Several Readers Contribute to Cryptogon
September 21st, 2007Guys, we’ve had a breathless few days with events. During that time, several contributions came in. I’d like to thank these very generous readers for their support:
SW $100
DR $20
Eileen $50
IL is Farmlet’s most generous supporter. He just sent a single $200 contribution. Wow!
I’d also like to thank the owner of jasondove.com (not up yet) for choosing to host with BlueHost via Cryptogon. We received $65 as a result.
On the BullionVault front, I don’t know who it is, but someone is pulling the trigger in a big way. Unless my arithmetic is really off, I think one reader has bought something like US$125,000 worth of metal on that thing; the lesser part of half before the recent move, and then a heavier buy just now.
Friend, all I have to say, besides, “thanks” for using my affiliate link, is: Balls. Big, shiny, brass balls. (There’s a strong probability that this is a woman, actually. Many of the women who read Cryptogon are keenly interested in financial matters and wealth management.) I haven’t seen these really massive buys before. I’m assuming that it’s one person.
I also saw the first BullionVault commission payment in Euros, which is great.
Thank you all very much.
I think I can safely speak on behalf of all contributors and say that we more than appreciate the time and work you put in on top of your more immediately important and “real” work at the farmlet! Just so you know, I send my PayPal contri’s to your Farmlet address, mainly for convenience – that’s the email address saved in my PP account. I find this site just as, if not more, valuable.
Thanks, IL. Indeed, the work on the Farmlet seems pretty far removed from the world of Cryptogon. HAHA
Today, for example, I milked Coco and got the most milk ever (4 litres out of just her two front teats; back ones left for the calf). Tonight, after taking a leak on my lemon tree (that’s work, right? fertilizing the orchard?), I shot a possum, hopefully the same possum that has been devouring the lemons from that very tree.
To go from the happy cow milking, lemon tree peeing, possum shooting reality to the dark universe of Cryptogon can be is a bit disconcerting. It’s great to be able to balance both realities, though. Somehow, being out here allows me to look at the Cryptogon stuff with more detachment than when I was in the belly of the beast.
You’ve got to have a well developed sense of detachment, I think, to look at this stuff and not go nuts. I didn’t have that back in the U.S. I’m glad I have it now.
What IL said.
I need to cultivate detachment so that I can keep on working at growing my own food and don’t get frozen with fear. I’ve boogied on out while there were still life rafts available, but most of my friends and family are still dancing on the decks of the Titanic. They have a psychological need to believe that “things won’t get that bad.” Geez, who reads history anymore?
I expect runs on grocery stores and food riots. Hard to imagine people who spent their free time watching reality TV politely queuing up in soup lines.
women have balls too! they are just on the inside..
great site, thanks
I will contribute eventually. I can understand the sense of detachment when I was living in Russia; after coming back to New York, I can feel it all over again.
It’s really about clawing your way out here at this point. If you delude yourself into complacency, you are probably in a lot of pain here right now.
Still, I knew things were going to suck before I came back. It’s just finding a way around the system.
Yeah, detachment would help – it does in any emergency situation, I guess. But detachment is hard, especially when you have loved ones who just don’t get it, or don’t want to get it, no matter how you try to spell it out. Like pookie said, they obviously have a need to believe. I used to have this craaaazy belief that grown adults would want to know, and be equipped to deal with, what’s really going on so that they can adapt, prepare, protect, whatever. Instead, they’re acting amazed at how ‘cheap’ cameras, plasma TV’s and computers are. Everyone I know, have spoken to, or heard talking here in Melbourne seems to believe that what’s happening in the US, UK, Mid East has NO bearing whatsoever on anything at all that happens or may happen here. Stock market crash? Fed intervention? No worries! It just means our dollar is worth more! Yay! ‘House prices going down? Can’t. Never. Oh, it it’s happening in America? And the UK? That’s too bad for them, but it won’t ever happen here.’ Just last week, I got a another friendly lecture from my father once again telling me that I’m wrong – property prices will NEVER come down again in Australia. Not like they did even only 15 years ago. They will only ever go UP. His words. Then again, only a few weeks ago he was telling me that I was wrong about house prices declining in the US! Besides, ‘that’s America – Australia is different. It’s separate. etc. etc.’ Uh, separate? Sheesh. I’m at the point, and probably not before time, where I’m almost over trying to ‘convince’ people who don’t want to be convinced.
“But detachment is hard, especially when you have loved ones who just don’t get it, or don’t want to get it, no matter how you try to spell it out.”
I’m going to make this a main post topic. This hits close to home for everyone reading, I’m sure. Me included. I’m in private discussions with people over email… Several Cryptogon readers are well into the operational phases of preparation and they are meeting strong resistance from family who simply DO NOT understand how serious things are.
We’re all in the foxhole together on this one.
If anyone wants to comment on this, consider saving it up for the main post on this. It’s coming very soon.