IOkay!! I got a rope, anybody know where GARY NORTH is hiding?

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Hey, only kidding! Where is he? Anybody know? I miss all that wit, cockeyed editorials, and that original I-see-it-coming-and-nobody- else-does-arrogance!! ( that guys after my heart )

-- Alex (felix@hotbot.com), March 13, 2000

Answers

Alex,

I agree with you, he does have a style of writting that can be appreciated, his wit was definitely there. Maybe only the "doomers" as I will always be referred as, would appreciate it, but it was there.

I was never comfortable with his background or religious convictions.

We were on different planets in that regard. But he was thorough, and "in my humble opinion" not as slanted as others, he provided links on a regular basis to allow you the info-source he was using.

You had the choice to make what of it as you will. A number of folks on the "net" didn't provide your with the source for their "knowledge".

Good, Bad or indifferent, Gary did a good job, when possible, of providing people, with the reasons (links) he felt the way he did.

That alone, made visiting his site, OK, in my way of looking at things. I didn't have to take "his word", I could investigate the source myself and arrive at my own conclusions, once again, good, bad or indifferent, I never felt "brainwashed", I made my choices based on the "possibility" of disruptions.

I'm very grateful, his worst case scenario, was wrong. I believe most folks feel the same.

-- Michael (michaelteever@buffalo.com), March 13, 2000.


Yes, I'm on a different planet than GN when it comes to religion. But I think he was sincere. And his warnings may have inspired a lot of remediation efforts. Who knows?

I honestly felt the rollover would be more of a "trigger event." I am still a "doomer," feeling certain events are unavoidable. The fact that "Y2K" didn't trigger those events is a gift of additional time.

And I'm certainly not going to waste time going after GN.

Live Long and Prosper.

-- Hamilton Felix (skagity2k@hotmail.com), March 13, 2000.


Hamilton, exactly, a gift of time. Very well said.

-- Michael (michaelteever@buffalo.com), March 13, 2000.

I was a half-assed doomer full of FUD too. The other half of me was polly, and I thought much of GN was goofiness. But I came to my senses, too late. I will never be a doomer again, listening to a nuts, but I take full responsibility for listening to charlatans that didn't know anymore about what was going to happen than I or my cat did.

Stuff happens and I no longer intend to waste one minute worrying about ifs and maybes and possiblys.

-- gilda (jess@listbot.com), March 14, 2000.


It strikes me as incredible that people are so overly influenced by pundits, surely you can make your own minds up especially with all the different views there were about y2k.

The black scenario would have happened if there had been no remediation at all (well in the organisations I knew about).

-- Sir Richard (richard.dale@onion.co), March 14, 2000.



Stuff happens and I no longer intend to waste one minute worrying about ifs and maybes and possiblys.

People make things happen, they don't just happen of their own accord.

Its about time people thought about the consequences of their actions (or history), people never look ahead, the same old crap happens over and over.

-- Sir Richard (Richard Dale@unum.co.uk), March 14, 2000.


>> People make things happen, they don't just happen of their own accord. <<

Yes. And I get so tired of keeping the Earth hurtling around the sun in the proper orbit. It would make my life much simpler if it proceeded in a circle instead of that blasted ellipse!

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), March 14, 2000.


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