism and my autobiographical material have drifted away.

One possibility, and a completely predictable one you would claim. There are at least 2 others I can think of.

Quote from: REI no longer have sufficient energy to sit at the keyboard to write at the length I used to.  I also no longer can keyboard anywhere near my old speed.  I'm down to one hand hunt and peck typing.   My old blogs would usually range from 5-10K words and I could crank them out in a day.  Today, one of those blogs would take a month.

I was perusing the old Wordpress one a couple days ago. Indeed they were voluminous.

Quote from: REI wish I still could blog.  There are some ideas and topics I either never thought had relevance to collapse or are so controversial I didn't think it wise to publish while still alive so I didn't write about them.

And perhaps an introspective on why things didn't turn out the way you thought they were going to go in the old days?

Quote from: REI have no desire to be martyred for having wildly unpopular opinions and end up in prison. lol. 

That isn't where Ruppert ended up. Or Heinberg. Or the academics on TOD. No one got martyred or sent to prison, but they all basically had to do SOMETHING to maintain a tenuous hold on their popularity and later their credibility after their voluminous deep thoughts on a topic revealed how little deep thoughts mattered, in a topic they had no experience with. For Ruppert it was suicide, being discredited but deftly changing the subject worked for Richard. And the academics just floated away and went back to their worlds of pretending that having a big brain and a PhD was enough, having demonstrated that basic real world understanding of the system they were playing in was wrong.

Quote from: REAt this point though, prison would not be that much different than my current accommodations, though I don't think they let prisoners have unrestricted access to the internet, which thank god I still have.

Yup...if, towards the end there is at least entertainment...things can't be all bad.

Quote from: REAnyhow, now all we do is chronicle the newz stories which are relevant to the topics I used to write on at great length.  It's not enough to develop or retain a following.  I'd like to do video again, but I've been waiting for Kdog to set up a better platform than what I used to do with Skype and YouTube.  Hopefully he'll eventually get around to that.  I can still talk well enough unscripted to do an entertaining show.  Maybe I can still be a Guru. lol. 😀

RE

Keeping yourself in high spirits is a good thing, having something to do, regardless of what it is.

You should get back to posting on reddit with Dave, he posts quite a bit of content, certainly nothing about the old ghosts in the closet that never worked out, but good stuff on collapse now, collapse tomorrow, collapse next week. Been keeping it going for a long time now, plus he puts all the doom he can find into a single document which is really cool. You can find out all the claims of doom today, doom tomorrow, doom next week all in one spot.

As usual though, after reading it for awhile, and the kind of dooms discussed, and years going by, I presume folks finally ask themselves the same question they did 5 years after Thanksgiving Day 2005. "What the FUCK happened to my endtimes! I bought that hunting cabin and started a garden.....then the wife wouldn't go out into the woods, the kids wouldn't help me plant the garden, no one wanted to practice building homemade claymores to protect us from the MZBs, and SHIT what am I going to do with all that ammo?"